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Show 50 twelve Mormons were killed, a number wounded and about four hundred cattle and horses stolen. Many Indians also were killed. The expense incurred in building forts and removing settlements amounted to 1 about $ 200,000. The Gunnison Massacre. An episode of the Walker War was the tragedy known as the Gunnison Massacre. Captain John W. Gunni'eon, who as Lieutenant of Topographical Engineers had visited Salt Lake Valley with Captain Stansbury in lgiJ- 9, returned li 1S53, at the head. of a surveying expedition. While he and his pr. rty of twelve were at breakfast they were surprised by a volley of rifles, a flight of arrows and the yells of a band of pah- Utes, who had crept under cover of the bushes to within twenty- five yards of the spot. Gunnison, running out from his tent, called out to the Indians that he atas their friend. He fell, pierced by fifteen arrows. Only four of the party escaped. The Gunnison Massacre was the result of the wanton killing of some poor and friendly Pah- Ute Indians, by emigrants from Uiosouri to California. In Indian fashion, their avengerts attacked I House Executive Document, 35 Cong., 1 Sees., vol. X, Doc. 71, p. 162 ( 956). |