. Wife no. 19, or, The story of a life in bondage : being a complete exposé of Mormonism, and revealing the sorrows, sacrifices and sufferings of women in polygamy . liverers enteredtheir minds at this. But why should even curiosity bearoused? The white flag was waving over their heads,and they were under the protection of United States that flag waved, they were safe and free. Notwithstanding their exhaustion, and their weakness FIENDISH BRUTALITIES. 247. from hunger, they marched joyously along, exulting intheir regained freedom, when suddenly the troops halted,and the fatal or
. Wife no. 19, or, The story of a life in bondage : being a complete exposé of Mormonism, and revealing the sorrows, sacrifices and sufferings of women in polygamy . liverers enteredtheir minds at this. But why should even curiosity bearoused? The white flag was waving over their heads,and they were under the protection of United States that flag waved, they were safe and free. Notwithstanding their exhaustion, and their weakness FIENDISH BRUTALITIES. 247. from hunger, they marched joyously along, exulting intheir regained freedom, when suddenly the troops halted,and the fatal order to fire was given by Lee, and repeateddown the line by all the under officers. In an instant itflashed across the helpless victims how cruelly they hadbeen betrayed, and, with shrieks of the wildest agony,they fell bleeding to the earth. Young and old shared thesame fate. Gray-haired men and beardless boys werealike cut down. The Indians, who were ambushed nearby, joined the Mormons in the work of slaughter, until notone of all the men was left. And what of the helpless women and children ? All thewomanhood within revolts at the thoucrht of their horrible. Murdering the Women and Children. fate, and my womans soul cries out in agony at the recitalof the sufferings of these helpless ones. Some of themwere killed by their husbands, fathers, or brothers, —happy souls, who thus escaped the most cruel was nothing, compared to the fiendish brutalitieswhich they suffered before they were allowed to of the women were too ill to walk. They weretaken outside the corral, driven up to the scene of the mas-sacre, stripped of their clothing, shot, and their mutilatedbodies thrown down in a pile, with the rest. 248 MURDERED BY LEes OWN HAND. To the honor of many of the men be it said, — the3ounger ones, especially, — they refused to join in this hor-rible work, and some of them made efforts to protect thesehelpless women from their liend-like tormentors. I us
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