Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1833-09-28

: tors, ana with the aid OF the WhOl'
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! FIGHT WITH THE INDIANS
I The following interesting narrative
of fght with the Waccos and Tawac
kanies Indians in Texas, amounting tc
l64, and a party Ct Anericans-ainc
men and two boys, eleven in EEinbcI
lis related by Rain E. Bowie, Esq
one OF that party now in this-city.
On the second OF November, 1881.
We LETT the town of St. Antonio de
Bazaar, for the silver mines on the st.
Saba river, the party consisting of the
following named persons: Rain +.
Bowie, James Bowie, David Buchan-
nan, Cephas X. Hamn, Robert Arm
strong Jesse Wallace, Matthew Doyle,
James CorrieIl, Thomas M'CasIln,
Gonzales and Charles, servant boys.
Nothing particular occurred until the
18th on which day, about ten, a. NJ.
we were overhauled by two Chamanca
Indians and Mexican captive, who
had struck our trail and followed it.
They stated that they belonged to
lsaonie's party, chief Of the Chaman-
ca tribe, sixteen in number, and we're
on their road to st. Antonio with a
drove ofhorses, which they had taken
from the WaCcos add Tawachanies,
and were about returning them to their
)owners. citizens Of st. Antonio. AZ
ter smoking and talking with them "a
bout an hour, and making them few
presents Of tobacco, powder, shot, &c.
&c. they returned to their party, who
were waiting at the l!lano river.
We continued our journey until
night closed upon US, when we en-
camped. The next morning, between
daylight and sunrise, the above named
Mexican captive returned to orr camp;
his horse very much fatigued: and who
after eating and smoking, stated to US
that he had been sent by his chief,
lsaonie, to inform US that we were fol-
lowed by l2fTawackamia and Waco
Indians, and forty Cadsos .sso J~;a-a
tiICIIS WIZ "CiC ~ nav
our scalps at all risks. Isaonie had
held talk with them all the previous
evening, and endeavored to dissuade
them from their purpose, but they still
persisted, and left them enraged, and
pursuing our trail. As voucher for
the truth of the above, the Mexican
produced his chiefs silver medal which
is common among the natives in such
cases. lie further stated that his chief
requested him to say, that he had bat
sixteen men, badly armed and without
amunition-but ii we would return and
join him, such succour as he could
give US he would. But knowing that
the enemy lay between US and him,
we deemed 1t most prudent to pursue
our journey, and endeavor to reach the
old fort on the st. Saba, river, before
night come on, distance thirty miles.
The Mexican returned to his party.
and we then proceeded on.
Through the day We encountered
bad roads, being covered with rocks,
and the horses, feet being worn out,
We We're disappointed in not reaching
the fort. In the evening we had some
difficulty in picking out al advantage
Gus spot where to epcamp for the
night. We, however, made a choice i
of The best that offered which was al
cluster Of live oak trees, some thirty
or forty in number, about the size of a
mans body. 10 the North of them a
thicket live oak bushes, about ten
feet high, forty yards in length and
twenty in breadth. To the West, a;
the distance ofthirty-iye or forty yards
ran stream Of water.
The surrounding country was an
open prairie, lnterspersed with a few
trees. rocks and broken land. The
trail which We came on lay to the
East Of our encampment. After
taking the prccaution to prepare our
spot for defence BY cutting road H.
side of the thlcket Of bushes, ten feet
from the outer edge Of it all around,
and clearing the priokly pears from a
mong the bushes, we hobbled our
horses and placed sentinels for the
night. We were now distant SIX miles
from the Fort above mentioned, which
was built by the Spaniards in 1852,
for the purpose Of protecting them
selves while working the silver mines
~hichare mile distant. A fev years