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126 homes. Except the killing of Judge Amidon and his son there were no fatalities among the settlers of Dakota, but the fear of destruction was well founded and the panic and flight justified. During the outbreak in Minnesota, a small settlement of about fifty persons on Shetak Lake, in what is now Murray County, was attacked and destroyed by a band of Indians under a chief named White Lodge, who took captive two women, Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Duly, and seven children. These captives were carried through South and North

Dakota to the Missouri River, where they were discovered the following November by Major Charles E. Galpin, who was coming down the river with a small party of miners in a Mackinaw boat. When at the mouth of Beaver Creek in southern North Dakota, Galpin saw an Indian camp on the shore, and the warriors were making friendly motions to him to land. He drew up to the band, when