Death in NV 1863 attack of stagecoach-- Riley SIMPSON
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Death in NV 1863 attack of stagecoach-- Riley SIMPSON
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Vern D
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Transcribed by Dee Sardoc
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Stockton Daily Independent
Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA
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>>SATURDAY, 23 MAY 1863<<
INDIANS ATTACK the STAGE -- A telegram from Jacksonville, Reese river, May 20th, says the Overland stage was attacked by Indians on the 19th, about a mile east of Canon Station. The driver, Riley SIMPSON, was instantly killed, and Major EGAN, being on the box, took the lines and drove to Willow Springs. There were 4 soldiers on the coach, but the Indians being among the rocks on each side of the canon, they could do but little in defending it. One horse was shot in the hind leg. The coach continued on East, and everything will go on as usual.
www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php
Vern D
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Transcribed by Dee Sardoc
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Stockton Daily Independent
Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA
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>>SATURDAY, 23 MAY 1863<<
INDIANS ATTACK the STAGE -- A telegram from Jacksonville, Reese river, May 20th, says the Overland stage was attacked by Indians on the 19th, about a mile east of Canon Station. The driver, Riley SIMPSON, was instantly killed, and Major EGAN, being on the box, took the lines and drove to Willow Springs. There were 4 soldiers on the coach, but the Indians being among the rocks on each side of the canon, they could do but little in defending it. One horse was shot in the hind leg. The coach continued on East, and everything will go on as usual.