The Dillon Tribune

SAINTS SENT UP.

The Killing of a Number of Mormon Elders in Kentucky.

An organization established by a Mormon elder in Lewis and Hickman counties, Kentucky, about three years ago, was broken up Sunday by the killing of all the elders by a band of masked men. Mr. Depriest, United States mail carrier, Bowen, Ivey Mills of Centerville, Hickman county, gives the following account of the massacre. The three elders were leading a meeting on Conder's farm, Cane Creek, Lewis county last Sunday morning when twelve men on horseback rode up to the house and ordered a young man named Hutson and young Conder to surrender. They showed fight. One masked man knocked Conder down breaking his skull. Hutson fired and one masked man fell dead and was found to be Dave Hinson, a citizen of Hickman county. He lived at Brushford, on Beaver Dam. The masked men then shot and killed two of the Mormon elders. The third elder ran toward the woods from which firing was soon heard. The elder has not been seen since, and it is supposed he is also killed. It is since ascertained that the masked men before going to Conder's house stopped at the house of a man named Garrett near Conder's house and found a Mormon elder there. They left two masked men in charge of this elder. Shooting was heard shortly afterward and that elder has not been seen since. When the firing commenced at Conder's house one elder hid behind Mrs. Conder and in shooting at him Mrs. Conder was wounded.