, 1876-07-23
.ATROCIOUS SIOUX,

skill, he could have dealt the enemy sure ant
terrible blow. E.W.
| ATROCIOUS SIOUX.
THE INTERESTING PETS OF MAwk1su sENr1
MENTAL1sTs-1IELL1su DEEDS IN TIE MINNIE
sofa VALLEY IN 1S62.
| 81. LoHfs Globe. Democrat.
Isaac Y. D. Heard, who was q member Of Col
Sibley's expedition against the Sioux, or Dako
ia Indians, in 1862, has left US somewhat dc
| tailed account of the horrible massacrcs ant
shocking outrages which took place in tht
Minnesota Valley in that and the sue
ceeding year. This war and the massa
ere were inauguratca in August, 1869, b,
four Indians belonging to the upper Afinnesota
tribes Of the Dakota Nation, and were caused
mainly BY the real and fancicd: injustice oi
which the red men were made, or thought them
selves to have been made, the victims, as well
as fty the enormous extortions OF the traders at
the Agencies. The four Indians to whom the
beginning Of the bloodshcd is credited by
Heard, were belonging to Shakopcc's village,
at the mouth of Rice Creek. They were on
their way to Acton when they attacked and
killed two men named Baker and Webster, d
Mr.. Jones and wife, and Miss Wilson.
Having accomplished these murders they has
tened to Shakopcc's village and Informed the
rest o. Lie LTlpc Hnlt LHcV naU Q0ne.
4 GENERAL MASSACRE
Of the whites was Immediately resolved upon,
and messengers were sent to the bands Of
W2bashaW, Waconta, and Red Legs. The
Shakopee band then proceeded to the Agency
under Little Grow, their Chief; the VILLAGE was
entered iii small parties, and the houses and
stores surrounded. The discharge Of cun was to
be the signal for simultaneous attack: Thisgircn,
the hideous painted sayages, with mad shouts
and wild shrieks, began the slaughter and
nesses, availcd nothing. Every building but two
at the Agency was burned. The massacre cS-
tended down the river Qu both sides, below the
tort, to within milesIo New Ulm, and up the
river to Yellow uedicine:. Large numbers per-
ishcd at Beaver sud Sacred Heart Creeks. Par
cepted in their flight and
AERC1LEssLY SLAUGHTERED AND MUT-LATED.
Near New Ulm, q father and his two sons
were stacking wheat, when twelve Indians ap-
preached unseen and killed the three. Then
they entered the farmers house. and killed two
of his young children in the presence of their
mother. who was Ill with consumption, and
dragged the mother and q daughter, aged 13
years, miles away to their camp. There, In the
presence Of her dying mother, they stripped off
the young girls clothes, fastened her upon her
back to the ground, and ono BY one the savage
brutes violotcd her person, until death came to
her relief.
One Indian went into house where a woman
was making bread. Hcr small child was in the
cradle. He split the mothers head open wifi,
his tomaAawk and placed tho babe in the hot
oven until it was almost dead, when be beat its its
brains out against the wall
CHILDREN wEnE NAILED LIVING TO TABLES AND
DOORS,
and,knives and tonahawks thrown at them un-
til they were dead. Cut-Nose, ono Of the Chiefs,
when brought to trial, acknowledged several OF
his atrocities, among which was the following: A
The helpless and dcfcnseless women and Chill
drcn being ludd1cd toeethcr in warons. The
men having been killed, Cut-Nose, while two
other Indians held the horses, leaped into one
Of the % wagons, San and in cold T blood % tomahaySed @ I
them alI-clcft ouen the head Of each. while the
Others. stuneIicd with horror and noTerlcss with
fright as they heard the heavy. dill blows crash
thfoush flesh and bones, awaited their turn.
Taking an infant from its mothers arms, before
her ewes. with bolt from one of the wagons
the Indians is Wv ~ WV |'10
R1yErEp IT THROUGH IT'S wR1Tu1So LITTLE BODY
TO THE FENCE.
and left it there to die in agony. The mother
was kent alive and made to witness this aeoniz-
;nr sncctaclc. after which they chonncd OF hcr i
arms and legs. and left her to bleed to death.
THUS Cut-Nose and his band ruthlcssiv butch |
cred TWENTY-FIVE persons within q quarter of an
acre, and then, kicking the bodies out of the |
wagons, they filled them with plunder from |
The burning houses and p11shcd on for more ad- |
ventures
An old Indian, sllri7elcd almost to mummy, |
when nIaccd m trial. was confrontcd nv t,vo
ttle bows, his accuscrs Looking at him i mo-
ncnt one OF them said, uI saw that Indian
shoot a man while he was on his knees At Dray-
,r:" and the other boy said, II saw Lim sl.ot
nv mother.'' y
The womb of a pregnant mother was rippc1
,pen, the palpitatiug iufant torn forth, cut jntE
its, aud
THROWN INTO THE FACE OF THE DYING WOMAN.
The hands, feet, and heads Of the victims
we're in many cases, cut off, their hearts ripped
nut, and other disgusting 1rutilalions inflicted,
Whole families we're burned alive in their
ZONES.
The o11tragcs for tue first few days were con-
ined to the vicinity of New ul1n and Fort
}idCely, but soon the depredations extended
tile whole Western frontier Of Min
esota, aud into Iowa and Dakota,
)rcr 700 persons perishcd in about
,eck. and more than 200 were made
antiycs, and in .eycry case the women were
rutally treated, One lady captive was eucein,e,
nd suffering from, severe wound. The dread II
ltcr11ative, however, was given her Of submit
lur to their fiendish embraces, or seeing her
NV surviving child murdered. This brutality
reduced premature labor, but even this did not
Liell her. Another submitted to the same
cartlcss ndignitics to save an infant child; it
vailed nothinr however. as the infant was |
rested from her arms and
IT'S YnA1ys DASHED OUT
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