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Show 182 began firing. The Indians returned the fire, and drove the posse away. The posse then rode to another camp where the women and children awaited the return of the hunters; there they burned the tents of the camp along with a supply of deer hides the Utes had gathered. Alarmed by the attack of the Colorado ranchers, the hunting party quickly prepared to return to Utah and reservation land where they could find refuge. As the party neared the Utah border, the posse ambushed them. Several persons were killed on both sides. One Indian boy of tender years was shot to death. As the party crossed into Utah, it was met by a detachment from Fort Duchesne, and quietly escorted to the Indian settlement. Fearing another "Meeker" incident, Governor Alva Adams of Colorado called out the state militia. This over-reaction is easily understood; only eight years had elapsed since the outbreak at the White River agency. The "Colorow" incident caused the Commissioner J. D. C Atkens to launch an investigation into the affair. The ranchers and cowboys were sternly reproached in the government reports, but it took an act of Congress to pay the group of Indians for their losses. The posse had driven off more than 300 horses and 2,500 sheep and goats.ly -'-"This incident is the subject of extensive review in RCIA for 1887 and 1 |
