Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-17
AFGHAN.
THE STORY OF AN ESCAPED rRoorl


s1MLA, Sept. l6.-One of the troopers of Ma
jor Cavaguaris escort arrived at Lundi Kholat
yesterday. He says the roof of the British res
idency at Cabul was commanded by other
houses, and was consequently untenable by the
besieged, who made trench outside. At about
one O'Clock in the afternoon of lie day of the
massacre Major Cavagnari received wound
from aricocheting bullet in his forehead. Mr..
JENKINS, Major Cavagnari's assistant, who ar
rived at the residehcy during the attack, wrote
to the ameer for help, and the ameer's reply
was, "God willing, I am making arrange.
ments." A previous request for aid from Ma
ior Cavagnari had met with the same reply.
Mr.. Jenkyns wrote again when Major Cavagnari
was wounded, but the bearers of the letter were
to Eieces by the 1nutineers. The trooper
then started, but was disarmed and imprisoned.
he succeeded In escaping at daybreak on the
4th of September. and visited the residency,
where he saw the corpse of Lieut. Hamilton,
commanding the escort of the British mission,
lying across mountain gun. he says that Mr..
Jenkyns was with person called Yahyah Khan,
and he is presumably alive. The escaped
trooper saw no troops on the road from Cabul
to Jellalabad and Dakka, and as far as he
knows mono were coming. comrade who was
confined in Cabul informed him that Lieut..
Hamilton shot three of the mutineers with his
revolver and killed two with his saber. Mr..
Kelley, who was connected with the mission,
was lying dead inside the residency. Major
Oavagnari was in a room which was burnt and
had fallen in. His body had not been found.
Three native officers Of the guides were burned
to death near the residency. The grass cutters
were in safety.
THE AMEER's COMPLETELY.
LONDON, Sept. 1G.--A military correspond
ence of the Times says: It is difficult in the
face of the overwhelming evidence to the con-
trary. to believe Yakoob played an honorable
part in the recent deeds at Cabul. It is sig
nifcant that Maj. Cavagnari's principal native
assistant is believed to have died q short time
before the outbreak under Suspicious circum-
stances. Being an Afghan and well acquaint-
ed with the workings of Oriental courts, his
presence in thesBritish residence;was dangerous
to those plotting the outbreak.
LONDON, Sept. ga dispatch from Bombay
says it is believed the rumor of the ameer's
completely in the late outrage was spread by
mutineers to induce the tribes to join them.
The Ghilgais near Shutargardan and Candahar
have made professions of friendliness to the
British.
RUSSIAN INsTIGATIoN.
LONDON, Sept, l6.-The Times in a leading
editorial article says it is not the policy of sur
render and withdrawal from Afghanistan that
is now really formidable to the settlement on
which the nation was last year agreed, but
rather movement for annexation and adven-
ture, which is to be dreaded and resisted, and
which is being deliberately advocated by some
who opposed i..s. Jear's campaign. It is simply
q waste of time to speculate upon the signif-
canoe of certain wordy vaporing in Russian
newspapers, and their assertions are certainly
not to be accepted without proof concerning
Russian instigation in the massacre.