The Haun’s Mill massacre took the lives of 17 Mormons (including two children: Charley Merrick, age 9, and Sardius Smith, age 10) and a sympathetic non-Mormon, and wounded 13 more, including a woman and a child. Three of their attackers were wounded, but none killed.A St. Louis newspaper, the Bulletin, carried news of the massacre in its November 9 issue. In a longer article about the Mormon War, that paper wrote:Another St. Louis paper, the Ga...
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