The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-12-06

miles 70 the northeast Of Mr.. Earle's ana
crossed the Birch Coulie about a mile
north Of where the battle was fought. To
the unbroken prairie. There were nearly
four f. I.. men, Mr. Earle, Mr.. Henderson, David
boys or young men nearly grown; the re-
mainder being women and children. Mr..
Earle had wife and six children, two Of
and nineteen Mr. Earle had spring
q Rqgg and into this placed
Earle and another wagon to which three
yoke OF oxen We're attached we began our
Journey. Few Of us had been able to secure
any Of our personal effects, and my chill 4
dren had nothing except our clothing.
MI; Eearle's when the four Indians have
stopped and Nj. Henderson ana David Car Car
fon4ers Went out to them to learn their in
bluntly told, ''You and all the whites are
to be killed. a parley took place, and the
ST. n possible were made
We knew many Of the Indians personally
and familiarity, and we urged our former
drgendy and pleasant relations with them
strongly that at last the savages seemed
a iiTee and o they agreed to spare our
pleaded for the spring wagon ana team in
which Mrs. Henderson and her children
then they shook hands with fo ali Of u.s. and
seemed greatly pleased that we were all to
live. Indeed some Of them said they bore
us no sort of personal ill-wiil, that we had
always hot
liked US, but that Little Grow and the other
chiefs en- e had given positive orders to kill all
obey. These Indians were all, or nearly all,
Of Little Crows band; perhaps some OF
Shakopee's band We're present.
The Massacre and Capture.
Again we set out but after going about
ten rods some Indians came back and de-
manded the team and wagon or buggy con-
yeying Mrs Henderson and her children.
we all protested. but without; avail, and it
be given up and the wagon retained Again
rehee b Snd hana edg daw Ebgn the gnt
sat by Mrs. Henderson and held an UNI
brella over the poor aldy to shield her from
the sun We had gone about twenty rods,
| ana was some distance ahead of the
| wagon, when heard the Indians singing
a war song: AS looked around heard
he report of three guns and soon general
dead by the wagon at the first volley Mrs
Elizabeth CarrOthers jumped out, but two
pals passed through her dress before she
distance to the rear of us, and Mrs. Hender-
son took off pillow case and requested
her husband and David Carrothers to hold
1t up as flag Of truce, hoping it would
stop the firing. The symbol of surrender
| was not respected. 1t was fairly riddled
R9astg and the fingers Sf hand Of
| shot off, and then the flag fell The two
men then ran toward the rest of us, Mr..
his gun; if Mr.. Henderson had a Weapon,
his hand was too badly shattered to use
It: The poor man was killed in the battle
OF Birch Coolie with his arm in sling,
and because he was endeayoring to escape
at the time the monument commission left
off his name in the inscription. He was
most excellent man. and no stigma justly
| tests on his memory. az =.
Meantime those Of us who were ahead
OF the wagon were endeayoring to escape,
sons and Eugene White We're in the lnG lead adj
Taking my children 1 ran into the mud and
water water OF slough or marsh near by: An
but whose Indian name I have forgotten,
was the first to come near me. He com
manded me to come to him. I asked him
that [ knew him and his wife very well
| and had always treated them and all OF
them h kindly and now must and chill
if would come to him our lives should be
spared, and that he would have me fol
his wife o or "squaW and protect US There
to obey him. I came to him and he tool
me to where the other women and children
There We're here Mrs Earle and her
White and her daughter, Julia, and an in:
FAINT son; Mrs. Elizabeth Carrothers and
The most of the Indians came up to us ant
shook hands and said we were all now goins
to live with them. We now sat down OF
| the qrairie and were guarded by two India1
warriors while the remainder continued il
I pursuit of the fugitives in front.
| Taken to Crows village.
In this pursuit Mr.. Earle's son, Radnor. 8
son Of Mr.. Witty, and the two children Of
David Carrothers, little boys, were killed
The Indians came up W. thin gunshot of MI
Carrothers, and he put down the child h
was carrying to fire at them AS he was in
throaeh the head The men eiv We're sa eha ss
some miles, but all finally escaped. Durin:
the chas,: all the men fought the indians al
the best they. could Radnor Earle, onl,
fifteen, dropped in the grass and fred at thu
sayages when they were close. upon him
seemingly determined to sell his life as
dearly as possible, but the. gun was onl,
loaded with pebbles, and perhaps did no .X
ecution, and he was shot by two Of the FORE
most Indians. IN -
When the Indians returned from the p,ir
suit they took us back to the wagons. The,
would not allow us to return by where poo
Mrs. Henderson lay, but saw a fire a
the place she had been last seen, and after
the bed set on fire and thrown upon he
:. and her body partially consumed. The In
dams killed ner two children, one two year
and the other six months Of age by beatin,
their brains out with violin box belonging
to the Earle boys. We We're driven to MI
Earle's house and stood by the Goor Will
| the Indians plundered ard devastated 1t
They took such things as they wanted an,
destroyed the rest, breaking up the furnit
ure, throwing the dishes through the win
: dows, etc. ''John" brought us some waite
from the spring, and then we were ali pu
into the wagons and driven OF towar
Crows village
On the way we passed my house, MI
Hunters, Thomas Robertson's Patrick Hay
. den's, Benedict Eune's and Mr.. Eisenrich' s
all Of which were deserted and plundered
, 'tJohn'' told me he had cut off Mrs. Hay
den's head, and that Mrs. Eisenrich and he
children were at their house, but this wa
untrue, for Mrs. Hayden, a young woman o
twenty, escaped with. her baby to For
{ Rtdgely, and Mrs. Eisenrieh and her chi
. dren were then prisoners in Little Crow
camp. We crossed the Minnesota to tn
: south side, mile or more above the Lowe
Agency ferry. I was made to drive wac
: on up the steep blum. At the river we wer
given o lunch from a box Of provision
! which had been packed by Mrs Earle
!. When we reached the road on the crest q
, the bluff the wagon was loaded from a pli
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