Show THAT BUTCHERY thrilling narrative of the mountain me meadows adois massacre plunder the object and ery cry the means lohn D lee and his thirst for foi booty and beauty I 1 correspondence vow york herald I 1 SALT OITT CITY nov NOT 8 1874 you yon have no doubt already beti been advis dby telegraph 0 th the earret arrest it ol of john D LM lee in codar cedar city beaver county on the charge ot of having been the leader in tho the horrible mountain meadows massacre the circumstances regarding which the readers of 0 the lh enrol II croll not being camilis r with I 1 will relate OP OF tm TIM MASSACRE william 11 rogers roger a government koot agent croad the plains with general A S johnstons amy army in 1857 in in charge or of the treasure train rogers heard of the terrible mams mazacro sere tt at mountain meadows on OB his way abrom the plains it was re reported portal that the iho emigrants emig raola were murdered mur derea by indians In aiani emil emigrants rants were white men citizen of general albert S johnstons army was unable to reach suit salt liko lake oty city io in season and wax was obliged to encamp it at fort bridger lor for the wit winter iter of 1807 in tho the spring of 0 68 however the army marched into the valley ol of great sult salt lato lake on approaching III 9 the valley they were met mat by peace not bent by our government who had preceded the arm army y and boa seen the great arct prophet ot of the labier lai tor day saints sainta terms wore were made litween johnston Johnsto nand and the mormon prophet Iro phot to the effect that thai the amy should not camp within fifty miles of 0 any mormon settlement the army sea nna sta stationed boned rt at what is 11 now old camp clovd 11 a di tance ol of flits fi fito ms miles from rom silt salt like city while locate dhere here information wr was received recci Tod in regard to the mountain meadows MAs Masae sacro rc and nd the achion VI ul the ibo government at ington appropriating for or the recovery of the children presumed pred pros umed omed to lava lato been saved from themus tha acre nod to have been in toe han handa d ol of the indians mr rogers being appoint appointed ca indian agent wn was instructed during daring tho the bummer or 1 ss to to the scone of the mazacro mai acro L ere and rescue tho the child children childr r cn tn he took a company of oscat cavalry and left camp floyd lor for cedar city near tho the scene of 0 the massara massa ra on arriving arriT arriVi ingon Dg on tb the 0 ground he found the booe i ol of a h undred and thirty human beings men women and aad children in up there the demaios for aurial ho he diF diFo Covered that I 1 large 1 number ol of the murdered por dorle had b ral been ahot through the head bead the hall bill entering tho the bock back part of tho the load lead and coi coming min g out at tho the front the wolves and coyotes had bad eaten tho the flesh iho bones bone two belbel baart of hair bait that bat was a abrown around aronld among tag fage fag bowsh bonali vias gathered ga bored hered up by mr rogers it might inget be here that mountain meadows is situated twelve miles irom colar city aol aad the same dis dia ado rance irom from a temple of the latter day asio shiou THE CHARACTER or TER IKE MASSAC nEv it appears that in 1849 upon tho the excitement created by the gold dis dia coveney in Wi fornia veral pion oera cers or arkansas went to tl california in ia search of the precious metal tl TI ey vera flera wy cry tul ful in the fall fail of 0 18 W with i thir ir largo large accumulated game gains they ed to arkansas I 1 r the pu purpose of bling their families and kom toaia rya of otheir their relL relatives tives to set bet lin lia the new el dorado dondo in which they hal bal been so fortunato they purchased a largo large amount of ef blooded stock nod filled out atrain a train ol 01 about forty wagons they numbered a bue ono one hundred and ana forty six men women and children atey wera known to bo be a very wealthy train la 10 the iho epting of t 1857 as ai we have stated they emitted across the plains on arriving writing at llala like city they wera told by the cormons mormons that they were too late into to cross the sierra nevada mountains by the old emigrant rout a the mormons cormons assured them that there vua PAM by going down through southern utah passing through southern l nevada going over the range rang of the mountains moun tims and coming out ont sear fear lr if a angeles lower california tha th route the aafred tie emr anal graab to bo be practicable and safe ruts placing lacing confidence in the reports and of tho the the granta started by the southern Bon thern route down the settled 1 ol of the itter day they encamped at what is ii known as MEADOWS InU DOWS a little narrow valley dividing the iho lulls and mountains on each side with a plentiful apply of grus and a place to camp clale did these emigrants think that hit thu this beautiful spot would in a short liias line bo be their sepulchre the scene of a sanguinary in massacre thos the worst mas ellore thit that wo we have any record of in the history of the moody bloody deeds of the upon tho the early defence leas american the horrid story ot of the iho indian marders io in wyoming valley which campbell so go eloquently depicts no parallel to the butchery of these emigrants at mountain meadows ilea jowa while encamped in this lovely spot they were attacked from behind the ad 0 I 1 h hilll by 1 as they yn deverdi of their number were wounded the tha pioneer mo nears however being used to in dim n warfare and aad well skilled with the handling of the old kentucky rifle ride were wera able to keep their assailants at a long range their wagons were drawn into a CLI circle dorming lor ming a sort of fortification the wheels hel were su okell down to their allot ail elrees roea earthwork Earth were thrown up on oa the outside of the wagons VIL gous making a temporary but so m cihat formidable def delonco olace A di ditch ach wao wag dug irom this thia to a spring nu at hand to enable the iho cm errota to reach water under cover fur for live five long days they wore able to sustain hero here without an any further low loas in wounded or kul killoh 7 their stool led wen been captured and driven off early in the attack on 0 a the sixth day early in ia the he me morning ruing they da discovered covered a large body of me men n coming up the road from toward to w ard cedar city ity no firing had been done morning la iii dian dia in tight A white bag was s hoisted by the white moo men approaching them and these doomed emigran ts beliC ViD the a new come comers to be froada d A YOL ma in white and placed her outside of 0 the fortification IQ in token of friend the presumed friends nt at once approached they were ilor mona latter iatter day saints and headed by jonm 1 D LEE the min just arrested for crim criminal ual participation a in tho the Mases mawacke cre that followed fc w 0 A parley leo told old the iho that vitro were largo numbers of indiana antho in tho hills hilli but if 1 they itlo emigrants would lay jay down dowa their arms they would protect thorn them and take them back to tho the mormon they then being mile 1 from salt lake city all and near dir tho nevada line af alter ter a long IODE parley the emigrants emi trant consented lothe litre here r remarked that those emigrants bud bad with willi thorn them about oar bundred A AM tim THoU thousand BAND ts lolo 1010 1 1 which lioy tb oy lil bad procured by their previous T in lea lan to told d the them t h took their arms rm with them the indians indiana wore iron in such noh grot great that they would massacre them Pl tinder m sald ul tho the mormon moncrief chebi chief ch ewi was all the indians were ware after tho the I 1 ors thereupon lid laid down their arms taking with them such each of their as 98 they hoy could conveniently carry and consented to company tho the Alon back to cedar city twelve miles the amp kank mr rl bed hotl out of their fort fortifications mea in tl th iho 0 direction of tho the above named darned place tho the mormons cormons Mor mons HEADED BY BT leej ml fil directly in their rear at this thi timo time loot dot an indian was in night and yards yard IT from the wagons of tho the emi car ants imants i was vis inaugurated tho the decerio 0 this thia DEED loo log and nil his bu party oed firing upon the emigrant shooting eha oling so v aril of tho the most prominent men inn through tho the head at the fir finst f firo ire tho emigrants being entirely unarmed the rd aughter was waa HB an oisy after til the iho moo and nd molt moil ot of the women hd bad been lr killed illeL ft a young lady of t tigh eighteen teen amers on forward and cla clasping her banda fell 1 I her bar knees io in croul of loa lo begging him to arang nril LIFE sho she then rose nod and duped lim around the neck declaring ICO lAring to him that tho hid had a liver in Cali california tornia to whom ahe h owed lier bar lifo life that she aha aia M engaged to lo marry lim him on her gritl arrival there lee ke after hearing her plit ifill story took her aado a iilo lavished ravished ravi shod shed her and thea with his bil L goiti anif 3 CUT MM THROAT her body on oa tho the spot to be leacint eaten caien by y wolves at ouilda were aired from the general ibm ere two of the number were seven tan years of ago age TO TO MR lid room after afier mr rogora tho the indian agent bent led buried the th a am migrants iott hid had beoo left to blench bleach within twelve miles of the he mormon temple ha be returned return cJ to codar cedar city sail found the children in tho the hinda hands of the iho mor toone mons ue leo having two ol of the number tho the mormons cormons ASKED ray PAT from tho the bent for or taking care cara of the children childr CD up to this time tho the world supposed BUp posed the emigrants were MURDERED BY TUB but the subsequent relation will how abow bow tar far tho savage indians were connected with the affair mr rogera gathered gat borod tho the obil children droin to geLber kcf to pay the ransom demandel for their release by the mormons cormons Mor mons be hid the children in his hil cams camp near the mormon settlement at war city two wo 0 of them then about eight ol of ago told mr rogeb that lo lee 10 and the white men siitia BARENTS ot of course mr rogers was abound ed ad at this tho the first information he be hid had received of the real read authors of the diabolical mazacro mau mais acro ue paraded bis investigation among the and the T r testimony was corroborative of the intelligence he bo bad previously obtained oba ined it should be hero here stated stated that two cormons mormons came to the tent 0 f mr at midnight about this time and told him that thai their BEAHM WEBB PRESSED arra obier GRIEF if he the agent would woula spare their lives they would give him a true trao his tory lory c it I 1 the artal ul macre rogora told lod them to lo proceed and open their li hearts carts these two mormons cormons the names of whom mr rogers does docs not recall wl tall lim him they were summoned sum mooed by john D lo LAO the then commander of the legion at cedar U alty ity to appear iu in 1 cob cormui TUME painted with long hair fully to represent pre present the native savage prepared to go to mountain meado Mcado r vs tho the mormons cormons atta attacked cLed the train of am as indians lm 14 finding that the emigrants wro wd o fortified after five day biego retired back and drea d in citizens clothes clothe and as we have above described decoyed decayed the into a surrender of their arms arm this statement was made in lull full to lo mr rogers by the two bor mons we live have referred to thus cor fully folly the statements nate menis made by the rescued children further too more re they stated elate that the blooded and tho the wagons of the emigrant migrant 5 were taken back to cedar lity city to ahn th mormon tithing I 1 and there sold eold at t public auction lor the tha benefit of tho the mormon church |