The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1874-12-05
4 TRUE UISTORI- OF7NE MiSSICRE
At MOUN7AIN .ME1DOW.
TIE MOR.Ht.N- LE.lDEI' Ar.
RESTED.
BRIGHAN TOIING IND POLTCINI
DOOMED.
Atfcr the lropArt Enyham- What?
SALT LAKE City, Nov. 8. 1871

Yru have. nc ;l,ult already been al
vised by telegraph of the Arrest Of Il
man by the name Of John d. Leo in
Cedar CITY, Beaver county, on the
charge OF having been the lcaler in the
horrible Mountain NJ ,dow massacre.
the circumstances regarding which, tha
readers of the Herald not ,rh,ps.
being familiar with, will relate:
NARRATIVE OF THE MASSACRE.
William II. ROGERS. a Gnvernmcn.
agent, crossed the Plains with General
Sidney johnson army in 1857, III
charge of the treasury train. Rogers
hcard Of The terrible masS,cr. ut Mpln
tain Meadow on his way across tn .
l'!ai'iS. 1t was reported that the e nj
grants were murdered by Indians
h. Sc cliS,anls were white men, iin" !
can ciixrls of y ArkanSaS General
Ale MN S. Ju,nson's army was un
able 10 reach Salt ;kc City in season
sui was obliged to cncamp at For,
Erd,cr iur the winter or 1857. In
tl.c sl,:r= of l>3S, however. the army
mare he'd intn lhc valley ut he Grra'
Salt Lake. On aNri oaci.ing the valley
they were met by Peace Comm; s,inncr,
s.nt hy cur Government. who had pre-
vrdcd the army and had seen the gre t
ihr,r!'ct Of the Latter Day Sai'd
Terms were made between General
.i.ui'nsun au,l the A!avmnm prs,n,.! Il.
tie cE'tt that the army should not
canp within fifty miles .! any ,I.rnl IN
settlement Consequently the army
WAS stationed ut what is now called
Old Camp FloS d. distance OF fi.ty
five miles southwestern from S lit lax.
lily. While located hc-c, inform ,tirn
was received III rcgar to h. Mountain
Meadow masSu Gle, aud III: ac,irm OF the
Government at Wnshinvtom, aI.p:o
printing $4,000 for the recovery ofthy.
children presumed To have b .en save |
irn' Tie massacre, aud supposed to Ly
in tic hsht's Of the Indians MIR,
Hcecrs, Icing alF,int,d Indian agent
was instructed, during the summer .:
1893, Ia lrocccd to the scene of the
mnssucrc and rescue the survivin. child
rn. lie tn,k company of cavalry
and left Camp Floyd for Cedar City
near sthe scene Of tho massacre %
arriving OH the ground he found the
bones .of Hundred and thirty hn nan
"bcinss, men: women aud children. In
gathering up the remains Tor bur i,l, he
discovered that Il large number o th.
murdered persons had been shot throu.h n
the head--tbe ball qcstering the back
part Sof.he head and coming out a, the
front. The wolves aud COY otcs hal
eaten the flesh from the bones "A NV,
bushel basket OF womcns hair that was
strcwcd around among lhc sage bru.l,
was gathered up by MIR. Rogers. !,
might be here stated that Mountain
Meadow is situated twelve miles iron,
Cedar City, and tlc same distance from,
temple Of the Latter Day Saints.
THE CHARACTER OF THE MAssAcRLn
EMIGRANrs.
1t appears, chat in 1919, upon the
excitement created BY the gold dis
.covcrics in California, several p;on, cr~
Of Arkansas went to California in
search Of the precious metal They
were very successful. ln the fail OF
1856, with their large accnnnlat I'd
gains, they returned to Arkansas for the
purpose of taking their Ia niles an d
sscmc of tLeir relatives to settle in the
new I'll Dorado, in which they had
Sbcop SO Fortunate. They purchased u
largo amount Of blooled stock, an Il
3 tlatd ut a lain OF about forty wagons
They numbered about one hundred an d
forty.six, men, women and children
They wcro known to bo yary wealthy
train. III the spring Of 1857, as we