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Excerpt from A History of the White River Massacre: And the Privations and Hardships of the Captive White Women Among the Hostiles on Grand River; Illustrated
Numerous dispatches followed the one given above, and the news Spread from lip to ear, until by two o'clock the entire population of the city was excited to an unusual pitch. The reports were mainly vague and unsatisfactory, and imagination assisted greatly to swell the volume of horror and the prospect of war and murder on our own frontier. To relate half the stories that fangtr wove into shape and fluent lips spoke into open ears in that one afternoon would be to fill this volume, and to impart to it the character of romance which it is not intended to give it. For sev eral weeks there had been talk in the newspapers about trouble with the Utes, and the public at large had been informed of the savage treatment received by Agent Meeker at White River at the hands of the Indians; but the masses had passed these warnings by quite heedlessly, and many had doubtless forgotten that there had ever been any cause for alarm. During the few days previous the newspapers themselves had ceased in a degree to speak of affairs on the reserva tion. The soldiers under Major Thornburgh having been sent out from Fort Steele, all seemed to feel a sense of security on behalf of the people at the agency. It was tacitly agreed that the sending in of the troops had put an end to demonstrations on the part of the Indians.
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