New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-12
THE ATROCITIES AT DELHI.
be following letter is from clergyman:


"BANGALORE, July 1.
began writing you account by the last mail of
this terrible outbreak in the Bengal Presidency, and
have determined to give You a brief outline of what
further has been perperaed, Englishmen ought to
be in possession of facts lest there should be any
squeamshness about the punishment in store for the
brutal and dabocal mutineers.
I'VE have had an awful time of il, can assure
from or alarm danger. No words express the
feeling of horror which pervades society in India
hear many private accounts of the tragedy, which
too sickenirg to repeat.
"The cruelties committed by the wretches exceed
all belief They took 4S females, most of them giils
Of from 10 to II, many decately nurtured ladies'
violated them and kept them for the base purposes Of
the heads OF the instruction for whole week. At
the end Of II at time they made them strip Themselves
and gave them up the lowest Of the people to abuse
in broad daylight in the streets Of Delhi. They then
commenced the work of torturiDg them TO desth, cut
ting of their breas, fingers and noses, and leaving
them to Gle. Ono lady three days dying. They
hayed the face of another lady, and made her walk
naked through the street. Poor Mrs. -, the wife
an officer OF the Regiment at Meerut, was soon
pectug her confinement. They violated her, then
cast it and her into the flames. No European mao
woman or child has had the slightest mercy
shown them. | do not believe that the world ever
witnessed more hellish torments than have been in
hicted on our poor feUow-countywomen. At Ansha
bad they have rivalled the atrocities Of Delhi. l
really cannot tell you the fearful cruelties
these demons have been guilty of-cuttiug off the
hI gers ard toes of little children Joint by Joint in
sight of their parents who reserved for similar
nt atment afterwards l told you how calamity our
Maorss Fusleers-poor is regiment-has be-
baved; one hundred men of them under Colonel
Nell killed six hundred and fifty mutineers. saw
letter from one of the officers yesterday. He saws
that no mas nation can depict the he witness
ed when he arrived al Benares. All the troops were
IN a state OF revolt They saved Ben.res. rhe whole
OF the Bengal officers We're paralyzed with terror aal
astonshr ent; so Colonel Neil assumed command and
proceeded 10 the most summary measures cutting Off
whole regiments All the ladies were crowded into one
room, with wounded and dying men, and from the win.
dow the sight that greeted his eye was row of gal
lowses, on which the energetic colonel was hanging
mutineer after mutneer, as they were brought in
After storing some little order at Benares, on wen.
the gallant Fusleers toward Allahabad; thermometer
above 1902 80, and even 10 mile marches; no SUP.
plies 10 be had; living -four and water. On reach.
ing Anahabsd at night, the whole cantonment was in
a blaze. The regiments had already mutinied, and
slaughtered their officers with unbeard of cruelty.
The Skhs had not actually mutinied they sssistsd
the rebel regiments in pilsging the houses Of the
Europeans. This Sikh regiment piled the fatigned
Fatil.er wI.hlquor, ard the scere Of dirt, drunken