t they were
doing he heeded not; overpowered by his feelings, he looked away,
and saw them no more.... He threw down his wallet, and leaped after
it."

I will now let the Mexicans tell how they made the attack and also the
result to them, giving extracts from official documents and from the
recital of Sergeant Becerra, a Mexican:

"A terrible fire belched from the interior. Men fell from the
scaling ladders by the score, many pierced through the head by
balls, others felled by clubbed guns. The dead and wounded covered
the ground. After half an hour of fierce conflict, after the
sacrifice of many lives, the column of Gen. Castrillon succeeded in
making a lodgment in the upper part of the Alamo to the northeast.
It was a sort of outwork. This seeming advantage was a mere prelude
to the desperate struggle which ensued. The doors of the Alamo
building were barricaded by bags of sand as high as the neck of a
man; the windows also. On top of the roofs of the different
apartments were rows of sand bags to cover the besieged.

"Our troops [the Mexicans], inspired by success, continued the
attack with energy and boldness. The Texians fought like devils. It
was at short range--muzzle to muzzle, hand to hand, musket and
rifle, bayonet and bowie-knife--all were mingled in confusion. Here
a squad of Mexicans, here a Texian or two. The crash of firearms,
the shouts of defiance, the cries of the dying and wounded made a
din almost infernal. The Texians defended desperately every inch of
the fort; overpowered by numbers they would be forced to abandon a
room. They would rally in the next, and defend it until further
resistance became impossible.

"Gen. Tolza's command forced an entrance at the door of the church
building. He met the same determined resistance without and within.
He won by force of numbers and great sacrifice of life.

"There was a long room on the ground floor. It was darkened. Here
the fight was bloody. It proved to be the hospital. A detachment of
which I had command had captured a piece of artillery. It was
placed near the door of the hospital, doubly charged with grape and
canister, and fired twice. We entered and found the corpses of
fifteen Texians. On the outside we afterwards found forty-two dead
Mexicans.

"On the top of the church building I saw eleven Texians. Th