The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-23
AS DESCRIBED BY OTHER DAY.
Sioux That Rescued Whites Tells of
the Terrible PreIiminaries,

the Terrible PreIiminaries.
Other Day, the heroic Sioux Indian
who rescued sixty two white men,
women and children from worse than
death, arrived in ST. Paul on Aug. 27.
1862, four days after the second at
tack upon New Ulm. He was accom-
panied from Shakopee by Rev. G. H
Pond, who acted as interpreter for
Gov. Ramsey. The story as told by
Other Day is here related, with some
change in the order in which the facts
were recited:
On Monday, the 18th, about 8
o'clock a. M, word came to the up
per agency at Yellow Medicine that
all the white people at the Lower, or
Redwood agency, had been murdered
by the Mdewakanton Sioux. Then the
Indians, at the call of their chiefs, as
SembIed in council to the number of
1OO- Slssetons and Wahpetons-and
ABOUT thirty young Yanktons, who
were present, but being without a.
chief had no voice in the council. At
II M, while they were debating what
course to take, word came that a
party of soldiers had come to the Red
Wocd agency, and were all killed. This
news still further agitated the coun-
Gil, which was greatly divided in senti-
ment. The SisSetons, urged the kill
ing OF all the whites and the taking
of their goods and property. They said
that the M'dewakantons had alEadv
gone so far that the worst that the
whites could infiict would be sure to
come upon them all-that the whites
would regard them all alike as
enemies, and, since matters could in
no event be worse, the best plan was
to kill them all and take their goods
Wahpetons Not BIoodthirsty.
The Wahpetons agreed with them
hot n- e.
they ought to take the goods of the
whites, but opposed killing them. They
said they had nothing against the
whites, and insisted upon sending
them off with their horses and wagons
across the prairies.
Other Day himself addressed them.
He told them that they might easily
enough kill few whites-5, 10 or 100.
But the consequence would be that
their whole country would be filled
with soldiers of the United States.
and all of them killed or driven away.
Some of you," he said, "say you have
horses and may escape to the plains,
but what will become of those who
have no horses?" They replied to this
that this would happen anyway.
After long debate, towards even
ing the Yanktons, Sissetons and a few
of the Wahpetons, rising from the
council, without coming to any con-
cluSlOn, moved towards the houses OF
the whites for the purpose of killing
them.
Warned the Whites.
In the meantime he (Other Day.
took his wife by the arm, too his gun
and went to the houses of the whites,
informed them of their danger (for
they had previously known nothing of
the counciD and hurried them all to
the agency house, a brick building
about a mile from the place where the
council was held. They assembled here
armed, to the number of over sixty,
resolved to defend themselves and
families to the last extremity Then he
got four of his relatives to assist him
in guarding the building from assault
during Monday night. While there
watching, the other Indians came in
groups of five to ten and formed a
circle around the building He thinks
they intended to kill himself and his
four relatives and then attack the
whites.
Ee and his friends watched there
till about daybreak, when they heard
a gur near the warehouses and about
a mile further down; then another
and another, and then general veil