OCR Text |
Show WriMen for The Union. HANDCART EXPERIENCE. Continued. We are now only ten miles from where the U. S. soldiers wintered two years before, when the well known nuchannon Army came to wipe out the Mormons, and the hatred that was in the hearts of the mountaineers, herders, and traders trad-ers in general was so intense, that that they would tell us ''that to starve to death was too gocd for us, and that they would' rather see us in Hell than they would feed us." We started on traveling by 'the side of the river 8 or io miles, in traveling along an aged' sister, Jarvis by name, was walking along by the side of the road until she could walk no farthur, and she sit down and gave two or three heavy sighs, and her spirit departed. We buried her by the wayside and traveled tra-veled on but a short distance when another sister, her nameWas Shanks came to my wife and said ''Sister, the martydom of Josesh, and Hy-rum Hy-rum was nothing to compare to this," and it was a very easy matter to see that she was very weak indeed, and unless that she got immeditate relief from some source she could not endure the hardships but a very short time. . . . .We soon came to the mail station, where there was also a store kept, but we could getno assistance from either as the men that kept them had nothing but curses for the Latter Lat-ter day Saints. This was only a very short distance from the 2 Government Gov-ernment wagons were burned, that belonged to the Buchannon Army. And I, visited one of, them and most of the .Irons of the wagons still lay on the ground but shortly afterwards were hauled to Salt Lake City, where some of ihe heavy wagon wag-on tires were ponverted into molasses mo-lasses mills, and some of them at this writing 1896 are in good condition and are still used every fall to good purpose in pressing the cane from which a good article of molasses are made in the vicinity of St. George. To be continued. |