The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-19
\ DeIiverOnce from the Ilatter-Day Saints.


soaps OF YOUNG GIRL From THE MoRMoNs-HER
sUFFERN0s.
A A correspondent Of the Cincinnati Commercial,
rlting from Petersburg, Ohio, gives long acl
ount Of the adventures of young girl named
louisa % Black, who recently escaped from, the
ured great suffering. The substance of the story
as folloWs:- ..Ftl. lfoo-
ION Thursday evening, 4th inst. as boy was
sturning from school, across the fields, near
petersburg, on nearing q couple of haystacks he
eard plaintive moans, apparently proceeding
.hereirom, accompanied by faint articulations
human voice. He distinctly heard the
Ejaculation, My God my Godr The boy hur-
ped to his home, which was in sight, and told
r. Davidson what he had heard. Mr. Davidson
I once started back with him, aud meeting two
Heighbors on the way, took them along to the
tack of hay.
son reaching the spot, and going round one
the stacks from whence the sounds proceeded,
hey discovered some rags protruding from the
base, and on investigation, what was their Isur-
rise to find young girl an entire stranger,
terally burrowed in the hay, seemingly help
ss, aud in dying condition. She raised q
air of blue eyes to the gentlemen's startled
Ices, aud implOTed them not TO move her, to
t her lie there and die, for she was frozen and
arved, and aid had arrived too late! How
yer, the gentlemen raised her as gently as they
build, and though the gentlest motion aggra-
|Ated her sufferngs, succeeded in carrying her
Pck to Mr.. Davidson's farmhouse. She was
vidently not more than sixteen years of age,
nd scantily and miserably clad. A tattered
ress clung around her, and garment that had
3nce been an underskirt she had torn in two,
{'ne strip being tied about her head, and the
ther wrapped about her feet.
"She AYERS that she resided in Missouri until
& he fall of 1864, when her father became intatu-
:. .ted with the Mormon faith Ga number OF Nor
r ions being settled near them), and in OPPOSE
Jon to the wishes of his wife and family, made
Preparations to remove 10 Salt Lake City. AS
a nnld not. ho oI n IA
mily reluctantly accompanied him, and were
lmb bered among the inhabitants of that city,
hlle MIR. Black was at once enrolled among tue
aints.' They had been there for six months,
~ ring which time matters had been growing
i ON bad to worse, when the crisis arrived, in
e shape of Mrs. Black No. 2. The family were
&pw wrought up to desperation, and Mrs. Black
10: /, with her three daughters, resolved to
lake their escape from Utah, at the same time
eing cognzant that the way was rife with
hanger, and that if captured death would be
Weir doom. Louisa goes on to say that they
pcceeded in elud1ng vigilance, and made their
cape from Salt Lake City on the 10th of last
nne, with only twelve dollars in their purse,
ld turned their faces towards the States.
The girl says they kept mostly to the woods
nd ravines, and all covert places, to avoid dis
4bvery, and gave their former home in Missouri
wide berth for fear OF the many Mormon ms
&ere At length one of the sisters died from
Kposure and privation, and covering her up in
e woods they still wandered on. Soon another
..eJbG ppTlSUBO, dDu IOulbh anu ubT IlOJueT dlOue
lrsued their fight. At length Mrs, Black lay
bWn; never TO rise again. Louisa thinks 1t
lust have been in the vicinity of Cleveland that
K kr mother died. Instead of asking any assist
bee she wandered onward alone. She tells of
eine at Greenville, Pennsylvania, and of finally
irving at MIddlesex, where she says she lay
bncealed tor three days on the farm OF MIR.
emoDson. This was about the 9th of De-
8mber.
"She proceeds to relate that she was here
und by couple of horse.thieves, and we next
hd this young glrl, on the eve OF December IL,
nployed as an emissaTy by these rogues to ride
horse that they had just stolen from Mr..
jmonson's field. She states that they instruct
~ her to 60 to Oil City, and gave her directions
bw to get there; also that one Of them gave
sr two bills, ten and q five, with which to
Focure subsistence for herself and horse on the
ute. When asked what she did with the
oney, she at first did not seem to recollect and
- length said she spent it, but did not say
8ahat Tor. However, it is supposed she lost the
Boney. These thieves told her that they would
IKE another route to OIL City, where they
i lpuld meet her, and take charge of the horse;
Bo that their gang had their headquarters
81 tere, and that they had run off many a horse
OIL City. They furthermore boasted that
ley had stolen span in Cleveland worth S400.
Il hey placed her on the horse, and started heI
and that is the last she saw of them In
+ cad of taking the prescribed route, Louisa
banged the programme by taking route Of
" sr own choosing.
q "She finally took refuge in the haystacb
here she was found, badly frozen"