TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916
391
Total Killed
120
Wounded
28 36 19
Carried off
Attacked
Horses stolen Cattle U. S. Mail coach plundered in 1 House burned 1 Wagon plundered 1 House robbed & gutted
10064 12555
Coleman Co. Menard ,,
1874 1866 1869 1873
Live Oak Bandera Young
A train Captd & destroyed & 7 teamsters
burned in 1871
El Paso Maverick 1875 1875 Note. This statement based upon the Material in my office, I A salt train destroyed Stage attacked & destroyed am aware is very incomplete. A single glance at the above exhibit, shows that it does not contain the part of the depredations by Indians on the frontier since the War. The frontier people after a few reports which yielded to them, no results, have discontinued reporting their losses. The newspapers teem with accounts of raids with their concommitant horrors of which my office has no official information. I doubt whether it is possible for any one person in any County to Know the extent of depredations by Indians in his own County. As there is no registry Kept of the depredations, if Indians murder & steal in- one part of the County the fact is often not Known in the other parts of the County. I am satisfied that the officially reported evils of rapine murder & robbery con- stitute but a small percentage of those with which the frontier has been afflicted. There is no money value that can be affixed to the Captivity of women & children. The losses on the Rio Grande have not entered into this Exhibit. The Congressional Commission which (after some months devoted to an examination of the subject reported losses of about ($30.000.00.) thirty Millions) should Know more than can be Known without a like examination. Sd WM STEELE Adgt General
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