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Show 198 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. when they were fired upon with rifles, and several persons killed; among them this old chief. The Parvains, before day, started for Gunnison's camp, surrounded the party who were breakfasting under cover of the willows which grew on the banks of the creek. Capt. Gunnison was the first man who had finished his breakfast; he arose, and while speaking to his men, the Indians with a tremendous yell, fired upon them. Capt. Gunnison raised his hands and beckoned them to stop. The men immediately fled, only one man/fell by the first fire on the spot. The men's first endeavors were to reach their horses ; the Indians pursued them, and shot them from their horses. The American party never fired a gun, the last man fell three miles from camp. Kanoshe, the chief, was sixteen miles away from the scene of the massacre, and knew nothing about it. One of the tribe brought a horse into camp, and told Kanoshe what had transpired. Kanoshe took the horse to the Mormon settlement, (Fillmore), and gave it up to the authorities. He then proceeded to the Indian camp for the purpose of procuring the property of the slain, to render it up to the Americans. The Parvains were exasperated at his interference, and several arrows were aimed at him to kill him. His indomitable courage alone saved him. He finally persuaded them to give up the papers and effects of the slain, which he delivered to the proper authorities. The Mormon guide was also slain. The remains of the bodies of those who were murdered, were afterwards interred by the Mormons. When the alarm was given to the main body of Capt, Gunnison's party by one of the men who escaped from the Indians, Capt. Morris and a detachment of his |
