The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 305, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 8, 1927 Page: 1 of 4
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walls of the mission at
Massachunetts mall
which are shown exriusively by us
history of the Slate of Texas,
as we could ascertain it has
of meeting your per»
of a long string ot many heroic deeds
durng the years of tight lor freedom,
but in lifted out of the ranks of the
commonplace by the romance of Ille
bronze voices of the bells, which con
vert it into an historie gem on par
with the battle of the dead above the
fields of Chalons.
The account of this incident. com-
ing from the daughter of a man who
had taken part in the defense of tile
mission againat Urrea’s forces, relat
campaign azainst
18:6.
As early as 1790,
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I he demands of good citizenship are
measured in terms of Thrift, Econ-
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bank reference.
hand on a strip of paper measuring
seven feet. the writing filling all but
three inches of the document.
Do you realize how few Rom buminess lowration
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The will. recently probated, of
walls of the mission
I did Refugio (be
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and the Fannin, imploring their help
The editor is greatly indebted to
Miss l)e Zavalla lor her kind assist-
ance in « onducting the necessury re-
search work to aequaint the readers
this incident belongs
many beautiful legends
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his forces. The feat of the six men,
therefore, when discovered, had an
infuriating efect upon the Mexicans
That cold facts, aithouzh accepted
by mid included in every historical
work, pule by comparison with the
poetic beanty, the lender sentiment
contained in the story, so little known,
of six unsung heroes. Texans, which
concerns itself with Colonel Grant’s
worked fervishly to
shelter the massive.
I have the exelusive hale of twe hriek bumine
when, for the purpose of repairs, a
seal'll was instituted and only re-
cently they were located at Browns-
ville and restored Io the town of Re-
tugio. So much for the history of
a
1836, Urrea, Santa
general, commanding
into the late hours and to this fact he
owed his life and that of five com-
panies The six Texans escaped when
Urrea’s forces attacked San Patricio
and slauzhtered the remainder of Col-
‘onel Johnson’s small detachment.
Those settlers who could make good
their escape fled to Refugio about
30 miles to Hie north and joined the
Irish settie rs al that place . .
While the Mexican soldiery burned,
looied and pillaged the deserted homes
at San Patricio, the refugees. with the
settlers of Refugio, sought the shelter
of the Mission Nuestra Senora del Re-
fugio. There were only a few men
to protect the wives, girls and i hil
been mentioned in any work on that
subject.
All of our Baby Needs are made of the hest material and tested for
Santa Annu, in
dating since 1836 has placed 11
among he mirac les ascribed to <li ।
vine interterence in warfare ii is
neither legend nor belief, this heroic
deed of six sons ot Texas,
it is historical fuel mid should be
made part of the accounts of Ilie his
bells which is worthy of note.
The fleeing settlers maintained,
upon arrival at Ilie Mission Nuestra
Senora del Refugio, that they had
heard the bells lolling, calling to them
from Ihe belfry, urging them to flee
in that direction The settlers in
sisted that they had heard the bella
when still some distance away, but
on arrival were told that there were
no bells in the belfry, uh they hud
been carried off more than a decade
mission, situated near Refugio. In the
old province of Texas, were made.
- but we know that the beginning of
the Bull century marks its definite
establishment, a removal Horn the
originally considered site having been
made. Two bells hung in the cupola
of the old mission, probably cast in
old Mexico, although they may have
originated in the old province of
Texas. No authentie record is avail-
able. Tile casting is very crude, but
tile names of the bells. In bold relief,
are very plain One bell is named
NUESTRA SENORA DEI. RFFUGIO
(Our Lady of Refuze) after the mis:
sion and the other one “SANTA RITA
after a saintly woman who died at
Casela .Italy, about 1456.
When. in 1814. due to political iron
ide in New Spain, which shook the
religious and civil life of the province
in its very foundations, the settlers
decided to abandon the town of Re-
fugio. they were strengthened in this
decision by the fait that they were
suffering from continuous raids by
savage tribes and were made the buf-
fer between revolution and counter-
revolution.
About 1825 the settlers left Refugio
ami. carrying the belis with them,
moved into the vicinity of what i*
now Corpus Christi.
The bells were supposed to have
been there but they had disappeared
BAY CITY, TEXAS, IIESDAY, M HU II N, 1927.
advance on San Antonio. ■ marched
along the gulf coast mid during the
night of February 28 reached San
Patricio.
That little hamlet was occupied, at
ihe time. by Col. Francis Johnson,
who. with 4U men was awaiting there
'he return of Colonel Grant, at I hat
lime scouting along the Rio Grande.
In these limes I he population ot
the old Province of Texas was by no
means all friendly to the cause of
liberty. Many were decidedly in favor
of the Mexican government and those
men were well known to Santa Anna
and his agents. These agents had
warned tile Mexicans to leave lights
burning in their abodes in order to
indicate to the soldiers which houses
P xi
and assistance. It is not known
whether or nut the messengers reach-
ed their destinations, considering the
fact that they had to steal their way
through the enemy lines.
It is certain, that no help, neither
from Gillian nor from Fannin, arrived.
The Mexicans kept up the steady
pounding of the mission walls and the
freat stones of which these walls
weie built gave away, one after Ilie
ot her.
Naturally, to the refugees it was
merely a question of time when the
dreaded attack would materialize and
it could only mean a slaughter of all
those who were behind the mission
walls. If help did not arrive soon
resistence was out of question
Help did not come Thinking per-
haps of Ilie old saying that "God helps
those who help t hemselves," the men
of the group of refugees determined
to capture that infernal cannon and
so thwart Ille plan of the Mexicans.
Six men. live Irishmen and u Ger-
man. volunteered to carry out the
dangerous mission. As the evening
shadows fell, they kissed their wives
ami children good-bye, shook hands
with the men who remained behind
and cautiously crawled out from the
shelter.
What magnificent courage, what
indomitable spirit! An example of
the spirit which is the, very basis of
Texas liberty! What death-detying
love must have inspired these unsung
heroes to risk their lives for their
loved ones and those of their broth-
ers' The stake was a high one il
was worth taking the chance.
The Mexicans were at supper and
did not espy the six stalwart men
who crawled nearer and nearer to
wiiere the cannon was planted upon
the soil so dear to them. No sentry
was posted near and they worked
quickly and silently. They had al
really gotten the gun carriage out of
its emplacement and down the re
verse side of tile sloping knoll when
a wounded soldier saw them and zave
the alarm.
The carelessness of the Mexicans
was based upon the belief thill there
was no escape for those within the
mission walls. The refugees were us
good as condemned to death and
Urrea certainly did not think that any
attempt would be made by them upon
ing against the Mexicans. The six
men confirmed these statements. Holl
could it have been possible, otherwise
Hint they had escaped willi their lives
from a seemingly unavoidable slaugh
ter? They sincerely believed that
just as the absent bells had called
them to the mission Nuestra Senora
del Refugio, so had these bells called
to their ansistance the guarding
angels from heuven and to those they i
ascribed their rescue as they Ravel
thanks to the heavenly father who!
Noveltie* alone would
The history of mankind, containing
many facts and legends of identical
trend. Sluiced widely over the cell-
furies of ill" foundation, existence and
passing of nations, records but one,
which may. even in the slightest de-
gree claim similarity with ihe story
of Ilie bells from the Mission Nuestra
Senora del Refugio.
When Atilla. King of the Huns,
hurled his hosts against the Franks
on Hie Catalaunian Fields, near, what
is now known as Chalonssur-Marne,
the historians, since 451 A. C made a
record of the fact that the ghosts of
the slain continued to light in the
air above Ilie living warriors. The
Christians, history states, had the
definite amount each
I hen Stick to it!
paze of deseription. And
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No sooner had they completed this
work when Ille Mexicans arrived at
the scene. They did not attack at
once, but took u position on a knoll
about 200 yards east of the mission.
What determined them to delay the
artack is not known, but the com-
mander seemed to have concluded that
without a field-piece, he could not
take ille strong fort the old mission
aetnally reprenented.
The troops left, hut soon returned
with u four-pounder, which they train-
ed upon Hie walls of the mission
Solid shot after solid shot pounded
azainst the formidable walls. The de-
fenders felt safe, at first, because the
bombardment meen.....I not to make any
impression whatever upon the stones
ol the wall. Hut when the fastness of
these giant blocks, under a steady
pounding of the cannonballs began to
six men yelling like fiends and ihe
women, watching the conflict from the
narrow windows of tile mission saw
their men engulfed by the enemy
They offered prayer after prayer, out
of hearts tilled with fear, filled with
despali lor these six valiant men
were outnumhered too greatly to hope
for success.
Men groaned in death agony, cursed
horribly before dying but si range
these eric es were in Spanish. Not a
sound of a voice in Gaelic, Germ.in or
English. And then as ii seemed to
ille watchers, hours afterwards tile
sound of bailie ceased. The Mexicans
had fled, leaving their dead and
wounded behind and through the
heavy doors of the mission, swinging
open on rusty hinges, there walked,
unharmed, Ilie six heroes, drugging
tile captured cannon behind them, in
harmed, except one of them, who had
a slight flesh wound in his face
Strange as it may seem, in this
fierce hand-to-hand combat, during
which many Mexicans were slain and
wounded, the inereditahle fail that
none of the Texans was killed or re
riously wounded remains.
With the coming of the new day
(he remaining Mexicans withdrew and
Hie refugees buried the dead in the
narrow ditch which surrounded the
abandoned enemy position
Then they cared for the wounded
and every one of these stated that
they had seen a strange force in the
air, fighting and protecting the Tex
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Smith, Carey. The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 305, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 8, 1927, newspaper, March 8, 1927; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1509626/m1/1/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.