and the timber, and very
nearly surrounded the shop, which was built of logs, and served
as a slaughterhouse instead of a shelter or protection.

The mob, while protected as they were, shot down the Mormons at
their leisure. They killed eighteen and wounded as many more; in
fact, they killed and wounded everyone who did not run away
during the fight and take refuge in the woods. After shooting
down all that could be seen, the mob entered the blacksmith shop
and there found a young lad who had secreted himself under the
bellows. One of the men said:

"Don't shoot; it is but a small boy."

"It is best to hive them when we can," was the reply.

Thus saying, they shot the little fellow.

There was an old man in the settlement by the name of McBride,
who had been a soldier in the Revolutionary War; he was killed by
being hacked to pieces with a corncutter while begging for his
life. The dead and wounded were thrown into a well together.
Several of the wounded were afterwards taken out of the well by
the force that went from Far West, and recovered from their
wounds. So great was the hatred of the mob that they saved none,
but killed all who fell into their hands at that time. I received
my information of the massacre from David Lewis, Tarleton Lewis,
William Laney, and Isaac Laney; they were Kentuckians, and were
also in the fight, but escaped death.

Isaac Laney was shot seven times, the seven shots leaving
thirteen ball holes in his person; five of the shots were nearly
in the center of the chest; one entered under the right arm,
passed through the body and came out under the left arm; yet,
strange as it appears, he kept his feet, and ran some three
hundred yards to a cabin, where a woman raised a loose plank of
the cabin floor and he lay down while she replaced the boards.

The mob left, and in about two hours Laney was taken from under
the cabin floor nearly lifeless. He was then washed, anointed
with oil, the elders praying for his recovery, according to the
order of the Holy Priesthood, and he was promised, through prayer
and faith in God, speedy restoration. The pain at once left him,
and for two weeks he felt no pain at all. He then took cold, and
the wound in his hips pained him for some two hours, when the
elders repeated their prayers and again anointed him, which had
the effect desired. The pain left him, and never returned. I
heard Laney declare this to be a fact, and he bore his testimony
in the pre