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in reaching Green Lake, but found the Arnold
blockhouse an ash heap instead of a haven. They were picked
up by some scouts and brought to Forest City.
In the meantime the two helpless men lay in the
cabin thru two long and hot August days. They were
finally rescued by Mrs. Endreson, who came from her
devastated home with her babe and wounded son with
her team of steers hitched to a sled. She hitched the
steers to Swanson’s wagon, which stood inside the
enclosure near the cabin, made a bed of hay in the wagon
box, helped the wounded men into it, after having
washed their wounds and changed their clothing. Then
she started off leading the steers and after a tedious trip
arrived safely at Forest City.
Here she received the joyful news that her daughters
had escaped from the Indians and had been picked up
by a scouting party at Kandiyohi lakes.
After arriving at Forest City with the Diamond Lake
settlers, Andrew Nelson joined Captain Whitcomb’s party,
which was organized to go out and bury the dead and
search for the Swansons. The latter, however, had made
their way to Paynesville.
On Thursday morning the Nest Lake settlers made
an early start from the Adams place, followed by the
Adams, Thomas, Silas Foot and Burdick families,
William Kouts, and the elder Solomon Foot children.
After traveling three miles they were joined by the Eagle
Lake settlers. When they were a little distance north of
the present village of Atwater a band of Indians rode out
from Wheeler’s woods to attack them. The wagons were
hastily drawn into a circle on the top of a hill for
protection. The long range rifles of Silas Foot and William
Kouts held the Indians at bay. The defenders were
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