The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-16
THE MASSACRE AT TIEN.TSIN.

Fuller Details of the Horrible Bnrbarities of
the Sisters of Charity-One Hundred Orphan
Children Burnt Alive.
We have already published the principal facts
connected with the inhuman massacre on the 2lst
of June by Chinese mob at Tientsin OF the French
Consula number of other French Subjects including
several priests and the Sisters of Charity attached
to the French hospital OF the city, The London
Standard publishes private letter, written from
Cheeoo, June 80, in which the barbarties practised
on the fatal day Of the massacre are fully depicted
After telling how the French Consul NJ. Fontanier,
NJ Thomassn an alta attache Of the consulate, and his
letter proceeds to give details Of the sanguinary
sequel to these crimes.
THE wRETCHED DEATHS OF THE SISTERS OF CHARITY.
The mob, led on by soldiers, set fire to the con-
suate and the church Of the Catholic mission, and
burnt all the other inmates who could not escape.
simultaneously with the assault on the French con-
sulate, the mob and soldiers surrounded the hos
pital Of the French Sisters of Charity. Having fire
to portion of the building they entered the gates
and dragged alllthe Sisters of Charity out into the
street. There they stripped them naked, exposed
them to the public gaze plucked out their eyes, cut
Off their breasts, ripped them open, dragged out
their hearts, and deliberately cut them in pieces
and divided portions of their flesh amongst the infu-
rated mob No European witnessed these outrages
Of humanity save the poor victims, who in pres
ence OF each other, passed through the terrible
ordeal, and pershed without hope of release,
andswithout any support in that extreme hour
of misery and torment save their confidence in a
merciful God, whose behests they have endeavored
to fulfil amongst barbarous people at the peril
Of their lives. Chinese spectators OF that bloody
scene relate other horrors perpetrated the inno
cent ladies that cannot be mentioned. The lady
superioress OF the hospital, 1t is related cut in
twain while yet alive. God alone and the sisters
know what they endured Of agony and bodily suffer-
ings. Their modesty outraged, their purity defled,
their poor fral frames torn asunder, their blood
scattered and their lives destroyed by savages
whose murderous rage inflicted all those and other
outrages amidst scene of horror that alone would
be terrible to encounter One short hour suficed to
extlnguish those noble martyrs of charity Their
labor of love amongst the poor Of Tien-tsin for six
years was thus crowned in bitterness and earthly
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and fed and clothed and tended in the hour of SICK
ness and pestilence
BURNING OF THE ORPHANS ALIVE.
No sooner had the mob ana the soldiers glutted
their thirst for human blood the unfortunate sis
ters, than they burned the entire hospital Nearly
one hundred Children who had been received into
the orphanage attached to the hospital pershed in
the flames. The mutated members OF the dead
sisters thrown into the burning ruins, and thus,
together with the little children they charltaby
nurtu1ing, was the holocaust completed.
HOW MR. AND MME PR0ToPoPoFF WERE KILLED.
Such tale of horrors would suffice, but moIe
still remains to be told. Mr.. N. ProtopopOff, Rus
sian merchant with his wife, to whom he had only
Tien-tsin by the same nfuriated mob and soldiery,
and attacked with spears and swords. Mr.. Proto-
popof fell almost Immediately, and was cruelty
dered. His wife, who was on a spirited horse, fed
for her life, but being repused from the road turned
back, and attempted ter to leap an open sewer In the
self, hid for few minutes in the sewer, until she
was dragged out and killed by the mob. The bodies
of these two Russians were thrown into the sewer
| and afterwards recovered by their friends. They
had been stripped Naked and had been subjected to
| most barbarous usage.
THE SAD DEATH OF MADAME cHALMAIsoN.
A French merchant, NJ. Chalmaison, hearing that
the Sisters Of Charity were being attacked tried to
n fe me and 70 70 o ne &
on hearing Of her husbands death, fed to the house
Of native Christian and remained there I'LL night
her house. thinking TO see the body OF her dead hus
band. After frnitess search she endeayored to
get back to the Chinese house, but being discovered
by some of Chung How's trained troops (the
Chung How Rines), she was killed by them in the
| street,
| SLAUGHTER OF FRIENDLY NATIVES.
About fifty Cantonese men, who were suspected
| OF being on intimate terms with the Europeans,
wards the end Of the day some miscreants were
| prowliDg about the foreign settlement One OF
them was taken with loaded pistol, and he con-
| Europeans in the customs service.
THE FRENCH MINISTER DETAINED AT PEKIN.
What the French authorities will do is wrapped In
! the future. The Count de Rochechouard, the
French Charge dAfares at Pekin, by last accounts,
is detained at the imperial capital Some report that
| the Chinese Emperor will not allow him to leave
Pekin, they declare they have power to protect
him from being murdered, either on the road or at
| Tien-tsn, by the same assassns who have already
killed SO many OF his compatriots. Whether the
| French Charge dAffaires is detained for other mo-
yves ltls difleult TO state Possloy ms departure
retribution for the fearful blow inflicted on French
prestige in China, and that by keeping him at Pekn
time may be gained TO soften down the painful i'm.
pressions caused by the late massacre. short
time win bring the French admiral to the scene OF
the catastrophe and unless the most SUNNI lry and
complete humiliation be imposed on the Chinese
Government, French influence will have ceased in
China from the 2lst OF June, when so much OF hel
innocent blood was shed by her triumphant enemies
THE CHINESE GOVERNOR OF TIEN-TsIN RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE MASSACRE.
There was no available force at Tien. tsn for the
defense OF British property or life. Chung How hat
been requested four consecutive days previously by
the British Consul TO take precautionary measures
10 avert the outbreak, afford protection, and h'
never even vouchsafed to answer to these important
onicial acquisitions made to him as the chief au
thority OF Tien-tsn. Upon Chung How doubtless
rests the responsibility and blame OF the whole ol
this murderous insurrection and IL is to be hopeC
that condign punishment viii be inflicted on him To-
his connyance at the slaughter OF so many innocen
persons.
FRANCE AND ENGLAND MUST EXACT VENGEANCE.
The horror of the outrage is only equalled by th
treachery OF the Chinese Government, and so0ne
or later the Emperor himself will have TO answer tn
indignant forces OF France, and 1t is TO be hoped
England also, for the gross breach OF humanity tina
has noparallel In modern times
Among the bequests of the late Johl
Nesmith, OF Lowell, Massachusetts, is one leay
ing $3.50, 900 TO that city Tor the benefit OF tn
poor.