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Show 222 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS dressed the cow and three other animals. We stopped there two days and jerked the meat, which is done by cutting the meat into strips and hanging it on a platform made of willows and building a fire under it, the fire helping the sun to dry it. On Tuesday, the 21st, we mustered in camp one captain, one 1st lieutenant, one bugler, four 2nd lieutenants and thirty- five privates equipped with good long range rifles and revolvers, and we were later reinforced by Lieutenant Joseph Fish with eighteen men ILODI Parowan in Iron County who left there on the 22nd of August. Next day brought us to Skootem- pah, where it rained on us all night. Some of the men took colds which culminated into chills and fever; the next day ' s journey brought us to the Par- reah. Here six of the disabled men were sent back with the sore-backed horses, fourteen in number, and the spare camp equipage. These men were Elijah Everett. Charles Pinney, George Ishum, Albert Beebe, Fred-erick Eeggus and Hyrum Pollock. They started back about two o'clock p. m. and at the same time we moved camp seven miles to Coal Point. At about 5 : 30 p. m. on Mondoy, August 21st, six miles on the way back, the party returning were waylaid by In-dians crossing a deep gorge and passing up a steep ledge of rocks. The foremost man, Elijah Everett, beins: dismounted and leading two animals, was kill-ed at first fire. The party were all dismounted and leading their animals up a steep acclivity at the time the attack was made. George Ishum received an ar-row wound in the left shoulder. Supposing there were a large party of the Indians, they retreated to the opposite side of the gorge and took shelter in the cedars. When Everett was shot he exclaimed, " Oh |
