Sad connection between the main Apache characters, Sally and Bloodshirt

Little must the actors who played Apache girl Sally (Wende Wagner, who is said to have been part Native American) and Apache chief Bloodshirt (Mexican Rodolfo Acosta) have suspected at the time of shooting RIO CONCHOS that years later, both would die at around the same early age (She: 56. He: 54), and from the same cause (cancer).