| Show AM ALLUSION TO THE TENNESSEE MASSACRE IN its ito issue of yesterday rooming morning february ath the morning liberal organ of this CRY city commenced an editorial article thus thug A DISPATCH says there is trouble in nottingham england on account of the mormons cormons Mor mons probably by tomorrow the deseret news will establish that th the e whole trouble came from the fact that some ome one in nottingham had received a copy of THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE when aen a couple of missionaries were killed in the piney woods of tennessee four or f five ive yearn year ai ago in a wild moun ganeous region where not one in forty can read at all where the newspaper is not seen men once a year the news gravely that the mob was impelled to commit the violence by reading THE SA LAKE TRIBUNE ll 11 the presumed object of these remarks is to create an impression that the journal which makes them aces not have the malevolent influence which not only Mor mons but a hos bos of ef non mormon attribute to it in order to break the force of the powerful non M marmon rmon sentiment which has baa set in against it because of the havoc its malignant policy has had on the material I 1 of the territory it makes some most egregious blunders in its ito references reference a to past history ate A resurrection of its ito connection with the f rightful frightful tragedy enacted in ten neseem on august 1884 is another of unmitigated its mistakes as the allusion to that bloody massacre makes it appropriate to give some of f its details the following is a sketch of the bloody affair As to is the custon with the elders of the mormon church elders W B S berry and henry thompson who were laboring as missionaries in the beate of tennessee and more especially in lewis county of that state made an appointment to hold a meeting and preach their views to the people that meeting was appointed for 11 ocl ou the day of august 1884 at the house of james condor on cane creek lewis county tean Tennee aee A short time previous to the filling of that ap the elders whom I 1 have named were unexpectedly joined by two others elders john H gibbs gibbe and william H jones on the day dayap ap policed poin ced three of the elders with elder jones excepted he being at the house of mr garrett a short distance from the condor farm assembled at mr condors condoles habitation habitat iun and engaged in preliminary exercises such as the singing of religious hymns and preparing their minds for the devotions in which they were shortly to endiger engage elder jonesb at mr garretts house was engaged in reading a discourse of one of the authorities of the mormon church chach fr for the instruction and edification of a number of people who had assembled there atter after he had concluded this he immediately started on his way to join the others who were at condors Condor ls but while be was traversing that short distance suddenly a mob meb of men in fantastic garbs and masked faces and armed and equipped with deadly weapons for the comi niest nm I 1 violence olence rushed upon him and news afi i a prisoner he was left in charge of one ot this armel armed party and that guard that was left over him received instructions from his brother that he should on the first intimation of any attempt to escape shoot him down like a dog that ne he should be murdered elder jones by the he t consent and canul connivance vanoe of his guard subsequently escaped and returned to his home and friends in utah on leaving elder jones the mob pro proceeded eded to the house of mr condor they found the proprietor of the place standing by the gate they matte maae him a prisoner after the seizure of james condor david hinson who appeared to be the leader of the mob entered the house where elder gibbs was engaged in selecting texts of scripture for the purpose of enabling him to preach the doctrines that are taught in the bible he took a gun that thai was hanging upon the hooks down from over the back door and with that weapon in cold blood shot elder gibbs down murdered biml himl next this deadly weapon was presented at henry thompson whose life he also sought elder berry being close at hand a man of I 1 indomitable courage and powerful nerve desirous of saving his brother seized the weapon and held it as it if it were in the grip of a vise visa and turned it away from the person of his follow fellow missionary at the same moment elder berry observed others of the enter the front door with their weapons leveled upon him and when he saw that and feeling that his doom was sealed he be simply bowed his head bead a and pd received the bullets of the assassins in his bis body and fell dead al their feet elder thompson saw that to remain longer was to needlessly sacrifice another life and therefore he made his escape As an he passed out of the house and was leaving it his life would have been taken also only there intervened betwixt him and the would be assassin the person of a lady who passed out of the house bouse and was about to lift her child from the ground and elder thompson escaped to the woods in the meantime martin condor the son of james gondor entered the house and engaged in a struggle with david hinson for the possession of the weapon that he held and while engaged in this struggle some other members of the mob shot him down and murdered him in the meantime J B R hudson the stepson step son of james condor entered and leaped up into the loft of the house to procure a gun gud aud and descended w quick as thought almost ue ki e was seized at the foot of the stalls stairs by two of the murderous ruffians but tearing himself loose hg he shot anti and killed kaled david hanew and then he in turn was slain also making five dead men four who were guiltless and one of the guilty murderers who went into eternity with the blood of innocence upon his hands bands not satisfied with their diabolical work thus far these fiends incarnate before leaving the premises as an to the tragedy poured a volley through the window a number of the missies of death entering and severely wounding the person of an innocent I 1 woman mrs condor the mother of the two murdered boys and the balance of the bullets entered the dead body of W 8 berry now as to the cause of tiie terrible massacre for some uwe time previous in western and middle tennessee where the murdered elders were laboring everywhere they went they were oon con flouted with the bishop west red bed hot address manufactured in this city and published by the bait lake it was specially handed about and utilized utilised in abusive aau mormon sermons by a preacher named vandever elder jones who survives presented to this baptist preacher a refutation of the slanderous fabrication in order that he might redress the evil that he be had accomplished by its dissemination among the people and which had inflamed the minus minds of the populace to such an extent that they were prepared by that statement or alleged address purporting to have been delivered by a mormon bishop to shed the blood of the he elders and they did it and we leave it to a discriminating public to toj i adge as to whether or not the blood of these murdered people to Is not to some extent upon the skirts of the forgers and publishers of the inciting cause of the massacre the climax of calloused brutality has yet to be told the bodies of the two utah missionaries were brought here having been exhumed from their burial place and shipped to utah by elder eider B H roberts at the risk of his bis own life on account of the lc feeling existing in the locality he be had to accomplish this work in disguise and nd under cover of night the remains of elder berry were taken to Ka narra millard county and consigned to his family and the remains remain of elder bibba to Pa paradise cache county his home when he was alive and throughout this in every place where the newts news had bad reached the mormons cormons Mor mons arrangements were made to hold services in honor of the dead to show the respect of the people for these who had been slain among these meetings was a large assemblage in the taber this city which was crowded on the occasions occa occasion sioni an immense host convened there and cert certain ittu elders poured out their thoughts in words of respect for the dead and grief for the awful act that had caused the death of these men but more eloquently still was the prevailing sentiment expressed by the moistened eyes which could be seen all over that vast congregation what was the position taken by the salt lake tribune regarding these solemn ceremonies the sheet contained in its following issue an alleged description of the proceedings and it was a travesty a farce what can bt be thought of men who can be so lost to the better feelings of humanity that they can take the sorrow of their fellow creatures and laughingly gloat over and hold it up as something to be vulgarly joked about the degradation of the human heart cannot reach a lower depth than that men who can be guilty of such an outrage are lost to all the better feelings of hu manity were we to remain silent while such inhumanities are committed and while there exists a determination to continue in the same line of infamy we would utterly fail in the performance of one of the most imperative duties of life to defend the innocent and expose the guilty truth and posterity demand that the work be carried forward with undiminished vigor |
