Polygamy; or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism, being a full and authentic history of this strange sect from its origin to the present time. . ow a resident of Nevada, says he has itfrom unquestioned authority that all the corpses were strippedalmost before they were cold, and that it was done with coarseand obscene jests. Three men had escaped the principal mas-sacre. The night before the fatal day the emigrants drew upa paper in which they described their condition, addressed to Masons, Odd-Fellows, Baptists, Methodists and all good peo-ple in the States; they signed this according to c
Polygamy; or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism, being a full and authentic history of this strange sect from its origin to the present time. . ow a resident of Nevada, says he has itfrom unquestioned authority that all the corpses were strippedalmost before they were cold, and that it was done with coarseand obscene jests. Three men had escaped the principal mas-sacre. The night before the fatal day the emigrants drew upa paper in which they described their condition, addressed to Masons, Odd-Fellows, Baptists, Methodists and all good peo-ple in the States; they signed this according to classes, somany members of each church, lodge or chapter, and with itthe three young men, specially chosen for fleetness of foot,crawled down the ravine and escaped. The Indians killed twothe next night. The third got to the last point on the SantaClara, where he was overtaken by Ira Hatch and a band of In-dians, sent in pursuit, and murdered. Jacob Hamlin obtainedthe paper and kept it many years; but Lee learned of its ex-istence, took it from him and destroyed it after administering asharp reproof. It is also related that an old man, in the. C173) 174 POLYGAMY. ivagons with the wounded, e5?caped to the mountains and wasnever again seen or heard of. Doubtless he perished in somesecluded canon, afraid to approach the settlements. Of the seventeen children saved alive, one soon after dis-appeared, Mrs. Hoge says, he talked in such a way as to showhe remembered the massacre, and that Lee took him away andhe was seen no more; but I have no other evidence of others were first taken to Mrs. Hamlins, and afterwardsdistributed among Mormon families in the neighborhood; onewas shot through the arm and lost the use of it. They wereall recovered two years after and returned to their friends inthe States. The property was divided, the Indians gettingmost of the flour and ammunition; but they claim that theMormons kept more than their share. Much of it was sold inCedar City at publ
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