The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-09-05
of timber or brush at the lower end of the
town. Their arms were fnnnd To he excel

vi tiinoei vi i"en az the lower end OF the
town. Their arms were found to be excel
lent, and their aim terribly accurate.
Five o'clock was the turning point in the
struggle. At this time it seemed as if the
Indians would capture the town. The rev
markable gallantry of Capt Flandrau alone
prevented this result, and prevented mas.
sacre which for magnitude would have been
without parallel in the history of Indian
warfare.
He rallied his men, and charging at their
head, drove the Indians out of the brush at
the lower end OF the town, the point whence
they had inflicted the greatest injury upon
the garrison.
All night the burning of the houses con.
tinued. The firing of the guns continued
until ten o'clnck At that time the Indians
fell back, formed into three great parties,
and had war dances, shouting and singing
all through the night.
During the hours of darkness the besieged
force was not idle.
A portion of the tOwn-ab0ut One.half
was selected the streets around it bar
ricaded, and all the rest of the town fired.
The advantages of this step are manifest.
By it the defending force was concentrated
into more limited space the barricading
of the streets prevented the Indians charging
through them; while the destruction of the
town left an open space around the be-
sieged, across which no Indian dare venture.
During the fight ten men were killed and
about fifty wounded. The loss on the part
of the Indians could not have been less than
forty. They were seen to haul off four
wagon loads of dead.
The following are the names of those from
New Ulm and other localities, killed and
wounded in defending the town, or killed in
scouting parties sent out from it:
KILLED.
Jacob Caster, John Schneider,
Leopold Senske, E.. DIETRICH,
Mr.. Repke. julius Fenske,
Mr.. Kirchestein, - Reiman,
William England, Miss PAUL.,
- Baeulme "a boy).
WOUNDED.
D. G. Shillock, in leg, Chas. Wagner, mortally,
Peter Bescheit, in back-not mortal.
FROM ST. PETER-KILLED.
Capt. William B. Dodd, Newell Houghton,
jeremiah Duane.
FROM NICOLLET TOWNsHIP-KILLED.
- Foster, private in Sd regiment.
SHARON, LIE sUEUR Co-K1LLED.
o. NJ. Edwards, Editor of paper.
WOUNDED.
IS. Burgess, in arm.
ADDITIONAL KILLED.
VIM. Lukin.
Matthew Warren.
WOUNDED.
Capt. Saunders.
Luke Smith.
THE ATTACK ON NEW ULM.
Sunday morn'Ig, the attack was renew
ed, but not with such energy and boldness
as on the previous day.
The attack lasted but an hour; the Indi.
ans keeping at long range; they discovered
the strength of the new position taken by
the whites and withdrew.
At noon, $50 men under Capt. Cox, ar.
rived from St. Peter, sent to the relief of
the town by Col. Sibley.
THE EVACUATION OF NEW ULM.
A consultation was then had: Brown
county was desoIated; one-halfo of New Ulm
destroyed; there was nothing left to induce
the people to remain.
1t was determined to abandon the town
and move to Mankato, thirty miles dis
tant.
On Monday, this movement was success
fully accomplished, undisturbed by the In.
dians, although watched by their scouting
parties from distance.
Never, perhaps, was more melancholy
cortege seen in the world than that which
stretched along the road from New UIm to
MankatO. r
There we're mothers there who wept
children slaughtered before their Yes !;
strong men who in moment had been
stripped of worldly wealth, of home, of
vile and family; little children who had es.
capped into grass and bushes with the death
shrieks of parents, and brothers and sis~
ters, ringing in their ears. All bowed down
by an overwhelming grief and by an anx-
iety which no words can describe, but
which in two cases had produced actual
insanity.
In that melancholy train, jolting along
on hard farm wagons, we're eighty wounded
persons, among them innocent little chill
dren, hacked in most barbarous and cruel
manner.
THE NUMBER KILLED.
The time has not yet arrived when an
accurate list can be made of the victims of
this outbreak. The names of some will
probably never be known. Wounded and
dying they crept away into the tall grass of
some slough, or among the underbrush of
some wood, there to perish. 1t may, how.
ever, be we'll to form an estimate which will
approximate to carrectness of the whole
number killed. 1t can be increased or dis
minished, as additional facts are discovered.
l. Of Captain Marsh's command there are
supposed to have been killed. .....:.... "a
2. OF those killed in the settlements in
Brown county. the names being already
given in this report. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ITO
8. OF those killed in the Beaver Creek set
tlement, near Fort Ridgley, as estimated
by Major Hatch from the statements of
refugees in the Fort. rt.................... Is