Mark Coad owned a wood train which delivered wood from a camp on Elk Mountain to the Union Pacific Railroad at Percy Station.  ... in August, 1869, while the wood train was passing a small lake near the foothills south of Percy, a band of Indians ... waged a wicked war against the drivers. ... This was the last trip ever made over this road by the wood wagons. The lake has, since this memorable day, been known as "Bloody Lake," and it is near the road between Elk Mountain and Hanna.

Source: Annals 15(1)

Located 11 miles southeast of Hanna, on the Overland Trail east of Fort Halleck. So named for a fight between Indians and whites. The emigrants were killed before relief came from Fort Halleck so Bloody Lake was the name given from the fight.  

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