Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-07-17
Indian BarbnritfeS.


From the persons who found and buried the
members of the Dutch family, whose murder
we chroniced in Fridays Press, we learn
some particulars of the scene, which shows
the barbarities OF last summer are being re-
enacted. The family were travelling in an
open lumber box wagon, and were attacked
on Monday, the 18th ult 1t was not until the
Wednesday following that they were found,
and the sight of their decomposed and man
gled bodies was truly ast'l-- Amos Dustin,
the f'trhcr, si'tirss, III t part of the
wagon, dead, with an arrow sticking in his
body, and deep wound in his breast, proba-
bly, made by tonahawk or war club. His
left hand had been cut OFT and carried away by
the Indians.
Beneath his seat, crouchcd a little child of
six years, who had concealed herself there
when the attack was made. The life blood of
her father bad streamed down, covering her
face and clothes. and her shoes were literally
filled with the blood that had trickled from
the mangled body. She says that the Indi-
ans saw her, and looked quite sharply at her.
but did not offer violence. 1t lis probable that
she is mistaken about this, she is the only
member of the family uninjuIed, and from the
displays we have had of savage ferOcIty, we
should not infer that they would knowingly
spare victim in their power. In another
part of the wagon, lay the corpse OF Mrs
Dustin, the grandmother of the children. An
arrow was in her body also, and her head was
hanging over the side of the wagon, her long
hair dishevelled and streaming in the air,
filled with the clotted blood that had flowed
from her wounds. The mother and third
child twelve years of age, were IN the wagon,
still alive, but so badly wounded that no hopes
are entertained of their recovery. For two
,J,,,,e th hoA lain sutfa 10
dead bodies OF their friends, unable to pro-
cure sustenance or assistance.
Previous to these late murders and discOv-
cries, adiutant general Malmros had sent out
Gen Munich, who started on the 18th Of May,
to inspect the frontier counties and ascertain
their wants. AS the result of bis tour, the
militia companies were armed and supplied
with ammunition, in the western part OF Far
ibault county, in the whole of Blue Earth,
in the western townships of Nicollet, IN the
whole of Brown, in part of Sbley, in the
whole of Mcleod, in the western company
districts of Carver and Wright, in the whole
of Meeker, in nearly all of Steains, and in the
town of Saux Rapids in Benton county-torm-
ing line of defences from Sank Rapids to the
Iowa line.
An order from adjutant general Malmros
will be found elsewhere in our columns this
for sixty days, unless sooner discharged.
They are designed to scour the Big Woods,
from Sank Centre to the northern line of Sib-
ley county. 1t is proposed to have one cap
tain for every forty or sixty men who will di-
uide their force into squads of not less than
five. Each man is to arm, equip, and subsist
himself, and will receive for compensation
one dollar and fifty cents day. In addition
to this the adjutant general offers reward of
twenty-five dollars for each scalp of male
Sioux delivered at his office.
This order is dated on the 4th inst, and
the bounty was claimed in one instance yes
terday. 1t seems that on the 4th citizen
was out hunting, about twelve miles beyond
Hutchinson, and discovering three Indians,
succeeded III killing one and making his es-
cape, though not without a severe wound
from the gun of redskin. When the news
reached Glencoe, party of soldiers went out
and secured the scalp. Mr.. Bates, sheriff of
Mcleod county, brought the trophy to the city
yesterday, and ascertaining that bounty was
offered, handed over the prize and obtained
the money.
Both the state authorities and Col. Miller
are using all the means at their disposal to
prevent future outrages by the savages, and
if, rs is ost likely, the Indians who have been
guilty of the depredauons are small parties,
detached from Little Crows force, they will
be apt to succeed. 1t is hardly possible that
any large body of Indians should be able to
infest this region without being discovered by
some of the numerous scouts who are con-
stantly securing the country, and certain it is
than no other authority than rumor can be
found for the reports of large bodies of Indi
ans at various points near the settlements.
A bogus coinery was recently discovered ir