Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-21
THE JAMAICA REVEL.
Scenes and Incidents of the Bufchery
Sketch of Gordon the
Prompt and Terrible Retrtbuti0n-
Two Thousand Persons Hung.

Two Thousand Persons Hung.
Files of Jamaica papers bring full par
ticulars of the recent outbreak on that
island, from which we make the following
extracts
THE BUTCHERY AT PORT MIGRANT.
TFrom the Jamaica Guardian.l
DIR. Gerard was drawn from his place of
concealment, and was about to be struck
down when he exclaimed, al am DIR.
| Gerard" and the murderers desisted. He
had, however, no influence to save any
N Mr.. Ratty, who chung to him, was
torn away and despatched under his eyes.
Mr.. Hitchins, faint and horribly mutilated,
staggered towards the Doctor and, with
his arm around his neck, could only gasp
out, al am weak, Doctor; can scarcely
stand.n Whilst he stood in this position
the savagas were striking into his back
and neck with their cutlasses, and DR..
Gerard could feel the rebound OF the
blows. At last the unfortunate gentleman
relaxed his hold of the Doctor, and sun
down literally hacked to pieces.
While the Custos and other gentlemen
were in the Court House his Honor dis
played the utmost abnegation of self and
only thought of the safety of those with
him. Addressing Mr.. Price, he said,
" You are a man of their own color, will
you undertake to address them, asking
what it is they want? If it is my life they
want l am prepared to yield it up and
save you all.n Mr.. Price observed that he
feared the mob would have no cOnsidera-
ton for him. The Baron then said, "Let
us all go out then, or 1 will go out'-balls
and brickbats showering thick at the time.
Mr.. Hitchins dissuaded them, observing
that it would be certain destruction, for
each one who ever appeared at the win
dows was at Once made a mark for twenty
bullets.
Mr.. Alberga's little boy was in great
alarm, and begged and entreated to be
put somewhere. The spectacle presented
by his wretched father, thus fearing for a
life even dearer to him than his own, was
- .u4d uIew Lne tears oil
the beholders, Notwithstanding the per-
sonal perils they were under. When the
company had retired to the school room,
a voiley camel through one ofthe windows,
and the Aaron, holding his hands up to
his breast, said, my friends, l have it
now, they have shot me" An exclama-
ton came from Mr.. Georges, into whose
leg two bullets had penetrated. The Rev.
Mr.. Herschel took of his neck tie and
bound up the wound. Poorlittle Alberga
clinging to his fathers knees, received a
shot in the leg. Previous to this a rush
out having been determined on, as the
burning roof was expected to fall in, the
the Rev. Mr.. Herschel had proposed the
offering up of a prayer. All were en-
gagged in pouring out their petition to the
Most High for mercy, when the balls
came crashing through the window and
hit three among them. The roof imme-
diately gave way, and every soul rushed
out. Mr.. Alberga with his child in his
arms received the first blows, and his
cries of "Save my child" moved the heart
of a woman, who took the little innocent
away and conveyed him to his mother.
Mr.. A. Cook and Mr.. Mcpherson hid IN
der the flooring, but the glare of the fire
betrayed them, and they were pulled out
and butchered.
The Rev. Mr.. Herschel, knocked down
on his knees, in vain sued for mercy and
offered ransom; the blows fell thick upon
him until he was laid low, and while the
heart yet beat a savage cut out his tongue
and held it up in triumph, Cheer after
cheer ran through the tiendish band after
each new act of atrocity.
Nj. Cooke, the Clerk of the Peace, was
pushed under the floor by a faithful black
servant boy, and remained the whole night
in a mud puddle under il, formed by hogs.
Lying there, he could Just see through the
intervals of the pillars the feet of the riot
ers as they wentby, and hear some of them
boast that they had chopped him to pieces.
His unfortunate brother had probably
been mistaken for him, and he owed his
safety to that circumstance, which pre-
vented further search after him. The
next morning his faithful preserver and
companion watched the opportunity and
led him TO the woods, where he remained
concealed until the military arrived from
Kingston.
While the wife and children Of this gen.
tleman remained concealed in the house
of a druggist, they heard the boast of some
men who had brought wounded compan-
ions there to be dressed, that "they had
| chopnad nm that all~t--S+ePhen OookO 81
fine that his wife would not be able to find
a piece of him." The unfortunate woman
with difficulty suppressed a shrek, which
had she uttered it might have at once
drawn down a bloody revenge upon her
kind protector, the druggist.
DIR. Major was lifted over the railing at
Mr.. Marchalleck's, and that gentleman
summoned by the rebels to come and take
charge of him and lock him up out of
harms way.
While DIR. Gerard was about, parties
frequently came around him with threat
ening gestures protesting that, but for his
being a doctor, they would chop him up
fine, and warning him by what they had
done of the necessity of sticking to them if
he wished to continue safe. At other
times he was embraced and patted.
While Mr.. Cooke lay concealed under
the house no heard distinctly each dread
full act of murder, and could tell the vic
Tins by the EXPLANATIONS of the mob. He
heardth the dying groans of Mr.. Price, who
lay with his %entrails protruding, having
been ripped out by women.
The CustOs got hold of a sword, and sold
his life dearly. The mob iointed his fin
gers, leaving them hanging by sUme small
teguments, and laughihgly dangled them
about with the ieer. "Now you write no
more lies to the Queen against u.s."
Mr.. Georges escaped by crawling into
some penguins after he had been shot in
the thigh. Mr.. Price before leaving the
school had generously handed his revolver
10 Mr.. Georges, saying Georges, 1 can
not escape 1 feel it; take this and try to
save yourself"
Mr.. Brooks Cooke being felled by a blow,
rolled down the Court House hill at the
back, and when he recovered his senses.
found that he owed his life to the care of
Il black man, who had checked his fall
and stood watching over and protecting
him,
The rebels took every article out of Mr..
A~lberga's residence, not leaving his family
even a stitch of clothing. They also went
round levying contributions in money and
goods from the stores at the bay.
A lot. of rdffians Went to the residence
of Mr.. Danters aud demanded him from
his wife. After satisfying themselves of
his ab-eRaa thay went Away. telling the
lady it wis a lucky tiihg for her husband
that he was not there, but that they would
return for him or catch him somewhere.
ANOTHER INCIDENT OF THE SLAUGHTER.
The Baroness Won Ketelhodt, the wife
of the Brfoh Alfred, and daughter of the
murdered Custos of Morant, passed some
trying moments at Oxford, the property of
her late lamented father, willie the Morant
Bay butchery was going on She was
alone with a boy when the glare shed by
the burning buildings in the town, and the
distant sounds of the riot, alarmed her.