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C. Stewart, and another man, whose name I have forgotten. The party drank considerable, and when the emigrants got under the influence of the whisky the brethren attacked them and knocked the brains out of two with the kingbolt of a wagon. The third man was powerful and muscular; he fought valiantly for his life, but after a struggle he was overcome and killed. They were buried near Cedar City.
With these teams must have been nearly ten thousand beasts of burden and thirty thousand head of loose stock. Is it any wonder that the old trail was worn so deep that even now in places it looks like a great canal? At one point near Split Rock, Wyoming, I found the road cut so deep in the solid sandstone that the kingbolt of my wagon dragged on the high center.
They said no more except to warn Luke of a bad piece of road about two miles on. Sure enough, in its very middle crack! we broke down. "De kingbolt done gone clean in two!" said Luke, and Robelia repeated the news explosively. "We'll leave the coach," I announced. "Fold the lap-robes on the backs of the two horses, for Rebecca and me. You-all can walk beside us."
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