El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-14
H ALAMO
MASSACRE
Madame CandeIIario, Who
Has Just Died, Was
THE ONLY SURVIVOR.
Her Vivid Story Of the Great Battle,
Where LIZ Brave Men Met Death
As True HerOes-COlOnel Bowie
Died In Her Arms-BlOOd Was An
kle Deep.

AS lIuC llCAOCS OO1oAASA OO'
Died In Her Arms-BlOOd Was An
kle Deep.
Madame Candellario, who really wit
messed the historic battle OF the Alamo,
died a few days g at the great OF
III years. A short time ago the fol-
lowing article concerning her appeared
in the ST. Louis Republlc:
Old Madame CandeIlario says that
she has heard and read a hundred diff
ferent descriptions of the battle OF the
Alamo, and that not n Is correct.
Although she is nov in her one hun
dred and sixteenth year, her health
is good, and her mind Is perfect
" clear as to events hat transplred In
the early part OF the century: aes
great age and the conspicuous and
heroic part that she enacted during the
famous siege of the Alamo are matters
that are we'll authentic sted beyond all
question of doubt. A few years g
the Texas legislature appointed a COM
mittee to wait upon this very remarka'
BILE woman and investigate all the facts
connected with her claims upon the
gratitude Of the state. After examln-
ing many witnesses, and looking
over the records preserved
in the old missions, they re-
ported that no doubt could exist as to
the fact that Nine. CandellariO was in
side Of the walls OF the Alamo engaged
in nursing Colonel James Bowie at the
time the battle was fought, and further
declared that they believed she was
born in the year a. D. 1882. Acting
upon this report, aud prompted by a
cOmmepdable desire to promptly re-
coguize ana reward the services OF one
who had done SO much to aid in the
establishment of the old republic, the
legislature granted q pension OF SIOU q
year to this heroic old lady.
Nine. Cendellario is still alive, and
living in q small adobe house al GIL
Laredo street. San Antonio. Nothing
plesses her better than to receive q
visitor who manifests interest in her
story OF the fall of the Alamo. She is
totally blind, and though rather fee
BILE and somewhat slow and hesitating
in the use of the English language, she
through rapid and emphatic
gestures, occasionally assisted by a
Spanish girl who Is constantly by her
side, to give an attentive listener q
very impressive description OF one of
the most remarkable battles ever
fought in the history of the world.
Nine. C~andellariO is a born revOlu-
zionist, and during the whole of her
long life she has been in sympathy
with every people who were struggling
for freedom. She has kept we'll posted
concerning the progress of b war In
Cuba, and so eager has she been for
the success of the revolution hat she
has frequently sent small sums of o
ey to the Cuban junta in New York.
Not long ago.. when she received a
check for her pension, she told her
granddaughter to go to one of the
stores and purchase her q pair OF
shoes. While the young girl was get
ting ready to obey the request some
one happened to say something about
lady sprang up on the side
claimed: 'Never mind the shoes, sem
So to the Cubaus. 1 a go barefooted
until next payday" This little oct is
characteristic of her whole life. She
is q lover of justice and charitable
to a fault. A young lady who was
present during my visit, said: "They
call for her mother of the waits and
her q long time cay that she has
raised about 40 children, though she
never had but two of her own"
Though every drop of her blood is
Spanish blood, she has never loved
Spain, from the fact that her fathers
family W al forcibly moved to Texas
from the Canary Islands about the
middle of the last century for the pur-
pose of carrying out a colonization
scheme, concerning which her people
were never consulted.
She married a r~evolutionist, who
embraced the first opportunity to show
his hatred of the mother country.
He fought with Perry, Nina, Magee,
and Toledo.
Nine. Candellario was with the
Americans at the terrible battle of
Medina, where 800 revolutionists
charged q whole Mexican army, and
she saw 707 of these fall dead and
wounded upon the bloody field, Here
her husband was wounded, and a flame
of bitter hatred against Mexico ever
afterwards burned f~ercely in her
breast.