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Show 168 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS was raining and very dark; they made camp in the head of a very rough canyon. Early next morning ( September 21st) Ezra Shoemaker and another man went out to reconnoiter; they found the track of a pony which had come within half a mile of camp and turned back ; they reported what they had seen. The company then worked their way down the canyon. When they reached the flat country, at a small lake or pond called Bed Lake, near Thousand Lake Moun-tain, they made a halt. General Snow and Col. Ivie went up a black, rock ridge to ge t a view of the coun-try and its surroundings. When near the top, Col. Ivie saw a ramrod wiggling behind a brush only a few paces away, and exclaimed " There they are," when a volley was fired from ambush, one bullet hitting and seriously wounding General Snow in the shoulder. The men retreated to the company, when a gen-eral battle ensued; the Indians firing from ambush on top of the hill. The Indians over- shot the bil-lets singing over the heads of the soldiers, striking in the water, fairly making it boil. Orson Taylor of Richfield received a serious gun- shot wound in the side. George Frandsen of Mount Pleasant, while concealed in a gully, trying to get a shot at an In-dian he had seen, received a bullet high in the fore-head, the missle plowing through his hair and fill-ing his eyes arid face with blood, but it caused no fur-ther injury. A short retreat was ordered for the pur-pose of getting flanking movements on the savages, when it was noticed that one o. f the pack animals had been left behind. Ezra Shoemaker of Manti and an-other man went back, and in the midst of a shower of bullets from the enemy recovered the animal with |