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from the rocks until we routed them from their position. It was now almost dark and one of our officers was twice wounded, mortally by the last shot, a few of our horses were shot and two men. We were now compelled to retreat and start for camp about ten miles. We had marched all day through the heat and were pretty well worn down. We packed our wound- ed on pack mules the best we could and started. In this fight we captured a woman, Mrs. Gonzales, whose husband had been burned at the wagons and her daughter, 8 years old, had been killed; the poor little girl’s brains lay scattered all over a rock which had received the fatal blow. The grandmother of the cap- tured woman had been shot through the heart, she attempting to escape. Mrs. Gonzales told us that in the two fights with them we had killed that she knew of nine Indians and that many more were wounded. I have passed this spot several times since and the charred spots still remain, the result of Mr. Lo. But those things are fast fading away. Yours, Cyrus Serious Cutting Scrape Lee Linley Carves Jo Harris. Probability That The Wounds Will Prove Fatal