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Show A STARTLING INTERVIEW. 305 destroy every thing, and take to the mountains and fight it out guer-rilla style. And I tell you this people was all hot and enthusiastic, and just at that time these emigrants came. " Now they acted more like devils than men ; and just to give you an idea what a hard set they was: when Dr. Forney gathered up the children two years after fifteen, I believe, they was and sent word back to their relatives, they sent word that they didn't want ' em, and wouldn't have any thing to do with ' em. And that old Dr. Forney treated the children like dogs, hammer- in' ' em around with his big cane. " The company had quarreled and separated east of the mountains, but it was the biggest half that come first. They come south of Salt Lake City just as all the men was going out to the war, and lots of women and children lonely. Their conduct was scandalous. They swore and boasted openly that they helped shoot the guts out of Joe Smith and Hyrum Smith, at Carthage, and that Buchanan's whole army was coming right hehind them, and would kill every G d d n Mormon in Utah, and make the women and children slaves, and They had two bulls, which they called one ' Heber' and the other ' Brigham,' and whipped ' em thro' every town, yelling and singing, blackguarding and blaspheming oaths that would have made your hair stand on end. At Spanish Fork it can be proved one of ' em stood on his wagon- tongue, and swung a pistol, and swore that he helped kill old Joe Smith, and was ready for old Brigham Young, and all sung a blackguard song, ' Oh, we've got the ropes and we'll hang old Brigham before the snow flies,' and all such stuff. Well, it was mighty hard to bear, and when they got to where the Pahvant Indians was, they shot one of them dead and crippled another. But the worst is coming. " At Corn Creek, just this side of Fillmore, they poisoned a spring and the flesh of an ox that died there, and gave that to the Indians, and some Indians died. Then the widow Tomlinson, just this side, had an ox poisoned at the spring, and she thought to save the hide and tallow ; and rendering it up, the poison got in her face, and swelled it up, and she died. This roused every body. Well, they came on down the road, and with their big Missouri whips would snap off the heads of chickens and throw ' em into their wagons; and when a widow, Missis Evans, came out and said: ' Do n't kill my chickens, gentlemen, I'm a poor woman,' one of ' em yelled, ' Shut up you G d d d Mormon, or I'll shoot you ! ' Then her sons and all her folks got out with guns, and swore they'd have revenge on the whole outfit. 20 |