Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-12-21

| They could march out unmolestet, the men.
| women and children. They could so down
/ tomorrow TO the Oranges, where they
/ would find boats 10 take them in peace 10
| Allahahad
| There was some opposition 10 signing
! TINS treaty, but General WheslGr's vita tolI /
him he could trust the natives, and so he
| signed the treaty. There was great iov in
| the intrenchment that night. Without
| mol estation they went GU: and got plenty OF
water TO drink AMI water FOR gooi wash.
| The hunger and thirst anG exposure from
the consuming sun, with the thermometer
| from l2O 10 l41, would cease. Mothers r.
| loiced NJ the prospect OF saving their chill
| dren. The young ladies' Of the intreuch-
ment would escape tho Will beasts in human
| form. On tho morrow. trun 20 the promise
| carts were ready 10 transport those who
| We're too much exhausted 10 walk.
'Get into the carrt9g"," sal Mr. Lee
"ani We will ride 10 thu banks OF the
| GanSes, for which the liberated conbatants
| an tnOn-comhatants started from this pl,rr "
| On 0ul Wy NJ Lee pointeI ct . mo.I-
| ment over the burial place wbicL vas opened
! Tor General Wheeler's intren rhment, tho
well into which every night the deaf IN
| been droppei. ArOuni II is a curious
| memorial. There are five crosses, one ut
| each corner OF the garden aud ona NJ ths
centre, from which inscription | to- Law rca
| my text. Riding on we came 70 the Memoir
| lal Church built to the memory OF thOss
! fallen in Cawnpur. The walls are coverc
| with tablets AMI epitaphs. I copied two or
| three o! the inscriptions: "FheSs ara they
| who come out of great trihulatiOns - ulso
| 'The dead shall be raise inrorruptiblr =
| also, I'm the world ye shall have tri5ulation.
| but be OF COOL cheer. have OYercome thu
| world; ! also, the Lori gay. The Lord
hath taken away also, "Come unto Ne. all
| ye that labor an are heavy laden"
| ''Get into the carriage" said Mr.. Lee. an
gpSn typt O1t
! Hlndoo temple standiag on the banks
Now, said Mr.. Lee, hers IS the place to
which General Wheeler and his people camo
| under tho escort Of Mana Sahib." went
| down the steps TO the margin OF the river
Down these steps went General Wheeler aul
| the men, women and children under his
| care. They stOO on Cne 81 ie of the steps
and Mana Sahib and his staff 500 on the
| other side. As the women wers getting into
| the boats Mana Sahib objected that only the
| aged AMI Inttrm women AMI children should
20 on board the boats. The young and at
| tractlve women were kept out Twenty
| eight boats were filled with mon, women ana
| children AMI fiOat"d out into the river. Each
| boat contained ten armed natives Then
| three boats fastened together were brought
up, and General Wheeler AMI his staff got in
Although orders were gwen TO start, tie
three boats were somehow detaine |. At this
| Juncture boy of twelve years OF age hoistei
on the top OF tho Hindoo temple on the
banks two flags, a Hnioo AMI n Moham-
medan flag, 1T which signal the bOltmen and
armei natives jumped from the boats and
swan tor the shore, and from innumerable
guns the natives on the bank fired on the
boats, an masked batteries above and below
roared with destruction, an the boats sank
with their precious cargo, and all went down
save three strong swimmers, who got to the
opposite shore. Those who struggled out
near by were dashed to death Mana Sahih
wifi ri
pieces General Wheeler and his staff, who
had not got well away from the shore
l said that the young and attractive wo-
men were not allowed TO get into the boats
These were marched away under the guard
Of tho sepOys.
(Which way?" I inquired 81 will show
you," said Mr.. Lee. Again we took seats 10
the carriage and started tor the climax Of
desperation and diaboism. Now we are on
the way 10 a summer house, called the as
sembiy rooms, which had been built for rec
reation AMI pleasure, 1t had two rooms,
each twenty-nine by ten. and some window
| less closets, and hero were imprisoned 206
helpless people. 1t was to become the pri-
son of these women and children. Some OF
these sepoys got permission Of Mana Sahib
to take one or more OF these ladies to their
own place on the promise they should be
brought back to the summer garden next
morning. A daughter of General Wheeler
was 50 taken an did not return. She after
ward married the MOhamm5dan who had
taken her to his tent. Some sepOys amused
themselves by thrusting children through
with bayonets and holding them up before
their mothers in the summer house. All the
doors closed and the sepOys standing guard.
the crowded women and children waited
their doom for eighteen days and nights
| amid sickness and flies and stencil an
starvation.
The butchers came out exhausted, think
ing they had done their work, and the doors
were closed. but when they were again
opened three women and three boys were
still alive. All these We're soon dispatched,
and not Christian or European was left in
CaWnpur. The murderers were paid fifty
cents for each lady slain. The Mohamme-
dan assassins dragged by the hair the dead
bodies out of the summer house and threw
them into well, by which stood with such
feelings as you cannot imagine. But after
the mutilated bodies had been thrown into
we'll the record of the scene remained in
hieroglyphics of crimson on the floor AMI
wall of the slaughter house. An eyewitness
says that as he walked i'll the blood WAS shoe
deep, and on this blood were tufts OF hair,
pieces of muslin, broken combs, fragments
of pinafOres, chiliren's straw hats, a card
case containing curl, with the inscription
''Ned's hair, with love; :; a lew leaves of an
Episcopal prayer book also book entitled
preparation for Death - a Bible on the fly
leaf on which was written, For darling
mamma, from her affectionate daughter,
Isabella Blair both Ale one VINO pres ented
it and the one to whom it was presented de-
parted forever.
Then Mana Sahib heard that Havelock
was coming, and his name was terror 20
the sepOys. Lest the women AM children
imprisoned in the summer hOnse, or assem-
bly, rooms, should be liberated, he or ierei
that their throats should be cut. The off,
GERS we're commanded to do the work and
attempted it, but failed because the law Of
caste would not allow the HniOO to hold
the victims while they were being slain.
Then 100 men were ordered TO FIRE tarOugh
the windows, but they fired over the heads
of the imprisoned ones, and only Il few were
killed. Then Mana Sabtb was in rage and
ordere1 / professional butchers from among
the lowest of the gypsies to 20 at the WORK.
Five Of them, with hatcAet5 aud swords AMI
knives, began the work, but three Of them
collapsed AMI tainted under the ghaStlneSS,
and 1t WAS left to two butchers to complete
the slaughter. The struggle, the shtrp cut,
the binding blow, the cleaving through
scalp AMI skull, the begging for life. the
death agony OF hour after hour, the tangled
limbs OF the cOrpSes, the pilot up dead
only God and those who were inside the
summer house can ever know.
| said ''Mr. Lee, have hear that in
delicate things were found written on the
walls" He answered: "NO, but these poor
creatures wrote in charcoal AMI scratche
on the wall the story OF the bru.alities they
had suffered"
When the English and Scotch troops came
upon the scene. their wrath vas 50 great
that General Neill had the butchers arrested,
and before being shot compelled them 10
wipe up part of the floor Of this place OF
massacre, this being the worst OF their pun
ishment, fOrthere is nothing that HindoJ
80 hates as 10 touch blood.
When Havelock came upon the scene, be
had this order annulle !. The well WAS now
not only full Of human DO lies. but corpses
piled onthe outside. The soldiers Wee for
many hours engaged in covering tho dead.
It was about O'Clock IN the evening wnen
I came upon this place in Cawnpur. The
building in which the massacre took place
has been torn down, and garden Of ex-