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Show Page 3. J'ames Andrus bring the emigrants across the plains, were called tor, J'amH Andrus went a1 aasistant to Captain Daniel D. McArthur and aucce88tully brought a large company to Utah. The following year he made a similar trip east after merchandi1e, traTeling . w1 th a mule team. S \o-1,1'°" \--.~ On J'anuary 8, 1866, J'obn M. Whitmore and Robert McIntyre were killed by Piute and NaTajo Indians, in the Pipe Valley, southeast ot Pipe Springs, in · Arizona. One nening, about the 10th ot J'anuary 1866, the people ot St. George where gathered at the social hall where a party was being given. Using the word• ot President A. w. Ivins, "The colt1111ons had been tound, the musicians were .( tuning their instruments, the people were in a happy mood, when they were unexpectedly called to order. What had occurred to mar the pleasure ot the occasion? The death like silence which ensued, the suppressed excitement and deep apprehension manifested by the merry-makers. The manager announced that a messenger had just arriTed with dispatches stating that a traveler paHing by Pipe Springs had obsened that there was no one at the ranch house, and that ' signs indicating the recent presence ot Indians were plainly visible. A call · ; was made tor men, ~d and equipped, to start at once tor Pipe Springs, silently, ( hurriedly, the people went to .their homes. The remainder ot the night was spent in preparation and the tollowing morning a cmpany ot sixty men, a part of .the local militia, was ready to start on one ot the most trying expeditions ever undertaken by man. They were armed and mounted, that was indespensible, but there was no shelter, o~ tents. The equipment was primitive and 1nadequite, and scant7. SOme were mounted on mules, without saddles, some without eTen a ooat. Their quilta serYed as saddles, cloak and bed• and in their shirt sleeves they did a soldiers dut1 on the trying campaign. The expedition was made up as follows: :e:. D. Woolley W~llis Copelan• J'. D. McCullough Alma Millet Erastus w •. Mcintyre Alexander McIntyre William Powell Edward Ellana Sylve~ter Hewlett Charles Lytle J'esae -W. Crosb7 J'r. Isaiah Cox George F. J'arvis Henry Beebe William Foster J'osep~ Perkins lames D. Sllithson Thomas 1. Clark Samuel Newton Adair Oliver StrattoD Wm.. B. Maxwell Byron D. Rolllldy ¥oR~iw:iao~li TU |
