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Gruesome details of the Donner party tragedy...
Gruesome details of the Donner party tragedy...
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October 30, 1847
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Oct. 30, 1847
* The Donner Party incident
* Resorting to cannibalism
Although there are reports on the Mexican War with: "The Mexican Question - What Shall Be Done With Mexico?", the prime content in this issue is a rare period account of the Donner party tragedy, headed: "The Emigrants To California" which takes over half a column on page 2.
This was the infamous event where the emigrant party was stranded in a snowstorm in Northern California causing some to resort to cannibalism to survive.
The full text of this report is seen in the photos, with portions including: " ...was lost in the snow storm in which Mr. Reed and party suffered so severely...he had succeeded in killing a bear & had subsisted on the meat...has come in safely, as also five other from the cabins...The day Mr. Reed left them the boy Isaac Donner died...the remaining sufferers continued two days without food but on the third day were obliged to resort to the only alternative, that of eating the dead...they commenced on the two children, and when my party reached them, which was on the fifth day, they were eating Mrs. Graves..." with much more.
Four pages, very nice condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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