The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-08-24
Twenty-Five Europeans and More than
Fifty Children Killed.

school at Tientsin all had been taken away but
fifty or sixty of them. The alarm spread rapid
ly through the lower classes, and then mis-.
sionaries were accused OF killing children and
scooplng out their eyes for medicinal purposes.
All sorts OF ~
HORRIBLE STORIES
were quickly current to the injury of the mis-
siOnary work. Outbreaks took place at the
South. Placards were posted by the more tur.
bulent of the literati and priests. At many OF
the treaty ports the effect was to raise riots,
which, however, were quickly put. under by
the efforts of the foreign consuls, backed by
gunboats.
At last notices were posted, exciting the
people to destroy the missionary houses and
churches. The people gathered In hundreds,
and were SOON given 10 understand by their
leaders what was wanted of them. The CHI
nese authorities, in the meanwhile, as every
body else at such times, did nothing, or worse
than nothing; they helped on the riot In an IN.
derhand way. On the 18th June
A CROWD ASSEMBLED
In the native city. one and halt miles above
the foreign bund. After time the French
Consul, who lived in that quarter, succeeded
In inducing the people to disperse. They
moved away, but still exhibited signs of hos
tilty to foreigners. DR.. Frazer, physician at
cd beating by the swiftness of his horse. On
the 20th some French priests were beaten,
and the French Consul, NJ, Fontainer, notified
II. E. Chung-how, at the Yamen, Of the fact,
and requested him to put a stop at once to the
tumult. About II b.. on the 2lst OF June: the
French Consul and guests, Mr.. Thomassln, Sec
retary OF Legation at Pekin, and his wife (both
OF fwhom, had but Just arrived out from France. }
together with Nr. Coutris, were ut Tifin,
wien multitude Of excited Chinese came to-
ward the house.
SHOUTING AND YELLING,
and demanding that all the children should be
given back to them. Stones and other mis-
siles were thrown at the consulate, breaking
the windows and damaging the table around
which the lady and gentlemen were seated.
The consul and Ills friend, Mr.. Thomassln, put
on their uniforms, and went out to endeavor
to disperse the mob. They found the Chinese
would not obey; therefore, leaving the lady
for a time in the house, they all went towards
the Yamen, some eighth OF mile distant. On
the way there, Mr. Thomassin, finding the
matter wearing more serious look than ! ne
had at first expected, returned to protect his
vile. Mr.. CoutrS here became separated
from his friends, and the French Consul and
his secretary walked into the Ynmen ana
DEMANDED IN INTERVIEW
with Chung, the military Governor Of the
province. The crowd pressed all about the con.
sui using threatening language. Chung could
MT or would not help him. 1t is known that
the consul fired oil his rev0ver, but 1t Is
thought to have been accidentally discharged
while he was being pushed and crowded IN
the audience chamber. At all events. there
was no one hurt by the pistol, which would not
have been the case, without doubt, had 1t been
raised The consul, finding himself hard
pressed. and without tile chance of any help
being afforded BY Chung, turned and LETT the
Yamen for his house. He had not gone many
steps before he was
SEIZED BY THE CHINESE,
his uniform torn of, his body beaten, and
eventually cut and stabbed with knives and
spears. His death must have occurred at about
the same time as Mr.. Thomassin's-the one
near the Yumen and the other near the consul
late. Poor Mr.. ThomassIn was tated never to
see his wife alive again; he fell beneath the
spears OF the bloodthirsty Chinese.
THE SIGHT OF BLOOD
now warmed the ruff ms to their appointed
work, and they rushed to the French Consul
late. Mrs. Thomassin met them bravely at the
doorway, pistol in hand. One or two, AID
some say three, Cinnamon fell before her pls-
tol shots, when numbers orerpowered her, and
she was killed by the blows Of sharp instru-
ment on the back OF her head.
BUTcHERY OF THE SISTERS OF CHARITY.
The Consulate building was then burned
and destroyed. and all the servants massacred.
In the meanwhile the convent house OF the
Sisters of Charity and the French cathedral
were being assaulted by the mob. A priest at
the doorway vas killed, aud ten women quick
" shared the same fate, but in a more horrible
manner. Most Of them were beaten. their
clothes torn of, and then they were seized and
placed on their heads against the convent
wall, and
HACKED TO PIECES
In the most savage manner-their eyes dug
out. their breasts cut of, and every cruelty
that savage brutes can effect, too sickening
here tu narrate, was perpetrated. One of the
Sisters, named Louisa, well known as faith
full and constant attendant at the hospital in
Shanghai, was reported to have escaped in
Chinese dress, and was concealed by some
Chinese female friends until night, when, at
tempting to 20 back to the Convent, her Eu-
r,,uran Shoes discovered her to be white
woman, and she Wns quickly taken and killed.
Her body was
THROWN INTO THE RIVER.
The Chinese burned the cathedral and con-
vent buildings, aud 1t is supposed at least
sixty Chinese children perished in the cellars
of the building, where they had fled for safety.
The bodies OF the Sisters were thrown back
into the buildings after being killed, and burn
ed. Their
cHARRED REMAINS
we're afterwards collected by the orders of
Chung, and sent down to the foreign quarter
Of Tientsn.
The bntchery did not end here. Chalmai-
son. another FrenchTan, living near the west
gate, was also killed. His wife escaped, and
was harbored by Chinese in the same street.
But she went out at night to her house, Ia
Chinese clothes, and Un her way back. missies
the friendly house, and calling out to tnem nS "
open the door, her voice betrayed heF, ano
she was killed by the drilled troops.