The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-07-07

| has SeSTGu "a screen 1Or the MOfmOnS
and Indis> IS for the past week A raven
flies ovcsshem crcaking What called
him -? Does he. forcscc that he
shall at the eyes se.la brave men and
cel who arc looking at him?
p the wounded and chill
the hiding place of the
.;ietly they lie among
Pshes! But their eyes
nccks stretch out to see
sprey Will reach them.
nearly a quarter of a
7 & 'se wagons, and the men
i sszsscr behind the women. \
NV mon horsemcn bring up
,sssr.-D = ,p, tramp, tramp! The
Sons hary ;flst passed out of sight over
;-nc divide. The men are entering a lit
tie ravinc. The women are
OPPOSITE THE INDIANS.
They have rcgaiped confidence, and
sss92 92a,sle az expressing Joy at escaping
from their savage foes See that man on
the divide 1t is Higbec. He makes
motion with his arm and shouts some
thing which those nearest him under
stand to be do your duty In an in
slant the militia men wheel and each
shoots the man nearest him. The In
dians spring from their ambush and rush
upon the women; from between the
wagons the rifle OF John D. Lee cracks,
and wounded woman in the foremost
wagon falls off the scat. Swiftly the
work of death goes on. Lee is assisted
in shooting and Draining the wounded
by the teamsters, Knight and McCudy,
and as the latter raises his rifle to his
shoulder he cries: % Lord, my God, re-
ceive their spirits; it is for Thy kingdom
that do this The to,nahawk, and
bludgeon, and knife soon completed the
bloody work begun by the bullet, and
in few minutes after Higbee's signal
not man or woman was left alive. Two
girls were missing, and were soon found
concealed in some neighborng bushes.
Two of the Mormons-and Lee was one
Of them-drnggcd the trembling and
HALF DEAD GIRLS
from their place Of concealmcnt and
ravished them, then Lee ordered them
killed by the Indians. An Indian chief
objected, saying "they were too pretty
to kill; let us save them" While this
objection was being made Lee held one
of the girls on his lap. She threw her
arms around his neck and implored for
her life, promising she would love him
always if he would but let her live.
His answer was to push her head back.
with one hand, when, with the other
hand clasping a bowie-knlie he cut her
white neck through to the spine.
This finished the slaughter as awful as
were the Sicilian vespers. The bodies,
horribly ,nutilated, were left upon the
meadows 4 prey for wolves and buzzards
for weeks, and it was not until some
months had elapsed that the whitened
bones were gathered together and
buried. Sixteen or seventeen children,
ranging in age from q few months to
eight years, were divided up among the
Mormol:s, and so was SO, GOO in proper
ty which the emigrants possessed. The
little children We're subsequently secured
by Gentiles and restored to Arkansas,
but the strong parental government"
has never compelled the cut-throats to
disgorgc the $4,000 and restore it to the
SURVIVORS OF THE MASSACRE,
most of whom have always been in des-
perate need of it.
A strange sequence to the awful mas
sacre is the fact that Mountain Meadows,
from being verdant spot in 1857, in
viting the fatal halt and rest of the emi-
grants, has become sterile and barren,
literally the abode of dcsolat;on.
The only atonement ever offered for
the crime was the shooting of John D.
Lee at the scene of the massacre on
March %. 1877, nearly twenty years
after the crime was committed, and after
he had confessed that on that bloody
occasion he himself took FIVE lives. The
responsibility for the crime was at every
Mormon officials door, and Brigham
Young Was their chief. They ought to
have al swung for it. President John
Taylor, George Q. Cannon and other
Mormon leaders ought now to be arrest
ed and tried, not for polygamy, but for
the Mountain Meadow massacre, and
ought to be hung. They could all be
convicted of being accessory, not only
after, but before the fact.