by overpowering numbers the Mormons submitted. They surrenderd up Fifty one Guns which have never been returned or paid for. The next day parties of the Mob went from house <​to house​> threatening women and children with death if they did <​not​> immediately leave their homes. Immagination cannot paint the terror which now pervaded the Mormon Community The weather was intensely cold and women and children abandoned their homes and fled in every direction. without clothing to protect them from the piercing cold, women gave birth to children in the woods & prairies. One Hundred and twenty women and children for the space of ten days with only three or four men in company concealed themselves in the woods in hourly expectation & fear of massacre until they finally escaped into .