Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-15

-aYf11 10 1851, tho day when the
" government WAS to come into
IN possession of the cannon at
Nv a Camp jackson, will ever be
,sr,err,bersd by the citizens OF st.
Io,,Is camp Jackson, situated south
md west of the city was the scene. OF
ao,Ion. It was not Thought to be
,,u,e Of danger. Hundreds of people
want out to witness tho federal troops
tste tie field pieces. a verse Of Jingle
~ that time occurs to my mind. which
aypresses 1.-The southern sentiment OF
some of the people.
4. Twas on tho tenth of May.
Keys men were all away,
The Dutch surrounded Camp jackson:
lynn wasatherc with Beauregard and
Blair,
TO drive them from the happy land of
Canaan.
Neither my parents rorlnSsclf went
nj, to Camp Jackson. II was too young
10 realize what the proceedings OF the
div meant. But as the day progressed,
heavy feeling. a feeling OF dark for
holdings filed the air, fell on the peo-s
ME who remained in the city yet no
one slirnlised what 1t meant. Wild r,i-
mors were brought in before the close
2of the day. that the Dutch (as they
were called had, without word of COM
,nand, when some one shouted "IIllr-
rili for Jeff Davis" fired into the popu-B
lace, composed OF innocent men, wo-
men and children, spectators who we're
watching the surrender of the cannon.
killing and Wounding more than d
score Of them. Excitement was un-
bounded, as the dead and dying were
brought into tho city,
/ well remember q young girl, named
Ellen Summers, about 16 years of age
who was killed, also the babe OF an ac-
ouaintance, killed while sleeping ON her
breast, and two young men, members
Of our Bible. class, Jerome Doromy ana
John Dickinson. one earelessly leaning
on; the shoulder. OF tho other A shot
penetrated the leg of the last named,
but he eventually recovered The 9th
ersI was not acquainted with. A frenzy
seized the minds of the people, ana dis
order reigned, which resulted in the
fiy being placed under martial law.
ssi1My parents, the late Mr. and Mrs.
George Dunford sailed for england
With the younger children during this
time OF trouble, to be present at the
opening of the Crystal Pnlace in Lon
dom leaving their business in the care
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books and their home in charge of my
Self I'll
u While the city was under martial law,
sll business was suspended at b. M,
and all the men, E(they had been drafted
INTO the militia) drilled for two or
three hours each day.
4 1t was a time Of danger and suspense
of war and bloodshed A time of
dread too. for sometimes an irrespon-
sible person, would shout out at some
gathering Of the people e urrali for
Jeff Davis" thus precipitating dlsturb-
ance and bloodshed, and the prisons.
liratest street one of them, a shock
place to incarcerate people in,) were
full of prisoners, who were never
brought to trial, and spent years ia
such dungeons where death alone
Brought release. Perhaps sorne Of them
had shouted for Jeff Davis" and tf
one had an enemy whom they were
wishing to get even with, tho word was
whispered, where it would cause the
arrest and imprisonment even Of in
noeent people whom the informers said
mad southern sympathies.
i Missouri was a. slave state, and feel