Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-12-10

(which way?" l inquired. VIII
show YOU" said Mr.. Lee. Again we
TOOK seats In the carriage and started
for the climax on
DESPERATION AND DIABoLIsM.
Now we are on the way to a summer
house, called the Assembly Rooms,
which had been built for recreation ana
pleasure. 1t had two rooms each 29xlO'
and some windowless closets, and mere
we're imprisoned 2O6 helpless people.
Ii was TO become the prison OF THESE
women and children. Some or these
Sepoys go permission of Mana Sahio
TO take one or more Of these ladies TO
their own place. on the promise they
should be brought back to the summer
House next morning. A daughter OF
Wheeler was also taken ana ala
not return. She afterward married the
Mohammedan 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 ana
flies, and stencil, and starvation.
Then Mana Sahib heard that Have
lock was coming, and
HIS NAME WAS A TERROR
to the Sepoys. Lest the women aud
children imprisoned in the Summer
House. or Assembly Rooms, should be
liberated, be ordered that their throatS
should be cut. The officers were COM
manded TO do the work, and attempted
IL. but failed because the law OF caste
would not allow the Hindoo to hold
the victims while they were being
slain. Then one hundred men were
ordered TO fire through the windows,
but they fired over the heads OF the I'm
prisoned ones, and only q few were
killed. Theu Mana Sahib was in rage,
and ordered professional butchers
from among the lowest Of the
Qypsies TO 60 at the work. Five
of them with hatchets and
swords and knives began the work.
but three OF them collapsed and tainted
under the ghastliness, and 1t was LETT
TO two butchers TO complete the slaugh-
ter. The struggle, the sharp cut, the
binding blow, the cleaving through,
scalp and skull, the begging for life, the
death agony Of hour after bSyI, the
tangled limbs OF the corpses, the piled
ND dead-only God and th0se who were
inside the Summeg House can ever
know. The butchers came out ex-
hausted, thinking they had done their
work, sad the doors were closed. Bat
whe'. they were again opened three
wSmen and three boys were still alive.
All these were soon dispatched, and not
a Christian or a European was left in
Cawnpore. The murderers were
PAID FIFTY CENTS FOR EACH LADY
SLAIN.
The Mohammedan assassins dragged by
the hair the dead bodies out OF the
summer house and threw them into
well, by which / stood with such feel
ings as you cannot imagine. But after
the mutilated bodies had been thrown
into the well, the record OF the scene
in hieroglYphics Of crimson on
the floor and wall of the slaughter
house. An eyewitness says that, as be
walked In, the blood was shoe deep, ana
on this blood were tufts Of hair, pieces
Of muslin, broken combs, fragments OF
children's straw hats, a card
case containing q curl with the inscrip'
ton, "Ned's hair, with love-" few
leaves of an Episcopal prayer-oook;
also a book entitled, preparation for
DEATH" Bible, on the tly-leat of which
was written, For darling mamma,
from her affectionate daughter, Isabella
Blsir"-both the one who presented II
and the one TO whom 1t was presented,
departed forever.
| said, "Mr. Lee, 1 have heard that
indeliCate things were found written on
the wall" He answered: mo; Uut
these poor creatures wrote In charcoal
and scratched on the walls the story OF
the brutalites they had suffered"
When the English and Scotch troops
came upon the scene, their wrath was
so great that General NELL had the
butchers arrested, and before being
shot compelled them to wipe uD part OF
the floor of this place OF massacre, this
being the worst of their punishment,
for there Is nothing Hindoo so much
hates as to touch blood.
When Havelock came upon the scene,
he had this order annulled. The we'll
was now not only full OF human bodies,
but corpses piled on the outside. The
soldiers worked for many hours In cover
ing the dead.
The sun was sinking beneath the
horizon as I came down the seven or
eight steps Of that palace OF sepulchre,
and l bethought myself, mo Emperor,
unless ii was Napoleon, ever had more
glories around his pillow Of dust, and
no Queen, unless it were the one of TAI
Mahal, had reared for her grander ceno-
taph than crowns the resting places OF
the martyrs OF Cawnpore. But where
rest the bones OF the Herod OF the nine
tsenth century. Mana Sahib? No one
can tell. Two men sent out TO find the
whereabouts Of the daughter OF General
Wheeler tracked Mana Sahib during a
weeks ride into the wilderness, and
they were told that for awhile after the
mutiny Mana Sahib set up
LITTLE PoNIP IN THE JUNGLEs.
Among a few thousand Hindoos and
Mohammedans be took for himself the
onlv two tents the neighbOrs had,
while they lived In the rain and mud.
Mana Sahib with one servant carrying
an umbrella, would go every day 10
battle, and people would 60 and stare.
For some reason after awhile he for
sock even that small attention and dis
appeared among the rsvines of the
Himslaysn mountains. He took with
him in his fight that which he always
took with him-a ruby OF vast value.
He wore il as some wear an amulet.
He wore IL on his bosom. The Hindoo
priest told him as long as be wore that