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son Frederick being the victims. The father was killed
near Twin Lakes while on his way to get the mail.
Another band of Indians set out to attack the Eagle
Lake settlement. At sundown they arrived at Foot Lake.
Here a staunch and fearless bachelor, Berger Thorson,(7)
had lived in his cabin for five years to the day. The
Indians surprised him in the doorway of his cabin and
dispatched him with a tomahawk. No shot was fired.
That would have alarmed the settlers across the lake.
At dusk the Indians came around the lake. They found
the Swanson and Foot cabins deserted and pushed on.
These families had heard of the massacre and were
preparing to flee to Green Lake. They arrived at the
Oscar Erickson cabin at Eagle Lake Creek where they
decided to stay over night. Andrew Nelson was bringing
up the cattle and while trying to get them out of Foot’s
corn field was run into by the Indians, who saw the
cattle in the gathering dusk and rode in among them.
Nelson escaped, jumped down the bank into Mud Lake,
and as soon as the Indians had passed, made a bee-line
across the prairie to the Diamond Lake settlement, where
his appearance had much to do with the early departure
of those settlers for Forest City.
On arriving at Erickson’s cabin the Indians pretended
they were a hunting party. Foot refused them
permission to come near the house, explaining that rumors had
arrived that the Indians were on the warpath. The
Indians denied this and camped on the bank of the creek
(7) The correct surname of this victim of the Indians and
first resident of Willmar and his antecedents have not as yet
been ascertained. The name was variously written as Thorson.
Tolerson and Torrison. He went by the nickname “Baggie” in
the settlements. He was intimate only with the Haugens who
were all killed by the Indians.
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