What is the cannibalism in American history?

In the 1940s, there appeared a wave of immigrants from the United States to the west for gold, and people flocked to California from all directions. "Donna Party" is another long trip to California and a tragic "death trip".

/kloc-in the summer of 0/846, several teams marched from Ford Bridge to California. Shortly before the "Donna Party" began, a team led by Hastings himself left, and they planned to take a shortcut. However, when they arrived at Ford Bridge, they found that Hastings' team had left. Without Hastings' guidance, some of these people have to choose the more famous traditional route, while others insist on taking the shortcut advocated by Hastings. In the end, a total of 87 people in 23 cars took a shortcut. Their trip was called "Donner Party" because they elected George Donner as the captain. On July 3 1 day, they left Ford Bridge and embarked on a long journey.

Two weeks later, the "Donna Party" was hit hard for the first time. At that time, they had just arrived at the steep slope of Mount Wasacz in Utah. The terrain here is extremely dangerous. In order to climb the cliff, the members must first make way for the carriage. They sweated like rain 16 days before they walked less than 60 kilometers. At this time, they were all exhausted. It was not until September 30 that they finally arrived in Nevada and appeared at the confluence with the traditional route.

At 1 65438+1October1,they finally arrived at Lake Tenaki (later named as Lake Donaghy). Lake Tenaki is over 1800 meters above sea level. As early as the end of 10, there was already heavy snow here, and now there is a serious snowstorm. When the team members tried to climb the mountain pass as high as 2200 meters, they found that they came too late to overcome the violent snowstorm. They had to spend a long and harsh winter by the lake. In addition, their rations are getting less and less. Even before arriving at Lake Turner, death had already visited the "Donner Party": on August 29th, Luke Halloran died, probably of tuberculosis; On October 5th, 65438/KLOC-0, james reid killed John Snead by mistake in self-defense. Three days later, Lewis Kesberg kicked the hitchhiker out of the car, but most players refused to stop and look for the old man. One day after 10, 13, two German immigrants killed another German for money. 101On October 20th, William Parker was killed by his brother-in-law.

In addition, four members left the group earlier and went to Fort Satz to look for materials and assistance. One of them, Charles Stanton, came back with food and two Indians on June+10/9, 65438. As a result, of the original 87 people, 79 people and two Indians were trapped in Lake Donna in winter. The hungry and cold players quickly ate up the rest of the food. Then, they began to kill animals for food. Then, they ate their dog. Finally, they boiled the skins and blankets into a gelatinous soup to eat. 10 June 16, 24-year-old Barry William was the first to starve to death. On the same day, the strongest member 15 put on homemade snow boots and left the camp in the cold, hoping to find help. Of the 10 people, 4 left their families; There are three of these five women.

People leave their children behind. On the sixth day of escape, the exhausted Stanton asked the others 14 to move on, while he stayed to face death. On day 19, the remaining 14 people began to talk openly about cannibalism. Therefore, they decided to wait until someone died of natural causes before eating him. Such an opportunity will appear soon. Antoine, a 23-year-old bachelor, accidentally fell into the fire in his sleep, but no one paid attention. Antoine died like this. Then Franklin Griff, then Patrick Dolan, then Samuel Murphy. The living cut the meat from the corpse to roast, but no one ate the meat of their relatives. When the body was consumed, the survivors began to eat old leather shoes again. The following year1October 5th, 65438+, 23-year-old Jay Fodick passed away. Mrs. Foster ate Frederick's body. Then, the irrational Mr. Foster ate two Indians. In this way, the original 15 people, now only 7 people. After 33 days of trekking in the snow, the last seven people finally reached the first white settlement in California-Dona Lake settlement.

65438+1October 3 1 day, the first rescue team set out for Dunna Lake settlement. Since then, three more groups have set off. It was not until two and a half months later that the sufferings of Donna members came to an end. In these two and a half months, more people failed to escape from the clutches of death. By the end of February, cannibalism also appeared in the lakeside camp. 13 In March, william forster, who went out for help with other people 13, returned to the lakeside camp with the third rescue team and found that his two sons had been left behind by Kesberg and four others. On April 17, the last batch of rescuers arrived at Lake Dona. At this time, Kesberg was left alone in the camp, and everyone else became dismembered bodies. Kesberg denied that anyone else was killed by him.

So far, 40 of the 87 members of the Dona Party have died.