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Show 146 INDIAN DEPBEDATIONS and thus secured the boys took turns in guarding them through the night. Toward evening of the next day ( April 22nd), while the Indians were still being guarded in the meeting house, some of them succeeded in getting loose and immediately commenced an attack upon the guards, knocking two of the men down. There was every reason to fear a general break on the part of the Indians, and it was decided that the settlement of Circleville would be in great danger if the Indians were allowed to escape. In the general melee and ex-citement which followed the Indians were killed, with the exception of a number of children, who were taken care of by the settlers. After this sad affair there were no more at-tacks on Circleville on the part of the savages, but companies of militia arrived in the valley from other parts of the Territory to assist the settlers in defend-ing themselves, and a strong guard was kept around the town after that. As there was constant danger from attacks by the Indians, the settlers had built their houses in fort style around the meeting house, a short distance east of where Bishop Peterson lives at this writing. The settlers from Marysvale moved into Circleville that summer, but as the danger from attack by Indians became greater than ever, instruc-tions were finally given by the authorities of the Church and the men in charge of the militia of the Territory, that Circleville, as well as the other places on the Upper Sevier, should be vacated and the people moved to older and stronger settlements for safety. About forty families were at that time living at Circleville. The evacuation of the settle- |