The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-08-29
LETTER FROM ST. CLOUD.
THE NORWAY LAKE MURDERS
MUTILATION OF THE DEAD.

ST. CLOUD, Sunday Evening, 9 o'clock.
To the Editor of the Pioneer and Democrat:
l have just left one of the largest and
most excited assemblages ever convened in
this town, met for the purpose of hearing
the report of the gentlemen sent out yester.
day as scouts in the direction of Green and
Norway Lakes, and up the valley of the
Sank. The party consisted of Ambrose
Freeman, Samuel Holes, and others. The
gentlemen named are two of the most fear.
less men, and thorough woodsmen we have
in the Upper Mississippi country, and are
we'll acquainted with the country. They
went direct to gainesville in this county,
thirty-seven miles distant from st. Cloud.
They found the surviving settlers from
Norway Lake with their families at
gainesville. The Norway Lake settlement
is composed mostly of Norwegians and
Swedes. They had assembled at their
Church on the afternoon of Wednesday,
the Goth inst, and in returning from their
services they were attacked by several
struggling parties of Indians, some of whom
were mounted on ponies, others on foot, and
fourteen persons aoere killed. The names of
those killed are as follows:
Louis Lomberg, aged twenty years.
Andrew Lomberg, aged twenty-five years.
August LOmberg, aged twenty-five years.
A. p. Burback, wife and three children.
Daniel Burback, wife and two children.
John Burback.
The above were killed on Wednesday last.
On Thursday, John Everson was killed.
The fourteen killed on Wednesday were hor-
ribly mutilated. Some had their ears cut
of, some their noses, some hand, some the
fingers. The cheeks and breasts of the no.
men were cut off, and their clothes burned
upon them. The bodies of the THIRTEEN we're
all buried 10 one grave by John Lomberg
and Evan Rensen. A young lady was ia.
ken prisoner, put on pony and started
westward; her cries frightened the pony she
was Oh, and then the Others took fright. In
the stampede of the ponies she was thrown
off, and she made her escape and arrived
safely at gainesville.
An attempt was made on Friday to bury
the body of Everson, but while the party
were engaged, they we've attacked by a
party of eight Indians, but being armed
they returned their fire, and then seeing that
the Indians greatly outnumbered them, they
retired and the body was still unburied yes.
terday. There is now no communication
between Green Lake and Norway Lake,
nor between either of those places and
PainesvilIe.
1t is reported that a settlement of twenty
five persons at Lake johanna is entirely de.
stroyed. A company of armed mounted
men will perfect its organization here to-
morrow and 60 to the scene of the murders.
AZ gainesville the scouts say Samuel LON.
berg, son Of John Lomberg, aged ten
years who was shot 10 the side, but who is
doing we'll, and with proper care will recov.
er. The buryiDg party found hats and caps
OF Others who are missing, but whose bodies
were not found. The greatest distress pre-.
walls throughout all the vicinity of the out
RACES, and the people have sent in for -four
which will be sent them. Forty tour oxen
were driven off, two wagons stolen and up
wards of two thousand dollars in gold taken
from the houses of the killed. 0.