. San Antonio de Bexar; a guide and history. arp trade with Mexico, and to makethose approaches towards the peaceful arts which necessarih- accompany Indians kept life from .stag^iating, and in the year () occurred a bloody battle*with them in the very midst of the town. Certain Comanche chiefs, pending nego-tiations for a treaty of peace, had promised to bring in all the ca])tives they had;and on the 10th of March, 1S40, m>;t the Texan Commissioners in the Council-house in San Antonio, to redeem their promise. Eeaving twenty warriors andthirtj-two women and children outside,
. San Antonio de Bexar; a guide and history. arp trade with Mexico, and to makethose approaches towards the peaceful arts which necessarih- accompany Indians kept life from .stag^iating, and in the year () occurred a bloody battle*with them in the very midst of the town. Certain Comanche chiefs, pending nego-tiations for a treaty of peace, had promised to bring in all the ca])tives they had;and on the 10th of March, 1S40, m>;t the Texan Commissioners in the Council-house in San Antonio, to redeem their promise. Eeaving twenty warriors andthirtj-two women and children outside, twelve chiefs entered the council-room andpresented the only captixe the\- had lirought—a little white girl—declaring thatthey had no others. This statement the little girl pronounced false, asserting thatit was made solely for the purpose of extorting greater ransoms, and that she hadbut recently .seen other captives in their camp. An awkward pause one of the chiefs inquired. How the commissioners liked it? By way of. reply, the company of Captain Howard, who had been .sent for, filed into the room,and the Indians were told that the}- would be held prisoners initil they should sendsome of their party outside after the rest of the captives. The commissioners thenrose and left the room. As the} were in the act of leaving, however, one of theIndian chiefs attempted to rush through the door, and being confronted by the sen-tinel, .stabbeil him. Seeing the sentinel hurt, and Captain Howard also stabbed, theother chiefs sprang forward with kni\-es and bows and arrows, and the fight rageduntil the}- were all killed. Meantime the warriors outside began to fight, and en-gaged the company of Captain Read; but, taking shelter in a stone-house, were sur-rounded and killed. Still another detachment of the Indians managed to continuethe fight until thej- had reached the other side of the ri\er, when they were finallydespatched. Thirty-two Indian warriors and five Indi
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