The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-12-21
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armed natives. Then three boats
fastened together were brought up
and Gen. Wheeler and his staff got
in. Although orders were given to
start, the three boats were detained.
| At this juncture boy twelve years OF
! age hoisted on the top of the Him
| doc temple on the banks two flags.
a Hindoo and a Mohammedan flag, al
which signal the boatlnen and armed
natives jumped from the boats and
swan for the shore; and from innu-
merable guns the natives on the bank
I fired on the boats and masked bat
teries above and below roaIcd with de-
| struction, 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. Mana Sahib and his
staff with their swords slashed to
pieces Gen. Wheeler and his staff, who
had not got well away from the shore.
said that the young and attractive
| woman were not allowed TO get into
the boat. These were marched away
/ p
(Which way" 1 inquired, II will
show you," said Mr. Lee. Again we
took seats in the carriage and started
| for the climax of desperation and di-
| abolish. Now VIC are on the way to n
summer house, called the Assembly
! Rooms, which had been built for
recreation and pleasure. 1t had
two rooms each twenty-nine by
| ten, and some windowless closets.
| and here were imprisoned two hundred
and six helpless people. It was to be-
| come the prison of these women and
children. Some of these Sepoys got
permission of Mana Sahib to take one
or more OF these ladies to their own
place, on the promise that they should
be brought back to the summer gar
den next morning. A daughter ofGen.
Wheeler was so taken, and did not re-
turn. She afterward married the Mo-
!lammedan who had taken her To
his tent. Some Sepoys amused them
selves by thrusting children through
with bayoncts 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 flies and stencil and star
vation.
Then Mana Sahib heard that Have
lock was comiNS, and his name was a
terror TO the Sepoys. Lest the women
and children imprisoned in the Sum
mer house, or assembly rooms, should
be liberated, he ordered that their
throats should be cut. The officers
were commanded to do the worx, and
attempted it, but failed because the
law of caste would not allow the i4indoo
30 hold the victims while they were be-
ing slain. Then one hundred men we're
ordered to fire through the windows,
but they fired over the heads of tho
imprisoned ones, and only few were
killed. Then Mana Sahib was in n
rage, and ordered professional butchers
from among the lowest of the gypsics
to go at the work. Five OF them, with
hatchets, and swords, and knives, be-
gan the work. but three of them col
lapsed and tainted under the ghastli-
ness, and it was left to two butchers 10
complete the slaughter. The struggle,
the sharp cut, the binding blow, the
cleaving through scalp and skull, the
begging for life, the death agony
of hour after hour, the tangled
limbs of the copses, the piled-up
dead-only God and those who
were inside the summer house can ever
know. The butchers came out exhaust
ed, thinking they had done their work,
and tho doors were closed. But when
they were again opened three women
and three boys were still alive. All
these were soon dispatched, and not .
Christian or a European was lefs IN
Cawnpore. The murdcrers were paid
fifty cents for each lady slain. Tho
Mohammedan assassins dragged by
the hair the dead bodies ont OF
the summer house and threw them
into well, by which ] stood
with such feelings as you can not
imagine. But after the mutilated
bodies had been thrown into the well,
the record Of the scene remained in
hieroglyphics of crimson on the floor
and wall of the slaughter house. An
eye witness 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, n card
case containing curl with the in
scriptiOn: "Ned's hair, with loves"
few leaves of an Episcopal prayer
book; also book entitled: "Prepara-
tion for Death" Bible, on the fly
leaf Of which was written: For dar-
ling mamma, from he affectionato
daughter, Isabella Blair"-both the
one who presented it and the one 70
whom it was presented, departed for
ever.
Now, my friends, go home, after what
] have said, to see the beauties of the
and Hindooism which
many think it will be we'll 10 have in
troduced into America; and to dwell
upon what natural evolution will do
where il has had its unhindered wsv
for thousands Of years. And TO think
upon the wonders Of martyrdom for
Christ's sake; and to pray more earn
est prayers for the missionaries and 10
more largely for the worlds
evangelization, and TO be more assured
than ever that the overthrow Of the
idolatries Of nations is such a stupen-
dous work that nothing but an Omni-
potent God through the Gospel Of
Jesus Christ can ever achieve 1t. Amen!
When you see man laid out on a
cold marble SLAB in the morgue, You
conclude he is dead So when you see
a professor Of religion at church
froIic OF. the fheater or the lodge or