Daily national Democrat., 1859-06-04
NO. 98.
1ajlp 3(ationaI democrat.
The Mountain Meadows Massacre.

The Salt Lake correspondent of the Bulle.
tin furnishes that paper with the following
statement made by John Lynch. who accom-
panied DIR. Forney the Superintendent of
Indian Affairs, to Mountain Meadows in
search oil the surviving children of the
Mountain Meadows massacre.
About three months since, I started 70 90.
TO Arizona. When / arrived at Nephi I Wa
overtaken by DR.. Forney the Indian suner-
intendent, who was going to the Mountain
Meadows for the thirteen surviving children
of the Mountain Meadows massacre lie
! told me he was doubtful about the Mormons
he had with him, ana asked me if would
assist him in case they deserted him. NV
party consisted of twenty-five men. When
the Doctor arrived at Beaver CITY, as was
anticipated, the Mormons deserted without
apprizing him of their intention-supposin9
that he would be unable to 90 further in his
unassisted condition. found him about II
o'clock at night guarding his mules-told
| him to go TO bed, and would relieve him.
persuaded two of my party to assist me:
and with their aid. drove his teams down to
the Mountain Meadows, and gave up nv in
tention of going further south. We pursued
our course to Parrowan. In this place,
which is inhabited almost entirely by Eng
lish and Danes-as are most of the southern
settlements-the greatest hostility was evinc.
ed towards us. The people would hold no
communication with our party, and spoke in
the most insulting terms of the Americans,
as they designate all who are not Mormcns.
We continued our journey to the Meadows.
passing through Painter Creek and Cedar
City. The scene Of the massacre is broad,
level meadow, encompassed by chain of
hills. Upon careful inquiry, We learn that
the emigrants had been harrassed by bands
ct men, whom they supposed to be Indians,
during their journey from Cedar City to the
Meadows, and, at the latter place, made a
corral Of their wagons for defence. The
corral was near spring which is the source
of a small stream running through the plain.
Words cannot describe the horrible picture
which was here presented to us. Human
skeletons, disiointed bones, ghastly skulls
/ and the hair of women, were scattered in
! frightful prOfusion over n distance of two
miles, Three mounds, partially exposing
! the remains of some of the murdered indi-
Gated the careless attempt that had been
| made to bury the unfortunate victims We
remained two or three hours at the Meadows
and occupied ourselves iu burying the un.
covered remains OF the massacred.
This done, we proceeded to the residence
of the man Hamblin, n Norman, in whose
possession the children were. We found
them in a most wretched condition. half
starved, half naked, filthy. infected with ver-
min, and their eyes diseased from the cruel
! neglect to which they had been exposed
/ After three days at Santa Clara, where
clothing was made for the children, we re-
turned with Hamblin and ten Of the children
] Il al 1T Il ~
another at Painter Greek When we passed
through Beaver City, some of the Mormon
men hooted at the children, and called them
the survivors of Sebastopol and Waterloo.
| Among the children are some who retain a
very vivid impression of much connected
with the massacre. very intelligent little
girl, named Becky Dunlap, pointed out to
me at Santa Clara an Englishman named
Tellus, whom she says she saw murder her
father She also states that Hamblin's In
dian boy killed her two sisters. Both she
and a boy named Miriam recognized dresses
and a part of the jewery belonging to their
mothers, worn by the wives of John d. Lee,
the Mormon Bishop of Harmony. The boy,
! Miriam, also identified his fathers oxen,
which are now owned by Lee. The two
! oldest boys told me that after they had been
fighting for eight days during four of which
tncy were III the corral, from whence the
water had been cut Off Bishop Hight. of
Cedar City, came into the corral, and told
the emgrants that the Indians did not want
anything but their cattle, and that if they
would lay down their arms their lives would
be spared. They did so, and started to go
to Santa Clara, when they were attacked by
a mixed party Of whites and Indians, and all
killed except the children. The boy Miriam
stated, that after the massacre was over, he
saw the Bishop of Coal Creek washing the
paint from his face, which he had used to
disguise himself as an Indian
The man Hamblin seemed perfectly con-
versant with the circumstances of the massa-
ere, and told me that at one time he had a
good many of the cattle in his possession. A
Norman named Ira Hatch also told me that
he found the only man that escaped about
one hundred miles from the Meadows, per-
cuaded him to return with him, but when
they had gone about forty miles, the Indians
murdered him in his presence.
There were Is wagons $40 head of cattle,
and l43 persons in the train. 1t is supposed
there was also great deal of money, as the
Mormons say it was the richest train that
ever crossed the plains believe DR. For
ney to be acquainted with all the crcum-
stances ! have narrated.