[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 12 Two men stage drivers were killed by the Indians and scalped while Coming from Camp Floyd to this City. The bodies were brought into the City. I examined the bodies. All the skin was peeled off from the Head. Wood Reynolds body was Cut a good deal with knives.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Andrew Jenson also records this grisly event in his Church Chronology under the date of Wednesday June 10th, and states that it occurred "between Fort Crittenden and the Jordan river, Utah Co[unty]."
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