A family consisting of a father, mother, and three children lived in a ramshackle cabin in the canyon next to a consistently running creek. The husband was a miner but not a particularly good one, and the family had a tough time financially.
One day he left and never returned. With no one supplying what the family needed, the mother grew desperate, watching her children getting hungrier and hungrier by the day. Legend has it that she could not take watching her children starve to death, so she murdered them to save them from such a long and painful death. She then threw their remains into the creek and died soon afterward.