The Penn's Grove record., 1894-12-14
GROVE, N. J., FRIDAY. DECEMBER IA. 1894.

women and children. They could go down
tomorrow to the Oranges, where they
would find boats to take them in peace to
\ E~llahahad.
There was some opposition to signing
his treaty, but General wheeier's wife told
| lin he could trust the natives, and so he
4 gigned the treaty. There was great Joy In
he intrenchment that night. Without
mol ~estation they went out and got plenty OF
| water to drink AMI water for a goo | wash.
| rhe hunger int thirst and exposure from
| he consuming SUI. with the thermometer
| rom 800 to 40, would cease. Mothers re-
diced Mt the prospect OF saving their chill
lren. The young lllies Of the intrench-
nent would escape the wild beasts in human
orm. On the morrow, true to the promise,
arts were ready to transport those who
gere too much exhausted to walk.
"Get into the carriage," said Mr.. Lee,
and we will ride TO the banks OF the
ianges, for which the liberated combatants
| nd non-combatants started from this place."
IN our way Mr.. Les pointed out a monu-
nent oyer the burial place which was opened
or General Wheeler's ~intrenchment, the
| veil into which every might the dead hal
,een dropped. Around it Is n curious
| memorial. There are five crossis, one at
'ach corner OF the garden and one at the
| ,entre, from which inscription l to-day real
| ny text. Riding on we cam y to the Memoir
al Church built to the memory of those
| allen in Cawnpur. The walls are covered
With tablets and epitaphs. l copied two or
hree Of the inscriptions: "These are they
| Who come out of greet tribulatlons = also.
'rhe dead shall be raised incorruptible :
ilso, SIN the world ye shall nave tribulation,
tut be of good cheer. L have overcome the
world ! also, 1.-THE Lord gave. The Lord
lath taken away = also, "Cone unto Me, all
70 that labor AMI are heavy lalen."
I ftEaf into tho oarrfaHa - aail Mr. I'm nm 4
se rode on to the Gauges and got out at a
Hindoo temple ~standing on the banks.
Now" said Mr.. Lee, there is the place to
which General Wlealsr and his people came
\ inder the escort OF Mana Sahib." went
Down the steps to tie margin OF Tho river.
Down these steps went Ganeral Wheeler and
he men, women and children under his
ARE. Taey stood on Que side OF the steps,
md Mana Sahib n his staff stood on the
Ither side. As the women were getting into
he boats Mana Sahib objected that only the
| lged and intirm women and children shoul
20 on board the boats. The young and at
raetIve women were kept out. Twenty
sight boats were filed with men, women mi
,hillren and foatsd out into the river. Each
)oat contained ten armed natives. Then
.hree boats fastened together were brought
Up, and General Wheeler and his stan got In.
Although orders were given to start, the
:hree boats were somehow detained. At this
] luucturb u 10Y OF Twelve years OF = uOlSI6l
On the top of the Hindoo temple On the
banks two flags, a Hindoo and a Moham-
nedan flag, at which signal the boatmen and
armed natives jumped from the boats and
swan Tor the shore, and from innumerable
guns the natives on the bank fired on the
boats, and masked batteries above and below
eoared with destruction, AMI 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 SRhih
and his staff with their swords siashed TO
pieces General Wheeler ami his staff, who
had not got we'll away from the shore.
1 said that the young and attractive wo-
men were not allowed TO get into the boats.
These were marched away under tho guard
of tue sepoys.
(which way2" 1 inquired. "I will show
you" said Mr.. Lee. Again we took seats In
the carriage and started tor thu climax OF
desperation AMI dilbolism. Now we are o
The way to Il summer house, called the as
sembly rooms, which had been built for req
reation an pleasure. 1t had two rooms,
zach twenfy-nlne by ten. AMI some window
less closets, AMI here were imprisoned 206
helpless people. 1t was to become the pri-
son of these women and children. Some of
:hese sepoys got permission Of Mana Sahib
% take one or more OF thess ladies' to their
own place on the promise they should be
/ brought Daek 10 tnB summer garden next
morning, A auIhter of General Wheeler
was 50 taken m | did not return. Size after
| ward married the Mohamnedan who hal
taken her to his tent. Some sepoys amused
! themselves by thrusting children through
with bayonets and holding them up before
heir mothers in the summer house. All the
doors closed IN the sepoys standing guard,
The crowded women and children waited
.heir doom for eighteen days AMI nigats
amid sickness ami dies and stencil AMI
starvation.
The butchers came out exhausted, think
ing they had done their YorS, an the doors
were closed. but when they wsre again
opened three women and three boys were
still alive. All these were soon dispatched,
and not a Qnristian or European was left 10
Cawnpur. The murderers were paid fifty
cents for each lady slain. Tho Mohamme-
dan assassins dragged by the hair the dead
bodies out Of the summer house aud threw
them into q we'll, by which | stood with such
feelings as you cannot imagine, But after
the muttlated DO lies had been thrown into
well the record OF the scene remained in
hieroglyphtcs OF rinse on tho 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 tutts of hair,
pieces of muslin, broken combs, fragments
OF plnafores, chilireR'5 straw hats, a carl.
case containing a curl, with the inscription,
"Ned's hair, with love y a few leaves Of an
Episcopal prayer book also q book entitlei
preparation Tor Death !" a Bible on the fly
| leaf on which was written, ttFQe darling