The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, August 03, 1907, Page 3, Image 3
The Mier Prisoners.
^ Son of One Who Drew Life
Bean Recalls Tragic Incident
in History of Texas.
From Rockda'e, Texas, Reporter.
I liuve be? n wai'ir.g lor some
time to give you and. your readers
a few of my thoughts ill re
garci 10 8om? incidents in Tex .s
history. While lite endures can I
not speak of Asa Hill, my lather,
the Mier prisoner who drew the
life bean which proved a thousand
times worse to him than the
black 1) an, as he and his companions
suffer* d more than tongue
can tell? Very soon alter lie
returned to his home he fell
with a stroke of paralysis while]
plowing near the spot, where he
now sleeps by the side of his
oldest son, Green Washington
Hill, the old Indian agent, Col.
^ Milton Swisher, Captain Eastland,
Lieutenat Mack Thompson
and many others who drew the
black bean.
Captain Baker still lives in
Wilson county, T* m Rabb in
New Mexico and William Rabb
in La Porte. The last mentioned
was the first white child born
west of the Colorado river, lit'
was born near the bluff, where
the hones of our Mier prisoners
are in a vault, ill which place
they were deposited when Urs'
himiffhI from Mnvinn WLila
Lh Grange not very long past,
by the kindness of Mr. Nat
Kives, 1 procured the inscriptions
v which are on the monuments
erected in honor of those noble
sons of Texas. They are as follows
:
On the east side : "Erected by
the state of Texas to the memory
of her defenders, Captain N. H.
Dawson and his command, who
felt at the battle of Salado, Mex.,
September 18, 1842."
On the south side: "To the
memory of the men who drew
the black beans, and were shot
at Salado, Mexico, March 24th,
1843."
On the west side : Dawson's
Men." ' 1
On the north side : l'Mier prisJfc
oners." '
After the battle at Mier the 1
prisoners were at once started 1
on a long march toward the dun- 1
geons at Perote, where they
knew they would be tortured to I
death. At the Hacienda Salalo '
they overpowered a company of
envalrv. and takinir tlm
and aims from tho trembling '
wretches Ihov rode away in a '
gallop. A f"W shouted: "To tho J
mountains!" (Cameron and Hip *
Foot Wallace realized I he mis- (
taae, but fearing the T?xans I
might get separated they loft '
the road. There were 103 of *
them. It was no' long until liny r
were en'angled in the mountain *
parses. Days passed and they 1
were wit hout food or waier. They 1
were wild and did many tilings 1
to procure something to live on. '
Big Foot Wallace w as about the ^
only one who was able to stand '
such hardships.
When Colonel Mexin came up- 1
1 i
on tho unfortunates he was so
touched with pity that he ordered
his soldiers to give their can\
teens of water and rations to tho j'
p*'sorters. Nine of these prison- ?
era reached Texas, and the re
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mainder were returned lo th<
Hacienda Salado, heavily ironed
Cruel San'a Anna ordered every
tentl> man sh 't, but brave Mexia
replied I hat he would have nothing
to do with such inhuman
bu'chery ; but some one was
lound who was wi'ling to do tlie
deed.
One hundred ai d fifty-nine
while beans and seventeen black
I bems were placed in an e-rrlhe.n
mug and the prisoners drew lor
life or death. My father, Asa
Hill, has often related to me
W liat 1?A oanr ^ ~ 1
....... jjo ncrtiu unci experienced
a^ one of the unfortunate
sufferers. lie said one ot the
most piteoup appeals was made
by an alllicted brother, whc was
chained to his healthy brother
who had drawn a black bean,
paying to him, ,4I do not expect
to live but a few days at most :
let me take your place."
My brother, Jeffrey Bardsdnle
Hill, the noted '-mother's boy,"
who was one of the famous pris
oners, died last year at Waelder.
Big Foot Wallace said he would
vouch for this story : There was
a man by the name of Sheppard
who drew a black bean and was
shot with the other condemned
men. He fell, but realized that
he was not fatally shot. He lay
perfectly sjill, letting them take
his clothing and drag him to the
heap of slain. There were a certain
number of graves, and when
they were ready to bury the men
they found one missing. This
one was Sheppard, who made
his escape 'he night before. He
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una mane ins w.?y to tlie ranch
of a Mexican, who promise*! to
take him to Texas. These stealthy
Mexicans trailed him to his
hiding place by the blood he
had left on the rocks. They took
him out and shot him at once.
Ou one occasion a fine lady
said to the guards: "Why do
you keep these men chained?
Are you afraid of them?" The
reply was: "The governor's orders."
She exc'aimed, <kI am
the wife of the governor, and 1
intend to cut. the chains." She
brought a blacksmith and had
the irons cut; but with fourteen
others Big Footed Wallace was
put in irons again. On the fifth
day they began to die; one lasted
until the twelfth. On the fourI
teentli day the British minister
*11(1 a surgeon general in the
Mexican at my came into the
prison and ordered the chains
unlocked.
There were good women in
Mexico, among the number 8?na
Anna's wife and sister. I
w ?s said that tin- wife of Sanla
\nna was constantly appealing
io liim to release them, and her
lying request was to send li e
aoor Texans home. Although he
oved his wife very much, he i
rranled her dying request with
nueh reluctance, after they ha 1
mdured every species ot cruelty
ind torture that the inhuman
Mexicans could devise for a ?oi t
wenty-two months. A gr*at;
nany escaped and many died
)i ihe J100 at Mier, about- one.'
la'f got hack to Texan.
The Mier prisoners avenged
his wrong when war broke out
> 'tween the United Slates and
Mexico, Asa. C. Hill.
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