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Show MASSACEE OF LAMPHEEE. 175 CHAPTER XXVII. Arrival of the California Mail-Murder of Mr. Lamphere by Indians on Santa Clara-Hot Springs-Singular Phenomenon-Hot and Cold Springs- Mica-Sulphur-Plumbago- Rock Salt-Death of Willard B. Richards-Heber C. Kemball-Welsh Colony-Lieut. Beckwith's Departure for California. April 16th.-This morning, Messrs. Atwood and Murray arrived with the California mail. They report that one of their party, a Mr. George Lamphere of Chicago, Was shot by the Indians, between the Santa Clara and Rio Virgin (Virgin River). It seems-that Atwood and Murray saddled their horses and prepared for their day's journey, before Mr. Lamphere had finished his breakfast. They mounted and started, intending to ride slowly along. About an hour after leaving camp, they saw Lamphere's horse galloping, riderless, towards them; as he approached, they perceived three arrows sticking in his side. They immediately suspected that their companion had been ruthlessly murdered by the Indians. They succeeded in catching the frightened hor.se, and secured him to a tree; afterwards they gal-lopped at full speed towards their late camp. They were well armed, and although they were ignorant of the force of the enemy which might be in ambush waiting for them, nothing daunted, they dashed forward, and found the dead body of their friend and companion on the road, pierced with a dozen arrows, com- |