Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-09-09

Escape Of s.e .'r.,siorarses q, s.s .sseaey.
lTassacre OF the Whue inhabitants.
From tie st. Psul Pioneer August s5l
THE BATTLE At NEW ULM
/ On Saturday New Uin was attacked By be-
! tween 500 and 1860 Indians The Fl zht lasted
/ ell day and until after dark. There vera ten
/ killed ard ffty-one woundsd-
/ ADlong tho killed were Captain Dcdd, aud
several others from St. Peter, and Elder Smith,
/ Of Mankoto, Mr. Edwards, editor LeS0eur Jour
nal. Mr Cup, and Maloney.
There was another slight attack on Saturday
morning. Major Flandrau called 2 council or
/ Sunday, when it was determined thes another
attacked Ike that on Saturday could not be sue
| cessfullY resisted aud concluded TO evacuats the
place. About one hundred teams were gathered
I Bp, and the Wsgons were loaded with the women
| and children. and such valuables as they could
carry, and protected by the armed men, they
stsFted iot 3Iaukato..
/ Mr.. Swift says the indians fought with sur
/ passing bravery, and lost large number of war
/ Tiors. Fhe Indians came within pistol shot Of
the houses, and intreDched position Of the whites
/ and exposed their persons IN the most reckless
4 manner The whites were equally determined
They determined to go to Mshkat0 instead Of
/ st. Peter, because it would take too long to
/ cross the ferry with the csvalcade. Hon. A. H.
! Swift, Of St. Peter, remained with the party
/ until it had crossed the Cottonwood, and then
made his way to st. Peter, where he is now con-
fined to his room, being completely exhausted
/ and made sick by the seventies of the siege at
/ New Uim. Thas town, therefore is probably
/ ere this 10 tao hands Of the ssvages and de-
sToyed
It was the belief of Hon. Fl. A. Swift and
! the New Uim garrison shat alter the Indians
were repu!sed she New Ulm, on Saturday and
/ Sunday, they went over and joined ths other
! sayages IN an attack on RdgslsY- What reason
/ they have for this belief we are not informed.
Mr. Swift says that all the wounded In New
Ulm were removed 70 Aankato, and the dead
buried,
Mr. SaH9 Is confident that the garrison got
into Manksto safely, as they were beyond dan
ger when ne left them. Tbs effect of this new
accession to the panie-stricken people OF Man
kato canbe cOalecsuTed.
STATEMENT OF Mr.. JOHN B. FISH.
BIZ John B Fish, of this city, who is well
known here as a reliable gentleman, arrived In
this city yesterday. Hs has fer the last two
months been On q surveying expedition from
/ Medalia west 10 Sioux Fails and has had unusual
/ opportunities for observation Of the Indians
Fsom him we gieaa the following interesting
items:
Mr Fish arrived with his party of twelve
I men at medaiis, sixteen miles south OF New
/ Ulm, on Tuesday, at , NJ, the 18Th iusti he
found the soldiers graally alarmed-5ome pack
ing to leave, and others leaving everything be-
hind and fleeing the country. Mr. Fish sue
cssdsd in gathering eight or ten families togeth-
er and commenced terrifying the place as best
they could. On Wednesday, some seventy men
had collected, ard resolved to defend their lives
and property. They mustered together about
! forty guns, aud sent Immediately TO New Ulm
for ammunition. Up TO the time of his leaving
there had been no attack by the Indians, 81
though they were continually pro9llng around
in small parties.
He says the country bordering on the two cot
tonwcod rivers has been entirely run over by the
Indians; crops destroyed and buildings burned
a settlement at Lake Shetek, sixty miles
southwest OF New Ulm, numbering feTty-hve
families, have all, but two persons, been killed
by the savages.
Another settlement on the Da8 Moines river
was notified of the approach Of the savEges snd
ct once began the work of protection. This
\ settlement numbers forty or fifty families SIX
| of Mr. Fishs men went out from Msdalfa as a
| scouting party. a few miles out they diseov-
cred two Indians coming directly toward them.
/ They concealed themselves until they came
near, when, upon inquiry, they found them to be
| WinnebegOes, who said they were out hunting
ducks. They were asked what their guns were
loaded with, and they said shot. Oae Of the
party said they would take charge of their guns,
/ and upon dischsTglng them found they were
loaded with bullets and slugs. Mr. Fish has no
doubt but small parties of the WinnebagOes are
Ia Ieagus with the Sioux, but thinks the majority
Of them are slLll friendly, although they seemed
cutie upon the point of an outbreak, and thinks
II the Sioux succeed in convincing them OF their
ultimate success in overpowering the whites
they viii at once unite their forces with the
Sionx.
After conversing and mingling with the half
breeds at Peters for two days, and elicitlng all
the facts possible, Mr. f. is satisfied that this Is
aa uprising of the Wild Sioux, IN conjunction
with the annuity Indians, and that 1t is pre-
concerted and determined movement. An old
chief remarked that the white people were fight
ing among themselves, and that none but the
women, children and old men were lett IN the
country, and now was The time for them to rise
and kill all the inhabitants and take possession
of the land.
He says the Belgian guns sent up to st. Peter
have proved entirely worthless Out Of one
hundred Of them tried on Sunday, only abou.
twenty would fire at all, and only two oat OF the
one hundred his board eight feet long and
twelve inches wide, 81 distance Of thirty rods
There wsrs IN ST. Peter, ca Monday, 300
cavalry and infantry intending to leave early N
Tuesday n0rning for Fort Rldgeley
Mr.. Fish states that on Sunday night Antoine
, FreDier and another halEbreed scout went out
from st. Peter toward Ridgeley, and, when about
seven miles out, were tired on by the lndIans,
aud were compelled to return to st. Peter
J. r. Brown had nos heard from bis family on
[ Monday evening.
Mr. Fish says that the number already killed
is estimated at rom six hundred 10 one thou
sand
, AIr CaFruthers, who was delegate to the
t Owalonna Republican convention, learned oa
/ his return tbat his family bad been killed.
x Eir White, who was absent on his return
learned shas his wife and daughter were cap
tured, aud his two young sons killed. One son
escaped
Mr. Earl lost his wife, daughter and one son
All the people around Swan lake fifteen miles
2 west Of 81 Peter, have been murdered.
LETTER FROM oUARTERaIAsTER SMITH.
FoKT ABERcR0mBIE, D. T.,
August 25-2 P n
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