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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 169 the pack. The fighting continued till night and sev-eral Indians were killed. The militia crossed back over the mountain in the night to Grass Valley and made camp. Next day they marched down King's Meadow Canyon to Glendwood, where they separated and returned to their respective homes. ATTACK ON EPHRAIM, SEVEN SETTLERS KILLED, TWO WOUNDED. Contributed by N. 0. Anderson. On the 17th of October, 1865, early in the morn-ing, Peter Larsen came to me and asked me to go with him into the canyon, saying that it would be safe be-cause a number of men had gone up ; so we went up together. We had proceeded up the canyon a dis-tance of about five miles to the forks ot the three roads, above the long bridge, when we saw a man coming down the road on the run; it was Henry Green, who told us to turn back, that the Indians were up above in the canyon and from their ambush had killed some of the boys belonging to a company of six. Benjamin Black, Peter Graves, Thomas Wol-sey, Wm. T. Hite and two others constituted the com-pany. The place where they stopped to get their loads was one fourth of a mile east of the lake on Lake Hill. Peter Graves in running west came on to an Indian in the brush who had fired his gun and had not had time to re- load. Graves passed the Indian and ran down Maple creek, followed by two other Indians nearly all day. He had a dog with him and when hiding in the brush had to hold the dog's mouth to keep him from barking and revealing his whereabouts. He ran across Birch Creek and onto |
