Show THE ftP expedition EDITION AFTER INDIANS Ra notwithstanding withstanding the general high opinion entertained of captain lott smith as a cautious officer and a brave man a feeling of intense anxiety was creeping over the community for his bis safety and that of the volunteers under his command ever since the tidings of 1 his expedition northward was learned from the lips of those who bad to return from in ability to continue the pursuit it was there f re with sincere gratification and ness hess that we heard of the arrival of a messenger mess enger eDger to governor young 0 on friday night 0 ri r porting 11 lat the fafel safety ly of the comm md ind and their merrival at the weber that evening and since we have listened to the narrative of the pursuit the labors performed and ard the privations endured en dured durea we ire feel the more grateful to our heavenly father rather forthe for the preservation serration of the lives of our Blount mountain ain aln boys hoys up to the present title we have not seen capt smith and know nothing of the report he may intend to make to his gendral gedral Gen gea but we presume it will not be deemed indru intrusive ai eon on r part to furnish our readers a sketch of the expedition chattia th attla atTia caused so much interi est eat such aa as we have gleaned from several of the parties who have returned to the city from a variety of circumstances there had bee been n a strong suspicion that much of the depredations committed on the eastern mail route by others than whites was done by the northern indians or a as s rolling portion of or renegades rene gades fr m that quarter but till the aggression we A e are about to notice the e evidence was any 1 thing thin but conclusive against aarns t them now there seems ti to 0 u but lut little roon room for doub doubting tim their being a roving band of thieving desperadoes that need close watching and proper attention from tle tte information we have gath gathered eted it appears that thal a band of indians visited the ranch of jack robinson one of the oldest mountaineers of the wasatch range about I 1 6 miles fram bridger 11 on the nic nig night hoof of the 19 h I 1 auy ancl and ran ct off upwards of 00 head bead ott oft of i horse horses 3 and mules 0 of which numb r 30 returned 4 in the morning capt smith being in the vicinity of bridger was notified next day of the theft ind and la in an hour and a half from the first sounding of he be bugle gathering in the scattered volunteers sixty two tao men were W ere in the saddle wi with provisions for a few days I 1 on twelve pack animals te tte following is a list of the dames names of the tion captain lott smith leu Leure nants enante jos Rollin brolli na 3 J Q knowlton wagon master sol hale 1 se geanes 8 H W 11 artter howard sprncer coi col colp p ra IK S 11 young IV brino Bring bringhurst hurat N D mack avrick A bigler 11 B clemons demons privates ri vates yates joseph goddard L A Hu huffaker fraker J cherry L rich thos ilarra II arrs wood alex ander E M james sharp thos caldwell theodore calkins john cahoon caboon mark alark murphy joseph jo eph fisher A RL indall henry B baru rd wui longstroth Long atroth wa wui lutz lutzi lutyj wm win grant 11 kimball P corny corn y E L A noble isaac atchi atenio o if 11 E simmons don J aid mcnichol lwis lewis L wis osborn hiborn odblon weller waller joseph taylor C Crim crimean Cri binan sinan nan wun win C alien allen joseph josephl terry chas burnham geo co cotteret tt erell A S rose L barnard it hereford J al M ellixon win rhodes 11 II parks J wells laiz jenson james Carr larrian illan E brown J arrowsmith F cantwell AI al gibson john 11 benni BeDni bennion cn saml aal bennion J larkin james green james lailay F prince i the tracks of the stolen animals di that the indians had haa taken a northwesterly course which the pursuers followed for eight I 1 days going goin as far as the head of snake I 1 r ricer nicer vailey valley vii ey near the three Te tonsa bout miles no of fort ilal f their first ride in the afternoon was 35 miles to the muddy through 0 which the company had to dra drag their animals with ropes submerging the tile pak packs provisions mad und co clothing thing the indans in their hasty basty flight abandoned I 1 there two ponies and andt three bree of the solen colts cots second day baythe the company started abday at day light passed an abandoned mue mu e traveled 15 miles and breakfasted a a branch stream of or a small spring three miles fart farther her ber the they y crossed hams hama fork where from the track tracks 1 of the jin animals imala at the cross ng the indians a appeared to have had great difficulty lo to keep keegl together their booty three more colts had been the company swam thir animals over the fork and travelled 17 miles before dinner after resting their anim da ils a couple of hours they resumed resumed their travel and made 35 miles milea arrian at fontenelle a cork of green juvers R miles from sub dettela cuu cui ot off third day star i ed at daylight and roda roia 18 miles before b breakfast reak fast traveled 25 miles farther falther stoked to take dinner and rest th animals on the bi big dig island of gren green river niver 0 miles lles lies below the lander road duling during this ride they found the first camping place of the be thieves thi eves s nce nee they had bad left bridger cr the indians having traveled so fast suggested the necessity of preparations for a longer expedition than was as contemplated at starting tar ting accordingly capt smith sinith and K rode ahead to a camp 0 of emigrants on the lina lana r broad road to obtain provisions but were unsuccessful tui tul the expedit n afterwards came up and contin wd on 15 13 miles before camping L for the night in conversing with the emigrants emi grants granta 0 it was ascertained that on the thursday previous the indians had bad stolen four animals from an emigrant train to salmon niver river seven of the emigrants emi granta followed t them em and had a fi fight a ht resulting in one of the whites being bein 0 killed k ant art and three wounded nothing was recovered on the night 0 preceding 0 the he arrival arrayal of he the expedition some indians attacked an emigrant train wounding one man roan stealing a horse and some ca t e fourth day the expedition reste rested d their animals in the morning during durin which knowlton seymour young and solomon hale returned to the lander road and tried to purchase provisions from a train of eighty wagons infused but c could 0 uld obtain none the immigrants refused to t 0 furnish anything though the boys were willing to pay them any pr price c e in fact fart he s tyle lyla of the thie j immigrants migrants oi was everything but complimentary underlying which was something bem eem ething like the suspicion th that at the expedition was possibly connected connect ted with the indians alo had attacked the immigrants already noticed started at noon rooi traveled 35 miles and I 1 camped 0 01 i a small stream near the base of the green river mountains on the way cane upon a camp that irad h ad been suddenly abandoned aba aban boned by the indians in which was found a good deal deai of fat beef the he remnants of fire oxen bit lilt lill havin barin baving having been apparently two tiro days expose was unfit for use the indians ha ba I 1 evidently be been en surprised as there were evidences dancea of a very sudden departure and indica hnilica irions irions of a fight among other ti lings an immigrants imi grants granta cap was lying on the girourd ground perforated orated by a bullet bolet fifth day started at daylight and tr tra 21 miles crossing the north north fork of green river rested two hour and found tonal a mare abandoned ave miles fu further riber struck the south fork of lewis fork forir com corn conly called snake river rh er but among tie the inglai s ne R ver cross d 0 er to the I 1 north lide hide ani t adelel abele 1 3 SO 30 miles down it a fearful road the trail taken by the indians indiana here was over 0 ver land lani lan ian d slides rocks an ani J loose stones stories some places a thousand feet above the tiie river where one misstep woud I 1 d have sent horse and ana aril rider precipitately into the stream on chii trail the cOm company Parly found evidences of other th ats as the tracks of large am rican horses mules and cattle cattie very clear justi justl fyme y in 11 the conclusion that the original band pursue i 1 fromm from bridger i hau had gathered strength strengthen in numb lumb numbers humbers rs during their flight by talling taking such a direct dirt northern route the red skins skin cs pro laby intended to mislead the he pursuers into the belief that hat the crow lid ild lilians Iid lid ians lans had been the aggressors ag gres sors B BA t for ibis this the indiana indians would certainly have preferred another trail to that so dangerous passed over that day the expedition crossed the middle for fork of shoshone niver river and camped I 1 all night from the freshness of the track and the remnants of a sage hen the indians seemed here to have been not nat more than six bix s x hours ahead a beai bead of the expedition A white horse abandoned was found here sixth day pay the animals getting badly used up rawlin rawlings s and the following persona were sent back to tu bridger with the worst animals corporal U N myrick pr privates wm C allen alien J terry C dvir gurnham 1 ba m G carterel Cat terel 1 l A S rose J M glixon 11 II parks wro rhodes abodes L jenson jerson ji carr carrigan carran an E brown J arrowsmith F cantwel I 1 J green J imlay F prince L A huffaker the company then traveled 10 miles through kanyon thickly wooded and 8 mil miles es further cam camped ped ded on the north fork of lewla lerla fork found two colts abandoned traveled 5 miles further crossed a small stream and found two tyro mules and me ene colt abd abw ed these mules had belonged to some other party parly not of the bri ger stock the expedition the then n came up to a gras a valley of some extent where the indians had spread out the animals to mislead them from te th e track and chichi which caused a delay of dome iome s sours bours before the trail C could ouid be f found traveled 5 bailes and ald crossed the north fork of lewis fork about 16 lorilea rax below the three telony the expedition had much difficulty in cross crow ing this fork of the r ver the water being divided into three branches the birst first branch about ou t a hundred feet fest wide was not so deep a as to cuse cause much dilli difficulty cults culty but the second was deep and the current swift traveling C about SOO Z W yards up a gravelly 0 sand bar the second branch of the river was corded forded ia which one man was nearly dro tiro A ned capt smith had led lea the way vay and a portion of tha tile the command had got through the third stream to the opposite bank vullen when danild donald NIc bic NicholA lo 10 se became unmanageable and refusing te to breast the current k kept kepi ept doku the stream about 50 3 ards arda mcnichol was trying to drive hla hia horse from the shallow water watery when suddenly it fell into deep water and almost instantly disappeared mcnichol ot fo lowin bowin g after probably in expectation of aiding his horge horses horsey horse seemed to immediately be carried away I 1 by the swift current beyond all human ail alj a au U the captain and sergeant spencer ran down the dank nank of the tha stream to his assistance but the current was BO so rapid that he was carried away quicker than their utmost speed mcnichol was the best beat swimmer in the com corn 1 pany but having his clothes boots an I 1 p pistol 1 s on his bis personae person be was unable to battlo battle with the watery element lie ile made no call for assistance and anti appeared to want none possibly thought he be could still deliver himself till at last after being carried away abent yards be he was ea in the surging water and d sapp eared forever from the vie vica V of hla bia sorrowing conrades comrades i the remainder of the c ni m any pot 9 got ov over er in iu safety and pitched j their camp for the night a sorrowful hun bun gry band of brave men alth veith only 8 lbs ibs of or flour et eft for the future subsistence stence of fort forty y two men seventh day started st again on the indian ir rack a ck c in a westerly direction over a mountain tal tai n steep and heavily timbered found faund on ort I 1 a tree the name of J lil III crist july alth 1832 1932 on a second tree the same name in 1833 and on a third tree two Bs one in inverted I 1 and joy ii with ith other signs of white men having past over that trail thirty years ag ago the expedition traveled 24 as miles through this densely wooded country and sto stopped p pe 4 three hours 0 o rest their animals being now nosy relieved from the labors of cooking t heir their last meal havin disappeared with the former evenings setting belting sun eun found here I 1 aut Knowl knowltons tons mare that had been stolen from erom bidger B ingeri also two mares mires belonging a to robinson terribly jaded ani and a mass of bores sores from the punishment received receive in the 1 fil flight 9 lit and from over beatin heating traveled 8 miles further and killed a small bea rather I 1 poor in alish but under such cincu i economy suggested him for two repasts A asplen lid mare belonging 0 inato to robinson was here fou n stan standing dim in the woods with two knife knifa cuts I 1 and a bullet hole in her body boly the indians at this place could not be farin advance of 0 the expedition but there were not ax six horses fit to travel another day at the rate of pursuit and bein beld being entirely out of pro v siong it was concluded that unless the indians trail shoud should take a direction in which the eppedi ion lon on might hope to find m means i ans of subsistence the pursuit would havee havet have haye to be abandoned mr hereford who mho was personally the most directly inheres cd ed in the recovery 0 the stok stolen from hla hia entire satisfaction to apt C pt smith and the co thit every evary thing had already been done that was possible tile tiie indians having taken adirent northerly course near the base of or the snake river mountains ins to avoid the tho high waters the expedition after eight miles further trav trai travel el abandoned lh the pursuit entirely eighth day traveled about 15 miles to the south fork of snake river got some quaking 7 asp lo 10 made a raft rait and capt smith sith IT spencer A bigler S young P Corner pl sharp and T caldwel with the bagga baggage g e or their mess attempted to cross over oa On reaching near the opposite bank the boys got into the ilie caterin water in hopes of swim in 1 ng the raft ashore and fixing 0 it with tor for the f ferrain terrain t of the rest of the company but bat the car cur curent current ent was so powerful that tej raft was swept out of their hands the cap captain tait taft seeing caldwell still and being carried away plunged after it and got oa the raft with him and the two were carried down dorn to tl stream about bout a mile and landed upon an island in the middle of the water the cap tain and caldwell made another arother raft aej with tub the assistance of ronea ropes which whick WA IV tongs troA bad swam with mih bih the shore chore men ten which thac than was lert leathe the boys lewt lert lh ulm ashore albore with the loss of ot two sad 17 al scooting oking utensils and a good deal of clothing 0 bigler and corney faering su intensely tensel y from foslid cos ool ca determined to risk everything to r gan gain the opposite shore one of them entirely nude and an J the other with only a very verr partial coveri covert g to his body made thelmi their way ay through brush wood and f for r about a mile up stream where here fi finding dry rv I 1 lo 10 rolled it into the water and an clinging to it |