seventy-three it was a twenty-one burro pack train , the first six animals loaded down with burlap sacks holding three quarters of a ton of packer 's gold , the next fifteen bearing stiff riders , all fastened to their mounts with one long mecate-ezekiel curtice , skin a plum shade of scarlet , burned from the cold and high-altitude sun , frozen straight through , an eviscerated bart packer , his four servants , russell ilg , molly madsen , the albumen print of her husband shoved down the front of her corset , billy mccabe , a faceless oatha wallace , the still-warm mule skinner ; and the four other men the preacher had murdered in the day hole on christmas night .