The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-12

In early evening through 1.-The woods
that were alive with blood-thirsty In
dams and summoning troops to the
rescue of twentys beleagured families
who had escaped in canoes to Raspberry
island after the famous battle of July
g. 1912, between the ChippeWas and the
Sioux. a
There was only one other family
down in the Pine creek, district at that
time" said Mr.. Labissoniere and along
the other side Of the river the Sioux
held forth. Big Thunder was their
chief and there were five other villages
stretched along the river.
Our white neighbor had received a
barrel Of whisky two days before the
fight, and a keg of this he presented
to Big Thunder. The remainder 1 help
ed him sink in the creek, and I remem-
Der that 1 then tasted liquor for the
first time in my life. I took perhaps
three teaspoonfuls, and my friend, the
settler, had a hard time to keep me
from killing him when it began to af-
feet me. On the morning of the Sth,
about 10 o'clock, was making hay in
the lowlandS when heard the rafting
Of guns.
Slaughtered in Husbands Arms.
II climbed into tree and could see
every move of the battle, which was so
terrible that I can see it in my minds
eye to this day. The Chippewas had
assembled in the fork of the creek
120 Of them-and had sent eight braves
to fire on the Big Thunder camp across
the river so as to draw the Sioux to
the place they had selected as the
battle ground. After firing a volley
into the cluster of wigwams, the eight
ChinnaWoC 10 do
signs of deadly insult to their enemies,
challenging them to come over and
fight
Twenty chosen bucks manned
canoes and started for the opposite
shore. The attack of the Chippewas
was planned with stratagem, and the
eight warriors who had been sent out
as a decoy retired slowly enough to ex-
asperate their pursueEs, but at the
same time draw them onward. In re-
treating back to the creek the eight
passed the cabin of a settler who was
married to a Sioux woman. She and
another woman and a boy of twelve
Years were working in the field when
the eight Chippewas hove in sight.
Immediately upon discovering that
the Sioux women had diSregarded the
mandate of the Chippewa chief. for all
Sioux women married. to- white men to
of immunity, the Chippewas swoop-
ed down on the helpless trio and pur-
sued them toward the cabin. The wife
of the settler ran screaming into her
husbands arms just as her scalp was
torn from her head. The boy was held
UP by the hair and his throat cut, and
the other woman was scalped. The set
tier tried to drag his dying wife into
the cabin, but Sioux Indian who hap
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Lead Sioux Into Trap.
"This little job only delayed the eight
skirmishers minute or two, and elat-
ed over their capture of, scalps they
proceeded to lead the score of furious
Sioux into the trap which had been
prepared for them. The Sioux fell into
1t nicely, and nineteen of them fell in
a narrow ravine
1T saw the charge Of the Chippewas,
and this reminds me of popularity of
the Indians that is seldom heard of in
connection with the descriptions Of
battles. Killing and scalping, of course,
conduced to the glory of the braves,
according to the number they person
ally conducted, but there was only one
way to win the most coveted kind Of a
quill, and that was by striking the first
knife blow in a free fight. When the
Sioux came in sight, therefore. there
were sixty fleet, yelling Chippewas
bounding toward them in an instant
with uplifted knives. Only one of them
could be first, and he was the man
they all wanted to be-and get quill.
The second man also received quill.
The Sioux were in the mud nearly to
their waists, having been easily en-
trapped on account of the fact that
they were all drunk.
Meantime, however, the Sioux Of
two or three other villages had been
informed of the battle and were
swarming across the river to avenge
the death of their brother warriors.
The battle ragged until 4 o'clock in the
afternoon and ended with the Chip
pewas being pursued out of the coun-
try by the Sioux, who came from every
village within reaching distance. The
Chippewas were chased clear to Still
water.
Some idea of the fierceness Of the