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Show INDIAN DEPKEDATIONS 117 When the first shot was fired from the cannon it was not aimed at the Indians but over them to ecare and stop them, it was loaded with a bomb which v> ent over the Indians and corral and struck and ex-ploded in William H. Adam's field west of town about where the railroad track now is. Some of this information is given by Wm. H. Adams, Jr., an eye witness. When the Indians left, some of the men of town went to the house where the soldiers were to learn from them what should be done, and were in-formed that a company of soldiers were follow-ing them. These men went in the night soon after dark and found this company camped at the Warm Springs at the point of the mountain in the south end of Salt Lake Valley, and reported. They im-mediately broke camp and proceeded to Pleasant Grove. W. H. Seegmiller continues : The following morning I went down town and found Brigadier General Connor and quite a num-ber of his cavalry. Orrin Porter Rockwell was also with them. They had arrived during the previous night. On the day before the attack by Little Soldier and his warriors we learned at Spanish Fork that some of General Connor's soldiers, on the bench above Spanish Fork met an Indian, Pintutch, going to his wickiup from town and killed him on the edge of a ditch in the southwest corner of town, by beat-ing him over the head with their muskets. That no doubt was the cause of Little Soldier and his band attacking General Connor's outfit at Pleasant Grove. I will ever remember the appearance of Little Sold-ier and his Indians. None of them wore much clothing, a breech clout and mocassins were their |
