to the wagon to do my part of the killing. I drew
my pistol and cocked it, but it went off prematurely, and shot
Brother McMurdy across the thigh, my pistol ball cutting his
buckskin trousers. Brother McMurdy turned to me and said:

"Brother Lee, keep cool. Keep cool, there is no reason for being
excited."

Brother Knight then shot a man with his rifle; he shot the man in
the head. He also brained a boy that was about fourteen years
old. The boy came running up to our wagons, and Brother Knight
struck him on the head with the butt end of his gun and crushed
his skull.

By this time many Indians had reached our wagons, and the rest of
the sick and wounded were killed almost instantly. I saw an
Indian from Cedar City, called Joe, run up to the wagon and catch
a man by the hair, raise his head up and look into his face; the
man shut his eyes, and Joe shot him in the head. The Indians then
examined the wounded in the wagons, and all of the bodies, to see
if any were alive, and any that showed signs of life was shot
through the head.

Just after the wounded were killed I saw a girl, some ten or
eleven years old, running towards us from the place where the
Danites had attacked the main body of emigrants; she was covered
with blood. An Indian shot her before she got within sixty yards
of us.

After all were dead I ordered Brother Knight to drive one side
and throw out the dead bodies. He did so, and threw them out of
his wagon at a place about one hundred yards from the road, and
then came back to where I was standing. I then told Brothers
Knight and McMurdy to take the children that were saved alive
(sixteen was the number), and drive to Hamblin's ranch. They did
as I ordered them to do.

Before the wagons started Nephi Johnson came up in company with
the Indians that were under his command, and Carl Shirts I think
came up too. I then considered Carl Shirts a coward, and
afterwards made him suffer for being a coward. Several Danites
joined me, but I cannot tell their names, as I have forgotten who
they were.

After the wagons with the children had started for Hamblin's
ranch, I turned and walked back to where the brethren were. While
returning to the brethren I passed the bodies of several women.
In one place I saw six or seven bodies near each other; they were
stripped naked. I walked along the line where the emigrants had
been killed, and saw many bodies dead and naked on the field. I
saw ten children; they had