The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-30

! floor of which in other days had been
used as banqueting hall. but then was
used as hospital. At this part the am
putations took place. and all such pa
tients died. The heat was SO great and
the food so insufficient that the poor
fellows could not recover from the loss
of blood. They all died. Amputatiors
were performed without chloroform.
All the an8sthetics were exhausted. \
fracture that in other climates and un-
der other circumstances would have
come to easy convalescence here proved
fatal Yonder was DIR. Fayrers house.
who was surgeon of the place and is
now Queen Victoria's doctor. This up
per room was the officers room, and
there Sir Henry Lawrence, our dear
commander. was wounded. While he
sat there a shell struck the room. and
some one suggested that he had better
leave the room. but he smiled and said:
lightning never strikes twice in the
same place Hardly had he said this
when another shell tore off his thigh.
and he was carried dying into DIR. Fay
rer's house on the other side of the road.
Sir Henry Lawrence had been in poor
health for a long time before the mu-
tinv. He had been in the Indian service
for years. and he had started for Eng
land to recover his health, but getting
as far as Bombay the English govern
ment requested him to remain at least
awhile. for he could not be spared in
such dangerous times. He came here
to Lucknow. and foreseeing the siege
of this residency had filed many of
the rooms with grain, without which
the residency would have been obliged
to surrender. There were also taken
by him into this residency rice and
sugar and charcoal and fodder for the
oxen and hay for the horses. But now.
at the time when all the people were
looking to him for wisdom and cour-
age, Sir Henry is dying
Our escort describes the scene.
unique. tender beautiful and overpow-
ering, and while ] stood on the very
spot where the sighs and groans of the
besieged and lacerated and broken
hearted met the whiz of bullets. and
the demoniac hiss of bursting shell.
and the roar of batteries. my escort
gave me the particulars.
"As soon as Sir Henry was told that
he had not many hours to live he asked
the chaplain to administer to him the
holy communion. He felt particularly
anxious for the safety of the women in
the residency. who. at any moment.
might be subjected to the savages who
howled around the residency. their
breaking in only a matter of time un-
less re-enforcements should come. He
would frequently say to those who sur
rounded his death couch: Save the
ladies. God help the poor women and
children. He gave directions for the
desperate defense of the place. He
asked forgiveness of all those whom
he might unintentionally have neglect
ed or offended. He left a message for
all his friends. He forgot not to give
direction for the care of his favorite
horse lie charged the officers. say
ing: BY no means surrender. Make
no treaty or compromise with the des-
peradoes Die fighting He took
charge of the asylum he had establish
gave directions for his burial,
saying: No nonsense; no fuss. Let
me be buried with the men, He die
tated his own epitaph. which | read
above his tomb: Here lies Henry Law
renee, who tried to do his duty. May
the Lord have mercy on his soul. He
said: 4 would like to have passage OF
Scripture added to the words on my
grave. such as. ITO the Lord our God be-
long mercies and ndforgivenesses, though
we have rebelled against him." Isn't
it from Daniel? So as brave a man as
| England or India ever saw expired. The
soldiers lifted the cover from his face
and kissed him before they carried him
out. The chaplain offered a prayer
Then they moved the great hero amid
the rafting hail of guns and put
him down among other soldiers buried
at the same time" All of which state
for the benefit of those who would have
us believe that the Christian religion
is fit only for women in the eighties
and children under seven. There wa
glory enough in that departure to hale
Christendom.
There" said our escort. Bob thu
Mailer did the work who was Boi
the Nailer?'' ''Oh. he was the African
who sat at that point, and when an,
one of our men ventured across thu
road he would drop him by rifle ball
Bob was a sure marksman. The onl,
way to get across the road for waite
from the well was to wait until his gul
flashed and then instantly cross befor
he had time to load. The only way w
could get rid of him was by digging
mine under the house where he wa
hidden. When the house was blown up
Bob the Mailer went with it" | sat
to him. Had you made up your mind
what YOU and the other sufferers woul
do in case the fiends actually broke in?
''Oh, yesr' said my escort. We ha
it all planned. for the probability wa
every hour for nearly five months tina
they would break in. You must remem
Der it was l.6O0 against 10000. an
for the latter part of the time 1t wa
nine hundred against sixty thousand
and the residency and the earthwork
around il were not put up for such
attack. 1t was only from the mercy G
God that we were not massacred 500
after the besiegement- We were re
solved not to allow ourselves to get IL
to the hands of those desperadoe:
You must remember that we and a
the women had heard of the butcher
at Cawnpur. and we knew what defea
meant. If unable to hold out an
longer. we would have blown ourselve
up and all gone out of life together.
.'Show me- said. 1.-The rooms wher
the women and children staid durin
these awful months" Then we crosse
over and went down into the cellar
the residencv. With shudder of horrC