| Narrative | Following the earlier incident at Fighting Hills, the Aborigines returned and stole a number of sheep. After unsuccessfully searching for a trail, the Whyte brothers and their stockmen separated. The Whytes rode to the nearest station to "drown their disappointment" and the station hands, including Henry Skilton, William Fox, and two others, Henry and Bassett, returned to the home station. En route they passed the waterholes at which were camped some old men, women and children. They shot the entire camp. According to local historian William Moodie, the bodies of those killed at the Fighting Waterholes were buried in a mass grave on the bank of the overflow creek, below the present embankment of the reservoir. In 1946, following heavy rain, a number of skulls and other bones were uncovered. It is not known what happened to them. |
