St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-07-12
Big Indian-9oa1e

pig Indian Score.
| 0n,wsdntsday cv9ping sb9u.4 o'clock
ths Census s1atshsll came Adinginto town
in Not haste,with tie lcpor1 thathe had en-
'cosnteisd aScoarier sent ;ffrm Forest City
to an6sify ,hs people thfast tbo silttfe force
Of Sioux warriors had risen, at payment,
over On the . Minnesota River>TThad muir;
dered tho agents and Interpreters; and We're
'crossing.the country, numbering, burning
and pilfering., This courier had seen them,
and estimated their numbers at thousands,
had seen them burn two houses and muir
DEE The inhabitants, AZ bis horse was
about dropping, the n; Marsha! loft him there
and igalloped, in with the news:rga baa :,
Soon the town began .tosfillw with women
and children from Maine Prairie, Grand
Lake, Rockville and; all down tie. Sank
Valley. "a They came on foot and BY, every
kind Of Conveyance, and the cattle from,
Maine Prairie were mostly driven into st.
Cloud :to cut of. the supplies Of the aadyan:
cling savages. The women and children 81
Forest City, Kingston, and Fair Haven i
was said Radsall fed to- Clear Water Is 4
nearer point than this. il az @"'.1A4 Z
The st. Cloud Guards turned out and
almost every man in town volunteered 70
go and meet the indians, but this was felt
to be imprudent as some Of the ladies' were
greatly alarmed; and there was poss,bili-
ty that if the, report we're true, . party
might surprise thet town. So, one hundred
men FASTENED to the relief of the.men on
Maine Prairie, who were determined to
stand BY their property. Other men were
organized, and kept up a patrol on all that
side oftthe town West of = the river. It
was arranged that it there were any cause
of alarm in the night a sentry should haste
- the Saw Mill Of Fowler &. Owen, where
a man was stationed to keep up steam and
was to blow the whistle for all the women
and children to go to the Stearns House.
Fowler staid at his Ferry close BY, and
pledged us all that he'd run the boat until
he took over every body who wanted to 60.
It was a night Of anxiety, for those who did
not believe in the possibility Of .. hostile
Indian getting in here, were in sympathy
with tue settlers back. The: morning sun
shines brightly-it'is9 o'clock the men
hayo not yet returned from Maine Prairie,
but q. message has come that they have
found no Indians. III ''4.:|nv9 'sH: I.
We insisted on sending to Fort Ripley
for troops, for a probability that a single
family had been murdered, appeared cause
sufficient; but the rule As understood, ap-
pears to be that the soldiers will not come
until all the fighting is over. In the midst
Of the excitement Gen. Lowry rode through
town on his way to the scene Of action,
smilingly assuring the ladies that there
was not one hundred Indians within two
hundred miles Of u.s. He was going out
to see, and as he conyerses in Sioux, will
have; a talk with the red SKINS: it. he can
find any to talk to. He was in his native
character and appeared to advantage. ~ :.
!. 1t is highly probable it was false alarm
and that no one was killed. The St. Cloud
boys appear almost painfully disappointed
at not having had chance Of an Indian
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