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Show 98 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS to Market Lake. From here they turned Northwest onto the head waters of the Salmon river and built a fort which was named Fort Limhi from which Lim-hi County, Idaho, was afterwards named. This col-ony got along alright until the winter of 1857 and spring of 1858, when through the influence of one John Powel, a mountaineer who was very bitter against the Mormons, the Indians made a raid on the colony. A battle was fought and the colonists lost all their stock, except some animals they were using at the time. Two men were killed and four others wounded. The names of those killed were George McBride and James T. Miller of Farmington Davis County, Utah. Those wounded were Thomas S. Smith, the Captain of the company, O. L. Robin-son, Andrew Quigley and Fountain Welch all of Farmington. The last mentioned never fully recov-ered from their wounds. This left the colony in a helpless condition, and over four hundred miles from any assistance. After some consideration they saw there was only one chance for them to get help, and that was for some one or two persons to risk their lives and go out by night and attempt to get by the Indians. George W. Hill and Baldwin Watts undertook this task. After three weeks travel and suffering from hunger and cold they got through to Salt Lake City and reported the condition of the colony to Governor Young, who immediately called out three companies of the Utah militia consisting of fifty men in each company. One company being from Davis County with Horton D. Kaight as captain, one company from Weber County and the other from Lehi, Utah County, Abram Hatch, Captain. Colonel Cunningham of Salt Lake |
