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they were cautioned by their good pastor not to provoke
the Indians. The elder Lundborg and Mr. Oman also
started for the Broberg cabins on foot. Daniel Broberg
hitched up the yoke of oxen and with the women and
children in the wagon started home by the usual wagon
road. The preacher, little dreaming how serious the
situation was, rode on to his next place of meeting at
the Thomas Osmundson place on the shores of Norway
Lake.
Anders Broberg was greeted with the usual friendly
salutations by the Indians when he arrived at his cabin,
and so were the Lundborg boys. There was nothing to
indicate hostility. The Indians appeared to be a hunting
party such as the settlers had been accustomed to see.
But suddenly the savages at some prearranged signal
opened fire. Anders Broberg was shot as he sat at his
table in the cabin. The Lundborg boys had no chance
to use their guns. All four were shot. Samuel, the
youngest, was not killed, but feigned death and later
escaped. His three brothers were killed. The women
and children in the approaching wagon were soon
brutally dispatched with tomahawks after the driver had
been shot. But one small boy Peter, of the A. P. Broberg
family and a girl, Anna Stina, of the D. P. Broberg family,
made their escape.(3) Thirteen victims lay cold in death
and the other members of the settlement were in
desperate flight to safety. We cannot here relate the many
stirring incidents of the flight of the survivors.
The second service of the day at Thomas Osmundson’s
(3) Peter Broberg still lives at New London, where for many
years he was engaged in mercantile and banking business. Anna
Stina Broberg married John Peterson, one of the early Nest Lake
settlers. They later made their home at St. Hilaire, Minn., where
“Grandma Peterson”, now widowed, still lives.
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