. 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 . ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THREE VICTIMS. 249 or ravens beaks were powerless tp harm, although theymight lacerate the already mutilated bodies until theyshould be past all recognition. A person who visited thefield of slaughter eight days after the massacre gave thefollowing account of it. He said men, women, and childrenwere strewn over the ground, or were thrown into were shot, others stabbed, and others had theirthroats
. 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 . ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THREE VICTIMS. 249 or ravens beaks were powerless tp harm, although theymight lacerate the already mutilated bodies until theyshould be past all recognition. A person who visited thefield of slaughter eight days after the massacre gave thefollowing account of it. He said men, women, and childrenwere strewn over the ground, or were thrown into were shot, others stabbed, and others had theirthroats cut. They were entirely stripped of clothing, andtheir bodies were mutilated by the wolves. There were. Scene after the Massacre. one hundred and twenty-seven bodies in all. These, withthe three men who were killed while undertaking to bringassistance, another who was shot outside the corral, butwhose body could never be found, and the two childrenwho were murdered at Salt Lake City, made one hundredand thirty-three victims of this fearful and unparalleledassassination. The spoils were carried to Cedar City, and placed in thetithing-office there, after the Indians had received theirshare. It is told by a man, who then was a mere boy, that 250 SELLING THE EMIGRANTS PROPERTY. the niglit that the spoils were brought into town he andtwo companions slept in the tithing-office. The cellarswere filled with everything that had been taken from theemigrants, and the bloody garments, stripped from the deadbodies, were thrown down on the floor. One of the menconnected with the massacre came in, and threw himselfdown to sleep, without perceiving the boys. Scarcely hadthe place become quiet with the
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