Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-09-11
Horrible Atrocities i'm India.

Horrible Atrocities in India.
The English papers give numerous ac-
counts OF the atrocities perpetrated ION
Europeans in India. A letter from Ban
galore says:
We have had an awful time of it, 1 can
assure you, though we ourselves have
been mercifully kept from alarm and dam
ger. No words can express the feeling
Of horror which peryades society in In.
dia, we hear SO many private accounts of
the tragedy, which are too sickening to
repeat.
The oruelties committed by the wretch
es exceed all belief. They took forty>
eight females, most of them girls from
ten to fourteen, many delicately injured
ladies-yiolated them. and kept them for
the base purposes OF the beads of the in
surrection for whole week. At the end
ofthat time they made them strip them
selves, and gave them up to the lowest
of the people. to abuse in broad daylight
in the streets of Delhi. They then COM
menced the work of torturing them to
death. cutting off their breasts, fingers
and noses. and leaving them to die. One
lady was three days dying. They hayed
the face Of another lady and made her
walk through the street. Poor Mrs. -,
the wife of an officer of the-regiment. at
Meerut, was soon expecting her con6ne>
ment. They violated her, then ripped
her up. and. taking the unborn child,
cast it and her into the flames. No Eu-
ropean man, woman or child has had The
slightest mercy shown them. do not
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more hellish torments than have been in
1icted on our poor fellow country
AT Allahabad they have rivaled the afro
cities of Delhi. l really cannot tell you
the fearful cruelties these demons have
been guilty of-cutting off the fingers
and toes Of little children. joint by joint.
in sight of their parents. who were resery-
ed for similar treatment afterwards.
Another letter. speaking of the out.
break at Allahabad, says:
The officers were at mess when the
wretches sounded the alarm bugle tc
bring them to the parade, and shot then
down right and left! Wretched murder
ers, may they receive their reward! Nine
poor little ensigns doing duty with the
regiment were bayoneted to death in The
mess-room, and three of the officers wht
escaped heard their cries as they passed
Poor boys. who had never given offenst
to any native, nor caused dissatisfaction
to the Sepoys. Five officers were sho
belonging to the regiment. besides th,
nine poor boys. Birch and Innes. with
the sergeant-major, in oil II military
men, many merchants and others were
most cruelty butchered-in all SO Euro
peans fell that nigh. by the hands of th,
numbering Sepoys. The treasury wa
plundered. the prisoners released from
Jail, and the work Of destruction com
menced. The whole station was destroy
ed, house after house plundered ant
| fired.
Every day we have had expeditions t,
burn and destroy disaffected villages. ane
we have taken our revenge.
l have been appointed chief Ct com
mission for the trial of all natives charg
ed with offenses against government ant
persons; day by day we have strung u
eight and ten men. We have the powe
of life and death in our hands, and as
sure you we spare not. A very summa
~ trial is all that takes place; the con
demned culprit is placed under a tire,
with rope round his neck on the top O
carriage, and when it is pulled ava,
off he swings.