The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-12-21

nor night; the hospital crowded With
the dying; smallpox, scurvy, chol-
era, adding their work to that
of shot and she'll; women brought
4 up in all comfort and never hav-
ing known want crowded and oacri-
feed in cellar where nine children
were born; less and less food; no water
except that which was brought from a
well under the enemy's fire. SO that
the water obtained was at the price OF
blood; the stencil of the dead horses
added to the effiuvia of corpses, and all
waiting for the moment when the army
of GO, 900 shrieking Hindoo devils should
break in upon the garrison of the resi-
dency, now reduced by wounds and
sickness and death to 976 men, women
and children.
'Call me early" said, tomorrow
morning and let us be at the residency
before the sun becomes too hot" At z
o'clock in the morning we left our ho-
tel in Lucknow, and said to our oblig-
ing, gentlemanly escort, "Please take
us along the road by which Havelock
and Outram came to the relief of the
residency." That was the way we
went. There was a solemn stiffness as
we approached the gate of the resi-
dency. Battered and torn is the ma
sorry of the entrance Signature of
shot and punctuation of cannon ball
all up and down and everywhere.
Here to the left" said our escort,
''are the remains of a building the first
floor of which in other days had been
used as banqueting hall, but then was
used as a 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 AmputatioDs
were performed without chloroform.
All the an@sthetics were exhausted. A
fracture that in other climates and un-
der other circumstances would have
come to easy convalescence here proved
fatal Yonder was DIR. Fayrer's 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 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 DR.. Fay
rer's house on the other side of the road.
Sir Henry Lawrence had been in poor
health for long time before the mu-
tiny. 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 wou. l 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,
1T the time when all the people were
looking to him for wisdom and cour-
tSe, OF henry Is uyinS.
Our escort describes the scene,
unique, tender, beautiful and overpow-
sring, and while ] stood on the very
spot where the signs and groans of the ,
and lacerated and broken I
hearted met the whiz of bullets, and
he demoniac hiss of bursting shell, !
Ind the roar of batteries, my escort I
gave me the particulars.
Gas soon as Sir Henry was told that
lie had not many hours to live he asked
he chaplain to administer to him the {;
holy communion. He felt particularly
anxious for the safety of the women in {
he residency, who, at any moment, ;
night be subjected to the savages who
lowled around the residency, their {
breaking in only matter of time un-
ess re-enforcements should come. He
would frequently say to those who sur
his death couch: Save the !
aides. God help the poor women and !
.hildrenr lie gave directions for the !
desperate defense of the place. He
lsked forgiveness of all those whom {
lie might Internationally have neglect
ID or offended. He left message for &
III his friends. He forgot not to give
direction for the care of his favoiite !
horse. He charged the officers, say ]
ng: by no means surrender. Make !
10 treaty or compromise with the des-
Die fighting He took
charge of the asylum he had establish
ID for the children of soldiers. He
rave directions for his burial,
aging: No nonsense; no fuss. Let {
ne be buried with the men, He die l
.ated his own epitaph, which read '
Lbove his tomb: Here lies Henry Law {
.anca who tried to do his duty Mar i