Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-07-27

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Brlvrs. Utah, July a.. william
Young. an invalid and very feeble, VA
sworn. Was in aisht Of the massacre
Saw there Lee. Higbee, Klingen Smith
James Manean, slade. John CLARK. Bill
Stewart and George Adair. Saw thu
dag Of truce carried BY Bateman To th'
smigrant camp. Presently two wagons
drove down to them. Saw Lee and Ii.
snigrants loading In stuff. Saw the
wounded and children In the wagons,
Lee started with the wagons. The wo'
men. boys and girls followed them. The
men marched out and went up the road
to Cedar. When they got opposite the
soldiers guns wsro fred. Don't know
who fired them. Witness is a Mormon
and very unwilling to tsstiiy.) DOM
know where the white men were wher
the guns wore fred. Heard the firing
and saw tho emigrants dead. won'i
swear who fred. Saw tho Indians kill
four women. Saw an Indian kill q
baby In Its mothers arms with
a knife. Saw an Indian dash
rock on q child's head and kill II. Saw
an Indian drug two girls In among IN
Indian crowd and saw them no more.
Saw a boy Of IL years on the ground.
An Indian dashed q big rock ON his
breast. Saw the indians pursue women
aud dash at them with knives and
weapons. We camped 800 yards tina,
night from where the women's bodies
lay. Next day we went to the smigrnnt's
corral. No property there. Saw Bishop
Damc and Haight on the road going
home. n
Cross.e1amination--I lived In Wash.
ington county. The Indians there were
very much excited. Washington Is
southwest OF the Meadows, and In nm
opposite direction from Cedar City. The
Washington settlements were unpro-
tsctsd. People were alarmed about tho
Indians. On the road to tho Meadows
met Indians. Saw Indians with Amer
lean cattle. They acted very much
rs though they wanted to fight us.
Met n wounded Indian.
Defense offered to khow there that Leo
did all that he could do to quiet tho In.
dians; that the whites were in danger Of
their liver unless thoy joined with the
Indians In killing tho omigrants. The
Court held Il not cross-sxamination.
This theory excited In Court andin town
almost universal smiles. Tho people
say tho hfy Mormons with the fifty men
Of tho immigrants could have whipped
all the Indians In Southern Utah, also
that this theory Is q confession Of tho
basest cowardics.
Samuel Pollock, sworn-was at tho
massacre from Cedar. Saw there Rob
ert Wiley. VIM. Bstemen. Lee, Higbec,
Klingon Smith. Stewart, Chas. Hop
kin, Ezra Curtis and Thos. Cartwright.
Went by orders Of Curtis. his officer in
the Utah militia. Was there three days
before the massacre. When I arrived
I found the emigrants surrounded on
all sides by Indians. AL the white men
he saw were about 90, at a rough guess.
mostly armed. Wa In camp two days,
then tho Indians Withdrew from sight,
and the whites went toward tho emi-
grant camp. Saw o flag 60 ont. Saw n
man meet II. then the flag party went TO
the omigrant camp and staid two hours.
Saw wagons loaded and leave camp, fol.
lowed by the smigrants on foot.
mp to the soldiers. who marched with
them. A we turned at On angle In the
road We heard vollsys Of shots. Look
Cd and saw q cloud Of smoke and the
Indians rushing on the immigrants.
Thought then that all was oonsummated
and that the Indians would spare nons
Went on the ground the next day. Saw
msn. women and children butehered in
q horrible manner; some children's
skulls were mashed In with rocks. We
went TO bury the dead bodies and did
The ground was hard and we could
not make holes deep. Generally put in
four feet each. Buried them In a deep
gully OF the stream.
Observation-Disclosures 400 and
600 Indians were there. Ny party did
not Are ON the smigrants; not a shot.
When ordered out was told by my
superior officers that the Indians had
attacked the cmigrants killing many,
and We were 10 90 and save them II pos
sibls; II not, then to bury the dead.
Told to take guns, shovcls and picks.
When Lee came ON the ground Indian
chiefs were with him. After the nsssa.
ere the wagons and teams were taken to
Cedar City. Klingen Smith had charge
Of them. Tho testimony Of the last
witness sIcites great comment. no
being In direct conflict with Joel White.
also q Mormon who swore yesterday tho
Indians did. not appear till tho soldiers
fred aud killed the omigrants, when tho
Indians fell on the women and children.
John Sheriff, q deaf mute, was sworn
In writing and answered. Was OF tho
auction Of the omigrants' goods. Leo
auctionsd. Witness bought some goods.
Recess.