New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-02-10
FOR FUTURE HISTORIANS.
Article clipped from the Daily Ore
gonian of Portland, Oregon,
under date of Jan. 81, 1915.

1 IlS HldSSdCre VI SeCCleTS ny SIOUX
Indians near New Ulm, Mimi, in August
1852, is recalled wildly by Adolph Gluth,
who is the guest OF his son in Woodlawn
for the winter.
Mr.. Gluth, who came from Germany
to Minnesota with his parents when he
was 3 IL years old, was nearly IL at
the time of the massacre. Of a large
party of settlers, he was one of nine
who were spared. With two other boys,
after having been a prisoner Of the In
dians for more than seven weeks, he
escaped and was picked up by COM
pany of soldiers who were going out to
punish the savages.
Mr.. Gluth's father lived on rented
farm near New Ulm, near which town
Mr.. Gluth is now farmer. The father
had taken claim on the Minnesota
River, miles northwest Of New Ulm.
In all, 18 families had settled in the
neighborhood, which was the most out
lying settlement in Minnesota, and was
VdlleQ SlCklLdT CTeek.
In the spring Of 1852 the elder Gluth
took three of his boys, one OF whom
was Adolph, and went to the homestead.
They broke land and planted potatoes
and buckwheat. Leaving Adolph to
stay with neighbors at night and to
look after IA head of stock and the crop,
the father went back to New Ulm with
the other boys for the harvest.
eff they had been through with the
harvest, the whole family would have
moved up to the homestead that Fall, .
said Mr.. Gluth, 'but the Indians broke
out and the family fled to St. Paul, with
the exception of my Oldest brother,
who was cutting hay for the Govern
ment. The Indians caught him and
cut off his head and left it ON stump.
The first we heard OF the outbreak
came from another young man who
was cutting hay for the Government
and who brought word ito us that the
Indians had killed all the settlers be-
tween New Ulm and our settlement.
He came on foot about 9 o'clock at
night, having left his OK team seven
miles below, where he had found a
woman and her children dead m a cabin.
eve notified all the neighbors and
the 10 families gathered at one of the
larger houses with the idea of defend
ing themselves. But it was found
that there were only "a few old guns and
scarcely any ammunition in the settle
ment.
T. $50 we started cut at 1 O'Clock that
morning for Fort Ridgely, As miles
Eaway and IA miles from New Ulm.
There was only one horse In the settle
ment. The women and children were
put in the wagons and the men walked
beside the OK teams.
cat about in the morning we came
upon two white men, dead in the road.
They had been killed with knives.
Across their bodies lay a big Newfound-
land dog that had been shot.
eve passed another settlement. All
had been killed.
/! eve decided that our chances would
be better if we left the road, taking
to the open prairie and swinging around
ITO the fort.
'''But our oxen and the wagons left
"a heavy trail in the long prairie grass,
land about II o'clock in the morning
we saw Indians coming behind us on
horses.
''They came up, nine in all, and
asked us where we were going. We
told them to Fort Ridgely. They asked
us why. Because the Indians were
killing the white people we told them.
"'No,' they said, Indians don't do
that. Half breeds do it,
@1They talked with us little more
and then told us to turn back or they
would fight us. They had been to our
homes and found us gone.
eve started back. We gave them
bread and a dipper so that they could
get drink from a creek. We kept
on back until about o'clock. The
Indians rode beside us, talking about
us in their own language. Then they
said they we're going to fight us.
"All the money and valuables in the
party were gathered up and given to
them. We begged them not to kill
us. They said they wouldn't, and left
us, going to the timber on the river
and climbing trees to watch us.
I'VE unhitched the oxen to feed, in
tending to wait until after dark and
then start for Fort Ridgely.
''But they didn't give us time. They
came back in about half an hour, two
more Indians having joined them in
the meantime.
eve tried to hitch up the oxen and
get to deserted cabin about half a mile
back on the trail, but they came too