Millard County Chronicle | 1912-08-08 | Page 5 | Fugitives Are Destitute.

FUGITIVES ARE DESTITUTE. Their Lot One of Suffering and Sor row, But They Were C ad to Escape. Ilachlia, .v. M The coud Hon of Mormon colonists who have arrived hern from Cotonia 1)inz snd Conniln Dublan continues to be one of sufler log and sorrow. They are desperately In need of clothing, bedd ng und oilier essentials of bodily comfort. There ii a scarciiy of food and water, Tlii refugees are dl.iroiiraged and. heartsick, heart-sick, but are glad to escape with their lives, considering t ho physical and mental suflc-ring they have undergone. On the mornlr.x of July ?X an ultimatum ultima-tum came to the colonists fiorn !'! eral Halazar giving them unMI the evening of the day to get across the frontier or suffer a massacre. The news came with tho suddenness ol lightning In a clear sky, but the message mes-sage was too sinister to b disregarded.