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The officials were holding the documents in wagons, and they were trying to run with them. This how Texan, Samuel Maverick described the incident. " We were aroused...by firing of a...cannon...succeeded [followed] immediately by the... tramp of a body men. A dense fog obscured [hid] them from actual observation until they had advanced into the public square...when the fog disappeared discovering[revealing] to us that we were surrounded on all sides by the bodies of regular [Mexican] troops."
Angelina Elberly also added in on a quote of her own. " I felt what I did, was the right thing to do. The documents belong here, in Austin." Another quote was made, by President Sam Houston. " I think the decision I made was wise, and necessary. The documents probably would not be save in [Austin] the target, the capital."