Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-12-10

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the summer house can ever know.
Tho butchers came out exhausted, think.
ing they had done their work, nnd the
doors wero closed But when they were
ngain opened three women and three boys
were still alive All these were soon dis.
patched, and not a Christian or Euro
penn was left IL Cawnpur. Tho murder.
ers were paid 30 cents for each lady slain.
Tho Mohanmodan assassins dragged by
tho har tho dead bodies out OF tho sum.
NOR house and threw them into the well.
by which l stood with such feelings az
you cannot imagine. But after tho mutt.
lated bodies had been thrown into the well
the record Of tho sccne remained In hero.
glyphics Of crimson on the floor md wall
OF the slaughter house. An eyewitness
says that as he walked in the blood was
shoe deep, and on this blood were tufts Of
hair, pieces OF muslin, broken combs, frag.
ments Of pinaloros, children's straw hats
a cardcase containing a curl with tho In.
scription, "Ncd's hair with love" a fow
leaves of an Episcopal prayer book; also
book entitled Preparation For Death" a
Bible on the fly leaf Of which was written,
For darling mamma, from her affection.
ate daughter, Isabella Blair both the ono
who presented 1t and the ono to whom 1t
was presented departed forever
A Chastity Well.
said, "Mr. Lee, have heard that in.
delicate things were written on the wall. -
Io answered, mo, but these poor crea-
lures wrote in charcoal and scratched on
tho wall the story OF tho brutalitles thoy
had suffered
When the English and Scotch troops
camo upon the scene, their wrath was SO
/ great that General Neill had tho butchers
! arrested and before being shot compelled
thom to wipo up part of the floor of this
place of massacre, this being the worst of
their punishment, for there Is nothing
| Hindoo so hates MS to touch blood
When HayeloclI Camo upon the scene,
he hnd this order annulled, The well was
now not only full OF human bodies, but
cornses piled ON tho outside. The soldiers
| were for many hours engaged in covering
/ the dead.
| 1t was about o'clock in tho evening
/ when came upon this place in Cawnpur.
| The building In which tho massacre took
! place has boon torn down, and garden Of
exquisite aud fragrant flowers surrounds
the scene. Mr.. Leo pointed out to us some
20 mounds containing bodies or portions
of bodies OF those not thrown into tho
well. A soldier stands ON guard to keep
tho foliage and flowers from being ruth
lessly pulled. asked soldier II might
take rose as n momento, and he handed
me cluster Of roses, red and white both
colors suggestive to me--the red typical of
the carnage there enacted and the white
for the purity OF those who from that spot
nscehdcd. But Of course the most absorb
Ing interest concentrated at tho we'll into
which hundreds Of women and children
were flung or lowered. A circular wall Of
white marble incloses this well. Tho wall
is about 20 feet high. Inside this wall
there is a marble pavement l paced 1t and
found it 81 puces around In the center Of
this inclosuro and Immediately above the
well Of the dead is a sculptured angel OF
resurrection, with illumincd fnce and two
palm branches, meaning victory. This
angel is looking down toward the slum
borers beneath, but the two wings suggest
the rising of the last day. Mighty conso
lation In mnrblel They went down under
the hntchets OF the sopoys; they shall
come up under tho trumpet that shall
wake the dead. Gfeltweak and all a-trum.
bic as stood reading these words on the
stone that covers the well; Sacred to tho
perpetual memory Of great company Of
Christian people, chiefly women and chill.
dron, cruelty nnssaorud near this spot by
the rebel, Mana Sahih and thrown, tho
dying with the dead, into tho well beneath
on the 10th day Of July, 1857" On the
arch of tho mausoleum were cut the
words, These are they who came out of
great tribulatlon."
Food For vulturrs.
The sun was sinking beneath the hori.
zon as / came down the seven or eiqht
steps of that palace Of sopulohur and
hethought myself, No emperor unless 10
wns Napoleon, ever had more glorios
around his pillow of dust, and no queen.
unless II were tho one Of Tai Mahal, had
reared Tor her grandcr cenotaph than
crowns tho resting plnces of the martyrs
at Cawnpur" But where rest tho hones Of
tho Horod Of the nineteenth century. Mana
Shhibt No one can tell Two men sent
out to find tho whereabouts Of thgdaugh.
ter of General Wheeler tracked Mann Sn-
mn during weeks ride into the wilder.
moss, aud they woro told that for awhile
after The mutiny Mana Sahib set UP a lit. /
tio polnp In tho iunglcs. Among a few
Thousand Hindoos and Moliamnotlans no |
TOOK Tor himself the only two tents tho
noighbors had, while they lived In Tho rnin
ana mud. Mana Sahib, with ono servant
carrying an umbrella, would 60 every dnv
to battle and people would 20 and stare.
For some reason utter awhile he fursook
even 'hut si'lall attention and disappeared
among tho ravlncs of tho Hhnalnynn
mountains. He took with him I'm his
hight that which he always took with him
"A ruby Of vast value. fIe wore It as
some wear an amulet. Ho wore 1t as some
wear life prcscrvcr. He wore it on his
psom' Tho llndoo priest told him as
long as he wore that ruby his fortunes
would DO good, but both the ruby and tho
prince who wore it have vanished. Not a
treasure on the outside Of the bosom, but
treasure inside the heart, is the best pro.
teeton. solomon who had rubies in the
mt Of swords, and rubies In tho lin OF tho
t,ankurds' and rubles in his crown, declared
mat which Mana Sahlb did not find outlu
Hme, Wisdom is better than rubies."
Nheh the forests OF India are cleared by
tAe axes OF another civilization, the lost
flby Of this Cawnpur monster NAV be
Picked IN and he brought back again 10
haS9 among tho worlds jewels. But who
sHiii reclaim for decent sopulture the no.
mains M, OF Mann Sahlb' Ask the vnlturcsl
AZ the rcptilesl Ask the jaclalsl Ask
tit midnight Hlmalayasl
Much criticism has been made of Sir
hqry Hnvelock and Sir Colin Campbell
NH.