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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 87 the Indians who had fired some eight or ten guns be-fore our boys commenced shooting. President Bill-ings was wounded by a ball passing through the fore finger of his right hand. The bullets whistled briskly all around. The men arrived safely with the wounded man and the horses and cattle were taken inside the corral, except those the Indians had driven off. Every man was engaged. Soon one of the Indians set fire to our hay stacks which were ad-joining the north end of the corral ; they were entire-ly consumed, as also the corn, and it took five or six men steady to carry water to save the corral logs, so as to keep what stock we had on the inside. The firing was kept up by the Indians till after dark. We succeeded in saving the corral, although some of the logs were nearly consumed. Seven Indians were seen to leave, Charles at their head, going to the moun-tains. The day previous ( Saturday) two of the boys, Edward Edwards and William Behunin went hunt-ing, expecting to return Sunday afternoon, Captain Capsium, a Tampa Ute, came down to the corner of the fort and corral and talked to Clark A. Hunting-ton for some time when a few more Indians came. They said we had killed two or three of them and wounded as many, and they would not be satisfied till they had killed two more " Mormons. " They at first denied having killed the two boys who were out hunting and wanted bread. We gave them all we had. The Indians had turned the water off from us, They finally acknowledged killing the two boys out hunting. Hunt expired the following day. Early in the morning of Monday, Sept. 24th the Indians came to the fort and said they were glad that three Mormons had been killed ; they had killed |