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

not an Indian was in sight, and 200
yards from the wagons Of the crnigrants
was inaugnrated the scene Of this
TERRIBLE DEED.
Ice and Lis party commenced firing up
on tn, emigrants, shooting several of
the most prominent men through tho
head on the first fire. The emigrants
being entirely unarmel, the sla lighter
was an easy task. After all the men
aud most Of the women had been killed,
young lady of eighteen summers
sprung forward, ard, c!asping her hanis
fell upon her knees in front Of Lee,
begging him to
SfAhE HER LIFE +
She then rose and claspcd him arounii
'hc neck, declaring to him that she had
a lever in California to whom she owed
her life, that she was engage To marry
him OF her arrival there Lee, after
hearing her pitiful story. took hnr aside
ravished her and then with his knife s
CUT IER THROAT, X
leaving her body on the spot to be eas'
ten BY wolves.
slXrEES INNOCENT CHILDREN
were saved from the general masacrea
Two of the number were seven y.ala
Old, the balance between one aud five
years OF age.
TO RETURN TO MR.. ROGERS s-AT.k5
Alter Mr.. r gers, the Indian age MT
had buried the bones Of the cmigr,nts,
that h.I been left tn b!e,ch withih
twelve miles of the VI r.rol tem)lc. lie
re n,n:l to Ccl City and found the
children in the lanls of the Mormons,
leg l'1vins twn Of the aunber. T.iei
AIormons
ASN f.D IN ftsslEs
from the agent FIR taking care Of the
children. Up to this time the world
,urp sci the cmi grants were
MEEpEREp by THE INDIANS,
hut thr subsequent relltion will show
how lar tho savage indians w.rc refllyS
al ,,t,L H.
MIR. Rn.crs gathered the chi Ire =, t,.
Fcthcr. ru!using to p,y the ransom dc
na"dcd fur their release by the Nor.
mons. After lie had The children in
his camp. near thc Mormon settlement
at Ccua City, two Of them, then aholt
eight years Of age, told Mr. Rogers tla,
Lee and the white men
MURpERED THEIR PARENTS.
or course Mr.. Rogers was aston;sh cd
at this :he first inlnrmlti IN he had re
c"ivcd Of he real authors of the diabo.
lica ] massacre. He pursued his investi
cations among the children. and their
t stln"ny WIS currobor ,Live o! the in
tc'!iecnce he had previously obtained
1t should he here stated that tw, Nor.
mons came to the tent Of Mr.. Rogers at
midnight, about this time, n | to! him
that their
HEARTS WERE PRESSED wIru GRIEF.
I he Uhe agent would sp,rc their lives
they woull givo hi \ tru. history o!
the awful massacre. Ro.ers til thom
to proceed IN open heir hearts These
two Mormnns (the n,mcl of whom Mr.
Rosccs does MT recalll told him they
we're summoned by john d. ice, the
Il comnn nder Of the Nauvoo Legion
at Cedar City, t" appear in
INDIAN COSTUME,
painted with long hair, fully to repro
sent the native s,vage. prcp,rcl t, 20
Mountain Meadow The Norm ms ut .
tackled the train Of The cmiyrants in
the disg-iSe Of Indians. Ice, finding
that the enigrants were too strongly
fortified, after five days siege, retired
back and dressed in citz ,ns cloth IS, as
wo hnvc above loscrbod, dccoycd the
emigrants into n surrender OF their
arms. THIS statement WAS made in fall
to MIR. Rogers by the two Mormons We
have referred to, thus corroboratinc full