The free press., 1894-12-20

the victory to His people.
Therefore Mana Sahib must try som'
other plan. Standing in a field not far from
the intrenchment OF the English was
native Christian woman, Jacobee by name
holding high up in her hand a letter. 1
was evidently communication from th
enemy. and General Wheeler or1ered thu
woman brought in. She bande him pro
posed treaty. II General Wheeler and his
men would give up their weapons. Nana
Sahib would conduct them into safety.
They could march out unmolested, the mon
women and children. They could go down
tomorrow to the Oranges, where they
would find boats to take them in peace tc
Allahabad.
There was some opposition to signing
this treaty, but General Wheeler's wife told
him he could trust the natives, and so he
signed the treaty. There was great JOY in
the intrenchment that night. Without
mol estation they went out and got plenty ol
water to drink ani water for good wash.
Tho hunger and thirst and exposure from
the consuming sun, with the thermometer
from 120 to 14o, would cease. Mothers re-
ioiced at the prospect OF saving their chill
dren. The young ladies of the intrench-
ment would escape the wild beasts in human
form. On the morrow. true to the promise,
carts were ready to transport those who
were too much exhausted to walk.
| "Get into the carriage" sail Mr.. Lee,
''and we will ride to the banks of the
| Ganges, for which the liberated combatants
and dnon-combatants started from this place"
| On our way Mr. Lee pointed out mouu-
ment over the burial place which was opened
| for General Wheeler's intrenchment, the
well into which every night the deli had
been dropped. Around 1t is n curious
memorial There are five crosses, one at
each corner OF the garden and ons at the
centre, from which Inscription 1 to-day read
my text. Riding on we came to the Memoir
ial Church built to the memory OF those
fallen in Cawnpur. The walls are covered
with tablets and epitaphs. copied two or
three OF tho inscriptions: "These are they
who come out of great tribulatIons y also.
"The dead shalt be raised incorruptible !"
also, "In the world ye shall have tribuiaton,
but be Of good cheer. have overcome the
world > also, THE Lord gave. The Lord
hath taken away also, "Come unto Me, all
ye that labor and are heavy laden"
"Get into the carriage" said Mr.. Lee. an
we rode on to the Ganges and got out ut
Hindoo temple standing on the banks.
"Now," said Mr.. Lee, "here is the place to
which General Wheeler and his people came
under the escort of Mana Sahib." went
down the steps to the margin OF the river
Down these steps went General Wheeler and
the men, women and children under his
care. They stood on one side Of the steps,
and Mana Sahib and his staff stood on the
other side. AS the women were getting into
the boats Mana Sahib objected that only tho
aged and inflrm women and children should
90 on board the boats. Tho young and at
traotlve women were kept out. Twenty
eight boats were filled with men, women and
children and foated out into the river. Each
boat contained ten armed natives. Then
three bonts fastened together were brought
up, and General Wheeler and his staff got in.
Although orders were given to start, the
three boats were somehow detained. AT this
juncture boy Of twelve years of age hoistei
on the top Of the Hindoo temple on the
banks two flags, a Hindoo and a Moham-
medan flag. at which signal the boatmen and
armed natives jumped from the boats and
swan for the shore, and from innumerable
guns the natives on the bank fired on the
boats, and masked batteries above and below
roared with destruction, 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. Mama Sahib
and his staff with their swords slashed to
pieces General Wheeler and his staff, who
had not got we'll away from the shore.
said that the young and attractive wo-
men were not allowed to get into the boats.
These were marched away under the guard
of the sepoys.
(Which way2" inquired. ~ will show
the carriage and started for the climax OF
desperation and diabolism. Now we arc on
the way to u summer house, called the as
sembly 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 prl-
son of these women and children. Some of
these sepoys got permission OF Mana Sahib
to take one or moro of thess ladies to thoir
own place on tho promise they should be
brought back to the summer garden next
morning. A daughter of General Wheeler
was 50 taken and dtd not return. She after
ward married the Mohammedan who had
taken her to his tent. Some sepoys amused
themselves by thrustiny 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 files 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 were soon dispatched,
and not a Christian or European was left in
CaWnpur The murdererS were paid fifty
cents for each lady slain. The Mohamme-
dan assasslns dragged by the hair the dead
bodies out OF the summer house and threw
them into we'll, by which l stood with such
feelings as you cannot imagine. But after
tho mutilated bodies had been thrown into
well the record of the scene remained in
hieroglyphics OF crimson on the floor and
wall of the slaughter house. An eyewitness
says that as he walked in the blood was shoe
deep, and on this blood were tufts Of hair,
pieces OF muslin, broken combs, fragments
of pinafores, children's straw hats, q card
cnse 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 fly
leaf on which was written, "For darling
mamma, from her affectionate daughter,
Isabella Blair" both the one who presented
it and the one to whom it was presented de-
parted forever.
Then Mana Sahib heard that Havelock
was coming, and his name was a terror to
the sepoys. Lest the women and children
imprisoned in the summer house. or ass ,n
bly, rooms, should be liberated, he orderel
that their throats should be cut. The ofa
GERS were commanded to do the work and
attempted 1t, but failed because the law o
caste would not allow the Hindoo to hole
the victims while they were being slain
Then 100 men were ordered to fire through
the windows, bat they fired over the head.