TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916
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campfire assured that Your Excelency in consideration of the emergency of the [This portion illegible] As everybody anticipated, the Indians have taken advantage of the absence of the troops from Fort Inge and Fort Clark being on scout to the Devil's River and Pecos River. They have crossed the Rio Grande in three different parties, each consisting of twenty warriors and more, and are at present ravaging this parts right down to Bexar County and round the city of San Antonio Yesterday I passed through the town of Quihi in our County of Medina, the.re the people had just hurried one of the victims sacrificed by the regardless and negligent policy of the U. S. Government. G. Gerdes a respectable old settler from Quihi was found the day before yesterday--stripped of his clothes, covered with about fifty wounds, about twenty Indians captured the old man 300 yards from his house in the town of Quihi made him undress himself and when naked priked him with their lanses taking care not to wound him mortally, and it appears that they sistematically tortured the old man for a half an hour driving him a mile until they, their time being up, for other business they gave him the coup de grace through the heart, from there they went to close to Castroville stole all the horses they could find crossed the Medina six miles be- low and visited old Bexar County, no doubt in view of their boasting to steal the Government horses there, took the horses at the South creek Arroyo Medio 15 miles from San Antonio, and from thense drove leisurely through the west part of Bexar County to my sheep rancho at the Verde Creek in the north part of Medina County where they took some horses from a party of cow hunters who where to weak in number to oppose them, and from thence through Uvalde County leaving Fort Inge and working to Camp Verde, bade good by to Texas for a whil There is some chanse that the troops from Fort Clark where [illegible] Capt Wilcox is a very efficient brave man may intercept those Indians before crossing the Rio Grande, but as the Indians have got about 100 head of first class horses and will drive day and night it is doubtfull. We here in Medina County had been advised ten days ago that the Lipan had left their encampment above Piedras Negras and were gone to Texas on an expidition. Mr Hubert Weinand from D'Hanis, who had gone to Mexico to buy his son off, from the Lipan or Kickapoo
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