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Show 208 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS BATTLE IN THISTLE VALLEY. On Sunday morning, the 24th of June about nine o'clock, most of the horses were driven to feed in a cove about half a mile south east of camp. With-out the knowledge of the militia, Indians were scat-tered through the cedars and ravines east and south of camp at that time. Charles Brown of Draper, Salt Lake County, and a companion were in the cedars near the horses picking gum, when they saw Indians. They ran for camp, and when out in the flat, Brown was shot through the back. When he fell some Indians shot him with arrows. The boys in camp seeing what had happened ran out to his assistance, and brought him into camp, where he expired. The Indians made a rush for the horses, stampeded them and ran down between the hills and camp, about half a mile west, when the Indians turned them south into the so- called Indian Hol-lows, where they caught some of them and rode them back to fight the troops. They soon made a charge, but were turned back by a volley from camp. All the breast- works the troops had were four wagons on the south side of camp ; two of these were loaded with wood. The In-dians surrounded the camp, and closed in upon it keeping behind trees and brush. Some of them ap-proached in a wash that ran north of camp. They shot into the camp wounding Thomas Snarr of Salt Lake. Captain Dewey had sent out two companies of scouts, four men in each company, one company go-ing north and the other south- west. Two of these going north were at the Warm Springs. John Ham- |
