Show I TROl1Jl1 SBUIiL 0 017 J H of a Well 11niniscences know Pioneer J g INCIDENTS AT NAUVOO SOME 11 I Jr Terrors of Mobocracy in the 4 I VIe of the Mormon 1 Early Days < Church 1 CITY February 141885 1Lt AKE I THE HERALD fleEditoroI t Z seems to me that a little more n1r1t be said of Thomas Bullock who I 1I1 this week He was jS buried died and was prominent character in the early prom a very tory of this city iL I do not know the exact year when he emigrated to Nauvoo but he was the remnant of its inhabitant 5iong tjjo were driyen out ot that city in September 184Gas the following extract < I letter written by him at Winter of a I Quarters now Florence Neb to England > Eng-land near the close of 1B47 will show ou the 17th 2000 men with 500V 1 wagons marched into thcity but suI yelling hooting and howling never heard l from men or even the wild savages of the forest and I have heard and seen them terror and dismay the the surely for once overcame Sick poor < women and children While they poor were haranguing God save themarkf I their msb folldwers at he rope walk HibbsrdS such an awful and infuriated in-furiated bv noise I never heard Mnough I was in Warsaw street more than I quarter of a mile off We expected a that an indiscriminate massacre I mas-sacre was commencing J with others who were sict were carrieii into 3he tall weeds ana woods while ill who could hid themselves many crossed the rive leaving ever j thing behind As night approached we returned to our shelter butOhGodwhat a night toremem t her The next morning at 9 oclock saw me my wife my four children my1 sister in law Fanry my blind mother inlav all shaking with the ague in one hone only Geprge Wardle able to do anything for ust when a Band of about thirty men armed with guns antg bavonetts fixed pistols in belt the captain cap-tain with sword in his ha nd and the stripes and stars flying about marched1 oppasited sheltering roQi the captain called a halt and demanded the owner of the two wagons tq be brougBT J out I was raised from my bed led out of doorS supported by my sisterin1aw and the rail fence I was then asked if thos goods were mine I repliedthey are Thecaptaih then stepped out to within lour feet of me pointing his sword at my throat while four others presented their guns with fheir bayonets within two feet of low breast when the captain told ruer lou are not from here in twenty minutes my orders are to shoot you I replied Shoot away for you wilt only send me to heaven a few hours quicker for you may see 1 am not for this world many hours longer The captain then toldme If you will renounce MormonISm Mor-monISm you may stay here and wewill protect you I replied This is not my house yonder is ray house pointing to it which I bmltjmdpaid for with the gold that I had earned in England I never com niitfja tfle least crime in Illinois but I asia Mormon and if I live shall follow the Twelve Than said the captain i am sorry to see you and sicKiamuy but if you are not gone whenl return in half an hour I my orders are to kill you and every I Mormon In the place But oh the I I awful cursing and swearing that those I mendid pour out I tremble when I thinkof it George and Edwin drove my wagon down to the ferry and were searched fire times for firearms I they the mob toolr a pisloT and I though they promised to return it I when I got across T the y nyer J I I have not see it otliis day While I on the banks of the river I crawled to the margin to bid a sister who was going down to St Lous Good bye WhUe there a mobber shouted OUt1L4skt Look theres a skeleton bIdemgdetthgofl beJ So ypul rla imagine the poor sickly conditIon we were DOn D-On Wednesday the 23d while in my wagons on the sl oppositeNauvoo a most tremendous thunder shojrer passed over which drhnhed everything we had not a drr thread lef ± to usthe bed a po01 of svateriny wife andsister nlal lading it out bv basinfuls and L in a burning fever and insensible with all my hair shorn off to cureme of linij I dISease Many had noti1vagonorteuk uanJ wagonorteab to K u I blast shelter them from the J < pitlfM I t st A One case1 I will raentloi ll eor WOman stoQl ti e her bush s wrapping her cloak tqun shlefd three little orPhan I chilorea to 54and Protect them from the snow a3 well las she could through that tW nble nT night which was one continned while roar of the thunder and blaze cf Jfcfctnufei I ram descended in t torrents Ifl I I TIle mob seized every eri3on dn I Nanrnn them that they could finSrf leading iem to the river and throwin thintitr OnE mae I will mention T1 IhW sej1 I Chatles Lambert and in t1 i UIs Rh 1 Ctimug and sweatn one iu4is ste By tile lIol Saintsr1mpi zeJ oupbYI order f the commander at thCJtemnte plunged him backwlt hiifl th2 1 11 filled said Ihe coziiinandtjtkfiiiub e < < I and God dn lilql n4 < < f II 4flOtlier dip then tllrewhimon IJ L i ace then sent him on the flftt boat cross the river with the tl if he promise thttj I I Soot him returned to Kauvo they wpnI4 f 1 the Sash were the < scenc ocpurfinglal driing of l g rl1ts from Nauvoo The Saints inqujreaDf t did may > ypun hIS hO not they pay brat r Bttllocg for I t fc So11 the food 9th of October three men gave him t7 amounting to two dollars sew I i teen and a half cent because he was I a mining with hunger not having I I i itch potato turnip or an ounce of bread I I to make a cake while they had driven 11 him from a house and a lot I alled about seven hundred dollar I btSjdes BIP i 1 Vs tThiesi chairs r lurrhture PigS ducften Snd alt hb polsessek tim He 2kealt lektn most bthi 111 I tune SHe l11 4fe4 Rllardmcli irrs fe101 f tlfeCKuM1 uniLiho J lam vn1eath > WcMlf icirk tdBngl chief Young ana was a sort of general dasn clerk to the Church in the early ysin Pioneer this city He was clerk of the to r camp to this valley in 1M7 also BrIgham to tlipYr Young camp in returning Missouri River In the latter end n H pfthatthi lI dtIn returning to this I valley in 1548He uJ to take down mute8pubhemeeting5 nnd discourses of BrIgham Young t and others In an abreviated long hand mixed with a little of Pitmans pb no graphy Certain of our older citizens may yet have some of hisprimitive deeds or certificates of land srritip in his peculiar small upright characters on bits of paper containing four or five square inches superficies Paper was scarce in those days = He used to work with JjShn lay more or less in coining California gold dust into five dollar and other pieces He dug out or assisted to dig outf ther warm spring just north of the city ta make a primitive bathing place soon after the settlement of thercity and was very fond of bathing there I believe he was an exciseman when in England He was well known here atone at-one time as inspector of Iiqu6rs He was a clerk in the local Legislative Assembly several sessions In September Septem-ber 1850 he started on a mission to England returning in the summer of 1858 He recommenced clerking in the Historians office in November 1859 continuing there until January 1865 which is twenw years ago Well how the time flies i He tormerltlived on and owned the lot on the norfh west corner of the block on which the Jennings Emporium building build-ing standsopgosite the present HERALD office corner T 1 believe thewiall locust treesor som of them npw standing on the ClawSon lot cornerof South Temple and Third East Streets once grewon the Bullock lot abospecified He also had a small farm at Cottonwood Cotton-wood Durinthe latter years of his life hey resideoXat Coalvilleftand I saw very lltjle of Elm V In the very earlydays of the city and Territory he WSs one of th J > est known characters here and a close attendant on Brigham Ydung In tHbSe days everybodv knew Tommy Bullock eaceto his as1 s CITIZEN S |