Site Name | Glengyle station, Channel Country This massacre is part of a group of massacres |
Aboriginal Place Name | |
Language Group | Pita Pita |
Present State/Territory | QLD |
Colony/State/Territory at the time | QLD |
Police District | Bedourie |
Latitude | -24.777 |
Longitude | 139.133 |
Date | Between 1 Apr 1879 and 30 Apr 1879 |
Attack Time | Day |
Victims | Aboriginal People |
Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
Victims Killed | 29 |
Victims Killed Notes | Men women and children- 'a large camp of niggers' |
Attackers | Colonisers |
Attacker Descriptions | Government Official(s), Native Police |
Attackers Killed | 0 |
Attackers Killed Notes | |
Transport | Horse |
Motive | Reprisal |
Weapons Used | Snider(s) |
Narrative | After the Annandale station massacre of 5 March 1879, Sub-inspector Kaye and three native police troopers, patrolled the Herbert River to Glengyle station and 'dispersed a large camp of niggers as punishment for the alleged killing of a stockman on the station, named Scott about a month previously.' (Queenslander, 1879, p 668) The survivors fled over the border to South Australia. |
Sources | Queenslander, The, 24 May 1879, p 668 |
Corroboration Rating | ** |