When they had marched in this way about a mile, at a given signal the slaughter commenced.

The men were almost all shot down at the first fire from the guard.

Two only escaped, who fled to the desert, and were followed one hundred and fifty miles before they were overtaken and slaughtered.

The women and children ran on, two or three hundred yards further, when they were overtaken and with the aid of the Indians they were slaughtered.

Seventeen individuals only, of all the emigrant party, were spared, and they were little children, the eldest of them being only seven years old.