The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-07-19
EVACUATION OF ALEX
ANDRIA.
The City Deserted and In Flames
Massacre of European
Residents.

Massacre of European
Residents.
LONDON, July 13.-The CORES
pondent of the Standard on board
the Invincible, telegraphing at 8
o'clock this morning, says: "The
whole civil population and the
troops have withdrawn. The whole
of the Grand Square is burned.
The Helieon, which went to dis,
cover the meaning of the last flag
of truce last evening, could discover
nobody on board the Egyptian ves-
sci Mahroussa or in the arsenal.
The correspondent accompanied an
officer to the shore in a steam pin
mace. The purveyor of the fleet,
who was one of the party and was
well acquainted with the town,
landed and proceeded considerable
distance. All was perfectly silent
except the roar of the flames. 1t is
believed that Arab Pasha has con-
centrated his forces beyond the city
to oppose the British advance. The
work of the ships is now over any
further action must be ashore. Fully
half the town is burning. There
will be landing in force to investi-
gate the condition of things and if
possible to render aid"
The correspondent of the Duly
Telegraph says he entered the har-
Dor early this morning. He found
that many houses in the Arab quar-
ter have been badly injured and
partly burned by the lombard
ment. An incendiary fire in the
centre and European quarter at the
time of telegraphing covered the
area ola mile square. A large part
of the population have fed toward
the canal.
ENGLISH TROOPS LANDED.
Reuters Telegram Company has
received a dispatch which says that
Admiral Seymour to-day landed
$50 marines and $50 sailors. 1t ii
suspected that the town and forts
are mined. The English church
in Alexandria is said to have been
destroyed by chance shell during
the bombardment.
The Standard has a dispatch
from Alexandria, dated $50 O'Clock
this evening, which confI ms the re
port of the landing of marines, ant
says that since they entered the
town firing has been heard there.
AN APPALLING SCENE.
| LONDON, July 1.-THE cores
pendent of the Standard on boarC
the Invincible telegraphs from of
Alexandria, July ID, l p. m, as
follows: "After daybreak this
morning a number of persons were
seen on the edge of the water of the
harbor. Glasses showed them to be
Europeans. Boats were at once
lowered and crews armed to the
teeth started for the shore. They
found about one hundred Europeans
many of them wounded, who had
| gathered in the Anglo Egyptian
Bank, and had resisted desperately
They had maintained themselves
there throughout the night. To-
ward daylight their aSsailants drew
off and the party made their way
to the shore They reported that
Arab Pasha before he left with his
troops had the prisons opened, and
that the convicts, joined by the
lower classes and some Bedouins,
proceeded to sack the city and kill
every Christian they could find, and
set the European quarter on fire.
From the part they were defend
ing the Europeans could hear
shrieks and cries, and the reports
of pistols and guns. Scores of fugi-
tives were cut down or beaten to
death in their sight.
The European quarter is all in
flames and the great square Is a
mass of smoking ruins. All the
public buildings are destroyd, and
nothing European seems to have
escaped the rage of the fanatics.
Several shells have been fired within
the last two hours into that portion
of the city where the confagration
broke out, in hopes that they may
scare pillagers. That many pillagers
remain is evident by the fact that
several fresh fires have broke out
in the last three hours.