The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-09-22
Ths Massncrs as tTlent-sin--p,ullsx' De-
tasis OF tho Horrible Barbnrasiss Of
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oipal facts oonneStea With tho inhqm,an
nese mob, at Tient-sin, of the French
Consul, number OF other French sub
jects, including several priests, and the
Sisters of Charity attached to the
French hospital OF the city. The Lon
don Standard publishes q private letter,
written from Cheeloo, June 80, in
which the barbarities praotioed on the
fatal day of tho massacre are fully de-
picted. After telling how the French
Consul, Nj. Fontanier, M. Thommassin,
an attache Of the consulate aud his wife,
and two Catholic priests, were murder
cd, the letter proceeds to give details of
the sanguinary sequel to these crimes.
The mob, led on by soldiers, set fire to
the consulate and the church of the
Catholic mission, and burnt all the other
inmates who could not escape. Simul-
tancOnsly with the assault on the French
consulate, the mob and soldiers sur
rounded the hospital of the French Sis
ters of Charity. Having set fire to
portion of the building. they entered
the gates and dragged oil the Sisters of
Charity out into the street. There they
stripped them naked, exposed them to
tho public gazo, plucked out their eyes,
cut off their breasts, ripped them open,
dragged out their hearts, and deliberate
ly cut them to pieces and divided por-
tions of their flesh amongst the inturi-
atcd mob. No European witnessed these
outrages on humanity save the poor vic
passed through the terrible ordeal, and
perished without hope of release, and
without any support in that extreme
hOur of roiSarv and tornoapt coua THAR
confidence in merciful God, whose be-
hests they have endeavored to fulfill
amongst barbarous people, at the peril
of their lives. Chinese spectators of the
bloody scene relate other horrors perpe-
trated on the innocent ladies that cannot
DO mentioned. The lady superioress Of
the hospital, it is related, was cut in
twain while yet alive. God alone and
the Sisters know swhat they endured
Of agony and bodily sufferings. Their
modesty outraged, their purity defiled,
their poor, frail frames torn asunder,
their blood scattered, and their lives de-
stroyed by savageu whose murderous
rage inflicted all those and other out.
RACES amidst scene Of horror that alone
would be terrible to encounter. One
short hour sufficed to extinguish those
noble martyrs of charity, Their labor
of love amongst the poor of Tient-sin
for six years was thus crowned in bitter
ness and earthly shame by the very peo-
pie whom they had succored, and fed,
and clothed, and tended in the hour of
sickness and pestilence.
No sooner had the mob and the SOL
diers glutted their thirst for human
blood on the unfortunate Sisters than
they burnt the entire hospital Nearly
100 children who had been received into
the orphanage, attached TO the hospital,
perished in the flames. The mutilatcd
members of the dead Sisters wero thrown
into the burning ruins, and thus, togeth-
er with the little children they were
charitably nnrturing, was the holocaust
completed.
Such talo of horrors would suffice,
but more still remains to be told NIr.
n. Protopopon, Russian merchant,
with his wife, to whom he had only been
married two days. were met in the town
of Tient-sin by the same infuriatcd mob
and soldicry, and attncked with spears
and swords. Mr.. Protopopoff fell almost
Immediately, and was cruelty murdered.
His wife, who was on spirited horse,
fled for her life, but being repnlscd
from tho road, turned back and attempt
eel to leap an open sewer in the town
She fell with her horse, but cxtricatcl
herself, kid for few minutes in the
sewer, until she was dragged ont 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 barbarons usage.
A French merchant, Nj. Chalmaison,
hearing that the Sisters of Charity were
being attacked, tried to get near tho
hospital to defend them, but ho was
caughtin the street and hacked to pieces
His wife, on hearing of her husbands
death, fled to the house of native
Christian, and remained there till night,
when, disguised in Chinese dress, she
ventured to her house, thinking to see
the body Of her dead husband After II
fruitiess search she endeavorcd to get
back to The Chinese house, but being
discovered by some of Chung How's
trained troops (the Chung How ri1es),
she was killed by them in tho street.
About fifty Cantonese men, who were
suspected of being on intimate terms
with tho Europeans, were murdered
during the excitement; and even to-
wards the end of the day some miscre-
ants were prOwlino nhout tho foraion