The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-07-29
4 HORRIBLE MASSACRE.
a Salt Lake CITY Man In Phil
ndeIpiiin Tells the Tale of
Mountain Meadows.
lrrom the Philadelphia TImcsl

"a Gentlle,n fresh from the hrnclnl
broeHes OF Salt Lake city, ~ he doot
on the corner Of Third aud Chestnut
streets yesterday afternoon, II viii he
admitted was fair game for u ncwspa
per man In this summertime scarcity
OF news. And this metal was all the
more attractive from the fact that the
Times man recognized In the ruddy
face and squat figure of the stranger al
old Phladelphian, who, In the days
of the war aud Of the oil fever, used u
see all aud was himselfa great part OF
the clty's doings aud savings
The presence of this sometime resi-
dent of Philadelphia In thisclty would
have had no Significance TO the gener-
nj readers of the Times, but for the cir
cumstance that at this moment salt
Lake people and Mormon morals are
being put into position which will or
ought To agitatc not only the people of
Utah, but, to greater or less degree,
the reading public of the whole c0un-
try for to-day there stands in the
dock of the United States District
Court for the Southern district OF Utah
Territory one John ID. Lee, u "Bish-
OPP of the Mormon church, with his
twelve wives and lifty-five children
surrounding him in person or in con-
temptation of the Mormon law,
charged with the murder of ia men,
women and children, under the most
cowardly and brutal circumstances,
making his work 80 horribly complete
that not even child among the UNI
happy emigrants who thus persisted in
the Mountain Meadows massacre,
nearly twenty years ago, was left who
could tell the awful tale. II is, there
fore, that long-delayed justice must
seek for her instruments of vengeance
in the ranks of the apostate of the red
handed murderers themselves, The
story, as it is told by our Philadelphlan
from the heart of the Mormon capital,
is as follows: His account, being nee
cessarily cursory in its character, must
not be tested with nice scales AS to its
exact accuracy to detail. IL is sulli-.
GENTLY oircumstancial, however, to
show the substantial facts OF the case
of the United States Government
against the prisoner and those of his
co-murderers who may be brought to
the bar in this first attempt to put I'M
der the eye of judicial investigator
this dark episode in Mormon history
and bloody page in the worlds story.
In the year 1858, II well-equipped
train of emigrants, numbering some
1874 souls men, women and children,
ell route to California, stopped to rest
OH the borders of the great lake ana
almost within the doors of the Nor
mons. Such large caravan could not
fail to attract the notice of the Nor
mon people and authorities, and the
latter were not long in recognizing in
the party many of their old perse-
cutors in the Eastern States, and es-
pecially those in and about the City OF
NauvoO, Illinois. The blood OF pro-
phets and people boiled, and the old
human passion vengeance-sprung
up in their otherwise hospitible
breasts. This feeling was still further
encouraged by the conduct OF the trav-
elers themselves for they too mad re-
cognized their old enemies-the enc,
mics of their God and their civil ana
social laws, and with n recklessness
horn of no suspicion of the fate which
awaited them, began to taunt the NOR
mon settlers in words, and even went
so far as to dress up in fantastic cloth
ing a couple of their bulls and to pla-
card them with the names of the Nor
mon Saints, Brigham Young and lie.
Der Kimball. All this was submitted
to, however, and no outbreak other
than that which individual insults
might provoke took place, and the
train OF emigrants pulled up their
stakes, harnessed their teams, gath
cred together the stock and the women
and the children, and took up their
line of march southwark, through the
valleys of Salt Lake, Juab, and Severe,
VISITED the WY of Utah. They ar
day, where theylve days. travel, at
onei A. T. Camp, Mountain Mead,
perintendent, and tere was good
band his deputy, AssGir animals and
dent II. Frazer. inventeS ,Suspecting
and Colonies Lyons, Fixed for the
don, who accompanied the usual nuiph
the works. The visitors had an opportu-
nifty of witnessing the manufacture OF
an eighty ton gun. Every facility
and courtesy was shown them by the
officers of the arsenal.