An account of the Cibicue Creek conflict by Mike Burns, an Apache scout for the U.S. Army:

"Some trouble maker made a report to the Indian Agent and to the Post Commander, saying that the Indians at Cibicu had called all the other Indians together to make a raid on the soldiers at Fort Apache. The agent and soldiers believed the stories and sent out some detachments of soldiers to Cibicu to arrest all the Indians engaged in the dances, and to bring them to the fort, especially the medicine man."

"He was taken by the soldiers and a guard put over him, and while he was seated on a rock some of the young Indians tried to get close enough to him to speak to him, but the soldiers pulled out their guns and pistols and drove the young men back three times. The fourth time the Indians were mad, and came right down, not minding the threats of the soldiers, and shot down all the soldiers who were there and then they ran off to the hills."

"Just then one of the soldiers who had hidden among some saddles came out, pulled out his pistol and shot the medicine man through the head while his wife had her arm around him. The soldier, however, did not try to kill the woman and child."

"The Indian men came over to the dead soldiers and took off their arms, so that they were well prepared for war. The twenty-five Apache scouts, who were the bravest Indian bucks there were, and who were well armed and trusted by the government for their honesty and reliability as guides for the soldiers, this time turned upon them, killing nearly all of them."

History of Arizona III, by Thomas Farish, p.335-39