The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-01-01
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,

DstaiIs Of u NIuuny gg Hoard OhinsSs
Tmnrport-FlVs Hundred killed.
L,ndon D'spairh.
A private letter Just received here gives
a thrilling narrative Of a mutiny, brief
mention d which was recently Cabled to
the United States, The ship belonged to
the Brllish Mercantile Marine, and had
for some time been doing duty as q
Chinese transport in the Chinese seas
The writer Of the letter is chief steward oil
the vessel, but as every effort has been
made by the authorities in China to pre-
vent the affair from becoming known, his
name is suppressed. Ho says that the
steamer was chartered by the Chinese for
ten thousand dollars TO carry from. Annoy
10 Hsukord, q distance OF some six hun:
bred miles, some twenty-five hundred
SLACK Flag troops who had been dlsband'
ed from the TOnQum war. On the march
TO Annoy they had committed fearful muir
ders and atrocities, and tho Government
was extremely anxious TO get them from
AnOy, which town they were terrorislng.
At tile emhaTkation about one thousand
were disarmed, but they crowded on board
30 last that the woIk Of diiarmlnS hSu 70
De abandoned, When all were aboard
the snip was crowded to eEcees-nrldBe,
poop, iorecastle, between decks and lower
aOldJ being packed to suiIlCRtion.
Scarcely lad the vessel gotten under.
way when tbs BLACK Flags, nearly all Of
whom were drunk, commenced to gamble,
From gambling they got to quarTels, than
10 fights, and finally to murder and slau2h'
tor. The heather fought each other ike
wild beasts. AGWbers were thrown over.
board alive, many more we're stabbed and
strangeld, and then Consign1d To the
waters. The crew looked on with terror,
hut not a man OF them dared to interfere.
All night long the butchery, was kept up,
and daylight SGw oyer tiity dead BODIES IN
different parts VI the VOssel. Midday
came, and with 1t frightful heat Below
decks, wnere the Black Flags were hud.
died, the Thermometer registered 1902 and
in q siuVo DOur forty OF the YrotChes had
been squeezed or smothergd " death Or
had died IRON want OF water. Finally, in
desperation, party oil the Black Fl0gs
seized tho water on board and guarded II,
refusing my to tho crew. Another party
tried to capture the supplies, and fearful
crush GnsuGd, numbers being Happled
torleath. Unable TO obtain the water, the
secJnd party made sn attack upon the
store rooms, destroying all the food and
throwing the cooking apparatus overheard.
They eventually began 70 drink ssa water,
The sailors, who were leaTtuIly parghed,
crawlsd down 10 the engine room and ens
deavored to appease their Butterlnga with
hot, condemned water.
IowArJs evening the aspect oil affairs
became still more serious, tho muGineers
threatening u Kill the crew, and drawing
kniyel across their own threats to indicate
to tho sailors their Intentions, The cap
tain WAS seized and held by tho board
while knife was held to his throat.
Eventually the veuael was put back To
Annoy, wiereA British war ship was an
Uhored. The commander Of the latter pre-
pared TO sweep the vessel deck with HE
Gatlings, and before doingso boarded her.
The mutineers, who were then standing
on the deck with black Aags hoisted on
spears, decided tosurrender. Atthis time
less that 1900 out Of the $500 that olIgi-
nally went on board the vessel were alive.
Subsequently two Chinese gunPoats ar
rived and took oil the black Gags, those re-
fuying 10 Leave being thrown overheard
and left to get to land as best they could.
Six Of the principal mutineels were at
once beheaded and several hundred bGsti-
nadoed. While the vessel was being
cleaned out aud fumigated tho remains Of
ohOuk a dhHan man WnFn diECoVefeu In the
lower hold. The bodies having been
crushed into a mass until scarcely any por-
ton was recognizable.