Show historical SPOT ON I 1 WAY BY AMERICAN FALLS continued from pa page g e one 1 11 held al deaken taken and gone anin on in pur pursuit suit 0 of grass I 1 found quite a quantity ol of blood and fragments of 0 such things as immigrants usually carry with them and it was evident that the indians had bad done their hellish deed in a hasty manner and left the place selected by them forthe attach was the best on the road and not far distant from the road loarf which turnes down to salt lake which I 1 learned was miles south ot of us here we pushed on endeavoring en deavo ring to overtake them but got a short distance ance on account ot of the darkness and were obliged to camp on the very ground where the indians indian s had a few hours previous made a ring with ith the their r pandemonium like shouts and rel red with the blood ol of innocent men and women we at once oace put out a strong picket P lak t guard on the surrounding hills got a hasty supper in thedarl the dark staked our mules in the sage brush and hopes hoped the night would be a short one nothing happening we pushed on at daybreak tor for the ox trains and grass which we found in a camp five ml miles les distant and here we camped during the day I 1 here found three men killed and several wounded one woman morta mortally Y wounded and the wagons which the indians had left two ot of the men killed were from iowa city A J winter te and an italian whose name I 1 did not learn the other man was from new york city bulwinkle was his name ind and it is said had some which was taken from him all were buried here but the affair did not end here some thirty men from the two ox trains and the trains attacked the previous day started out in pursuit of the indians and their stock after traveling some seven miles in the direction in which the indians went they came suddenly upon them arid aid a fight immediately Immediate lyco commenced at the first tire fire three fourths of af the white men ran and the red men pursued and nd after a running tight fight of some three miles the indians ceased their pursuit in this fight three of the whites were killed and three severely wounded one I 1 think mortally after we learned the fate ot of the last party the greatest excitement prevailed in camp and a small party went to their assistance to recover the dead and wounded one of which was not found and one had bad been scalped scalded ped the first scalped scalded man I 1 ever saw late in the evening both b oth parties returned and two more ox trains came into camp making now some two hundred wagons and men and women and children this morning we all started together after burying the dead and came 13 11 miles to raft river where we are all encamped tor for the day and where I 1 am writing this here the roads fork one for oregon and washington ashington and the other for california truly your friend JOHN C HILMAN |