Site NameWaterview Station, near Ingham
Aboriginal Place Name
Language Group
Present State/TerritoryQLD
Colony/State/Territory at the timeQLD
Police DistrictPort Denison
Latitude-18.755
Longitude146.189
DateBetween 1 Jan 1864 and 31 Dec 1864
Attack TimeDay
VictimsAboriginal People
Victim DescriptionsAboriginal
Victims Killed9
Victims Killed NotesMen
AttackersColonists
Attacker DescriptionsNative Police
Attackers Killed0
Attackers Killed Notes
TransportHorse
MotiveReprisal
Weapons UsedRepeating Rifle(s)
NarrativeA retired native police trooper told James Cassady that he was part of the detachment that was responsible for 'dispersing' nine Aboriginal people at Waterview Station, south of Ingham, in reprisal for killing two white men near Strathalbyn station and that the skeletons could still be seen. Cassady wrote of the incident in a letter published in the The Queenslander on 23 October 1880, p 530. Historian Tim Bottoms considers that the incident took place in 1864 (Bottoms 2013, p 114).
SourcesThe Queenslander, October 23, 1880, p 530; Bottoms, 2013, p 114. (Sources PDF)
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