Massacreus Interruptus

Artists conception of the moment that the group of attackers pursuing the two fugitives spot an oncoming freight wagon train with its armed drivers and signal the main body in the process of looting the stage and dead passengers, causing them to immediately flee the scene. The intervention of the teamsters soon after the ambush was not generally known until 1950, leading some to doubt the attackers were Indians because the scene discovered by the Wickenburg rescue posse was not typical of the aftermath of an Indian raid.