The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-12-14

gwen to ats.t;, the three boats were some
how detained At this juncture boy OF
| 10 years of age hoisted ON the top of the
Hindoo temple on the banks two flags,
Hindoo and a Mohammedan 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 car
60 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 Sahib and
his staff with their swords slashed to
pieces General Wheeler and his staff,
who had hot got well away from the
shore.
l said that the young and attractive
women were not allowed to get into the
boats. Thee were marched away under
the guard of the sepoys.
Days of Horror.
(Which way?" I inquired. 81 will
show you," said Mr.. Lee. Again we
took seats in the carriage and started for
the climax of desperation and diabolism.
Now we are on the way to summer
house, called the assembly rooms,
which had been built for recreation and
pleasure. 1t had two rooms, each 80 by
10, and some windowless closets, and
here were imprisoned 206 helpless peo-
pie 1t was to become the prison of
these sepoys got permission of Mana
Sahib to take one or more of these la
dies to their own place on the promise
they should be brought back to the sum-
mer garden next morning. A daughter
of General Wheeler was SO taken and
aid not return. She afterward married
the Mohammedan who had taken her
to his tent. Some sepoys amused them
selves by thrusting children through
with bayonets and holding them up be-
fore their mothers in the summer house.
All the doors closed and the sepoys
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
handed to do the work and attempted
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 a rage and ordered pro-
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 |
ghastliness, and it was left to two |
butchers to complete the slaughter.
The struggle, the sharp cut, the blind
ing blow, the cleaving through scalp
and skull, the begging for ifG. the
death agony of hour after hour, the
tangled limbs of the corpses, the piled
up dead-only God and those who were
inside the summer house can ever know.
The butchers came out exhausted,
they had done their work, and
the doors were closed, but when they
we're again opened three women and
three boys were still alive. All these
were soon dispatched, and not Chris
ian or a European was left in Gavin
our The murderers were paid 90 cents
or each lady slain The Mohammedan
dragged by the hair the dead
bodies out of the summer house and
threw them into we'll, by which /
TODD with such feelings as you cannot
imagine. But after the mutilated bodies
lad been thrown into the we'll the rec
'rd of the scene remained in hieroglyph-
cs OF crimson on the floor and wall
# the slaughter house. An eyewitness
avs that as he walked in the blood was
hoe deep, and ON this blood were tufts
4 hair, pieces Of muslin, broken combs,
fragments of pinafores, children's straw
ats, cardcase containing a curl, with
he inscription, "Ned's hair, with
ove;" a few leaves of an Episcopal
rayer book; also a book entitled
Preparation For Death" Bible on
he fly leaf of which was written, For
airing mamma, from her affectionate
aughter, Isabella Blair" both the one
Who presented it and the one to whom
was presented departed forever.
l said, "Mr. Lee, have heard that
ldelioate things were found written ON
le walls. He answered, "No. but
1ese poor creatures wrote in charcoal
nd scratched ON the wall the story of
le brutalities they had suffered"
Havelock to the Rescue.
When the English and Scotch troops
,me upon the scene, their wrath was
, great that General Neill had the
utchers arrested, and before being shot
'mpelled them to wipe up part of the
DOR Of this place of massacre, this be- !,
lg the worst of their punishment, for I
lere is nothing that Hindoo SO hates :
J to touch blood.
When Havelock came upon the scene, :
, had this order annulled. The well :
as now not only full Of human bodies, 5
1t oorpses piled on the outside. The a
ldiers were for many hours engaged in I