St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1863-04-30

from Lieut.. Col. Marshall and Capt. Hall
They will be found to contain important
and interesting news: ..s> oa ii ar@@t
rn. ~ CAPT. HALLS REPORT. tr~ .t,fE
wAroxvAs, April 2lst, 1868.
Col. Stephen Hitler:
DEAR SIR More Of the works of the
red demons have been discovered. To-day
Lieut.. Wright and squad of men went
out scouting and found the remains of a
Norwegian by the name of Palmer, who
had left the settlement, with one other
man, for the purpose Of trapping. He
found him three or four miles north of
here near Mary Lake. His head was cut
off, clean from his body and carried about
one half mile to the Indian camping
ground, where they found the fresh scalps
of two other persons. - ,.. ~. .: Eiar.
| H One of the scalps was black, soft hair,
which was supposed to be that of girl ten
or twelve years DID, The other was that
Of, a man with sandy hair, which shows
that this settlement was not the first visit
ed by the Indians. The scalps were fresh.
The scouts found the trail of other men
that Loft here, and had not time to follow
it up to find the body, but I will have it
found tomorrow and buried. +. ..a.a,r
30 The: Indians camped the night before
they attacked this settlement, about three
miles north of this place without any fire.
From the appearance Of the place they
camped early and had been at work cut
ting up buAlalo robes aud making some
kind of wearing apparel. They left large
pieces on the ground. .2.
From a full examination of the trail it is
fully believed that there must have been
forty or G{ty Of tho party of Indians.
We viii to. morrow have the stockade so
near finished that L think we can hold the
place against Eve times our number,
should they make their appearance Had
The wounded arc getting along remark.
ably we'll so far, but there are fears for one
Of the women and the man Of my company
who shot himself by accident. :....... ...
1,-... .' Yours truly, T. G. HALL.
..~.o. .~.,,. Capt. Co. e, 7th Eegt. Minn, Vols.
LIEUT.. Coz. MARsHALL's REPORT
7l}.:a NEw ULM, WEDNESDAY, II A. ~,
g.,gs:-.s ..sa ~so'El5'2 E". April %, 1868. J
Col. Stephen Miller, Commanding 7th Regimen.
Ninn Vols, Mankdto: --9'2 "FA< 2hH"2a
"1 COLONEL. II have Just arrived hero,
and send messenger from Lieut.. Cox's
Company to apprise you Of the result Of
our expedition. a52fs raI5,sra ar6H
Is As ladvised you, We left the station on
South Branch Of Watonwan Sunday morn.
ing. Striking the trail of the Indians We
followed it westnorthwest in the direction
Of Lake Shetek two days. They made NO
halt except to camp at night, and neve.
deviated Fl om a straight course towards
Big Stone Lake, the direction from which
they came. We thought they would have
turned aside at Lake Shetek, where there
was hay to recruit their horses, but they
kept right on, passing north Of the Lake
| They had two horses and two colts
We could distinguish the tracks Of only
six efootmen. There may have teen two
or three mounted. This number CORES.
lponds very nearly with the number on
the war path, Of which information was
given by the Sioux lately captured.
/ - 0u pOzzlo0 20 account 1Or Inc O6Qeft
Of the party that made the attack on the
Watonwan, it indeed there were others
! Lieut. Hardy and every one I converscd
with-soldiers and others-agree, tha,
$ there. were net less than forty, that they
saw twenty-five or thirty 1t one time, &c
7 We ecould notreadily trace moccasin tracks
1t may be that a part Of the attacking
party took south, or south western direc
q ton on foot, towards the Des MONIES. Il
%, swe thought they would meet the othe,
lparty that We tracked, somewhere in thu
direction Of Lake Shetek. But We coult
a see no signs Of them, nor anything in tht
. movements of the party we followed, t
indicate that they we're to meet Others.
.. ag We were in no condition to pursue far
|ther, Il, indeed, there was any object il
pursuing, when they had three days th'
start, and kept the same interval betwec,
> them and us as long! as We were on thei
trail. Our only hope Of catching then
was the possibility Of their haifiag 9
reaching a rendezvous where they nigh
;fmake further raids on, the settlements =
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