| Site Name | Gray Rock Station, Pelican Creek |
| Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name | |
| Language Group, Nation or People | Iningai |
| Present State/Territory | QLD |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | QLD |
| Police District | Mitchell Pastoral District |
| Latitude | -22.902 |
| Longitude | 145.588 |
| Date | Between 1 Jan 1868 and 31 Dec 1868 |
| Attack Time | Day |
| Victims | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 13 |
| Victims Killed Notes | |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Settler(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Foot |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Revolver(s) |
| Narrative | After the Iningai killed an employee of Rule and Lacey's sheep station at Eight Mile Lagoon near Aramac, a small band of whites, well-armed and led by the manager, started in pursuit and traced them to a cave, about five kilometres from Gray Rock Station road. According to an account in the Capricornian 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. |
| Sources | Capricornian, 13 July 1878, p 12 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65769358; Bottoms, 2013, p 176. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | ** |
