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Gift of Charles Kelly. From the Frank Beckwith Coll. Fig. 1 is the present monument, as the spring, where the wagons were when the first attack was made. Some of the firin was from hill 5. Most of it, however, was from a slight hill directly behind Fig. 1, where the camer stands. Fig. 2 and 3; the hill on which Nephi Johnson's horse got away from him and from which Johnson observed the entire affair. Fig. 4; in some such a clump of oak bushes the Belnap girls sought refuge. Johnson saw them killed by Lee from somewhere on the hill, like pointed out by arrow 3; Albert, the Indian boy, saw them killed from a closer view, say like arrow 2. Fig. 5 ""Massacre Hill"" from which some of the shooting was done; from the far side of this hill, John M. Higbee, Major of the Iron county Militia, and First Counselor to President Isaac C. Haight, gave the command, ""Men, Do your duty to God!"" Fig. 7 is the Present Lytle Ranch, formerly owned by Burgess. Jacob Hamblin's former ranch is up beyond No. 7 three fourths of a mile or so; from that ranch Mrs. Hamblin heard the shooting and the screams of the women. The man were murdered toward the north end of hill 5; the women and children, farther north, beyond the Lytle ranch (which was then non-existent). Major Barleton erected the present monument, surmounted by a wooden cross, bearing the words ""Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord."" The cross has long since gone. Brewer erected a second monument, close to where the women and children were killed, north of the Lytle ranch; that monument was up as long ago as 1910 -- it is since scattered. |
