wooden axles but one, and that was a light iron axle; it had been
hauled by four mules. There were over five hundred head of
cattle, but I never got the half of them. The Indians killed a
number at the time of the massacre, and drove others to their
tribes when they went home from Mountain Meadows. Bishop
Klingensmith put the Church brand on fifty head or more of the
best of the cattle.

The Indians got about twenty head of horses and mules. Brother
Samuel Knight got a large sorrel mare; Brother Haight got a span
of average American mules; Brother Joel White got a fine mare;
Brother Higbee got a good large mule; Bishop Klingensmith got a
span of mules. Brothers Haight, Higbee, and Allen each took a
wagon. The people took what they wanted, and had divided and used
up over half the property before I was put in charge.

The first time I heard that a messenger had been sent to Brigham
for instructions as to what should be done with the emigrants was
three or four days after I returned home from the Meadows. Then I
heard of it from Brother Haight, when he came to my house and had
a talk with me. He said:

"We are all in a muddle. Brother Haslem has returned from Salt
Lake City, with orders from Brigham to let the emigrants pass in
safety." In this conversation Brother Haight also said: "I sent
an order to Brother Higbee to save the emigrants, after I had
sent the orders for killing them all, but for some reason the
message did not reach him. I understand that the messenger did
not go to the Meadows at all." I at once saw that we were in a
bad fix, and I asked Brother Haight what was to be done.

Brother Haight told me it was the orders of the Council that I
should go to Salt Lake City and lay the matter before Brigham. I
asked if he was not going to write a report of it, as he was the
right man to do it; for he was in supreme command of the Danites
in that section of the country, and next to Bishop Dame in
command of the district. He refused to write a report, saying:

"You can report it better than I could write it. You are like a
member of Brigham's family, and can talk to him privately and
confidentially. Do this, Brother Lee, and you shall receive a
celestial reward for it, and the time will come when all who
acted with us will be glad for the part they have taken, for the
time is near at hand when the Saints are to enjoy the riches of
the earth. And all who deny the faith and doctrines of the Church
of Jesus Chr