What to see in America . ege of fivedays a party of Mormons under the pretense of friendshipcame to their relief. As the Mormons were taking thedistressed emigrants to supposed safety they began a traitor-ous massacre while still in the valley. Three men got away,but were slain afterward. The rest of the men, and thewomen, and even the children not under eight years of agewere killed. Most of the corpses were scalped by the Indians,and finally they were piled in heaps in a ravine and a littleearth thrown over them. This was washed off by the firstrains, leaving the remains to be devoured by wo
What to see in America . ege of fivedays a party of Mormons under the pretense of friendshipcame to their relief. As the Mormons were taking thedistressed emigrants to supposed safety they began a traitor-ous massacre while still in the valley. Three men got away,but were slain afterward. The rest of the men, and thewomen, and even the children not under eight years of agewere killed. Most of the corpses were scalped by the Indians,and finally they were piled in heaps in a ravine and a littleearth thrown over them. This was washed off by the firstrains, leaving the remains to be devoured by wolves andcoyotes, who dragged away the bones and scattered themfor a mile round about. Two years after the massacre a de-tachment of United States troops interred the remains, and over the last rest-ing place of thevictims a cone-shaped cairntwelve feet highwas erected. Thesurvivors of theslaughter wereseventeen littlechildren. Theywere scatteredamong Mormonfamilies at vari- Natural Bridge in Utah Desert OUS points in the. Utah 395
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