Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-21
An EXCITING PLEASURE TRIP
shlarntns Biscuit, Black Coffee and a Hay
A'ck from Bed--A Rising River
Turns Out the Campers.

10 the Editor:
although the Pioneer Jubilee has come
ara gone and the scenes and incidents IL
eonmcmorated will remain but memoir
les with those who experienced
the trials and hardships of the strup-
giles to found commonwealth in the
th'n American Desert, there are reml-
hlscenets not directly connected with the
events occurring in those early times but
Intermediate to our present DEVELOPMENT
the recital OF is Interesting to those
who have had similar experiences
and the following narrative of a pleas
ure trip / once made may attract n
casual glnrte fromsome of your readers.
In one OF my letters I referred to
Hams" Fork station as being raid
ed by the Indians during the difficulties
with them In lSf2 Tho rext morning af
ter that occurred eleven OF us had col
lectet there and mounted on mules and
wei armed with pistols. iihes and am
munitlnn from Fort Bridger. We set out
under the command Of James E.Bromley
IN pursuit of the Indians, ind as there
was some wounded men ard three FAM
HES down on the Sweetwater country 1t
was our chief object to search these
people in advance of the Indinns and de-
tcnt any design they might have as to
these comparatively defenseless people.
The first day out We made Big Sandy,
some nfty-five miles, following the In.
dams trail and crossing it several times,
VIC arrived at the station in the even
Ing and discovering II small fire OFF n few
miles to the southeast, we recognized 1t
as signal IRE. and being anxious
for the safety OF the families and
wounded mon below. Bromley called for
a volunteer to go to Pacific Springs that
niYht and warn the people, and inform
them that We were coming to their as
sistance and Ben Clark, who had been
for years a government scout among the
Sioux, volunteered to go. II is over
forty miles from Big Sandy to the
Springs and with the fifty five miles
We had already come he made n hundred
miles during the day and portion OF the
night
Immediately he was gone we Topped
holcd the station on the ends and
sides, got in n supply of wood and
water and barricaded the doors. pre-
pared for a siege and laid down to
get some rest the agent with the TWO
men belonging at the station standing
guard in the stable which was also
iooped -holed and barricaded. And just
at daylight the next morning the
agent came to the door and called out
TO us boys. get your guns, they are
on us!" We reused UP, gathered our
guns and pistols, and rushed out the
door and about mile away we saw
twenty-four Indians riding up In sim
gle file. but Bromley had exposed our
hand, for the moment they saw us
they circled in council for n moment
and were off mt the top of their horses
speed, and II was useless to follow
them rs our animals We're a lot OF
mail mules that had been worn out in
it's service while they were mounted
ON some of the best horses that we had
on the pony express and which they
had stolen, but observing that the In
dams course seemed to be shaped
towards Pacific Springs. we immedi-
ately saddled up and took the road
for that point, leaving two men at
Big Sandy to look after the stock and
we had been gone but Il few hours
when the Indians returned and har-
raised the men for two days, but the
men alternately standing guard on top
of the station and changing their
clothes and Disgusting themselves as
much as they could when relieving
each other and when watering the
stock ut the well deceived the Indians
as to the number Of men at the sta
ton and by this ruse influenced the
Indians to abandon their intended at
tack and withdraw.
our party reached Pacific Springs
the evening OF the day we left Sandy.
and after the wounded men mentioned
had been pulled over the South Pass
on handaleds. we started on our return
up the road leaving the springs with
two coaches, two bob sleds, the four
wounded men, three women and five
children. We left the springs at 4
o'clock in the morning and at sun
down had made but 1--WE miles. as
after sunrise the beaten snow remain
Ing in the road became so soft that II
was impossible to get through or over
1t and we had to pull out onto the