The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-12-11

nothing bat the proud recollection that he
is the son OF man who died for his
PREPARATIONS FOR THE AssACLT--,
On the afternoon OF tie 4lh the Mexican
General called Q Council If war, and IN
mediately thereafter hogan preparations for
the assanl:, his troops then exceeding 1900
men, fresh and rested. while the little
Texas band were worn down Wit h the
fatigue OF watch and the woe OF famine.
On the morning ri the 9th Of March,
1886, the enemy moved to the assault, aud
. little past midnight the entire Mexican
army hid surrounded the place The
infantry were arranged in front with the
cavalry in the rear, who had orders To
cut down those who refused to aid in taking
the fort. The clear stars looked down upon
the broad prairies. and the dark b,tt,lions
of the be-isgers aud the beleaguered, now
reduced 10 the last extremity, as ii condemn-
ing the terrible sceue about to he enacted.
The assailants advanced under = severe fire
from the rifles ard ordnance Of the Texans.
The gray drawn vi the eventful morning
lay over the plains, the town and the river.
The Mexiczns adv anced with their scaling
ladders and placed them against the walls,
nut the defenders from within repui-ed them
with loss. Again the charge Wits sounded
and the besiexers advanced to the assault.
but we're second time driven back without
reaching tn. top Of the walis. There was
dreadful pause. like the iull in the storm
before bowling like thousand demons over
the doomed vessel. And now Santa Annas
batiaiions return to the assault. They scale
the walls Ut last, attempt 70 get over, but
are forced back aud cut down by those
within; but their places are supplied BY
fresh men on each ladder. At length, alter
desperate resis,ance-kiiled, cut down aud
exhausted. but not retreating the Texars
ceased to make or otter resistance. The
Mexicans scrambled over the walls, and
.oon filled the fort.
THE MASSACRE.
Then occurred hand to hand fight, nan
to man, followed by a scene vi carnage AMI
blood surpassed in horror by iew Of the
massacres vi history. The survivors OF
Travis company fought to the last. Some
dubbed their guns and did execution Jn
their as~ailants even after they were over
whelmed with numbers. Only lev cried
quarter. but we're not needed. Oh the en-
tire garrison ALI were put u the sword, not
one surviving, and ali fighting till dis
patched by the eon9uerprs.
! TRAVIS AND CROCKETT.
Among the defenders wis the celebrated
David Crockett. who had gone to Congress
from Tennessee, cut Come TO aid the
Texans in gaining their liberty and
freeing themselves from the Mexican
power. Crockett Was killed in the east
ern c,.rner Of the tort, while the rvx,n
commander fell on the western sidS0'it
had been agreed upon By the Texans that
the last surviving one Of their number
should fire the magazine, thus blowing HIM
self and the enemy inside the walls I" de-
s,rnction. bat Maj Evans, Master oil O;di-
nance, while in the act Of performing This
last solemn duty Wis killed.
The brave Col. Bowie, who had been for
come DAYS sick, was also butchered in his
he'd and his body horribly mu Hated.
THE DEAD HEAPED Up AND BURNED.
Thus fell tine Alamo: thus persisted the
1873 brave patriots who defended it, The
sound Of the artillery had died away in the
'iistance Of the plains. and the clear, serene
Sabbath sun had risen alike upon the swell
Il the grassy hill- in the east and the be-
yrimed and bloody faces Of the slain.
Around and about the fort, besi e the Tex
ans. there lay 52l Mexican corp~es, stark,
.t,f and cold, tesid~s an equal number ut
wounded, an evidence Of the desperate
character Of the conflict. The Texan lie nd
we're, after being subjected to nmmberiess
indixnities, ,hrown into heap, aud burned
within the wallis.
L THE SURVIVORS
Though none III Col. Travis band wer
left to tell the tale, Mrs. Dickinson, wiie ol
L,eut. Dickinson, vhO fell IN the defense
her child, negro servant Of Col. Travi. !,
and two Mexican women Of San Antoni" do
Dexar were the only survivors Of those in
the fort. The blood Of the immortal Texan
band still stains the massive walls Of the
Alamo. and ~ the footsteps Of the modern
visitor reveri,eraie through its solemn old
halls he almost fancies IL the echo Of the
bloody strife that semt 1873 heroic spirits tn
their last abode Sunday morning, March 6,
1885.
| How They Died.