The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-31
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more attractive from the fact that thl
Times man recognized iu the rudd,
face aud squat figure III the stranger NJ
OLD Philndulphinu, who, M the day,
Of the war and of tho oil fever, used Q,
see MI and was hlm-rlfn great palt o.
the city's dOlng4 and suviggs.
The presence uI this some. time resi-.
dent Of Philadelphia In thu city would
have had no Significance 10 the guuor-
al readers Of the Times, but for the cir
cumstanCc that ut this moment Salt
Lake people and Mormon morals ARE
being put into n position which will or
ought 10 agitatc not only the people of
Utah, but, to II greater or less degree,
the reading public of the whole roun-
try: for to-day there stands In the
dock of the United States District
Court for the Southern district Of Utah
Territory one John u. Ice, II "llieh-
OPP of the Mormon church, with his
twelve wives and lry-livc chill lrcn
surrounding him in person or in cons
temptation Of the Mormon law,
charged with the murder of ISL men,
women and children, under the most
cowardly ana brutal circumstances,
making his work 50 horribly complete
that not even child among the un-
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-dclayed justice must
seek for her instruments of vengeance
in the ranks of the apostatc of the red
handed murderers themselves, The
story, MS ii is told by our Philadelphiun
from the heart Of the Mormon capital,
is rs follows: His account, being nee.
cessarily cursoIy in its character, must
not be tested with nice scales MS to its
exact accuracy to detail. Il Is sulli-
GENTLY circumstancial, however to
show the substantial facts of the case
of the United States Government
against the prisoner and those of his
C0-murderers who may be brought to
the bar in this first attempt to put UNI
der the eye of n judicial investigator
this dark episode in Mormon history
and bloody page in the worlds story.
In the year 1888, well-equipped
train of emigrants, numbering some
1874 souls, men, women and children,
ell route to California, stopped to rest
on the borders of the great lake and
almost within the doors of the Nor
mons. Such II 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 i'm 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 sprung .
up in their otherwise hospitible
breasts. This feeling was still further
encouraged by the conduct of the tray
eiers themselves, for they too had re-
c0guized their old enemirs-t enc
mics of their God and their civil and .
social laws, and with rpclilcssness .
born 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 couple of their bulls and to pla-
card them with the names of the Nor
mon Saints, Brigham Young and He
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 te.I.s, 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,
in the Territory of Utah. They ar
rived, after twelve days travel, ut
a point called Mountain Mead
Dws, where there was good
water and feed for their animals and
shelter for themselves. Suspccting
nothing, they bivouacked for the
night, throwing out hut the usual num-
GER of guards, As the morning broke,
however, the sleepers were awakened
suddenly by the yells of men, most of
whom were in the disguise of Indians,
ana some were indeed Indians. The :
migrants at once put themselves on ,
heir guard, and from the superior !
character of their arms and ammuni-
ion they were ENABLED to withstand
the attack OF the large
'0dy of Infatuated but mrecOgnized !
'lormons. The attacking party, how
yer, was so great in point of numbers |
hat n continued resistance would have =
'een useless, and the emigrants yield !,
d at last to a parlcy, under II flag of :
ruce protlered by ore OF the Mormon :,
arty. 1t was then agreed that the v
nen of the travellers should deliver up 7
heir arms, and they and their women u
nd children should be guaranteed U
"a. , Ia, Il, -
opposed Indians, the Mormon chief 4.
lleging that the yielding of the arms u,
AS necessary to quiet his Indian al 81
cs. Upon this part of the compact "
eng carried out, the emigrant men II
ere marched into u line, the women u
fter them and then the children. In "
Ills way the party were started on u
leir journey, but had proceeded but 81
few steps when, all having been ar ID
lnged beforehand by the trcacherOus ~
IormOns, the Indians were let loose "
it'll their scalping knives, and the "a
ormon men piled their rifles with u
ch murderOns effect that in brief 70
ace of time the whole party of one i IT.
inbred and thirty-fuur Nmen, women ~
I'd children lay smoking in their blood VI
,on the plain, some of the women be- 50
-.
through other brutal barbarities. 1t tr'
thought that very few of the chill 5r'
Ell, who were too young to do any ~
ing but prattle rs they dabhled their III III
.nds in their mothers blood, were l"'
pit, and are to-day living in the Nor n W.,
on city, unconscious of the awful ~,
hit upon which their baby eyes \,
Iked nearly twenty years ago. The nj
lrderers parted the goods of the trav- co,
RS among themselves, aud fell back a.,
10 their old haunts ana resumed their an
testify robes and high religious func- IN
ns, some probably receiving promo va
n and new honors for the work at IA.
Meadows. The bodies of L.
2 Inflated emigrants were left upon MI
: plain, TO be the prey of that scav- In
ger of the American desert, the
iote, until, many years afterwards,
: United States Government sent
r commissioner, Lieutenant Gunni- {
!, out to investigate the ciruum- la
nee of the massacre. He, however, lila
lid accomplish nothing, and con- b,,
ted himself with collecting the 81,
les of the long neglected dead and fin,
Iping them together and burying JoI
m. Brigham Young was Governor mo
that time, and could have, il IL dnr
rgel by "the Gentiles" Of Ais city, Won
ught every one OF the murderers to gui
ice if he had so chosen. 1t is even nm
ispered that he took active part ia . ~
massacre, but the better opinion Eep
ms to be that he only conniYed at olo.
md shielded the murderers for all ORA,
sc long years that have elapsed. 9s