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Show I THE DESERET NEWS, ui,p0'i...1 :1.tiQ (Continued From Page Two) ;: at Hattvoct received a baptism of Jiro se real as the cortliagradon that burned the huts of Sodom t and Gomorrah. Instead, however, of a mighty manifestation of apiritval power it Was a devilish display of s: sautnie fury.--th- e fienda of the eternal pit at war with the Saints. i;.. : : , ; , nil-Se- r , dark-new- g , consideration of interest. all to be MOIL Judge Sharpe. Idcrouley and few come the author of the deed. Admit Agnew met on the prairie miles from Nauvoo no the that Jt was. a 'monument of fully and of evil.- yet St wasa, to lay ow, noon of October 8th, 1848, and least of it, a splendid and harm pledged themselves to destroy' the less one." Temple. Hiding their borate about The Millennial Star reprinted .0 nide from town. they walked in about 4 o'clock fl the afternoon. this article. adding Ulla paragraph', Teel This temple is destroyed; but Agnew had put on a. an undercoat a corn sack lined with combustible We this Is not Th Temple- - material. About dusk they went admire the 'good feelings of the to the Temple and got the 'gee, fieuvon Patriot; but even lila con clusionit are not Correct. It was a ard In show them this building on the plea that they were suing monument of God'a wisdom tind not en of mans folly." passing through, and would A fortnight after the have no other chance to inspect lion- - the Keokuk Register said of it. Agnew slipped the key of the the tregedy:. outer door Into his pocket. After We regret to state, that on the looking through they had to return without any chance to start the of the Oth lost-- . the Temfire they had planned. After the ple of Lill Mormons at Nauvoo was deetroyed by fire. However much janitor left them, Sharp Ind McCaule3t stood watch while Agnew the religion of the Mormons may be condemned, every good citizen ran bock and kindled s blaze where will condemn this act of the Incenbe felt sure it would do its work one of the grommet barwithout being seen until he and diary as hie associates bad time to get out barium., Situated on the bluff of of town. Agnew said that he got the river, it commanded a prospect lost in trying to get out of the fay as the eye could reach and as lovely as the eye, ever rested upTemple. and finally had to run now aflame on. Strangers from all parts of the through the room Wart . lis in failing heal h . in order where the chief Ike country were attracted to the place. a at time h came bit e. ' to see this monument of misdirectto escape getting pretty badly was ruing to ie told that scorched in-- doing so. Sharp end ad labor and religious error. A, few I Was I tie. boon, bought McCauley were waiting for him In years would In all probability have if e had repented I' end at hie actalarm it into Of converted anxiety growing his temple ng doings and Ihe smiled , sore. abeence. Now they acettered; sharp Ito destruction bee inflicted and 'Yee.' all but One thing.' to Carthage. sixteen miles away. material Injury on the Mormous--,- -, I what that one Was and he to the surrounding country, it will McCauley to Appenotwe ten miles mid it wee the burning of the Nu' be a eerious loos. The citizens on awar, Agnew to Pontooeuc, twelve woo Temple. Says I. 'did you lb o smiled thetant. both skies of the river reprobate that" and he aid, 'Veer I did it the act as wanton and malicious in 'The latter had gone more than with my own hernia. Sit down and half a mile, when he saw a flick. the extreme. I will tell you all about It,' wh h twine glow in the belfry; a few "The fire presented Is Si follow. aiemear,las I can give most sub,- mass a into it later buret minute lime spectacle. it In his own words;L It commenced in of fire lie put ble horse into a run the cupola, and as the flames shot "'The reason for our burning for the bAtiatissippi River timber, 11P to the sky, they threw e lurid It was that there wag continual where be hid. and shortly men behitt the timunding darkglare ports in circulation that fhe gen to dash along the roads titling ness. Greet volumes of smoke and Mormons were coining back to cordite for the swiftly for Nouvoo, flame. burst from the window; Nauvon and we wet afraki at benow seen for could and the Crash of the potion mile around. Umbers they might take it in o their he s Agnew found was distinctly heardfailing on the ,oppo L twenty w as to do so, and had had himself so badly burned that he aloe of river. The interior...of the trouble with the we want I. could not to home. and he rode to ' she buddingthe was like a furnace: the Judge 'Sharp of 'Ca triage. Sou re ItIcCauley's cabin. reaching it Just walls of stolid niasonry were heated and myaelf a week McQiuly of Appanoo es before he where day, throughout and by the in. of Pontooaue. determined the debefore he was able to go about. tense heal. Thecrackecj melted $ine and struction of their temple and by so Sharp spent the night and the lead was dropping front its huge next. day in the "tootle of Rock doing they woudd not be able to block during the day. On Tuesday ever again try to come bark. So the into anti went Creek, Carthage mornMg the walls were too hot to on the afternoon of the night it night of the leth." be touched, The naked walls Lill was burned, in order to make arComplete Account stand, and if not demolished by ' Not. howeeer. until about 1893 rangements. we three met on the the band of men . for centuries may wee the complete account of the prairie about five miles south of stand. a monument of the n1husi. Madison in Illinois. the Jude,' Fort burning of the Temple told.we For ass at Its misguided information are worshippers coming from Carthage, and the the following a destruction corn' and I from striking Indebted to George H. Rudisill of squire from Appanoose ment on the spirit of the ' ninetteertill about Pontoostic, and we met Bowling Green. Ilorida.- As a boy century?. Church Mormon miles the .where a at few then Fort Mathison, Jost The History of Hancock County , miles south of Appalive the he stood, had collected from Native, contains this dwarfed description of noose unwe and there facts of the story, but waited pledged our the burning: selves to destroy the temple If it til the persons implicated in the. 'tit was a beautiful night; and cost our lives. So we journeyed deed were dead before disgraceful &bout 2 o'clOck lin the Li. told hie account ta the public. towards Nauvoo on horseback and fire wu discovered In the morning) on the way tried to perfect some The Rudisill narration which folcupola. It had made but little headway s lows. appeared in several when plan to work on. After awhile we first seen. but spread rapidly, and decided to get the steward to show soon after he told hie story in a very. short period the lofty us through the temple and then Which bad been kept a secret for watch our chance to Ket in our so many year: spire was a mime of flame. shoot- THE TEMPLE CLOTHED IN high in the sir, and illuminat- work., So we hid our boreee in a e whin extent of country. It secluded place, a mile from town. FLAMES was seen for Miles away. Me chi and welked in. We looked about sena gathered around, VDGE Sharp of Carthage, town until 4 o'clock in the evenitig. but I in the meantime had prepared a could be done to save thenothing of ApMcCaulei true. Sctuire lure. It was entirely of wood isof tinder by taking a torn bundle Ponand J. B. Agnew of panootie lock and cutting the arm holes in cept the walls, and nothing could tooeuc, lihnois, were the men that have stopped the progress of the so I could put it on ender my top planned end carried Out the deGames. In two hours and before coat like e cost. I then stuck itt ' These of the struction Temple. as many tarred rag and sticks es I the sun dawned upon Me earth. " erties were well and favorably the proud structure. reared at so could carry without being noticed. known in Hancock County. Illinois I then put It on and secured some much coat. an anomaly in archiand also in Lee County, Iowa, but lecture. and a 'monument of religmatches from a store to light my have all since peeved te that temions mailstood with 'four blackpipe and we were rcedY, ple above not made by hands butaned and smoking walls only re"We had but little trouble in In the heaven. This Temeternal mainMg.,.1 finding the steward and after la- of Joseph ple was the heave The Keokuk Gate City, boring with him for some time Smith end the Saints of Neuvon . be at lost consented to show us years later printed the fallowing rascals anti had these sainted Statement; through, we claiming to be strong- chosen to have been good law abidors In the country and were going The corner stone of the Morand of Instead cilium& thieves ing mon Temple at Neuvoo was laid away that night and it would be cut throats, today NOLWOO would our laid chance. nerhap, of ever have been the largest city weet of April Oth, 1641. In 1846. when the having an opportunity to visit the Mormon exodus look place. the the Alleghenies. but their depretemple. So on these conditions be dations of theft and murder were Temple had become, from its fine would oblige us. providing we eite rather than any grandeur in not to be tolerated by the law would hurry. which we agreed to the building itself, an imposing abiding vitt:tens of Hancock Coon was as do late It and it getting structure. Its length was 120 feet. ty, Illinois and Lee County, Iowa. would be dark 'before we got width SO feet, height 60 feet, sun, "The Mormons resisted being So a after loud deal of through. mounted by a domed steeple whose arrested by civil authorities for at loot Inserted. delay. the key summit wax 130 feet above the their misdemeanors, so a cell was to not it fit, when the do..et seeming Illinois to The Temple stood until the governor of made ground. We Went in with It swung open. the night of October Oth, 1646; then to arrest the Saint's Smith. which " 'loth and kept going, the man wait the people were awakened by the he did on the alth day of June. behind with the door. left wortting in landed as were the a abaft of flame belfry biasing ,184f and they He caned out for us to OUT, but and In a few hours the Temple old jail, yet standing,, at CarthI on we noticed and that he kept blackened ruin. Until with. we,. age, and on the fteruoon of the left the door with the key In it. X In the past few weeks no, authensame day a mob of one hundred a in side room, and time stepped tic statement of the burritns of the fifty men with blackened faces other two kept on; the man ran on structure was ever made, Recentsurrounded the Jail and shot the after them, and after he had pea. brother ly Mr. George H. Ruled. Prophet Joseph and his the ed me I went back to the door eitt. Lee County, Iowa. now of HowlAnd soon after, Hyrum. unlocked it and put the key in nf sena of Illinois and 'ewe, drove ing Green. Florida. gave an acpocket. and Chen ran after the count of the affair. told by J. It the Mormon, out of Nouvoo end by this time the man had discovAgnew. of Pont000tic. Hancock they emigrated to Salt Lake unered that I woe missing. but whert der the leadership of Brigham County. Illinois, in confidence' end I came up to them, I explained 10 only to be published when Agnew, Young. them that I had elopped to look at the late Jude!! Shari). nth Carthage, l'oench colony come ,hi the crucifixion, but he looked pus. Newham& 01 Neuvock. bult,diece the and liquire' steCiatileY, et Hancock picious at me and from that thus II County, who planned and carried Tetnple remained the property of on he kept right by my side and Out the destruction, should all be the Mormons and was left in would not allow ea to slop. but of one of the Mormon dead. - This being the case now, charge walked us right round and out. Mr. Ruclaill publishes Agnew's The Temple was dedicated statement. There were continu- to their departure. Al the prior Next Week) (Continued Lime of his arrest. Smith was ous rumors that the Mormons. re. When a man is wrong and won't pirating their immigration- weldhaving the brouvort Mansion erected down on the flat near the rieerward, would return to Nauvoo end admit it. be alwaya,geto angry.--- -, The house was of large proportion, the Temple to which their affec. lialiburton. ' Gone and prophetic hopes turned and was of brick and it was near Violence In the voice Is often of second as Israeli to the temple al Jeruthe story. completion , salem. only the death rattle cii reason in Many years after the Mormons "After some preliminary Confer- the thrositBoyee. had gone, the limier wee itwpect- r Waste,. r )eaLittful 1 The destitute lands of the far !west entertained dreams of a lime When they Might ; reap a meager harvest of necessities for their year" at labor r la garbAram e upon th,ft cathedral in hiauvoo---thof West strecttire magnificent' the old Will beside the ,Atiantle. ' Others hoped ,end dreamed and pri, prayed of a time when their In the deserted vale poaosesions tor pal; city might be exchanged le tide try Moires of provender when ;them over the long ,winters of they shared their meager spoil toad With the converts front abroad golly ;,.who came too late to till the nevertheless. yet had to be fed.kilts may have ; Many of the dreamed during the mummer of !late at "ailing their private poseesalone and their Temple in NauvOIA for it was In that mason that the cot:navies phalanxes of bunall transformed the green fled into 4 duet bowl until the dineaven-sen- t guile baited the .' Structive march of the greedy In ' recta - , Sanding Deetroyed The males in the arid ,stretehes 'Ur sand and MS were in this .51istreile when their million dollar temple beeide the majesticfire- - It &opt Was destroyed; by in yearns that the Irett, citIsene on fearful neighboring t,owne were that the magnificent Templeandwould take tempt the tailea to returnconliecaited " possession of their wee property, that a fund. 01 $500 raised by public subscription and Joseph , given to an incendiary. if he would burn the The many accounte of this trag' edy are so conflictine, we shall present Several of them, allowing the reader to select the wheat from mosig the chaff, We are safe in as the accepting October 13, lata, , date of the, burning. The flit4 announcement of this foul deed appeared In the Mauve Patriot. it roads: "on Monday (October: athl our citizens were awakened by the Marin of fire, which, when first was 4 discovered, binating out through the spire of the temple near the mill door that opened front the east side of the roof, on the mein, building. The fire was Seen l'irat about throe o'clock In the it had Silk.morning. and not 'Wit; : en such hold of the- - timbers, and root as to make .ueelese any flint ' to extinguish IL The materials of tits inside were so dry, and the fir. spread a. raPitilY. thatto a few min' taint were sufficient wrap this lamed edifice in a sheet of flame. (1111 Of mour"It was a eight kV mess of The hal sublimity. tertal which had ' been gathered there by the labor pi many years of its wildest spirits. Although the niorning was tolerably dark, mill when the flames shot upwards, the shire. the street and the houses for nearly. mils distant were lightrender even the wd up go as to discernible.The areeneet abject pointing glare of the vast torch. contranod skyward, indeAcribably s with the univeseal gloom and around tt; and men looked on with laces sad as if the crumbling ell ruins below were consuming their hopeit "It was evidently the work of an ' the incendiary. 'There had been on previous meeting in the '" evening lower roam but no person was in the Upper part where the fire wee first titecovered. Who it 'wea ,. and whet could have heen piq motive. We hava now In idea. Some feel-triinfinitely more nottiviable than that of the individual who put the Ir.phinitest torch to the beautiful etructure, of old, must, have pos. work cif To a destroy' segued him. art, at once the most elegant and the most renowned in its celebrity of any In the whole- west, would we should think. require a mind of more than, ordinary depravity; and z we feel assured that po one In this community could have beet so loot ' to every eenxt of Justice. end every 2 lag the ruins of this mansion and he aceidently an dLqcovered in the iw 11 land ur opening' on in estigation oundarch, to be he end Of a tunnel and aft clearing a ay 1 succeelo tett in gaining an en ante. 1 fol. lowed e tunnel fori t least a ball mile. Id the directio of tem-ple. The arch wa, Made ill brick laid cement. kilt W high two enoug and id enough I to walk aide by s and 1 am tist that the arch is atilt intact oday 1 have been inform- Colonel Sideman, the hused band of .Ioeaph Smith, widow, had a wti of the mansion finis ' up resid rice 'alter m vtQt into there n 1865. ill? I, to turn to the irning of the temple 1 Will give it in Mr. J. G. gnew' own Words near as 1 s n recollect, which 147 befot his dea h in the fall After t iling e his story, h tisk me a frie d not to 1 it be know i until iter the deal of all the rties co cernedt as th y pledg d the selves see y atter. This 1 told him the would do. And now the th parti toare allI dead. it Witt do rT let be known, and harm will a litify m ny , an old i 7. death the h Deportment TURDNY, DECEMBER 17, 1938. , ' , i is - ti 11, - news-Paper- 1111111 , ' s , , , , stew-'Ard- , -------- r |