April 16, 1836 Hopkinsville THE BAD NEWS CONFIRMED The following letter from our fellow citizen has been received by a gentlemen of this place, who has politely handed it for publication. Other letters have likewise been received, all confirming the news. Dear Sir: The unpleasant intelligence has just reached this place, by express, from the commander in chief, on the western frontier, that a renewed attack was made, on Sunday morning, the 6th inst., led by santa Ana in person that pprevious to the attack, the Mexican cavalry formed a circle around the city to prevent the escape of any person -- that the infantry made an attack simultaneously on the four sides of the alamo, which was carried by assault at sunrise -- that the resistance of the garrison was desperate, and the loss very great on the part of the Mexican infantry. Every man in the Alamo died fighting, except seven, who, when the place was carried, laid down their arms and cried out for "quarters and Santa Ana" but were immediately put to death by his orders. Col. Travis, the commandant, committed suicide as soon as he lost all hope -- he was a proscribed man by the Mexican government -- a price had been set on his head, and he was determined not to be taken alive. Colonel Bowie, who was very ill in bed, also put an end to his existence. The bodies of the Americans were burned as rebels, says the dispatch, and the blood-red banner of extermination now waves in undisputed possession of San Antonio. Alas, poor Crockett! He was among them! You cannot conceive the state of feeling existing here -- it is electric - volcanis. The siege of San Antonio, last fall, was a frolic, but you may depend there is now to be war in earnest. Santa ana comes himself, and will make it a serious business. The people of the colonies expected him in May, and Napoleon-like, he is in the midst of them in February. I have no time to add more. Yours George C. Childers. Betty Sellers