Is it true that the Donner family cannibalism in the United States?

It's true. Today, in 1847, the first rescuers found the surviving members of the Downer organization. These people from the California Immigration Organization were trapped in the Sierra Nevada by heavy snow.

/kloc-in the summer of 0/846, the westward movement craze swept across the United States. In this upsurge, a team of 89 people-including 365,438+0 members from the Donner and Reed families-set off from Springfield, Illinois in the Jorge Lema motorcade. After arriving in Bridgeburg, Wyoming, the immigrants decided not to take the usual route, but to try a new route strongly recommended by California sponsor Lansford Hastings, which was called "Hastings Shortcut". They elected George Downer as their team leader and left Fort Brij in mid-July. However, this "shortcut" is quite different from what I imagined: it delayed Downer's organization for nearly three weeks and also caused them to lose a lot of urgently needed materials. After enduring great difficulties and crossing the Wasatch Mountains, the Great Salt Lake Desert and the Humboldt River, they finally reached the Sierra Nevada in1early October. Although the climate is too late to travel westward, these immigrants still choose to move on. 101October 18, they camped in Tracchi Lake on the hill 2 1 km northwest of Lake Tahoe. At night, an early winter snowstorm covered the whole land and blocked the road to the mountains. Donner's organization is trapped.

Most of the team members live by the lake now called "Donna Lake". Mr. and Mrs. Downers and others set up a tent six miles from Alder Creek. They found any materials that could be used to build tents from the carriage and killed the cows to satisfy their hunger. They expected the ice and snow to melt, but their hopes failed again and again. 15 strong immigrants started to travel west to Sartre Castle near San Francisco in snowshoes. These people are called "death squads" by later generations. Three weeks later, bad weather and scarce materials have killed several explorers, and others have been forced to kill each other to survive. The last seven survivors arrived in a native American village.

The news that Donna was trapped soon reached Fort Sartre. 65438+1October 3 1, a rescue team set out. When they arrived at Donna Lake twenty days later, they found that the tent had been completely buried by snow. The surviving immigrants were ecstatic about their arrival. Rescuers tried their best to provide food for the hungry people and then began to move them out of the danger zone. Three rescue teams arrived one after another, but the journey back to Sartre Castle was equally difficult. It was not until the end of April that the last survivors were truly safe. Of the original 89 Donner members, only 45 eventually arrived in California.