Bisbee daily review., 1909-05-09

ran on little in front of our men and threw my gun to shoot, when l was shat down. Dave Lusk was standing by me when I was shot. lie told some of the men to stay with me. but l told him, No. take them on
 While He Lay Wounded.
 One of our men in passing me asked me if he could take my bis.
 tol, but by this time I was bleeding, at the nose and mouth so I couldn't
 speak; so he just stopped down and
 got 1t and went on. After laying there for a while I managed to get to a sitting posture and drank some. wa
 ter l had in gourd. This stopped
 the blood from coming from my nose and mouth. While I was sitting thus,
 one of our men. who had been lying
 behind. came along and asked me
 if l was wounded, I told him I was
 and he said. I will stay with you I
 told bim All right; please go and
 bring me a gourd of water While he
 was gone after the water I got up to
 see if I could walk. l had lost so
 much blood when l had walked five
 or six steps I got blind and couldn't see. I sat down by little sapling
 After sitting there a few minutes I
 could see again. About this time the fellow got back with the gourd of
 water. Just as he went to hand me
 the water a couple of Mexicans came running towards us. I suppose they hid in the grass until our men had
 passed. and were running back to get out of the way When. they got in about twenty feet of us they saw us and threw up their hands and began to jabber' something. l said 10 the fellow with me, Shot one of them
 Mexicans' He said, I can't do 1t they want to surrender I said, I don't 1 want any more prisoners; hand me
 my gun and I will shoot one of them.
 He handed me my gun (which was ly- ing where l had fallen) and shot one of them down: the pother ran off. The fellow said, It won't do for us to
 where they were from. They said they came from Houston's army. Don
 ahue then angrily declared no such men could use his skillet jumping back into the house just in time to escape being shot by one of Steele's i, companions. IL seems that when ] Houston's army was on the way to ! San Jacinto the men took possession of Donahue's house one night and
 stay here in this timber 1 said, Well. ! you can go; I can't I will go. and get horse and carry you out he said. He went and got horse and carried me out and put me among a l lot of dead MexicansI was so blind ] I could hardly see anything and 1 sat down or a dead Mexican. While l
 was sitting there some of our regu- 1 lars, who had stayed at the Mexican 1 breastworks and were sticking their | bayonets through the wounded MeXi- ! cans, -came along and one of them I had his bayonet drawn to stick | through me, when General Tom Green. | who belonged to the artillery corps, | stopepd him. Then I was put on a ! horse and started towards our camp.
 No one gent with me. but the horse
 carried me in all right That night
 I was carried across the bayou to De l Zavaila's residence which he had giv-
 en Us as hospital"
 The Indignant Mr. Donahue. After he recovered and started back ! to the brazos, Mir Steele, with two companions, passed the house of a man named Donahue, and they asked Donahue to lend them skillet to ocok some bread. Domaine asked to l Told a dance. inviting the ladies of | the neighborhood, wives and daugh- | ters of settlers, greatly to Donahue's | discontinue.
 "On September 2S, 1ssS,'' writes MT. | Steele, was married in Montgomery | county to Miss Mary Ann Powell: moved to Limestone county in the fall
 of 1S44, and have lived here since. My
 wife died in 1904. There are living in my family five generations, extending | through the male line, and my de- scendants number 170, most of them l living"
 iIeuterant Governor Davidson told me a few days ago it was expected the portrait of Mir Steele, ordered by the state, and painted by Miss Marie Cronin of Palestine, would be ready for hanging in the capitol within ten days.
 That portrait will hang side by side
 with portraits of the most distin-
 glished men of Texas and the south.
 and in the time 10 come, when 1t is pointed out to the curious sightseer as the likeness of the last survivor of the great battle of San Jacinto. it will
 not be the, least interesting exhibit in that splendid gallery of celebrities.-- Frank Putnam in Houston Chronicle. Location Certificate Of zhic Eis rs.
 corded in said Recorders ogIce, ss