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DEAD INDIANS.
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think all that got away were a few that hid among the logs and brush.
In this battle the Captain told me they did not lose a man, and had only four wound- ed, while he counted over three thousand dead Indians.
When I returned to Salt Lake City I was astonished to see the manner in which the Salt Lake papers abused Gen, Connor for slaughtering the Indians in the manner he had, when they (the Mormons) had planned the slaughter, although not meaning for it to be a slaughter of Indians.
Gen. Connor said that the Mormons had thought that the Indians would fortify themselves, and when attacked by the soldiers, they would wipe them (the soldiers) off
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Men, women and children were lying in heaps.
