The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1861-05-10

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/ Alleged Slaughter Of Rebel, In For
/ Mouitrir---Ovcr Three Uuudrrt
/ killcd--Muuy WOuhdCd--ilOw The
slaughter was ConccaIcd--The Mor.
tDlity ON Morris Island,
The New York Tribune Of the S0th
publishes the following statements which
we reproduce. Another report to the
same effect will be found among our die.
patches; '.
| A soldier who was drafted into the
service Of the Rebels in Charleston, mud
lwho served at the guns in Fort Moultrc
AZ the scigc of Fort Sumter, has made {,
Us the following statement. His tSha.
bility Is vouchcd for, and We have cvcy
reason % believe that his statement Is Uy-
cry way worthy of belief
Our informant stlt,s that ne scrvedun.
der Capt. Huveus, and went into Fort
Muultric 'hc day after Major Anderson
le1 Fort Sumter II, belonged 10 the
Artillery, and served gt the guns most OF
the time during the scigc. The guns Of
/ Fort Moultric opened about halfphst four
| in the morning, but Major Anderson did
Iu1t fire a gun for near two hours after
Whom he did open his Gro was rapid aud
destructive, The balls from Sumter
lsTuck the port-holcs OF Mouitric, and at
nearly every discharge somebody was
killed. Their places were supplied by
others. There were in Moultrie more
than one thousand men, and betweC u
three and four hundred were kept at the
guns constantly, No. moro than that
number could protect themselves. in the
cusumutcs Of sandbags,which, while they
afforded excellent protection, wore much
torn up and knocked dowa. II was be-
tween nino and ten o'clock on tho first
day that the greatest loss Of lie occur
red. r# r "1iI
The barbctte guns Of Fort Sumter
were silcnced rly in the day, Oud the
round shot from these were most destruc-
tive to Fort Moultrie, an caused the
greatest loss of lie. They were fired
with great accuracy, and 0t times the
scene in the Fort was terrible. During
the seige between three and four huu-
drcd were killed, aud largo number
were wounded, Tho killed were collect
cd together in a mass, and at night plac-
ed Ia boxes, brought down from Charles.
ton aud taken away to POttCr's Field
and Inferred during the night. Some OF
the men were horribly monglcd, and 9th
ers were scarcely dcUd when thrown h-
to the boxes. Hood flowed in streams
from these roccptacles, and the sightwas
horrible. The surgeon at the Fort sent
for holp, and others came down from
Charleston. Tho wounded have rcmov-
ed 10 the Hospital, where such as have
not since died now remain.
In order that the truth should not be
known in Charleston, the soldicrs were
charged 70 say that nobody was hurt, and
were threatened with instant death IL
they disclosed the facts. There were a
good many killed in the dwellings out
side the fort. The Moulr,e House was
very much damaged, and a large number
of buildings in the ncighborhood of q -
.ort "oro uSlioSc ,i.v cfS riddlcd, aud il is the
opinion Of our informant that had thcre
been three hundred men IN Sumter, Fort
Moultrio would have been destroyed and
the rebels driven out or killed almost 10
a man. lie left Moultrie three days nf.
tor the engagement,nnd went 10 Charles
ton. The people there would not believe.
that nobody had been killed, and made
constant inquiry for their friends, who
they were assured, were still on Sulli-
vans Island. Hundreds Of families are
yet 10 learn the truth, which is kept from
them 10y the greatest vigilance. AZ
Our informant was duly discharged
from the service, and with five others.
embarked on board th, bark Smithson-
ian, Captain Davis, which reached New
York on Friday morning last.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY KILLED AND
WOUNDED on MORRIS ISLAND.
One Of the Char eston volunteers Who
was on Morris Island during the late
bombardment of Fort Sumter, came here
yesterday by the schooner ID. b. Plus.
He says that at least one hundred and
flty mon were killed and wounded at the
batteries on Morris Island, by tho canis-
ter Of Major Anderson He had occlslon
10 be at Fort Johnson also just before he
left Charleston, and there he learned
that on Sulliyan's Island thirty-nine men
had been killed-that a mortar had been
blown from Fort Johnson by a shot from
sumter He had to go TO Charleston in
a boat with some passengers, and when
there embraced tue opportunity and stow
ed himself away in the schooner, and in
that wgy got of. He suys that the dead
were all taken and boxed ana carried a.
way in the night and buried in Potter's
field, where the negroes urc buried. Hel
saysthot thousands of negroes only want
some of their leaders to give them the
word, and great will be tho slaughter.
Secession Terrorism in Trnmcs-
sCS-sOhn BelI succumbs.
lFrom The iouhHlo Journal AprlcsI
The Nashville papers Of yesterday
BRING intelligence Of the detection ofl