Mooney & Morrison's General Directory Of The City Of Austin, Texas, For 1877-78. Page: 15
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HISTORICAL 15
Indians concealed in a thicket near what is now the Capitol
Building, rushed out upon John Wahrenberg, wounding
him in their attack and would have taken his life, had
not Col. Louis P. Cooke appeared upon the scene and saved
him. The savages shortly afterwards, in open day,
captured three children of Mrs. Simpsons. One of the
girls subsequently made her escape, the others, a boy and
girl, were carried away. The citizens pursued and made
every exertion to overtake the Indians and recover the
children. On the second day they found the lifeless body
of the girl, having been scaliped and abandoned by her inhuman
captors. It was more than a year after the occurrence
before the boy was found and brought back.
Late in the summer the President several times tried
to persuade the citizens of Austin to allow him to remove
the archives, but this they as strongly refused to do as on
previous occasions. Having no point near at hand upon
which the people could draw for supplies and very little
money with which to purchase, they had to rely mainly
upon their rifles as a means of subsistence and protection.
This being the case, their ammunition soon became exhausted,
whereupon they applied to the officer in charge
of the Arsenal for the necessary amount. He, however,
refused to distribute any ammunition without a requisition.
At this time ammunition was indispensable with the
people, and in the evening they again returned to the Arselal
and finding the officer still -unwilling to accede to
their demands, they surrounded him and succeeded in obtaining
possession of the keys, helped themselves to
enough of what arms and ammunition was stored in the
Arsenal, to meet their immediate wants. The next day
they supplied each citizen with a portion of what was thus
obtained. They also took away with them a howitzer,
caisson, ammunition etc., and placed them under a shed
near the cornr of Congress Avenue and Pecan street. , The
gun they used as a means of assembling the people as well
as of defense. In September Mexico again invaded Texas.
General Adrian Woll with a force of from twelve to fifteen
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Mooney & Morrison. Mooney & Morrison's General Directory Of The City Of Austin, Texas, For 1877-78., book, 1877; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46838/m1/21/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.