The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1874-12-05


Yeu have no dcult, already been a,l
vised by telegraph of the arrest Of
man by the name Of John d. Leu in
Cedar CITY, Beaver county, on the
charge OF having been the leader in the
horrible Mountain Me ,dpw massacre.
the circumstances regarding which, tha
readers of the Herald not prh,p*,
being familiar with, will relate:
NARRATIVE OF THE MASSACRE.
William II. ROGERS. Government
agent, crossed the Plains with General
Sidney johnson army in 1857, IN
chursc Sof5 tho treasury train Rogers
hcard ofthc terrible massicra ut VI, IN,
tain Meadow on his way across III .
l!ains. 1t WAS reported that the nj
grants were murd,r,d by Indians
] lr Sc rihiS.ants were white men, Ai.h" +
CAT, citiZni Of Arkansas General
Ale non S. johnson army was un
;h'r To reach Salt axe City insr;son. /.
;ii'l WIS obliged to cncamp at Fort
l;rid,cr iur the winter Of 1857. LII
,Ec sl,!rg nf,lS5S, however. the army
mare he'd intn the valley of he Grrat
Salt Lake. On arrr oa Cling the valley
they were met by Peace Commissioners.
s'ht hy nur Government. who had pre-
crdcd Tic army and had sccn the gre {
l'ilF!,ct IF the latter Day Sai',l :.
!! !! cTua Wrre iiiuaau .;o:weei; tGirie;a
.ioli,so!, an,l the Mormon Prophet to
lie di,tt ,hat the army should not
camp within fifty miles OF any M.rm,n
settlement Consequently the ara,y
was stationed at what is now callci
Old Camp Floyd II distance OF ty
five miles southwestern from S it lax.
i,y. While located hc"c, Inform ,tiun
vas received in rcgar to The Mountain
Meadow massacre, aud h. action ui the
GuvcrnMnnt at Washington, arpro
printing $4,000 for the recovery Of thl
children presumed to have zen say.
irn tie Massacre, aud supposed to bc
in tic hahts Of the Ind;ans Mr..
Rogers, Icing appointed Indian nscn,
was Instructed, during the sumner o.
1858, to rocccd to the scene of The
massacre aud rescue the survivin. child
rn. lie t",k u company of cavalry
aud left Camp. Fluyd for Cedar City
near 9tlie scene Of the massacre 90
arriving Eon the ground he found the
bones Eof Hundred and thirty human
~bcings, ihcn. women aud children. In
gathering up the remains Tor burial, he
discovered that large number o the
murdered persons had been shot through
the head---lhe ball yeslterng the back
part soithe head and coming out ut the
front. j he wolves aud coy otcs hal
eaten the flesh from the bones A two
bushel bask ct OF womcn's hair that was
strewcd around among The sage bru. b
was gathered up by Mr.. Rogers. 1t
might be here stated that Mountain
Meadow is situated twelve miles from
Cedar City, and thc same distance FROM
temple Of the Latter Day Saints
rHE CHARACTER OF THE MAssAcRlb u
EsI1CRANrs.
II appeprs, that in ls49, upon the
excitement created by the gold dis
covcries in California, several pioneers
Of Arkansas went to California in
search Of the precious metal They
were very successful. In the fall Of
1856, with their largo accumulated
/, gains, they returned to Arkansas for the
I purpose of taking their la niles and
! scmc Of tLeir relatives to settle in the
new El Dorado, in which they had
.Gbcen SO foriunatc. They purchased u
large amount Of blooled stock, an d
h,ttd ttt tain ct about forty wagons.
They numbered about one hundred an d
forty.Six, men, women and children.
They were known to bo ser; wealthy
train. In the spring Of 1857, as we