The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-02-11
AWFUL DEEDS IN CHINA
HUNDREDS ARE BURNED ALIVE
BY REBELS.
Almost Incredible Massacre Of Men, wCm-
en- and Children Followed by Wholesale
Executions Of the lBarbarlana, Whose
Heads Were Mowed on by scores.
In a Hcathcn Land.


A Shanghai correspondent gives de-
tails of a terrible atrocity committed 10y
Chinese rebels on the lorder of Man
churia, and of equally terrible punish
mcnt inflicted by government troops up
on the captured rebels. These rebels
were led by several Buddhist priests,
and they were especially savage against
native Christians. At one place they
burned sixty children and butchcrcd
nine Chinese nurs. At another they
cremated sixty men whom they impris-
oDed in u barn. Their eXpcd.t ons ", r"
solely for plumber and without political
purpose. Niceroy Ii sent large army
against them, and their streng h was
broken. Hundreds of prisoners We're
taken.
The punishment metcl out to the
rebels 10y their conquercrs was most re-
voting and the executions We're con-
Quoted on a who.cs ale seal. Men Were
bchcadcd by hundreds, and entire trunks
Of trees were utilized as hlt cks al,nS
which prisoners We're ranged in lines
and their exccutioners simply moved IF
their heads when the signal was given.
| Generally in China the GO n iemncd are
ranged in small knots knceiing before
the exccutioncr, but here the wrctchc1
| miScreants were too numerous for III :
usual rules to be observed and they
were seized 10y their queues 10y sold 'ers
from the other SIDE of the lately i'm
revised blocks aud their heads Topped
off. They We're not even tied and til =
headlcss trunks fell against the block
or tumhlcd backward ,r to one side
when the fatal sword severed the neck
| The heads were hung in long rows en-
poles as Il warning to theirs. and in q.
short time intense cold froZc III, Eodc :
stiff, but not before camp follower, III |
gh"uls had stripped them Of every atom
Of clothing.
The rebels. it appears. were mostly
Ian hts, who roam the country just out :
| side the walls Of China. Last sprin :,
they joined forces and entered rp,n 1,
| regular plan of campli i.n of plundnr.
/ The most horrible atrocities We're per-
petratcd hy these wan icring dcsrcra
does. Eye witnesses state that almost
the entire population Of villages was
cruelty maltrcated ana murdered. The
burning of children alive, the brutal
treatment and murder Of women. the
carrying of of everything from the
homes of the wrctch:d d Icop!c. was the
general line of conduct o. thcs, inhu-
man tiends.
4 ease in point is the occurrence at /.
village called kutulan, in the Jchci pre-
lecture, Manchuria \ hard of 101
nlaraudcrs swooped dawn upon th !,
place in the dead of night. ca:tured all
whom they did not Kill outright, AMI
finally carried away with them all the
women. Before going, they put sixty
men in a large barn, securely fastened
all places of egreSs. and set fire 10 III
Place. The shriekS ot those h, in@
burned alive reached the ears OF Il few
persons who had escaped to the hills
The scene wa; frishtfui in ths extreme"
This. however, is only ,ne I! Il dozcl
such incdens.
The rebels rai'ic.l and destroyed Chris
tian and heather villages alike, but ,C
raptives of the former places tn v acted
in Il particularly fcrocious manner. A,
Tasijow, which has been Christian fol
two centuries, they nla> sacred nine Chi
ncse sisters, nuns, ana burned the or
phana:.c, which contained sixty little in.
mates. The piercing of the bodies ui
raptives with heated hayuncis art
spcars, TIL souSing out of eyes, the dis
cmboweling o: bu;yinS alive Of victims
We're among the atrocities rracticed l.,
the rcb Is. One band is said to has.
be, n led by a huge amazon. who rod,
astride her horse like n man. II was re
ported among her followers that she
drank the blood cf victims in order L
maintain her courage.
The suppression of the revolt is no
entirely due TO the forts of the Chimes.
Governm Mt. 1t was really the extreme
cold that had the most to do with it
The robbers could not stand The cam
paigninS in the winter weather, an;
they retired to their strcngholds in tn,
hills.