Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-07-19

both. Then let not the East undervaue
the West, nor the West underyalue the
East, because both are inseparably con-
nected and indissolubly bound together
Yours, in haste,
SELAH HIBBARD BARRETT.
Correspondent of the st. Joseph West.
The Mountain Meadows HEaSSR-
Gre Pursuit OK the NEurOcYcrS-I
Heart HscMdirlg DetaiIs.
GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, June 9, 1859. |
have been absent from Camp Floyd
since the lst of March. L started with
the Superintendent of Indian Affairs TO
the southern portion of this Territory, to
recover the children, survivors of the
Mountain Meadows massacre. We went
three hundred and fifty miles south of this.
and got sixteen of the children. On our
return we met command going down to
meet the pay master, on his way from Cal
ifornia. With this command, l met with
Judge Cradlebaugh, one of our United
States Judges, on his way down to find
out something about the Mountain Mead
ows massacre. He would have me return
with him, as Deputy Marshal. L also
heard from an Indian chief that there was
another child back.
The massacre took place on the 10Th OF
September. 1857. The massacred Were
! emigrants from Arkansas passing through
to California. There were, as near as l
can find out, about one hundred and forty
in the train.
This train passed through the upper
part of the Territory unmolested. They
were directed to go the southern route, as
1t was getting late in the season. After
/ paseiug though all the settlements south
a. n N l..
they stopped to recruit their stock before
they struck the Deserts, as they would
have deserts for 400 miles after leaving
Mountain Meadows.
The Meadows is a beautiful spot, about
four miles in length, and one e-fourth OF a
mile wide, and at the lower end is a fine
spring.
They corralled their wagons and were
there three days in quietness, 25 miles
from any settlement, when, early on the
morning Of the fourth day, they were at
tackled, as they supposed, by large party
of Indians. The Indians fired on the emf
grants and killed and wounded SEVERAL
After this the emigrants set their wagon
wheels in the ground, and threw the earth
up against the beds making a snug defense
The Indians fought them for five days
having previously run all their stock off
q as fine a spring as you ever saw, bu
could get no water, for whenever one came
out 10 get it, he was shot down. The
= spring has high bank, deep ravInt
u makes off from it, and in this the Indian,
= were concealed. After fighting for fiv,
n or six days, party of Mormons approached
J, the corral with a white flag in hand, tl
show the emigrants that they were friends
The emigrants directly dressed litt
GIRL in white and placed her at the moutl
t of the corral. The Mormon party theI
came in, sat down, and talked to the heat
, man of the train for more than an hour
telling him that they had come as friend
: of the party to escort them back to Ceda
d City, about $50 miles behind, provide
d they would give up their arms, and leav
q all they had behind. They promised t
- protect them from the Indians. The
= marched the party in front of them bac
o on the road about 2, 500 yards, where the
e had to pass through some sedge bushes
}. when one of the Mormon escorts gave
w signal, and all at once the Indians raise
, in the bushes-the Mormon escort fire
- first and killed all the men-then the
es went to work on women and children.
- The spot can still speak for ITSELF
r When l first passed through the place
-, could walk for near mile on bones, an
. skulls laying SrlnnlhS aC you' aud Wome
+ and children's hair in punches as big as
a bushel.
Judge Cradlebaugh and myself ha'
e. the names of sixty white men who partc
40 pated in this affair. 1t was done by cou
30 Gil from Bishops in the Mormon Churc
as The Bishops were the head killers. Tht
;" did not leave one to tell the tale. II
he oldest Of the children is between seven al
- eight years of age. We have seventies
80 here. They are getting ready to send the
&c to their friends in Arkansas, as there W
er $4,000 appropriated by Congress for th
.st purpose-so you can see by what mea
70. the Mormons have lived and support
- their Church. This was the richest ira
that ever passed through this country, a
ch after killing all the party except II lit
ny children, they took cattle wagons a
ed horses back to Cedar City and sold the
he at public sale. The children were dlYid
-. out to different ones-some who had
children took two.
j" All the above has been sworn TO bef'
OF Judge Cradebaugh. He has issued wi
te, rants for all parties, but they fly to
a mountains. w IL, ROGERS.