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Ten days later the expedition came across the Jangga in the scrub near the junction of the Suttor and Belyando Rivers and shot 12 of them. According to historian Tim Bottoms, (2013) several women were also captured and Fetherstonhaugh and Uhr then shared their dinner surrounded by the corpses and the bound and roped women.", "id": "te16ba", "source": "Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser<\/i>, April 1, 1865, p 2http:\/\/nla.gov.au\/nla.news-article147933024<\/a>; Fetherstonhaugh, 1917, pp 272-274; Richards, 2008, p 264; Bottoms, 2013, pp 109-110.", "datestart": "1864-01-01", "dateend": "1864-01-31", "udatestart": -3345098692000, "udateend": -3342506692000, "latitude": "-21.476", "longitude": "146.899", "linkback": "https:\/\/c21ch.newcastle.edu.au\/colonialmassacres\/detail.php?r=953", "Source_ID": "953", "LanguageGroup": "Jangga", "Colony": "QLD", "StateOrTerritory": "QLD", "Victims": "Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People", "VictimsDead": "14", "VictimDescription": "Aboriginal", "Attackers": "Colonists", "AttackersDead": "0", "AttackerDescription": "Native Police, Settler(s), Stockmen\/Drover(s)", "CorroborationRating": "***", "War": "Northern Downs", "Stage": "East", "Region": "North East Inland", "Period": "North", "TLCMapLinkBack": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16ba", "TLCMapDataset": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2500" }, "display": { "popup": { "links": [ { "text": "TLCMap Record: te16ba", "link": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16ba" }, { "text": "TLCMap Layer", "link": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2500" } ] }, "source": { "TLCMapID": { "id": "te16ba", "url": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16ba" }, "Layer": { "name": "Northern Downs War and Resistance (community contributed)", "url": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2500" } } } }, { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 146.618, -22.047 ] }, "properties": { "name": "Dunjarrobina Waterhole", "description": "Two weeks after the Aboriginal killing of Henry Clark on the Belyando River, 83 miles (133 km) from the native police camp at Mt McConnell, a detachment of 18 native police troopers led by Reginald Uhr and Frederick Murray, and accompanied by Mr Bulgin, manager of St Anne's station on the Suttor River, arrived at the Belyando and 'proceeded on their tracks, and after some days' pursuit, overtook, and succeeded in shooting eight or ten of the blacks' (Brisbane Courier<\/i>, November 2, 1866, p 2). 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According to an account in the Capricornian<\/i> newspaper article published a decade later (13 July 1878, p 12), 'The entrance [to the cave] was low, and the leader, who left his followers behind, crawled into the cave on his hands and feet, when he found himself face to face with thirteen savages...With two loaded revolvers he shot down the whole band, who, paralysed with fear, offered no resistance. ' The way in which the account was written, indicates that it was the manager who shot the Iningai.", "id": "te16bd", "source": "Capricornian,<\/i> 13 July 1878, p 12 http:\/\/nla.gov.au\/nla.news-article65769358<\/a>; Bottoms, 2013, p 176.", "datestart": "1868-01-01", "dateend": "1868-12-31", "udatestart": -3218868292000, "udateend": -3187332292000, "latitude": "-22.902", "longitude": "145.588", "linkback": "https:\/\/c21ch.newcastle.edu.au\/colonialmassacres\/detail.php?r=962", "Source_ID": "962", "LanguageGroup": "Iningai", "Colony": "QLD", "StateOrTerritory": "QLD", "PoliceDistrict": "Mitchell Pastoral District", "Victims": "Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People", "VictimsDead": "13", "VictimDescription": "Aboriginal", "Attackers": "Colonists", "AttackersDead": "0", "AttackerDescription": "Settler(s)", "CorroborationRating": "**", "War": "Northern Downs", "Stage": "West", "Region": "North East Inland", "Period": "North", "TLCMapLinkBack": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16bd", "TLCMapDataset": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2500" }, "display": { "popup": { "links": [ { "text": "TLCMap Record: te16bd", "link": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16bd" }, { "text": "TLCMap Layer", "link": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2500" } ] }, "source": { "TLCMapID": { "id": "te16bd", "url": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16bd" }, "Layer": { "name": "Northern Downs War and Resistance (community contributed)", "url": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2500" } } } }, { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 143.03, -22.563 ] }, "properties": { "name": "Skull Hole, Mistake Creek, Forsyth Ranges", "description": "The Norwegian naturalist Carl Lumholtz recorded in 1881 that he had been shown skulls of people killed in a massacre by Native Police:\n'In the vicinity of Bledensbourne I was shown a large number of skulls of natives who had been shot by the black police in the following circumstances:\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdA couple of teams with provisions for the far west, conducted by two white men, had encamped near the blacks. The latter were lying in ambush, and meant to make an assault, as two black women had been ravished by the white men. Instead of defending themselves with their weapons, the white men were cowardly enough to take flight, leaving all their provisions, oxen, tent, and all their other things in the hands of the blacks. The fugitives reported to the police that they had been attacked, and so the \"criminals\" a few weeks afterwards were pursued far into a narrow valley and shot. I visited the spot in company with the manager of Bledensbourne station, and saw seven or eight of the skulls. According to the statement made by several persons, nearly the whole tribe was killed, as there was no opportunity of flight' (Lumholtz, 1881, pp 53-54).\nLumholtz had been en route west to Elderslie, before going to 'Bledensbourne'. As Elderslie is west of Winton, 'Bledensbourne' is most likely Bladensburg just south of Winton.\n
\nP.F.H. Mackay published an account of this massacre, told to him by Hazelton Brock in an article published in The Queenslander (20 April, 1901, pp 257-258). The story is as follows: \n
\nIn 1877, George Fraser was droving 700 cattle to a new stockrun he planned to establish at Bladensburg, about 15 kilometres south of present day Winton, in Western Queensland. He led a party of about eight stockmen, including Hazelton Brock and Jack Wilkinson, a man named Bill and two 'new chums'. After one of the 'new chums' was killed by a group of Guwa warriors, Fraser buried the body and sent another stockman for help at the native police camp at Blackall. When a detachment of native police, led by sub-inspector Robert Moran, arrived a week later, Fraser and his party had tracked the Guwa to a large camp site near a waterhole now known as Skull Creek and surrounded by steep cliffs at the head of Mistake Creek in the Forsyth Ranges. With the party now increased to 14 men, Fraser and Moran planned to attack the camp at dawn the following morning. The evening before the attack they tied up their horses more than a kilometre away from the campsite, climbed a hill above it and waited until dawn. With the sound of a mopoke as the signal, the 14 men surrounded the camp from above on three sides and began shooting. The Guwa scattered in all directions but most of them made for the waterhole. After many of them were shot, the native police went after the rest with their machetes and hacked many of them to death in the water. Hazelton Brock estimated that 200 Guwa were killed in the massacre. Brock 'collared' an Aboriginal boy from among the few survivors, named him Boomerang Jack and brought him up as a stockman. In 1901 he was working on Collingwood Station, 50 kilometres west of Winton. In the aftermath, Brock took squatter John Arthur Macartney to the site to get some 'bones and specimens'. \n
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