The Nashville Daily Union

The Indian Massacre in Minnesota.

Lieutenant Governor Donnelly, of Minnesota, who was dispatched to make inquiries in regard to the late Indian Massacres in that State, has made a report giving a list of the killed, and various incidents and facts relating to this shocking affair. Of the number killed, the report says:

The time has not yet arrived when an accurate list can be made of the victims of this outbreak. The names of some will probably never be known. Wounded and dying, they crept away into the tall grass of some slough, or among the underbrush of some wood, there to perish. It may, however, be well to form an estimate which will approximate to correctness of the whole number killed. It can be increased or diminished, as additional facts are discovered:

Of Capt. Marsh's command there are supposed to have been killed 24

Of the killed in the settlements in Brown county, the names being already given in the report 110

Of those killed in the Beaver Creek settlement, near Fort Ridgely, as estimated by Maj. Hatch, from the statements of refugees in the Fort 23

Of those killed in and near the Lower Agency, as estimated by the same gentleman, from the statements of refugees 22

At a Norwegian and German settlement, eight miles from Yellow Medicine, Renville county 21

(It was at this place that seven children were found by Frenier shut up in a house, one of them wounded. They are probably by this time added to the list of the dead.)

On the road between the Fort and Redwood, Capt. Marsh's company counted the dead bodies of 11

Killed at New Ulm, in defense of the town or close to it 21

Killed in defense of Fort Ridgely

Killed at a farm house eighteen miles west of St. Peter

Killed at Norwegian Grove, Sibley County.

Killed at West Newton.

Killed close to the Fort, an unknown man.

Richardson, private in Sixth Regiment, near the Fort.

Felix Smith, close to the Fort.

Unknown man west of the Fort

Unknown man a short distance west of the latter

Making a total of these killed in the southwestern part of the State of Minnesota 258

In addition to this, there are, of those killed in the northwestern part of the State, as follows:

At Norway Lake 13

At Lake Johanna, reported to be killed, but not confirmed 25

At Breckenridge

It will be recollected that the foregoing list contains not only those known to be killed, but those who are missing. If it is true, as alleged by Mrs. Caruthers and Mr. Blair, now here, that Little Crow has in his hands, at this time, over two hundred prisoners, a reasonable deduction must be made from the foregoing list. I do not think that when all the facts are ascertained, the number actually killed will much exceed two hundred.