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Show 74 INDIAN DEPKEDATIONS Indians was the result of generations of trasmis-sion of ideas and customs incident to the environ-ment of the red men. FOUR MEN KILLED AT UINTAH SPRINGS, SANPETE COUNTY. On September 30th, 1853, a party of four men, William Reed, James Nelson, William Luke and Thomas Clark, started from Manti, Sanpete County, with ox teams loaded with wheat for Salt Lake City. It was arranged that they were to camp the first night on the Sanpitch River, near where Moroni is now located, and wait there until a company with horse teams under the leadership of Isaac Morley should overtake them ; then they were to travel slowly together through Salt Creek Canyon ; but contrary to arrangements they went on to Uintah Springs ( now Fountain Green) and camped for the night. Early on the morning of October 1st their camp was at-tacked by Indians and all four men were killed. The savages had time in this instance to com-plete their fiendish work, mutilating the bodies of their victims to such a degree that when found they could scarcely be recognized. When Morley ' s company came along they found three of the bodies of the murdered men, but the body of Clark had been covered up in the wagon with wheat that the Indians had emptied out of the sacks which they had taken away with them. |