New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-06
INDIA.
TIE INDIAN MUTINIES-AN ESCAPE FROM
DELHI


succeeded in efectipg his escape from among the
mu:iIeeis:
Who would have thought when last wrote to
| you al the awful circumstances under which ! was
again to put pen to paper However, ny Inc rrov
from the fearful massacre that has taken place at
Delhi and though be is a complete besgsr yet thank
God be Is still alive and WELL On, my own dearest
sister the eeosps have had has been most miracu
lous-in fact, can hardly realize il, and when one
comes 10 look back upon il, it il scarcely to be be-
believed yet st here arr and no mistake about it;
and, as they cay there isl slight chance OF letter
you There is only other officer OF my unfortunate
regiment out Of those who with it at the time OF
the muiiny who has escaped to this place, and he
| through his thigh-Osborn, our adlutant; but am
Glad TO say there three Others on leave for
months shooting in the jungles a. the time of the out
break, and who have consequently esGapeawaiS~SSnS
| Only been back from Cawnpore five days when this
| awful business took Place. l have been here now
since the 10th of last month"; and have not had single
line from my poor mother. All the dawks you Know
are cot off by the insurgents and though have writ.
Ter TO her several letters vet fear have reached
| Cawnpore was able, however, thank God, TO tele
g,sph to them the Goth, saying had arrived here
safe and we'll and got reply from my father telling
what relief had given them but since then the wire
has been destroy ed and there has been communca
ticn at all with Cawnpore. God grant they may be
| troops there are quiet. ,,,.,
"There were three native corps al DEM, Deside
battery Of six guns, and not single European soidiet
1t was about 10 o'clock on the morning oil the lIth
| that we first heard of mutineers having come
over from Meerut and that regiment was ordered
down to the city, where they were, 10 cut them up
| Of course this time we had not doubt as to their
| loyalty Well, the whole regiment, except my COM
| pany. No. l. and our majors, the Grenadiers who
re,e ordered TO wait for two guns and escort them
down at went off to the city, distant about two
tha Cooh IN uUhi
| Leads INTO a email fortified bastion called the Main
guard, from which there is another egress to the city
| they were me. by some troopers OF the sd cavalry
| from Meerut who Immediately charged down upon
| them. Not the slightest effort was made by our
| men to defend their officers, and they were
nearly all shot down at the head Of their
companies by these troopers In fact, our poor
Sepoys after he had been cut down by trooper; and
then The fact of neither Sepoy nor trooper having
been killed is enough 10 convince one OF their tIeach
ery Well soon after two comp anes, with the
two guns for whom we had had TO wait halt an hour,
also arrived and going through the Cashmere gate
into the Vanguard, and thence into the city where
| all this had taken lace, the Sepoys ana nunneers
al boted being frightened at the sight OF the guLs
and before there was time 10 .pen upon them they
lad oil disappeared into the streets We then went
| back to the Mainguard, determined to hold that
against them till more retnforcemenfs arrived from
csptu pmeuts for which we Immediately sent. In the
mean tine we sent out parties to bring in our poor
| fellows who WORD all seen lying about In front Of
| the Mainguaid. l myself went out and brought IN
poor Buirowes II was a most heartrendibg sight,
| i assure you, TO all our poor chaps whom
We had ana been with that very morning, TALKING
and laughing together at our coheeshop, lying dead
| side by iide and some of them dreadfuy mutlated.
| had lever before seen dead body, 30 you may
| imagine what ar awful sight it was to me. The poor
Colonel was the only not killed outright; but he,
| poor man, was hacked to pieces We sent nun PACK
"a caponmens where he died in the course OF the day.
At last seine companies Of the other regiments came
up and We remained here the whole day expecting to
be attacked every minute Lots OF women and people
who rad managed TO escape from the city came In to
US fer sheer little thinking OF the fcere tnat was
shortly to be enacted among us BY and by three OF
| our officers, who had escaped being killed by the
troopers also came in and from them we learnt what
| have told you above. AL this while We saw fires
blazing in the town and heard guns firing, which we
aiteTwaid found out were the guns OF the magazine
| which few Europeans had been defending against
| the whole host Of the insurgents and which had at
| last blown up.
| well il mus. have been about ) O'Clock il the
afternoon when, all o! sudden the Sepoys VINO were
with Us in the manguard, and on WHOM we had been
CependDg defend us in case OF attack began hrng
| upon Us in every direction; most awfai scene, as
| you may imagine, then ensued-peopie running ~
| fyery possible way to try and escape. as luck
would have it. with few other fellows, ran NJ kind
OF a slope that leads to the officers quarters, ana
theIce arnid storm of bullets, to one OF the en-
brasures OF the bsson. Ii is perfectly miraculous
| how escaped being hit; roend of the poor fellows
we've knocked down all about, and all, too, by their
| men 1t is really awful to think OF it, However, on
arriving at the embrasure all al once the iaea &c
cured 10 NE Of iumpiDg down into the ditch from toe
rampant cne would have thought it madness at any
c.her time and so try and get out by sealing TIE
opposite side but just was In the act doing 50
| | head screams from lot OF unfortunate women
who we're in the officers quarters, implorins tor he'p
inme diately, with few other fellows, who ike me
we've going 10 escape the same way ran back 10 taem
and though tie atte mpt appeared hopeless. We deter-
mined 10 five could not take them with US; some
Of .hem poor creatures, were wounded WIN Duliets
however, we made rope with bandkerchies, ana
some Of us jumping down first into the ditch caugh'
| them a. they cropped to break the fall. Then came
| the difficulty # dragging them up the Opposite pam
| however, BY Coos will We succeeded, alter near!
half hours labor, in getting them up; and why no
Sepoys GENE and shot every one Of us while geIlihs
across all this time is a perfect mystery. The murdei-
ing goI below all this time, and nothing couIu
| bave been easier than for two or three oil 'heh 70
| come to the rampant and shoot down every one 9!
| us. However ss | say, we somehow got over. anu,
| expo citing 10 be pursued every minute, we penn ou
stems 10 house that the banks Oh the riVer'
Th.s We reached in safety. and getting something 70
ca. and drink from the servants Ither master young
MetcsN had fed in the morning., stopped there TILL
| da:k ard then, seeing the whole OF three CANON
meus Cd fire and il were regular battle raging 10
,ha. direction we ran down to the ver side and MADE
the bcs o. our way along its banks in an opposite d.
ecSn 1t you'd Dc too Long, my VERY w xsp
| dered in the iupges, sometimes fed and sometimes
robbed he the vilsgers till at length, weatied and
soc..so.e with sbreds Of clothes on our backs, we
art!yed at Village where they put us IN hut ana
fed US for four days, ard moreover took note from
US into Meerut whence etcort of cavalry was cent
o.t end We were brought safely in here
Eve started from Delhi with five lacies and four
| oficers beside myself but afterwaId in our wander
iDgs ftA in with two sergeants wives anu tSo n'ue
Children. with two more Officers and merchenI, 30
| II souls Oh. great Heaven, TO think OF the pIve.
| ticps We endured and the narrow escapes We had!