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Show 282 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS IIIIIIIIIIIIIHI went away, followed by the riderless horse; they returned in the night and carried away the fallen Indian. On his arrival in camp Tomson was nearly exhausted from the loss of blood; but the men re-moved the arrow and dressed the wounds as best they could; he was badly hurt, and it took a long time for him to recover. During the fight the White Horse Chief was constantly riding around, direct-ing the movements of the warriors. Walter Barney was hit on the shin, the bullet going through his pants and boot, but did not cut his under garments. The men kept up a guard all night. The four boys in the company dug a trench about three feet wide three feet deep and covered it with a door which they took out of one of the wagons and placed some rocks on it, and laid there two deep on top of each other. The next morning Einersen came with a posse of men to help the company back to Ghinnison. In the meantime the Indians had left. All went back with the relief sent with Einersen. No further at-tempt was made to resettle the Sevier country until 1871. The following additional information was writ-ten by Joshua W. Sylvester: In the spring of 1868 I accompanied some Gun-nison boys to Marysvale to do some prospecting, gold having been discovered there. There were six of us altogether, and as we were returning home we camped one night in the abandoned town of Monroe. Next morning we resumed our journey, and when we got to the Rocky Ford, about twenty miles distant from Monroe, we saw a lone horse on the opposite side of the river. We also discovered |
