Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-23
SPECIAL MENTION:
Job of $50 Misses Chidrens Hose
from Ave to eight inches, at
12a TO 15 CENTS!
FRO INTER- SKETCHES.
Indian Raids Into Brown. Comanche and
Erath Counties Brutality
of the Sayagcs.

For the Gazette.
MkRipIAS, Aprii ?l,--DurIng the first week
In March, lt65, II large bnnd OF marauding In
dians came down, and on approaching the
frontier divided into squads q clI NJ ana ten,
and simultaneously cutter d Eintb, brown
and Comauche counties and began deprednt-
ing In the most daring and alarming manner,
A severe dr9nth me pley'ons Year nnn s',,ssa
by "a severe hard wiuier, which had reduced
what lew cow-ponies We Ind lett 50 low In
flesh that butNery TOW were able TO do any
Kind oi service; Ia fact, most of our citizens
wore literally nioot. our bropdstulis were 10
buy, and freight ON OK wagons nom fnnnin,
tray on, Coli,n aud Dallas counties III this
teipless condition, three different squads Of
Indinns began deprcdntions nj tho same Time
In different parts OF Comnnche county. one
squad or ten passed down the south Leon
valley in open day, gathering what few horses
they could ind. And ionr miles below Cora,
on the Bird day OF March, $50, about o'elock
Killed him, taking OH every yestisc VI hair
with his scalp. Foreman had red hair, which
IL a great trophy among Comanchc Indians.
They stripped Foreman thNc his dfawers,and
mutiiaied his body IN the most horrible nam
ner. Amer butchering Foreman, and tying
his reekiDg bloody tcaip TO one OF Their belts,
they proceeded down tho valley and crossed
n oTth Leon, and al about O'Clock y. IN. mp
preached John Bsggcips ranch, near the
present town o, and ia ca,cnny tho on
horse that Bapgett bad ilen. mr.. Basgeu
was not nj home, and no neighbors nearer
than fonr miles. NOW so,m,s'ye svn,inem, ~.
md mo,hor-and view with me this terrible
tragic scene n reality and not ficiion.
lone woman, with nine helpless children.
with no chance TO escape and no means OF
protection, not even gun thr. 3hggutt had
that with HIM and surrounded WIN Ten
| steel hearted, ti0ndlsh savages In whose
veins the milk of human sympathy had
never flowed, with hideous yisnsus made
dOubiy frightful by bctng bedaubed az over
with war u lint, nnd uiiofing Hereby their
| most dlaboicll wnr-who0ps, their dark
bodies hesmeared, and hands sim dripping
with the life blood OF Foreman, whose CORY
| scalp was still dripping the CRIMSON huld nnu
| hanging to IA fiendish savage, whose greatest
isht IL In tOrtnring his most innocent VIC
lin, and the eNcruclning suiiof.ng only in-
| rrenses his ncndtNli merrilnenl Mrs. rag
| yet. succeeded IN getting seven OF tho chill
dren iuto tho cabin, when the hayages were
satching tne horse. nn. ala ,i npn,gf oe e
| 1--WE We, and little Bette, ten years oh, were
| under Il live oak tree playing some siSty
| yards from the cabin, aud were intercepted
si,l Gu ht and four OF the savages proceeded
| 10 strip OIL every sestigr OF clothing that the
| children hnd on, ana proceeded siowly,hl ~
| 10 pfplong the suffering OF little joel and 10
Increase ana Intensity a mothers agony, IN
fprturing the LILLE fellow 10 death by !nnftng
| him with alrons in every coneeivahla way
| 10 produce the most acute anu cNcrnelatins
suffering, and " possible 10 add add
tional pain and To make his
iifeicss form s,ppeaar, NE il,. more more.
| i,lnintive piieous shileks and cries were
ain audible 10 a mothers ears. One of The
spNage., 10 Nlohe belt WIS hanging poor
| Fofeman's CORY sralp. proceeded before lie
| was extinct In little Joe, ~ scalp him, and
| hapg the tcalp 10 the opposite side Of his bell
as an additional trophy 10 h.lghten NC
! pleasures OF thsIr iendish war dances. but "
| ills all Of this frigbiful tragedy No. no,
| content with toriufing, seaipipg ana killinp
bi,le Joel but " possible 10 hdd 70 a moline
| already Overlooking cup ofsofrow, mentally
| equsI 10 "a spanish inqhisliiup, those IN
| feeling saynges proceeded u lance NUS bet
e "a twenty h ,pn =, hsr loose I" 70 bleed
| Ing, staggering and hinting Twice before 81,
| reached the house On ichching the house
| Mrs Baggotl stili had presence OF NUN,
L, say. "ijrtiie. 20 round % the other door
tho Indians wi KIN Al OF ns II mama open
| his door, -Four OF tho Indians had followed
| the child TO within twenty PAGES oi the door
| thinking, no doubt, that airs. Basgeit woult
be imprndent enough 70 come ont ana NEE
the child, but she wei knew That her owi
| pended upon their remaining IN TIC house
so falling In this, the savage. remounied am
rode OF lust before dark aud as soon ~ the.
ief Mrs. Baggctf carried In the lifeltss nn'
ilangIed body Of her boy. aud had wasbe.
aud dressed Il before the father's return, on
hour after fsk s o a.s 1a 70 hssc, oacasio
would he an utter failure. and a nockery q
the subllmcst foriitnde and courage know
broua ht 10 the writer's house that night, AN
no Language, except ~ be that of angelf
is capable Of describing SUCH scens
got we'll grew 70 womanhood, and Is now "a
vic OF a rentlemaa living at Abilene. Mr.
and Mrs BaggetL are both dead.
ON the next night after the killlng Of Fort
man aud The tragedy at Bsggstt-, hn0ihe
. squad OF Indians that had been depredailn
. III the upper part Of the county, were comm
10 Ihe town OF Comnnche, and about i,it
yards from the public square they were me
IN u scout that started out 70 guar VI
town, and though they knew the indian
were In the country and had started out 9,
prsssIy 10 look for The savage, yet they Hcf
. | Completely surprised NOT expsctinK 70 tnes
Indians soming into town But the une'
pccied meeting 70 both parties resulted ~ !.
| hight At once, In which kintth Mcklnz
received n fatal wound, from which no dlt
Ia a f,w hours. ana James Mcktpze receive
a severe wound from which he has nave
| entirely recovered, hut Will Always be ~, II
valid. Some OF the boys In this light la
D never been la an indian night. ind were
!, little fuller OF whisky than courage, jnst
! that particular moment, and whiie svnc
y Inc boys were shooting at the lndluns, uthsi
y were sbootspg back mo town ~ dub
. quick lime carrying each onea whole sea
: % tsp Of his avn head, but MINIS two nnr-'
u lilird BY shots, either from ms lnuinns
q by their own party. The indians htiu y
u nrDu,,d. aud lett Without carrying Away ~
y irollifs or marks Of sioience. 100 mn'
4 whisky aud Indian flhilng DON MIX VOL
= cent. ls