The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-12-14

en- and children, and fioated out into
the river. Each boat contained ten
armed natives. Then three boats
fastened together were brought up
and Gen. Wheeler and his staff got
in. Although orders were given to
start, the three boats were detained
At this juncture boy twelve years Of
age hoisted on the top OF the Hin
doc temple on the banks two hags,
a Hindoo and Mohammedan flag, at
which signal the boatmen and armed
natives jumped from the boats and
swan for the shore; and from innu-
merable guns the natives on the bank
fred on the boats and masked bat
teries above and below roared with de-
struction, and 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 Sahib and his
staff with their swords slashed to
pieces Gen. Wheeler and his staff, who
had not got well away from the shore.
said that the young and attractive
woman were not allowed to get into
the boat. These were marched away
under the guard of the Sepoys.
(Which way" I inquired, II will
show you," said Mr.. Lee. Again we
took seats in the carriage and started
for the climax of desperation and di-
abolish. Now we are on the way to a
summer house, called the Assembly
Rooms, which had been built for
recreation and pleasure. 1t had
two rooms each twenty-nine by
ten, and some windowless closets,
and here were imprisoned two hundred
and six helpless people. 1t was to be-
come the prison 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 that they should
be brought back to the summer gar
den next morning A daughter of Gen.
Wheeler was so taken, and did not re-
turn. She afterward married the Mo-
who had taken her to
his tent Some Sepoys amused them
selves 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
and flies and stencil and star
walton.
Then Mana Sahib heard that Have
lock was coming, and his name was
terror to the Sepoys. Lest the women
and children imprisoned in the Sum-.
mer house, or assembly rooms, should
be liberated. he ordered that their
throats should be cut. The officers
were commanded to do the work, and
attempted it, but failed because the
law of caste would not allow the Hindoo
to hold the victims while they were be-
ing slain. Then one hundred men were
ordered to fire through the windows,
but they fired over the heads of the
imprisoned ones, and only few were
killed. Then Mana Sahib was in
rage, and ordered professional butchers
from among the lowest of the gypsies
10 go at the work. Five of them, with
latchets, and swords, and knives, be-
gan the work. but three of them col
apsed and tainted under the ghastli-
ness, and it was left to two butchers to
complete the slaughter The struggle,
she sharp cut, the binding blow, the
,leaving through scalp and skull, the
1egging for life, the death agony
IF hour after hour. the tangled
limbs Of the copses, the piled-up
iead--only God and those who
we're inside the summer house can ever
know. The butchers came out exhaust
ID, thinking they had done their work,
ind the doors were closed. But when
hey were again opened three women
ind three boys were still alive. All
,hese were soon dispatched, and not a
christian or a European was left in
Iawnpore. The murderers were paid
fifty cents for each lady slain. The
assassins dragged by |
he hair the dead bodies out of |
he summer house and threw them
INTO a well, by which stood |
With such feelings as you can not
imagine. But after the mutilated
,odies had been thrown into the well,
he record of the scene remained in
of crimson on the floor
md wall Of the slaughter house. An
We witness says that as he walked in
he blood was shoe deep, and on this
Hood were tufts of hair, pieces of
muslin. broken combs, fragments of
children's straw hats. card
ase containing a curl with the in
cription: ''Ned's hair, with love-" a
ew leaves of an Episcopal prayer
'ook; also book entitled: Prepare
ion for DEATH" Bible, on the fiy-
eaf of which was written: For dar-