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Testimony Eliciicd ths First Day J the Triad
Ho'o the butcher oas PlanmcH and ErecHicd Z!
At the opening of the trial of the
Mormons impIcRted rin, the Mountain
Robert Kays testified as follows, Game
Mountain Mea lows saw piles of bodies
Of woman and children, piled pro,mriss..
cuously there were sixty or seventy
bodies; the children were from two
months old ITO twelve years the smaller
were torn by wolves and crows; some of
The bodies werei asbot, some had their
throats cut. some stabbed, and all were
torn by wolves except one wpman, who
laid q little way off, and appeared as if
asleep, ballheleain cher !, left side; it
appeared thosbodies Ewere dead fifteen
days; seven Of MS saw it, sPiles of mems
]bodies were further OH; didn't,go to see
them; no clothing on the bodies, except
one sock Oh the leg of one man. , none
weIreeliHgatPed.- 9 Siag Gona
Meadows December, 1857; saw tho
bones there; horrible sight; skeletons Of
women end children; cgrls, long tresses
hair dried blood; children a1Dl to 10
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on; THE > bodies had been covered
up; wolves evidently dug them up
Phillip Linger Smith. defendent Of
San Bernandi,, California, called: Pros
ecution entered nolle prosequi as to
himself Lived in Cedar city from
1852 t6Hl857. Was ut the massacre in.
September, 1857; heard of the en-
4 igrantslcoming. The people were for
bidden to trade with them; felt bad
about it; saw q few of them at Cedar :;
heard ,rumors of trouble IS .nday. It
was the custom to have meetings of the
president and Y council; bishop and
council and high council. The matter.
came up for discussion as to their de-
athsStoR agG Mus Haighs Hgbes R ssnJa Morrill,
there. Some brethren opposed their
destruction. did. Haight jumped
up and broke up the meeting. I asked
what would be the consequences of
such mn act. Then Haight got mad.
The Indians were to destroy them On
Monday, Higbee, White and met;
same subject again. / opposed the de-
struction. Haight relented, and told
White and I to go ahead and tell the
! people the emigrants should go through
safe. We did so, and on the road we
met John D. Lee. We told where we
were going, and be replied I have
something to say about that matter
we passed the emigrants ut Iron Springs;
next morning we passed them again
as we came back they had twenty or
thirty wagons over hundred people,
old men, middle aged men, old wo-.
men, raiddio aged women, youths and
Allen; he said the emigrants'
doom was sealed, the die cast for de-
struction three days after Haight sent
for me, and snid orders had come from
camp; didn't get along, wanted rein
forcements; that he had been to Prowin,
and got further orders from Colonel W.
! H, Dame to finish the massacre, to do
coy and spare only small children who
could not tell the tale.7 I went off, met
allen, cur fret runner, aud others.
Higbee said: you are ordered out,
armed and eqiipped;' so went; Hop
kins, Higbse, John Willis and Sam
Pnrdy went along; had two baggage
Ilwag ggons,; Cgotsto Hamplen's rancho in
the night three miles from emigrants !;
there met Lee and others from the gen.
eral camp, where the largest number Of
men were =; then found the emigrants
not all killed. Bateman or Lee went
ont with white flag. A man from the
emigrants met them. Lee andla man
set down on the grass and had n talk |;
don't know what they talked. Lee went
with the man into the intrenchments.
After somo hours they came out and the
\ emigra1lts came out with their wounded
in wagons ahead. The wounded we're
those hurt in the three days previous
fight. Next came the women, next the
men. As the emigrants came mp the men
halted, and the women on foot and chill
dren and wounded went on ahead with
4 John d. Lee. The soldiers had to be
all ready to shoot at the word. When
the word halt came the soldiers fred!
fired once don't know. if I killed a
man not all killed at the first fire.
Saw the women afterward dead, with
their throats cut. saw, as came up
to them, man kill young girl. The
men were marched in donble file first,
then thrown in single file, with the SOL
!. diers along side. The emigrants we're
congrntulating themselves on their
safety fromothe Indians. At last John
4 M. Higbee came and ordered my squad
to fire. Lee, like the rest, had firearms,
: No eniigraits were allowed to escape /;
saw soldiers on horses to take on wing
i thoge who ran; saw o man run saw Bill
start on horse and kill him, and a
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