The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-12-14

| given to start, the three boats were some
how detained. At this juncture boy Of
~ years of age hoisted ON the top OF the
Hindoo temple on the banks two flags,
Hindoo and Mohammedan flag. at
which signal the boatmon and armed
natives jumped from the boats and swan
for the shore, and from innumerabls
guns tho natives on <he bank fred OH
the boats, and masked batteries above
and below roared with destruction, and
tho boats sank with their precious car.
go, and all went down save three strong
swimmers, who got to the opposite
shore. Those who struggled gut noar by
were dashed to death. Mana Sahib and
his staff with their swords slashed to
pieces General Wheeler and his staff,
who had hot got well away from tho
shore.
said that the young and attractive
women were not allowed to get into tho
boats. Thego were marched away under
tho guard of the sepoys,
Days of Horror.
(Which way?" l inquired. 81 will
show you" said Mr.. Lee. Again we
took Seats in the carriage and started for
tho climax of desperation and diabolism.
Now we are on the way to summer
house. called the assembly rooms,
which had been built for rocfeatiou and
pleasure. 1t had two rooms, each 30 by
10, and somo windowless closots, and
hereswero imprisoned 206 helpless peo-
pie. 1t was to become the prison Of
these women and children. Some Of
these sepoys got permission OF Mana
Sahib to take ono or more Of these la
dies to their own place ON the promise
they should DO brought back to tho same
mer garden next morning A daughter
of General Wheeler was so taken and
did not return She afterward married
the Mohammedan who had taken her
to his tent. Some sepoys amused them
selves by thrustinG children through
with bayonc.s and holding them up be-
ferb their mothers IN the summer house.
All the doors closed and the sepoys
standing guard, the crowded women
and children waited their doom for Is
days and nights amid sickness and flies
and stencil and starvation.
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 summer
house, or assembly rooms, should be lib
Grated, he ordered that their threats
should be cut. The officers were COM
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it, but failed because the law Of caste
would not allow the Hindoo to hold the
victims while they were being slain.
Then 100 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 pro-
fessional butchers from among the low
est 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
ghastliuess, and it was left to two
butchers to completes the slaughter.
The struggle, the sharp cut, the blind
ing 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
tip 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 We're still alive. All these
were soon dispatched, and not a Chris
tian or European was left in Gavin
pur. The murderers were paid 80 cents
Tor each lady slaiH. The MohamSedan
assassins dragged by the lair the dead
bodies out of the summer house and
threw them into a well, by which l
stood with such feelings as you cannot
imagine. But after the mutilated bodies
had been thrown into the well the rec
ord of the scene Remained in hieroglyph
les of crimson on the floor ahd wall
Of the slaughter house. An eyewitness
says that as he walked in the blood was
shoe deep, and IN this blood We're tufts
of hair, pieces of muslin, broken combs,
fragments of pinafores, children's straw
hats, a cardcase containing curl, with
the inscription, "Ned's hair, with
lover few leaves Of all Episcopal
prayer book; also book entitled
Preparation For DEATH" Bible on
the fly leaf of which was written, "For
darling mamma, from her affectionate
daughter, Isabella Blair, both the one
who presented it and the one to whom
1t was presented departed forever.
said, "Mr Lee, I have heard that
tndelicate things were found written on
the walls" He answered, ''No, but
these poor creatures wrote i'll charcoal
and scratched on the wall the story Of
the brutalities they had suffered. "
Bave1ock to the Rescue.
When the English and Scotch troops
came upon the scene, their wrath was
30 great that General NELL had the
butchers arrested, and before being shot
compelled them to wipe up par If the
floor of this place of massacre, this be-
ing the worst of their punishment, for
there is nothing that Hindoo so 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 corpscs piled on The outside. The
soldiers were for many ,urs engaged in
covering the dead.
1t was about O'Clock in the evening
when / came upon this place i'll Gavin
pur. The building in which the mas
sacre took place has been torn, down and
Z garden of exquisite and fragrant
flowers surrounds the scenn Mr. Lee