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David Deming, affidavit, Clark V. Johnson, ed., Mormon Redress Petitions: Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, BYU, 1992), 440.
    I was on Shoal Creek Caldwell Co. Mo. About 3 oclock P.M. cutting wood and I herd the fireing [sic] of guns on the opposite side of the stream about 15 rods from where I was cutting. . . . I also see a man by the name of David Evins [sic] make his excape [sic] and as he came running by me I asked him what was going on he said our brethren were all killed or would be the firing lasted between 30 and 60 minutes, about 15 minutes after the company was gone I started to the place of action and as I was going by the house of Mr. Hauns I foung [sic] a man dead by the name of Mr. Merrick I then crossed over the stream to the shop and found seven men and one boy dead in the shop and several wounded.

Joseph Young, RLDS Church History, 2:246-7
    While sitting in my cabin with my babe in my arms, and my wife standing by my side, the door being open, I cast my eyes on the opposite bank of Shoal Creek, and saw a large company of armed men on horses, directing their course towards the mills with all possible speed. As they advanced through the scattering trees that stood on the edge of the prairie they seemed to form themselves into a three square position, forming a vanguard in front. . . . There were several families tented in rear of the shop, whose lives were exposed, and who amidst a shower of bullets fled to the woods in different directions. . . . Leaving the house on the opposite side I took a path which led up the hill, following in the trail of three of my brethren that had fled from the shop. While ascending the hill we were discovered by the mob, who immediately fired at us, and continued to do so till we reached the summit. . . . When we arrived at the house of Mr. Haun we fund Mr. Merrick's body lying in rear of the house. Mr. McBride's in front was literally mangled. . . . Mr. York's body we found in the house.

Nathan K. Knight, 476-77
    [Near the shop] he was shot through the body. . . the then tried the utmost exertion in his power and raised to his feet and through their thickest fire made his way several rods over a hill and thus made his escape. His clothing was literally cut to pieces with bullets.

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