What happened during the Salt Creek Canyon Massacre?

Answer 1

Not to be mistaken for the Salt Creek Canyon Massacre where on June 4, 1858, four Danish immigrants were trapped and murdered by Natives in Salt Creek Canyon, a slowing down east of Nephi, Utah.

That occasion got to be known as the Salt Creek Canyon Massacre.

That occurred in June, 1858, when Danish immigrants Jens Jorgensen and his wife, Jens Terklesen, Christian I. Kjerluf, and John Ericksen were venturing, bel;ieve it or not unarmed, to settle with other Scandinavian immigrants in the Sanpete Valley, Utah Territory.

On the evening of June fourth, they drew near a mile and a 50% of the gorch's opening into the Sanpete Valley when a few Indians rose up out of concealing places and assaulted them.

The gathering was going with a bull group hitched to a wagon and an alternate bull hitched to a pushcart.

Two of the men were murdered and blazed with their wagon. An alternate was executed in the wake of running around 50 yards.

The pregnant lady was murdered with a tomahawk close to the wagon. John Ericksen, who had been strolling some separation in front of the others, got away unharmed, and made it to Ephraim around dawn.

The assault startled the bull connected to the pushcart, and it fled back to Nephi. The exploited people's bodies were conveyed to Ephraim for internment.

There is a Daughters of Utah Pioneers landmark (number 11) denoting the site of the slaughter, in the middle of Nephi and Fountain Green, Utah.