St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1862-09-18
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Ne gave some weeks ago, an account
ct the escape of q company. Of settlers
! from Green Lake, and have since convers-
edwin r~-Burdick, Post-~,las.er--at
Green Lake whp was Of the. company,-
He Was informed Of the. Acton murders
Of Sabbath on Tuesday right, following,
Atssr So el.'ek aud s,st.psstd~ie w.e-a1wasis-
BY row. but went and informed some .ot
his ne.r neiehoors who all agreed to wait
u".il the mail carrier should 70 to Forest
City next morning and return with news.
aWhenshe had pruc ,eded about half way to
that place he had news Of the outbreak on
the Minnesota and returned 10 warn the
fsetalers. About twenty families collected
at, Mr.. Adams house all Swedes bu, four
aud passed Wednesday night: Il Next
morning, without waiting fer Mr.: Adams
to pack up the bedding and utensils used
for their accommodation, the Swedes, un.
der the guidance Of their preacher, An
drew jackson, started on and left the four
Americans Joseph Thomas, j. H. Adams,
Silas .Foote and j. w. Burdick with their
families, and the three elder children Of
Solomon Foote and VIM. Kouts bachelor
who started soon after and twice waited
tor trains they saw, coming behind which
both proved to be other Swedes. The
! Americans were in advance and soon after
tstopping for noon rest saw troop of In,
dams coming after them. The Swedish
drivers whipped up their teams and all
fastened forward to join the advance par.
~ except two men Andres Lorrenson and
Sven auckland who were driving cattle
behind Tn. Others left the cattle and
ran, but when Lorrenson's son ran ano
called his father to run, he said no he
must drive the cattle. The Americans
had started to 20 back to defend the par
ty, but seeing that those men would re.
main with the cattle and that to 90 to
| them was to leave the Indians chance t,
come around and attack the women and
children, they concluded to remain at
their post. AS the Indians came up they
fired On Buckland who fell dead. then on
Lorrenson was wounded and fell to a sit
ting posture supporting himself on his el-
bow, when one savage sprang from his
seat on pony behind another rider and
I came tIrward dancing and ges,iculatiuy
in the most fantastic manner until lie came
up to his victim when he leaped into the
AR with yell, and as he came down bur
led his tomahawk in his head, After
wards, they cut the heads off both corpses
set them up in the road and placed their
hats on. They took the skin off entire
from the face and front part of Mr.. Lar
rcnson's head with both the ears. They
cut of MIR. Buckla right hand, set his
snuff box by his face, placed the finger
and thumb in the box with pinch of
snuff between them and propped the hand
50 as to keep it in that position. and so lett
them as moments of their pleasant frolic.
They shot number Of the cattle and left
them lying takisg only a few pounds Of
steak from one OK. In the meantime the
party started their oxen into full RUN to
gain = knoll and the Indians, seeing their
purpose put their ponies into full run and
succeeded in heading them off from the
highest ground but they gained a low
knoll aud took STATEN near the top where
one side was protected by the rise the
Indians firing upon them as they ran.-
When they had gained the best ground
they could. they formed their wagons into
a compact circle, piliny bags of -four and
boxes underneath and going to work to
dig q trench inside, throwing up breast.
work Of earth. There we're fifteen Swede
men ana none OF them could even be IN
duced to dig except rs for = post hole,
ard the whole party spent the time in
praying and crying while the three Amer
lean women Of the party dug up tue
ground with axes and threw it up will,
milk pans, the men, especially Mr.. Kouts
Who had = long range rife, keeping the
enemy at bsv. As darkness came on
they dispatched first one and then . sec.
ond to Forest City for aid and watched
ali night. Their ASSISTANTS were but sew
en- in number bu: on adjoining bluffs Iu-
dams overlooked their position, and by
signs made known their every movement.
One horse wss sent for help and in the