Craig’s Gang Destroyed 141 
By this plan twenty-three out of the twenty-five whites, in¬ 
cluding the master scoundrel himself, Dr. Craig, were destroyed 
with little loss to the attacking party. Hobbs calls this the 
best thing the Yumas ever did. It took place only a month 
before Hobbs reached the ferry, and only two or three days 
before one of the periodical returns of United States troops. 
Crossing the Lower Colorado. 
Width 400 to 500 yards. 
Photograph by Delancy Gill. 
this time a company of dragoons under Captain Hooper, prob¬ 
ably belonging to Heintzelman’s command. To him the two 
escaped desperadoes came with a complaint against the Yumas, 
but the captain was posted and he put the men in irons to be 
transported to California for trial. The Yumas now established 
a ferry by using an old army-waggon box which they made 
water-tight, as the Craig Ferry had suffered the fate of its 
