The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-08-29
Seventeen More KILLED.
MURDERS AT GREEN LAKE
The Indian Expedition.
DISPATCHES FROM EX-GOVERNOR
SIBLEY.

| From the Daily Pioeeer of Tuesday.
Dispatches received yesterday from Col.
Sibley, dated st. Peter, 25th instant, state
that he arrived there with three companies
of bis command late on theevening of the 22d.
He had been actively engaged in affording
such aid to the beleaguered villages as his
limited means would afford. Major Fowler
with command of about fifty mounted
men, left for q reconnaissance on the Fort
Ridgley road the previous morning, by his
! order, and returned about two o'clock this
morning, bringing with them the bodies of
an old man, and the women who were killed
within twenty miles of st. Peter. Major
Fowler reports that the destruction of prop.
erty by fire during the day along, and for
miles on both sides of the main roads lead.
ing in that direction, was beyond calcula.
tion, showing that small bodies of the ene-
my, supported by heavy forces on their
TANKS, were engaged in carrying out the
same systematic plan of murder and devas-
tation which has marked the brief progress
of hostilities hitherto. The
mounted force under Major Cullen reached
Henderson late last evening, and the infan-
try under Colonel Crooks are supposed to
have reached the same point at later hour.
New Ulm was attacked by the enemy
yesterday, and the fight continued until late
in the evening, so that thus far be had res
ceived no intelligence from Judge FIandrau,
commanding at that point, but he enter.
tanned great apprehensions lest his entire
force has been cut of, and the town and its
inhabitants destroyed. A reinforcement
of l20, sent by him to his relief yesterday
morning, failed to reach him in season,
owing to the ferry communications having
been destroyed by the enemy, precaution
on his part that deprived Major Flandrau of
the aid of 70 of his most efficient men, who
had been dispatched by him to this side
of the river, on accommodating expeditions
and was prevented from returning to aid in
the defense of New Ulm. Colonel Sibley
was expecting information from that quar-.
ter every hour, and if Major Flandrau was
still holding out, Colonel Sibley would take
instant measures for bis relief.
Jack Frazer, an old Indian scout, escaped
from Fort Ridgley on Wednesday night.
He reports that the garrison was we'll sup.
piled and able to hold out, the only fear
being that the enemy may attempt to fire
the roofs of the stone buildings. All
the other houses and stables outside have
been destroyed by the savages, which they
accomplished at the sacrifice of some four or
FIVE of their number killed and wounded.
Frazer was to leave st. Peter on Sunday
afternoon, with dispatches for Major Gall
braith, giving him assurances of relief at
the earliest moment practicable.
| Col. Sibley asks that the Seventh Regi-
ment, or companies to the number of a
full regiment, be at once sent up, fully
armed and equipped. They will be wanted,
and more, before this rising is subdued ; and
the sooner they take the field the better.
He trusts that not single man will be per-
| mitted to leave the State until the war is so
far ended, as to render only small force me-
cessary. We have probably 1000 or 5000
warriors to meet sooner or later, and as it is
a liie,and death struggle on their part, we
may as well face the facts at once; for the
season during which military operations can
be conducted on the Plains, is very brief,
and should be improved 10 the u,termost.
A later dispatch, dated at half past ten,
Sunday night, says the intelligence from
New Um, up to nine o'clock on Saturday
night, was that the village was mostly
burned by the savages, but the occupied
portion was safe; and the probability is
| that the garrison would be ab to hold out
until the relief sent by Col Sibley would
reach them.
MORE MURDERS NEAR MEEKEs COUNTY.
L. A. Evans, Esq, Mayor of st. Cloud,
writes to the Governor on sunday last, that
committee of most reliable citizens of that
place, who had been appointed to visit the
scene of the recent reported murders, and
ascertain facts, bad just returned. They
went as far as Paynesville, where they
found some 200 persons from the vicinity of
that place and Norway Lake had seen and
conversed with persons there who had made
their escape from the Indians, who had
witnessed the massacre of their friends and
relations.
The names of those murdered are Louis
Lunberg, Andrew Lunberg, August Lun
berg, A B Bur5erg and three children,
Daniel Buuberg, wife and two children, and
John Evenson. They were killed on Wed
nesday, the Goth, at Norway Lake. The
family OF Mr.. Foote and others were muir.
| darpd at Green aLo