The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-12-12

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to the opposite shore. Those who strug-
gled out nearby 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
women were not allowed to get into
the boat These were marched away
under the guard Of the Sepoys
which way?" l inquired. IT will
show you," said Mr.. Lee. Again we
took seats in the carriage and started
Tor the climax of desperation and di-
abolism. Now we are on the way to a
summer house called the Assembly
Rooms, which had been built for recre-
alton and pleasure. 1t had two rooms
each twenty by ten, and some window
less closets, and here were imprisoned.
SO6 helpless people. 1t was to become
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 they should be brought back
to the summer garden next morning
! A daughter of Gen. Wheeler was so
taken and did not return. She after
( wards married the Mohammedan who
had taken her to his tent. Some of the
Sepoys amused themselves by thrust
ing 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 chill
dren waited their doom for eighteen
days and nights amid sickness, and
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
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 Hin
doc to hold the victims while they were
being slain. Then one hundred men
were ordered to fire through the win
dows, but they fred 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 to go
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 it was left
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 hour,
the tangled limbs of the corpses, the
piled-up dead-only God and those who
were inside the summer house can
ever know. The butchers came
out exhausted, thinking 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 were soon
dispatched, and not 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 a well, by which !
stood with such feelings as you cannot
imagine. But after the mutilated
bodies had been thrown into the we'll,
the record of the scene remained in
hieroglyphics of crimson on the floor
and wall of the slaughter house. An
eye witness says that, as he walked in,
the blood was shoe deep, and on this
blood were tufts of hair, pieces of mus
lin. broken combs, fragments of pima
fores, children's straw hats, a card case
containing curl with the inscription,
'Ned's hair, with love-" few leaves OF
an episcopal prayer book; also book
entitled preparation for DEATH" a
Bible, on the flyleaf of which was writ
ten, For darling mamma, from her
affectionate daughter, Isabelle Blair
both the one who presented it and
the one to whom 1t was presented, de.
parted forever.
II said: ''Mr. Lee, / have heard that
indelicate things were found written
on the wall" He answered: mo; bu'
these poor creatures wrote in charcoal
and scratched ON the wall the story o.
the brutalities they had suffered"
When the English and Scotch troop:
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so great that Gen. Neill had thu
butchers arrested and before being sho
compelled them to wipe up part of thC
floor of this place of massacre, thi'
being the worst of their punishment
for there is nothing that Hindoo Sc
hates as to touch blood.
When Havelock came upon the scene
he had this order annulled. The wei
; was now not only full ofhuman bodies
but corpses piled on the outside. TIL,
soldiers were for many hours engaged
in covering the dead.
1t was about o'clock in the evening
when came upon this place in Gavin
pore. The building in which the mas
t sacre took place has been torn dow
. and garden of exquisite and fragran
5 flowers surrounds the scene Mr.. Lei
! pointed out to us some seventy mounds
containing bodies or portions of bodice
S of those not thrown into the well. A
. soldier stands on guard to keep tn,
foliage and flowers from being ruthless
. ly pulled. asked a soldier if l nigh
/, take a rose as a memento, and HI
a handed me cluster of roses, red anC
9 white, both colors suggestive to me
the red typical of the carnage ther,
a enacted, and the white for the purit,
of those who from that spot assembled
g But of course the most absorbing inter
t est concentrated at the we'll, into whicl