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Show HORRORS OF THE TEXAS FRONTIER. FRON-TIER. We know nothing in the records of Jndian barbarities, says the Galveston Civilian, since the settlement of America, Amer-ica, exceeding somo of recent occurrences occur-rences on the Texas frontier. The following fol-lowing are some further details of the recent massacre of a family in Wise county ; In the night the Indians entered the bouse. Mrs. Paschal sprung from the bed, where they were all sleeping, fell on her knees and commenced praying, "Good Indians, spare me with my children." They shot her in the mouth and killed her with knives, shooting the bed full of arrows, the children twistiug and writhing in blood, taking somo of them and dashing their heads against the wall, window and door facings; fac-ings; they killed with knives and clubs, as they thouglu,all the children. They then shot three arrows deep into the bieast of Mrs. Keenan, dragged her il.,rtrlhnttpr tlipv had enr down. cut around the edge of her hair, and tore off her scalp ! She was cognizant cog-nizant of all that pas.-ed, and by in that state, with the dead and dving all scattered around her. One of the children had its bowels cut out, and his arm, with the shoulder, severed from his body with a knife,and his body dashed out into the yard. One of the women slipped an infant between the beds, and another small one was so secreted as to lie very quiet next to the infant. These were the only two that ejoaped unhurt. One of the iittle boys, about eight years old, after being severely wounded, jumped out of the window in the mid-t of the tumult and hid, and after the Indians left he carried water from a lake. about two hundred yards distant, and cave to the wounded all night. Mrs. Keenan Kee-nan tried to pull the arrows from her breast and twited one off. She could not move her baby, and kept her place on the d.w shutter all night without covering. She lived twelve days. The sufferings she endured cam.oi te ex-pre.v-ed. The child that carried the water could be trailed the next day by the blood. One of the little girls, about six years old. was found holdine the little infant near the embers noxt morning, and was crying, saying. '"! he Indians had killed ma and lutleW il.;e That same evening the lif'e g'.rl who was nur-ing died. |