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Show 498 WESTERN WILDS. to do wrong, but finally had to go along with their company of mi-litia. When all were collected at the Meadows, on the eighth day o the siege, Lee and some others bore a flag of truce to the emigrants, and arranged for their surrender. They were to give up every thing, including their arms, be taken back to the settlement and taken care of, but held till the war was over. On this agreement they started on their return. There were sixty fighting men, forty women, and forty- eight children. In front were two wagons, driven by Mormons and containing the men wounded in the siege ; behind them were the women and children, and lastly the men. Beside the men inarched MOUNTAIN MEADOW MASSACRE. the Mormon militia in single file. Off on either side were mounted men to intercept any who might break through the lines. A hollow crosses the road there; on each side of the way as it enters the hollow are rocks and bushes where the Indians lay in ambush. As testified to by one witness, the women talked joyfully of their rescue from the Indians, and thanked God that they were under the protection of white men. All was in readiness. As the wagons passed the gully and the women and children were just entering it, Ike Higbee, standing on the bluff above, waved his hand as a signal. Haight gave command: Halt! fire!! On the instant the Mormon militia turned, and with |