But to return to the operations of bifore The . We need only say that the exterminating ordered of was carried into full effect. After the above named individuals were taken prisoners all the in about Five hundred in number surrendered up their arms to the militia without any resistance. The Mormons now fled in every direction, women & children through the dead of Winter marked their footsteps with blood as the[y] fled from the State of . The orders of the were that they should be driven from the or destroyed. <​about​> Fifteen Thousand souls, from <​between​> the sacki[n]g of and Spring. abandoned their homes their property. <​their all.​> hurried by the terrors. of these <​armed​> persons. in want of every necessary of life, with bleeding hearts sought refuge in the State of where they now reside.

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