Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-08-14

unbroken arc of circle, as viewed from my
root, of more than 20 degrees, extending from
a little north of Bah Shnrky to the extreme
north point of the Christian quarter. To-
wards morning the arc became shorter, partly
because it had been steadily approaching me,
and the Christian quarter as 1t comes TINS way
grows narrower, and partly, perhaps, because
the line of fire was not sweeping all the houses
on the north border of the quarter Towards
morning the flames also became lower or less
violent, on most parts of the line, and fewer
houses were in flames at once. Still the fire
is raging fearfuly. There has been an in
creasing tumut of cries, of the fire, of break
ing open houses, &c, all mingled up together.
have no means of guessing the amount of
murder committed. Last night comparatively
few appear TO have been killed. but there is
said to have been more butchery this morning
| cannot go out of my door without being in
the midst of these hellish ruffians, thirsting
and crying for blood and plumber. If one of
the native Christians i'll my house were to go
out, | believe he could not reach the corner of
the street alive. So my means of informa-
ton, beyond what l see and hear of the flames
and tumult and plumber, are very limited.
We overhear good deal of their talk in the
street, and some of the talk of our Moslem
neighbors on the roofs.
/ believe it would not have needed great
vent all this, but not the slightest effort has
been made. There were soldiers in the Chris
tan quarter and neghborhood, others were
sent in the evening with four guns, and more
this morning, but they have not at all interior
ed with the ruffians. Yet a majority of the
miscreants are actually women, boys, and
| girls. would affirm that there are not in all
! more than few hundred men-say, five hun
| dred-mostly the lowest of the low, and mis-
l Il l.,r
| A very large number have only sticks,
and the rest have swords, pistols, dag
| gers, or axes. Opposite my door is sort
Of stopping place for them, and we can over
| hear their talk, and | can affirm that from the
first, and all through, they have had the great
est dread of the interference of the soldiers,
| and constantly ask one another as they meet
| whether the soldiers in such and such direc
tions are stopping the murderers or opposing
them, and this although, during seventeen
hours the soldiers have been passive. | be-
lieve firmly that one hundred, or at most two
hundred soldiers, or armed and resolute men,
not soldiers, could have put down the insur-
rection at the worst moment. Of course it
would have been easier to have done SO within
the first hour or two. This meager account
does not give anything like an adequate con-
cepton of this most horrible and most dis
graceful affair; that words could hardly do.
Horses, donkeys, and mules are employed to
carry plumber, and some of the soldiers help
themselves to share. There were several
thousands of poor widows, orphans, and other
plundered and ruined refugees here, depending
on the charity of the Christians for food, shell
ter, and clothes. They are now burned out
again amid the horrors of last night, and those
who were providing bread for them are now as
helpless and miserable as themselves.
NooN.-The pundering still continues, but
the number engaged in it seems greatly re-
duced since morning, and most of the articles
now are of little value. No effort has yet
been made to stop this reign of terror and de-
struction, easy as it would seem to be; and a
Christian, at least man, would, probably, be
in greater danger among the ruffians now than
at any former period. The houses are still
burning, though apparently not nearly so much
as through the night, but cannot see so well,
as ! cannot go SO frequently upon my roof in
the day as l could during the night. We
have made peep-hole over the street, from
which we can see and hear without being SEEM
for if seen we should probably be very soon
disposed of. These ruffians from the Meedan,
and the Arabs, gipsies &C., among them,
know nothing Of me, and rush past thinking
only OF the Christian quarter. If my neigh
bors do not etray me | may probably escape,
but there are some of them not to be trusted.
We are not in human hands, but In the hands
of One infinitely wise and good as well as in.
finitely powerful, and without his permission
nothing can befal us.