The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-07-08

| mas BcrVGu rs u screen lOrs VIC nolihoh
and Indians for the past week. A rave
flies over them croaking. What calle
him there? Docs he foresee that h
shall peck at the cyos of bravo men an
pentlc women who arc looking at him
The wagons with the wounded and chi
dren are passing the hiding place of til
Indians. How quietly they lie anon
the gnarly oak bushes! But their cyc
glisten and their necks stretch out to sc
how soon their prey will reach them
Tho women are neatly q quarter of
milo behind the wagons, and the mcI
arc much further behind tho women. /
half-dOzcn Mormon horscmcn bring III
the rear Tramp, tramp, tramp! Thl
wagons have just passed out of sight Owe
the divide. The mon orc entering lit
tic ravinc. The women arc
| OPPOSITE THE INDIANS.
They have rogained confidence, an6
several arc expressing JOY at escaping
from their savage foes Sec that man on
the divide. 1t is Higbcc. He makes 6
motion with his arm and shouts some
Sling which those nearest him under
stand to be do your duty In an III
stant The militia men wheel and cacl
dians spring from their ambush and rusl
upon the women; from between tho
wagons the rifle of John ID. Lee cracks
and Il wounded woman in tho forcmos
wagon falls off the seat. Swiftly tho
work Of death goes on. Lee is assisted
in shooting and Draining the wounded
by the teamstcrs, Knight and McCurdy
and as the latter raises his rifle to hi.
shoulder he cries: 80 Lord, my God, re
ceive their spirits; it is for Thy kingdom
that do this" The tomahawk, anC
bmdgeon, and knife soon completed tho
bloody work begun by the bullet, ani
in few minutes after Higbee's sigma
not man or woman was left alive. Two
girls were missing, and were soon fount
concealed i'll some ncighboring bushes
Two Of the Mormons-and Lee was ont
of thcm-dragged the trembling and
HALE DEAD GIRLS
from their place of conccalment ant
ravishcd them, then Lee ordered then
killed by the Indians. An Indian chic
objected, saying "thoy were too prett,
TO kill; let us save them" While thi
objection WAS being made Lee held onc
of the girls on his lap. She threw hel
arms around his neck and implorcd foI
her life, promising she would love hin
always if he would but let her live
His answer was to push her head bacl
with one hand, when, with the othe
hand clasping n bowie-knifc, he cut he
white neck through to the spine.
This finished the slaughter as awful a.
were the Sicilian vcspcrs. The bodies
horribly mutilatcd, were loft upon tho
meadows prey for wolves and buzzard
for weeks, and it was not until some
months had elapsed that the whitcnct
bones were gathered together ant
buried. Sixteen OF seventeen children
ranging IN age from few months tt
eight years, were divided up among the
Mormons, and so was $1,000 in proper
ty which the cmigrants possessed. The
little children were subsequently secured
by Gcntllcs and restored to Arkansas
but the 'strong parental government
has never compelled the cut-throats tC
dlsgorgc the $40, 900 and restore it to tho
SURVIVORS OF TIE MASSACRE,
most of whom have always been in des
pcratc need of it.
strange sequence to the awful mas
sacrc IS the fact that Mountain Meadows
from being vcrdant spot in 1857, in
vlting the fatal halt and rest of the cmi
grants, has become sterile and barren
literally the abode of dcsolation.
The only atoncmcnt ever offered 70
the crimc was the shooting of John ID
Lee ut the scene of the massacre OF
March %, 1877, nearly twenty ycar
after the crime was committed, and aftc
he had confessed that on that blood,
occasion he himself took five lives. Th
responsibility for the crime was ut ever,
Mormon officials door, and Brigham
Young was their chief. They ought t.
have all swung for it, President JOIN
Taylor, George q. Cannon and othc
Mormon leaders ought now to be arrest
cd and tried, not for polygamy, but fo
the Mountain Meadow massacre, ant
ought to be hung. They could all b,
convicted Of being accessory, not only
after, but before the fact.