San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-04-27
An Ob 10 Editor latcrvlcVvs the
Survivor Of she Fall Of the
Alamo.

Alamo.
The editor Of the Wood County
(Ohio) Sentinel has been. bummiug
around in Texas. He gives more ac.
curately and truthfully the story Of
the full Of the Alamo than any news
paper writer, which he received from
Mrs. naunig, who, he suys, with her
daughters made us welcome at their
beautiful home on one Of those com.
nlaudiug slightly locations for which
Austin is noted, overlooking tho city
aud surrounding country. Mrs. Han
mig is an intelligent woman Of excel.
lent memory and is perhaps not far
from 60 years Of ago, although but few
gray hairs are yet noticeable on her
head. She engaged cheeriully in con-
versation about that dark episode IN
her history, which robbed her of her
husband and partially Of her reason
for q time. As she conversed she
seemed ut times to stop as it in a sort
of reverie or dream, and l iancied !
saw a sort of wild light dancing in her
eyes as if in excitement, and indeed it
would not be strange. for her recital OF
the events of that dreadful day will
excite the most stolid listener. II
Mrs. Hannig was SO inclined. or if her
circumstances required it (happily
they do not,) she could 60 on the leo.
ture rostrum and draw crowded houses
in any city in the United States. She
expressed wish to see Frank Mayo,
who she heard was playing Davy
Crockett in Texas. She was well ac-
quainted with Crockett and saw the
noble manhood and devotion of him.
self and comrades through all those
eyentful thirteen davs preceding the f.
nal bloody elimination. She was then
a young woman and had child one or
two years old, which all the writers
have stated to have been killed in its
fathers arms. This statement she
says is incorrect as well as the story
that some of the Texans begged for
quarter. She says that only one man,
German named Wolff, asked quarter
but was instantly killed. The wretch
ed man had two little boys aged ten
and twelve years. The little fellows
came to Mrs. Hannig's room where the
Mexicans killed them and u, man
named Walker and carried the boys
bodies out on their bayonets. The
room had become dark with smoke
and to this circumstance and the Mexl'
can General Alamonte, who was cdu-
Gated in New Orleans and who could
speak English and who drove the blood
thirsty Mexicans from her room, she
feels Indebted for her life. She was
shot through the leg between the knee
and ankle, but her little child was un-
hurt. The last she ever saw of her
husband he rushed into her room and
said, MY dear vile, they are coming
over the wall, we are all lost" He
embraced her and the babe silently and
sid, MAY God spare you and our dear
babe" He drew his sword and went
out and his body was found afterward
riddled with bullets and was burned
by the inhuman victors with the rest
of the slain.
MRS. DICKENsoN's ESCAPE
was almost as thrilling an incident as
her capture. Santa Anna tried to per-
suads her to go to Mexico and to have
her child sent there. He seemed afraid
of the effect of her horrible story
among the Texans and was also asham-
ed to murder her. She states that
when she came to her right mind and
the reality Of her situation stared her
in the face she broke down with grief
and could not repress her feelings for
several days, and finally, under the
persuasion of Alamonte, Santa Anna,
at her own earnest solicitation, con-
sented to send her under an escort to
her friends in the direction Of Goliad.
when out Of the Mexican camp few
miles the cowardly Mexican cavalry
deserted her. probably fearing the ven
geanse Of Deaf Smith and, his scouts.