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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 26 men, near Twelve Mile creek, and killed Peter J. Ludvigsen. The Indians were in ambush and immediately de- camped for the south, driving away some cattle and ut- tering oaths of defiance. On the same day of the attack on Manti herders, Elijah B. Ward and James Anderson were massacred and scalped in Salina canyon, the Indians making good mountains and driving some stock The people were now thoroughly aroused and determined upon waging an uncompromising warfare against the treacherous redskins. their escape into the stolen from the settlers. with eighty-four members of the Sanpete militia pursued the Indians and were surprised and fired on in Salina canyon, April 12th, and Jens Sorenson Col. J. T. S. Allred, of Ephraim and William Kearnes of Gunnison were The sudden attack from ambush so confused the killed. command that a precipitous retreat to Salina followed without any further demonstrations. At the request of Col. Allred, a company of men was picked from the ranks by Col. W. S. Snow and returned to the scene of action and secured the bodies of those killed. The Indians did not await any further attack, but hurried away into the mountains, taking all the cattle they had stolen. On May 25th, Jens Larsen was killed, while herding sheep, near Fairview, and the next day John Given, wife and four children were massacred in Thistle Valley, presumably by the same band of Indians who had shot Larsen. May 30th, David M. Jones of St. George was shot and killed near Fairview, while in the mountains hunting his horses. July 14th of this year Robert Gillespie of Mount Pleasant and James Robinson of Alma were killed by Indians near Salina. Thus the work of secret murders continued, while the Indians kept driving away horses and cattle and retreating into the mountains, where thev were safe. |
