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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 81 as big as a pea, while Calkins had an old time Taylor rifle. After some time the Indians withdrew and went to the wagon and the cattle we had left. There were two other yoke of cattle there belonging to James Holman. The Indians shot and killed the oxen chained to the wagon and drove off the others with them. Luke Holman and Levi Colvin came up to the thicket where we had hid. There were now five of us, and we followed on after the Indians in hopes of getting the cattle back. The Indians saw us coming and divided their party, some continuing on with the cattle, while the rest made southward, toward San-taquin canyon. Here I found a good opportunity to count them, and made out thirty- nine. We thought they might have had horses at the mouth of the can-yon, and concluded we had better turn back for fear they would cut us off from the main body of harvest-ers. We then went back to the rest of the people, who numbered about nine. Levi Colvin had a pair of horses there, and Jonathan Davis mounted one of them and rode down to Payson to give the alarm ; soon about forty men in wagons and on horseback were hastening to our re-lief, in charge of Col. W. C. McClellan. Eobert E. Collet ( later of Pleasant Grove) also ran into Payson on foot, following down the creek northward, and arrived there soon after the horse-men got in. Levi Colvin and myself, before the relief party came, went up through the brush and found the body of Tindrel ; he was scalped, and all his clothes were off, except his shirt. He was shot seven times. Two bullet holes and five arrows were found in his body. |