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(Thanks
to Oliver Peasley of Orange, Texas, for sending this article)
"The
Weekly Telegraph"
Houston, Texas
Wednesday, November 26, 1856
(Below is a transcription of the above)
Indian Massacre!
Four Men Killed, and Three Wounded!
We learn
the following from Mr. DeWitt who came in from Camp Verde a few days since:
There having been reported, at Camp Verde that a large body of Indians were in
the vicinity, a scout of some twenty-eight soldiers, accompanied by seven young
men, residents of Kerrsville, on the Guadalupe. After arriving at
the spot where the Indians were reported to have been, and scouting about some
time without finding them, the regular soldiers returned to Camp Verde, but from
some cause or other the citizens remained behind, and the Indians, no doubt
having watched their movements, came upon them one night as they were asleep,
killing four at the first fire, and wounding three, who managed to get into
Kerrsville, where by another gentleman, we learn that one or two of them have
since died from their wounds.
As soon
as this news reached Camp Verde, Capt Palmer sent a strong party of troops in
pursuit of the Indians.
This is
a melancholy piece of news, and it should be a warning to our frontier settlers
to be on their guard; it was about this time last year that the Indians
committed so many attrocious depredations, coming within the very bearing of
this city, and killing persons and driving off their property. The
people should remember that their only safety lies within themselves, as the
State and Congress turned a deaf ear to their appeals last year, when our
citizens were being butchered and carried into captivity, and their property
destroyed or appropriated by these ruthless savages.
Since
writing the above, we have received information of other depredations in the
country, all going to show
that this is another one of their annual visits to this section for the
purpose of murdering and
marauding our citizens. - San Antonio Herald
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