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Show 116 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS Americats were camped, we told them that we did not know. They then said: ' we find them.' They passed on down the street towards the center of town. Some of Brigadier General Connor's command from Fort Douglas were in town, we saw two or three wa-gons with heavy canvas covers on and some mules ; also teamsters and a few soldiers. Soon we heard a loud report, and learned that Connor's men had found out that the Indians were coming for them, and had shot a " Howitzer" a small cannon, at them as they were turning to go south to where the sol-diere were located. We were informed that the sol-diers went to Samuel Green's house on the east side of the road and asked the people to leave, which, they did in a hurry. The soldiers then went into the house, pulled their cannon in with them, pulled up some of the floor and got under it leaving their wagons in the road and their mules and horses were in a corral on the west side of the street. The In-dians dared not follow the troops into the house, but shot into it through the door and window, pepper-ing the back wall with bullets. When the Indians saw they could not successfully rout the soldiers or kill them, they turned their attention to booty. But when the soldiers saw they were going to lose their horses they fired a charge of grape shot from their cannon into the corral at their animals, prefering to kill them to letting the Indians get them, they killed and maimed some, the Indians got those not hurt and loaded them with blankets and supplies, and struck for the mountains very much pleased with their success as manifested by their chatter and antics. |