The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-03 00:00:00

THE MASSACRE AT CAWNPORE.

The following narrative of the maaaaere at Caws-
pore has been written by NajoorJewarree, of the let
Bengal Native Infantry :
When the malls y broke out at Cawapore be was with
three oceepankee of hie regiment, the liretiiroOy ilb• Fithian,
at Beale. Oa the breaking out of the e at Bands,
?Nom Jasmines saved the life of a Mr. unrest and his
sde (Mr. Duman woo a writer, and larracted this man in
English), by owe:saline them la his hut, and afterward.
= to the
For thßajah that the., were willing to tarn Mos-
is the &Toy fell into ill odour with ha
eemeadee, mad when the mutineers rearehed Into Cawmpore
the Ikon took away from him ell he lad—about 300ns—
and mained Hie with bar more &more la the sew hoses
wall the lenewsees. At the light of Fatadtpore he wee re-
Weal by the Has, went beck to the Goads, Heade*, sad
theme emu over to the Bagash. His meow of the Ifeee's
Inechwees attack on the Dome and the weeps and receptare
et nas of the hosts is se follows .

is",..r'copessd. on the boat in which
Whaler Ikel(b, the °moral, wea ttt has now been folly
soonteded dee servants end others who were with the
inalid party that General Wheeler wee not dead before
the eseseatee, budtaret woooded on board the bone) he
est tee phis and dews the river. !lass little wa
dens de heat get seer the shore. The
, guns awe op end sprig Ike. The large gas tle=not
aid
lams^ ma answitglaw te week the mew, eel
did sot seal. With the mesa gun Qv, tred pep td up
in begs, and the tedatry fired with thole lauded his
went on .11 day. It did not ban the Sahib leg moot=
returned delve with their riAte trera the boat, end
several of the Sapp on the Alma, who therein dew
off toward. nouns. The &pop premed • eery big
boat, Into which they all got, and dropped down the river
upon the Sahib's boats. Then the Bedlam bed again with
t air rides and wounded more Seipp a the boat, sad they
drew off and left them. At sled tarp a gpemeet task of
water in the river, which dated of the beet, sad
they paned on down the river, but owing to the Mena and
the dark night they only proceeded three or bar bola In
the meantime intelligence of the Sahib's deduce bed remelted
the NUM, end he mat off that night three more campemien of
the native regiment (tat Gude Weedy) and surreoaded the
Sahib's last, sad so took then and brought them back to
Cawapore. Then cease est of that boat 60 Setae sad 26
soma-liside sad four children—eft boy and three half-
cow' gals. The NMI them ordered the morn-Sahibto
horn the !shits le be skit by the Gillis PollanloitoiVN"I" bAntrY) ; bat they We will not
healer find, who has made our Paten's name
great, and whose son a our quarantines ; neither will
w• kill the Sahlb-leg. Put them is Tina saki the No-
de Pribq Whatwordlsthisl Put thsa In prison ; we 101 l
kill the &We Sobili-log were ward es the
awl two napalm of the Neat» Rheaptoed them.
eaves ever whit thy, with that arathete reedy to
Ike. Thus all meet the meenSehite—the dector's wife
she wee, I don't know hie lame, but he was either roper-
intending eseigeon or medical storekeeper— A I will not leave
my husband ; li le nest die, I will die with So she
ran and sat down bided her headed, ample hint round
the waist. Ihrectly she and this the other neem-Sehlbs
mid,' We will also die with our husbands •' sad they ell
went and sat clown beside their husband Thee their ban-
ded said, 'Go beak,' hut they would set. Morava
the Nena ordered his soldiers, and they Ow In pulled then
forcibly away, seising them by the arm • blait
could not pull eweilihe doctor's trite, whet then'
Then, just se the ye were going to de, the padre (chap-
lain) called out to Nam, and requested leave to reed
prayers before they died. The Nene granted ft. The pathe's
dads were unloosed so far ea to sande him to take a
small book out of his pale, from which he mad ; but
all this time ass of the Sahib-lop, who wee that In the arm
and the leg, kept crying out to the &pen If you mesa to
kill se, why don't yon set alisi:titzickly, and get the work
done ? Why delay f' Altar the hed reed a few prayers
Ise shat the book, and the log shook lands all round.
flea the &goys /red. Ons Sehib rolled one way, one
another, a they sat ; but were not deed, only wounded ;
so they went in and finished them of with sword After
tha the whole of the women and children (that is, inrledtg
those taken oat of other boats), to the number of 122, were
taken away to the yellow house, which was your ha
This wee the Bithoor Itsjala's dues in the civil
when I and tour 1:140,0 fiepoys were confined, and whin
led the opponent, of talking to the gergeent-smajor's wide.
Alter W., when we (Sapp) were hakes down with the
Nan to Futdhpore, the women and children were takes
away to the dun where they were afterwards murdered.
"Were any of our women diabonoured by thee Necw his
people?' Nose that I know of, excepting in the ems of
General Wheeler's youngestdaughter, and about this I sea
not certain. This wee her circumstance. As they were
taking the seene.Sehiba out of the boat a maw*, (cavalry
man) took her away with him to his house. She went
quietly ; but at night she nee and got hold of the aowar's
sword. He we asleep; hie wife, he an, and his mother-
in-lsw were sleeping in the home with him. She killed
them eli with the sword, and then she went and threw her-
self down the well behind the house. In the morning, when
people came end dud the deed in the hone, the cry woe,
' Who has done two. Then a neighbour said that in the
night he had MID NON one go andn throw Winn( into the
well. They went sad loolu and there wee Mame Baba,
dead and swelled" _ _

A corri;pondent adds I have men the feudal
ilinghter-hoes, and also sew one of the let Native I
men, ecoomling to ceder, wash up pert of the blood=
mains the door before hanging the gratin's of dim
clogged thickly with blood, childrats frocks,
Imbed under-clothing of all binds, also boys' tronsts,Wireseee
of Bibles, sod of one book in particular, which mum to be
strewed over the whole plum celled ' Preporetten fes
Death ' also broken dagnermotype asses only, llot of tbe
and haw, moms nearly • pad long ; bonnets all bloody, sod
one or two shoes. I picked up a bit of piper with cm ft
Ned's heir, with love,' end opined end found • little bit
tied up with ribend. The drat fellows that went in, I be-
lieve, saw the bodies with their arms and legs sticking out
through the ground. They had all been thrown in • hap in
the we 11.%