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Hardships or tiik Southern Overland Route.—Mr. T. (). Klli.s, writingfrom Los Angeles county, under dutc of Oct. 20th, gives the Stockton MttlnnfUi an account of the hardships l.e cnduml the present season, from Texas. I f c says:I left Parker county, Texas, April 6th, 1857,| for rendezvous. 12 miles west of Fort Belknap, where quite a number met and organized, and left for California, April 22d, numbetiug about i three hundred and fifty women and children, besides Seventy five men capable of bearing 1 arms, among whom were about fifty Southern I Methodists and some respectable members ofj other churches. Unfortunately our train,_ _ %j (hllis* train), broke into many fragments, di-I vided and subdivided until sometimes not more than three wagons were together. May | 7th. reached Simm s Spring, three hundred miles west of our old home. June 12th,reached the Bio Grande, 15 miles below K1 Paso. Aug. 10th found us at Tueson, three J hundred miles west of the Bio Grande, and ! on the 17th inst. we reached this point after sufferings and afflictions, mental and physical, almost indescribable. George Lee, a worthy member of our church, died and was buried at fort 1 horn, on the Bio Grande. July 15th, where and when Mrs. Ellis was taken sick and came near dying. 1 have had two violent spells of sickness, one at the Bio Mimbres, and the other on this side of Fort Yuma.— In the first instan e I lost thirty five pounds of flesh, in the second not quite so much, but, really, the latter was as critical a ease as the former, but not so protracted. I am just able to walk about a little, and scarcely capable of writing. *July 18th, John Shelton Kills, our roundestdied and was buried six miles beyond** the Doubtful Pass, or Apache Springs, in the Gadsden Purchase, two hundred miles west of Fort thorn. July doth, twelve miles east of Tueson, near San Xavier, Thomas Klrod Ellis mv grandson, died and was buried. So von see two of the hllis family li.ivo gone home and we are all rap,, lv following, I am now at Monte wrecked and mined, a a the world willan'd’.l th- 3,ark't! ,WO ,cnms- rr°*i-*°ns and clothing ,n abundance, as I thought, andeft.fr rtM,,lltU perfect I vdestitute, reduced to abject poverty.J^vcral other trains are behind; and rnanv bid.es. great and small, and much stock.-fmnf«-K Ti!° U lf°rnia lhi# •vear immense,hinder t” * 0lt;ln rn* I vvo from one of theWT killed h lhe Indians in tho ou Jtlul 1 ass their names, Short and Irving.It is reported here that one hundred and eighteen persons, a whole train, are massacred bv Mormon Indians on the Salt Lake route. Thoreport thrills the hearts of this people.must further add, we crossed four ninety mile deserts. The Southern route is very dty, und in many places destitute of water. I shallstrongly advise our Texan friends to come bv water, as no train can come in safety iu reach ot Mormon influence.
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San Andreas Independent
San Andreas, California, US
Sat, Nov 14, 1857
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