The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1865-06-17
Indian Outrages In Utah.

In the Daily Telegraph of the Sd inst,
there is long account of the slaughter and
mutllation, by the Indians, of seven per-
sons, in Spanish Fork Canon. The savages
were long known as a desperate gang of
robbers and murderers. Jens. Laisen was
killed about four miles north of Fairview.
while tending sheep, on Thursday evening.
lie was shot through the neck and right
side. On Monday an entire family, named
Givins, who had occupied temporary
shanty near some willows, were massacred.
The names of the unfortunates were John
Given, sen., John Given, r., Eliza Given,
Mary, Anna and Martha.
The father, mother and son appeared to
have been instantly killed, probably while
asleep. The father was shot through the
chest, and afterwards struck with tena-
hawk in the forehead; the mother was shot
through the head under the ear. and was
afterwards tomahawked in the mouth the
son was shot through the chest. left arm.
left leg, and one OF the fingers of the LETT
hand was almost entirely cut off. One girl
was shot in the face, another was shot in
the lower part of the body and the third
was tomahawked in the face. The bodies
presented u most horrible and CHASTITY sight
while lying side by side, awaiting the last
offices of their living friends. They were
properly cleaned, dressed, put in separate
collins and inferred in the same grave.
Two men by the names of Chas. Brown
and Chas. W. Leah were sleeping in a
wagon box in the same shanty with the
Given family, at the time. They state that
four Indians did the first shooting and did
not perceive Brown and Leah till after they
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men leaped up from the wagon-box, and
the Indians seemed afraid, and ran off to
reload their arms. Brown and Leah ran for
the willows, and were shot at fifteen or
twenty times by Indians On foot. They saw
Indians on foot and on horseback, trying to
head them off from the willows, and con-
sequently they had no time to take care of
the three surviving girls, or to secrete them
selves without taking to the willows. After
a short lapse of time, the Indians returned,
found the little girls weeping over the body
of their mother, who seemed to linger some
time, as one of the men spoke to her before
leaving the shanty, killed the three girls as
before stated, and finished the life of the
mother with the tomahawk. The savages
appear to have been we'll supplied with lead,
arrows and tomahawks, or axes in their
murderous work.
They took all the -four, axes, guns, etc.,
of use to them; killed the calves, penned
up one or two sheep, drove off the best of
the horned stock, and some horses, various
ly estimated at from 100 to 200 head.
Only about twenty minutes after the MUIR
der of the Given family, horse team with
two young men passed between tho corral
where the dead calves lay, and the shanty
where the dead family lay, unconscious Of
all that had just happened. The young
men had been down at the lower settlements
shearing sheep, and were then On theirway
to Fairyiew, which place they reached
without knowing how near they had been
to danger and death.
After the Indians had withdrawn, one of
the men secreted in the willows, ran on to
a small settlement, four miles distant, and
gave the alarm, and the whole of the fami-
lies Immediately left for Fairview.
ltwas reported that Black Hawk was in
that neighborhood the night before, and if
free from part direct or indirect action in
the murders, SO much the better for him.
From other correspondence, we learn that
the Indians have killed twelve persons in
that region of country this spring, and have
inflicted heavy loss upon the settlers by the
stealing of their stock.