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Great Massacre at Acton, Meeker County, near the Ness
settlement. Five whites were killed by a party of Rice
Lake Indians. Realizing what the consequences of their
rash act would be, these Indians made a rush for the
reservation. In passing thru the Lake Elizabeth
settlement they stole some horses from A. M. Ecklund in order
to make better time. On their arrival at the reservation
a council of warriors was at once convened by Chief
Little Crow and the decision reached that the time to
strike the white man and retake their hunting grounds
had arrived. The next day the agencies were attacked
and a carnival of death reigned in the Minnesota Valley,
where the defenseless settlers were murdered in cold
blood. On the 19th, bands of Indians started north to
overrun the settlements in the Kandiyohi region. What
in this day of the automobile is not much more than an
hour’s ride was a day’s journey in those days. There
were no telephone lines or radios by which to
broadcast the news. Warnings had been sent out from Meeker
County after the massacre at Acton, but many had not
even heard of this and others believed that it was simply
a result of a drunken brawl and did not mean a general
uprising.
For Wednesday, August 20, the zealous preacher,
Rev. Andrew Jackson, had scheduled two meetings in his
Norway Lake parish. The forenoon services were held
for the West Lake settlers at the Lundborg cabin. As
they came to a close a little boy, Peter Broberg, came
breathless saying that the Indians had arrived at the
Broberg cabins about two miles distant and were scaring
the children. Anders P. Broberg rushed at once,
unarmed, to the scene. The four Lundborg sons took their
guns and started in the same direction. As they left
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