Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-04-07

. pairing damages by night, and with
standing their violent and oft repeat
cd attacks by day. But the garrison
. was growing weak their provisions
were all gone, their ammunition near
ly expended, and they themselves al
most ready to faint from exhaustion
They had been unable to send mes
senger for help, and they would have
been compelled to yield to their horri,
bic fate, had the Indians continued the
siege another day. But on Friday af-
ternoon, the savages made despe'
rate charge and attempted to climb
up the stables, which we're Immediately
set on fire by shell from one of the
howitzers, and the murderous wretch.
cs driven back with much loss. They
then withdrew for another nights de-
bauch, and the next morning, August
23d, unaware of the desperate condI-
ton of the garrison, and tired OF be-
sieging it, and possibly also, aware
that troops were coming to its relief,
the main body started for New Ulm,
the county seat of Brown county, a
thriving German village. Here the
work of massacre was renewed, though
q portion of the inhabitants, who pos
sessed fire arms, collected themselves
IN some brick houses in tho centre of
the village, to defend themselves and
the helpless ones depended upon them
The battle ragged fiercely all day, the
Indians having burned all the houses
to which they could get access, and
tortured and butchered their inmates.
They had not been able, however, to
capture the gallant defenders of the
brick buildings, though they were
pressing them hard, and must have
overpowercd them soon, had not
Judge Flandrau providentially arriv-
ed, toward evening, with reinforce
ments. Charging upon the savages
with his company of horsemcn, he
routed them, after short but severe
engagement, and drove them out of
the village. The savages went to
Norwegian Grove, village not far
distant, and re-enacted the same
scenes of blood and carnage there.
All the inhabitants of this pretty vii
lage were massacred, mangled and
mutilated, and their dwellings and
barns burned. The inhabitants OF
New Ulm abandoned their village the
next day, and retrcated to st. Pc
tiers. Only part of the Indians who
were in the insurrection had been en-.
gagged in the siege Of Fort Ridgely
The remainder had formed small war
parties, and scattered over the whole
region Of Western and Southwestern
Minnesota, attacking the small settle
ments and insulated farm houses, muir
dering, torturing and mutilating theil
: victims, and burning and destroying
everything in their way. From Breck
cnridge on the Red river of the north
to the Blue Earth and Dcs Moincs riv
ers, and eastward to Henderson on the
st. Peters river, and throughout the
greater part of the territory, thus
bounded, they prowled. and murder
rape and arson marked their footsteps
over the whole region. In fifteen days
from their outbreak, more than thou
sand Of the inhabitants of Minnesota
men, women and children, were indis
criminately murdered, or slowly tor
tured to death many of them having
suffered brutalitics worse than death
before an end was put to their snf
ferings. The people of the State hac
been taken by surprise but the,
were not long in recovering thei
D self-posscssion, nor in rallying to pu
| down the insurrection.