29^th We have another Express in this morning saying that
the Armey are rapidly marching towards us will soon
be at Bridger & they wish men immediately sent out.
Elder John D. Lee also arived from Harmony with an express
and an awful tale of Blood a company of Calafornia
Emigrants of about 150 men women & children many of
them belonged to the mob in Missouri & Illinois they had many
cattle & Horses with them as they travelled along south they
went damning Brigham Young Heber C. Kimball & the Heads of
the Church saying that Joseph Smith ought to have been shot
a long time before he was. they wanted to do all the evil they
could so they poisoned Beef & gave it to the Indians & some
of them died they poisioned the springs of water several of
the saints died the Indians became inraged at their conduct
& they surrounded them on a prairie & the Emigrants
formed a Bulwark of ther waggons & dug an Entrench-
ment up to the Hubs of there waggons but the Indians fought
them 5 days untill they killed all their men about
60 in Number they then rushed into their carrall &
cut the throats of their women & children except a
some 8 or 10 children which they brought & sold to the
whites they striped the men & women Naked & left
them stinking in the boiling sun when Brother Lee found
it out he took some men & went & buried their bodies
it was a horrid awful Job the whole air was filled with
an awful stench many of the men & women was rotten
with the pox before they were hurt by the Indians. the
Indians obtained all ther cattle Horses & property guns &c
their was another large company of Emigrants who had
1000 head of cattle who was also damning both Indians
& Mormons they were afraid of shareing the same fate
Brother Lee had to send interpeters with them to the Indians
to try to save their lives while at the same time they are
trying to kill us.

we spent most of the day in trying to get the Brethren ready
to go to the Mountains Brother Brigham when speaking of
the cutting of the throats of women & children as the Indians
done south said that it was heart rending that Emigration
must stop as he had before said Brother Lee said that
He did not think their was a drop of innocent Blood in
their camp for he had too of their children in his
house & he could not get but one to kneel down in prayer
time & the other would laugh at her for doing it & they wo-
uld sware like pirats. The scene of Blood has commenced
& Joseph said that we should see so much of it that it
would make our hearts sick. I spent the fore part of the
night getting Robert & Wilford ready to go to the mountains

30^th I arose Early this morning & took my horses & put
them with parley P Pratts Mules to draw the Bagage

waggon for 50 men that was called out of the 14^th ward
they were to start at 6 oclok but did not get ready till
8 oclok I finally concluded to let Robert go & retain
Wilford a few days for they had left their wheat Bag standing
in the field whare they had been sowing through the day & the
ground not dragged whare they had sowed they started ab[ou]t
9 oclok I then went & took some things to the fair then w[en]t
into the field, finished sowing a 5 acre lot & Draged it in
took a load of corn & come home I then heard that Dr
Hurt had got 300 Indians around him & ran away to the
states we got An express in to night saying that the
troops were near Bridger had formed into 3 Bodies
in travelling Cummings said that if they marched to Bridger
He should fight them General Wells sent word for
them to let them come on to Echo Canyon & there give
them Battle