Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-02-06
ANOTHER HORROR.
Massacre Of a Family by Indians On the
Texas FroHtlsr-A Hesrt-rsgdiag
sCsns-4 Killed shs ! Wounded.
Plenty q Tr65Bs 10 HaFrass and Aanoy the
People Of the South, but Meme for
their Protection,

From the Jefferson Texas Times and
Republican Cf the 25.h january
How little do the people of distant
communities, OK perhaps citizens Of
cur own State, In the blissful security
Cf the-r Quiet, peaceful homes, think
@. -H- bardship5 and teTrOr5 Of the
frontier. Occasionally g scene like
the one described below sends through
the aaCdes OF civilization and comfort
thrill OF horror, but H. IS soon for
gotten, or passed over without
reflection as q tale of romance.
Congress is too busily engaged
In schemes OF political aggrau-
dizament and plunder to bestOw
thought upon the hardy, brave, hon
est pioneers of the frontier Indian
bureau agencies are established that
enable partis8us TO make fortunes in
few years and to place arms in the
hsnds 8f the savages 10 murder white
paopIe AID to dsvaststa large districts
0f country. Sickly sentimeutahty is
busy in The meanwhile ia devising
means to civilize the savsges and TO
support them in idleness, but not
thought is bestowed upon our bleed
Ing frontier.
Tro0ps are scattered all over the
South 10 harr8ss and parecute its peO-
pIe: millions of dollars are expended
in deyising new schemes TO render
white people miserable; and, TO add
10 our misi0rtunes, the men sent to
Washington TO misr5present Us en-
uIav their time in f0menung troubles;
but the section Of the country where
no HEE1 aRmII hl
spent with advantage and where
those tr01us could be rendered useful
is neglected.
VINO can read the description be-
low without thrill OF horror = Yet,
il Is ONLY one Of many that are con-
staGtIv occurring. a gentleman by
the name of T. j.. S.aufeid, writing
from Montague, Texas, on the 9Th of
December. tJ the Dallas Herald, says:
Last Friday with a couple On COM
panious I started from the pleasant
little village of DEcatur to this place,
about = O'Clock p. N. We logged
along until about one hour after night,
when we arrived at the residence Of
William Fraemau-an old pioneer
where we spent q cheerful night, and
again pursued our journey.
.L..a a.... u q ElahA -A4A l-lt1A A-A9-AA
mile when we received the sad iutelli-
geuce that q family had been massa- /
cred about two miles above. We has
tened on 70 the place OF the awful
traEeiv-and may God forbid that my
ewes should ever again look upon such
another scene as 1 there witnessed.
The first victim was little boy, some
eight or ten years Old, some forty
yards from the house, stone dead.
His le.tarm was cut out from his body,
exhibiting 20 i4ll view his heart and
lungs; his bowels cut cut, and then
sC8lpcd. We then repaired to the
house. and the hrst victim that met
our gaze, near beside the entrance, I
was q girl about nine or ten years old
WrappeI,JF rather Jumbled, In mass
Ofuld baI-clOthCs, etc, with one naked I
hand aud arm elevated. 1 took hold
OF her hand, but 10 ind that she too
was dead and wounded in several
places. Next was lady, some sixty
years OF age, by the name Of keenan,,
shot through her breast with two
arrows that passed through her
body, suffering all that humanity
could suffer. Her scalp was taken I
OF, TOO. Next was a lovely little |
girl, three years old, uursing a babe; I
and when it was taken from her 4
arms, the poor child said she ''did not
want Dolly to staTve." On eXamina-
tiau, it was found that she (the little
girlI had been lauCed through the
breast, the weapon entering on the
left and passing through the right.
Near uv her was another girl, about 1
ten years OF age, with her head beaten /
and bruised i'm a most brutal manner,
stI aud cold, almost lifeiess. The
Indians had beaten her head until |
She was probably thought TO be dead,
and pitched her out at the window,
where she had lain all night in g
seuseIgss condition. Then We turned /
% a little boy calling for water-he
was lauce1, the wound entering above
the breast bone and passing out below.
The next and last was a Mrs. PasChal
laying beside the bed on her face, well
ter.ug iu gore. On examination she
was found 10 be dead, with several r
wounds that had been inflicted in diff
fereut portions of the body. One lit
tie boy was lauced In the breast, who
made his escape during the night and
after daylight made his way 10 a
ueighb0r.s house about one mile of
Two little children were left in the
bed unhUrt. One of the wounded has
since died. This leaves four dead and
four wounded two of the wounded |
Will probably recover. Mrs. keener
say there were eight OF nine Indians
that entered the house about two hours
after uight-ai-er they had retired for
the highland committed this brutal |
massacre. There were no men about
the place. The dead were promptly
buried u a5 descent q manner as pos
sibie, and the wounded moved to
where they could be cared for.