Site Name | Hornet Bank aftermath (3) This massacre is part of a group of massacres |
Aboriginal Place Name | |
Language Group | Yiman |
Present State/Territory | QLD |
Colony/State/Territory at the time | NSW |
Police District | Taroom |
Latitude | -27.199 |
Longitude | 148.747 |
Date | Between 1 Apr 1858 and 30 Apr 1858 |
Attack Time | Day |
Victims | Aboriginal People |
Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
Victims Killed | 70 |
Victims Killed Notes | MWC |
Attackers | Colonists |
Attacker Descriptions | Native Police |
Attackers Killed | 0 |
Attackers Killed Notes | |
Transport | Horse |
Motive | Reprisal |
Weapons Used | Carbine(s), Cutlass/Cutlasses |
Narrative | Following the massacre of the Fraser family at Hornet Bank station on the Dawson River in November 1857, three large scale reprisals of the Yiman people took place. The first was carried out by a posse of local settlers; and the second by two surviving men of the Fraser family. The third was carried out by detachments of native police who hunted the Yiman down from the ranges of the Upper Dawson River in April 1858. It is estimated a minimum of 70 Yiman were killed (Richards 2008, pp 63-4). |
Sources | Richards 2008, pp 63-4. (Sources PDF) |
Corroboration Rating | * |