Show horrors of ludi indian an warfare carfare Har fare did I 1 a ver ever toll tell you yon of a I 1 little incident that happened during the indian war of said biant morgan of the police force well I 1 was a member of company ath minnesota volunteers unto un ers when we wera vero up in ia a country which hall had been dev deviated asted by the sioux there was a detail from our company sent seat out under command of capt a pt grant of my company to bury the lead dead above birch coulee we found a man who told us that he be with lis his wife two daughters and a little son were in the garden when he be hoard board the crack of guns ilis his wife ond and daughters dropped dead he grabbed the tha boy and started to run down the road lie ile was followed by tb the 0 indians yelling savagely and firing rapidly lie ile could not carry the boy and got get away so he dropped him and ran on the child follo followed followell weil him shouting tapa papal pap abut but was waa soon overtaken by the indians indiana and lie he heard beard him shriek and knew he be had been killed after burying the dead around Redi redwood rood we came back bach by the way of where the man lived and found tile tho bodies of his bis wife and daughters as be had bad said down the road we iva found the body of the little boy thrown into the tha hazel brush the bodies were all mutilated in a horri blo bid manner at the tight fight at birch coulee the man was killed if he told his name I 1 cannot now mow remember that was one oco family entirely wiped out in all the reports of those dark days daya t this his report has haa never naver been pub dished st A paul pioneer press |