Salt Creek Canyon massacre

In early June 1858, Danish immigrants Jens Jorgensen,[a] his pregnant wife Hedevig Marie Jensen Jorgensen, Jens Terklesen,[2] Christian I. Kjerluf,[b] and John Ericksen were journeying, unarmed, to settle with other Scandinavian immigrants at the Mormon colony in the Sanpete Valley.

On the afternoon of June 4, they had come within a mile and a half of Salt Creek Canyon's opening into the Sanpete Valley when members of an unidentified Indian tribe emerged from hiding places and attacked them.

The pregnant woman was killed near the wagon with a tomahawk,[2] which received special note from historians.

[1] Ericksen, who had been walking some distance ahead of the others, escaped unharmed and made it to the nearby town of Ephraim around dark.

[3] Media related to Salt Creek Canyon massacre at Wikimedia Commons