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The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Indian Atrocities in Texas. (search)
The Indian Atrocities in Texas. --The Houston Telegraph, of the 18th December, has the following further news from the frontier: Kinchi Valley is entirely deserted, the inhabitants having removed farther into the interior for protection. Around Weatherford, some one hundred and fifty families of Palo Pinto and other counties are encamped. Their condition is truly deplorable, having nothing but small canvas tents to shield them from the elements. West of Belknap not five voters can be found, so great have been and are the dangers, passed and threatened. A company of Rangers fell in with a large party of Indians on the 11th inst., and after a short fight, took fifteen of them prisoners, and brought them to Jacksboro'. While there another party of white men arrived, who, by their actions, so frightened the prisoners that they managed to break from their guards. The fleeing Indians were fired upon by the whites, and one killed and another wounded, and one aged man, seemin