The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 5, July 1901 - April, 1902 Page: 218
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218 Texas Historical Association Quarterliy.
en route, though it is clear they brought some arms into the country
with them.
The entire band seems to have converged at this place. It has
long been one of the chief objective points for the concentration of
Indians when on frontier raids. Their exits are made, generally,
from this vicinity, whether they take an upper or a lower line of
departure. There should be--and this is the voice of all all our
people-a Post here and a company of cavalry ready for instant
service.
Here, again, they were counted, and numbered about forty men.
They were fiendishly exultant, and unrepressed in their demonstra-
tions of hellish joy. At Steele's rancho they held high carnival.
They killed John Steele, a devoutly pious man, who deemed it
wrong to carry arms. Mrs. Steele's two children, named Richard
and George Taylor, and aged, respectively, eight and twelve years,
were at first supposed to have been captured and carried off, but
ere long were found murdered and their forms horribly mangled
and mutilated with knives. Here, too, they killed Martin Martinez
and Florentine Leo, and dangerously wounded Venturo Rodriguez
with a rifle ball and eight arrows. In the midst of this, for their
savage delectation, they stripped two Mexicans naked and com-
pelled them to run foot races before them. Meantime Mrs. Taylor,
with wonderful coolness and motherly affection, waded across the
river and escaped with her children.
They were determined, by those who saw them here, to be Mex-
icans and Indians on a plundering expedition, murdering and steal-
ing horses, arms, money, clothes, camp equipage, blankets, etc.,
from all the ranchos contiguous to this point.
The intensely interesting statement of Mr. E. C. Moore gives an
unvarnished account of the cruel hatred of the savages, the fiend-
ishness of a white leader, the gallant defence and heroic death of
Mr. Moore's companion and his own miraculous escape. The boys,
cousins, having quietly resumed their journey, saw in the distance
a cloud of dust which they judged to be raised by a whirlwind, but
it was, in reality, a cloud of dust raised by a vast drove of horses
which they had no suspicion was driven by Indians and their Mex-
ican confreres. They met the vanguard of the party and, though
not without apprehension as to who they were, yet, deemed them
cow drivers. They fought retreating and one fell. He was the
hope of a fond father. The affections of loving sisters centered in
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