Connecticut western news., 1894-12-13

through the windows, but they fired over the heads of the imprisoned ones, and only few were killed. Then Mana Sahib was in rage and ordered pro- fessional 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 oleaving through scalp and skull, the begging for life, the death agony of hour after hour, the tangled limbs of the corpses, tho piled up dead-only God and those who were inside the summer house can ever know.
 The butchers came out exhausted, thinking they had done their work, and the doors were closed, but when they were again opened three women and three boys were still alive All these were soon dispatched, and not a Chris tian or a European was left in Cawn- pur. The murderers were paid 50 cents for each lady slain. The Mohammedan assassins dragged by the hair the dead bodies out of the summer house and threw them into. we'll, by which l stood with such feelings as you cannot imagine. But after the mutilated bodies had been thrown into the we'll the rec ord of the scene remained in hieroglyph- ics of crimson on the floor and wall of the slaughter house An eyewitness says that as he walked ill 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, a cardcase containing curl, with the inscription, "Ned's hair, with love-" few leaves of an Episcopal prayer book; also a book entitled Preparation For Death;" Bible on the fly leaf of which was written, "For darling mamma. from her affeotionate daughter, Isabella Blair," both the one who presented it and the one to whom it was presented departed forever.
 said, "Mr. Lee, have heard that indelicate things were found written on the walls" He answered, "No. but these poor creatures wrote in charcoal and scratched on the wall the story of the brutalities they had suffered"
 Havelock to the Rescue.
 When the English and Scotch troops came upon. the scene, their wrath was so great that General Neill had the butchers arrested, and before being shot compelled them to wipe up part of the floor of this place of massacre, this be- ing the worst of their punishment, for there is nothing that Hindoo so hates as to touch blood.
 When Havelock came upon the scene, he had this order annulled. The we'll was now not only full of human bodies, but corpses piled on the outside. The soldiers were for many hours engaged in covering the dead.
 It was about 5 clock in the evening when I came upon this place in Cawn- pur The building in which the mas sacre took place has been torn, down and 8 garden of exquisite and fragrant flowers surrounds the scene MT. Lee pointed out to us some 70 mounds con- taining bodies or portions of bodies of those not thrown into the we'll A sol dier stands on guard to keep the foliage and f1owersfrom being ruthlessly pulled. asked a soldier if 1 might take rose as 8 memento, and he handed me 8 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 ascended.
 But of course the most absorbing in- terest concentrated at the well, into which hundreds of women and children were flung or lowered. A circular wall of white marble inoloses this we'll. The wall is about 90 feet high. Inside this wall there is 8 marble pavement. I paced 1t and found it 57 paces around. mediately above the well of the dead is a sculptured angel of resurrection, with illumined face, and two palm branches, meaning victory. This angel is looking down toward the slumberers beneath, but the two wings suggest the rising of the last day. Mighty consola- tion in marblel They went down under the hatohets of the sepoys. They shall come up under the trumpet that shall wake the dead. I felt weak and all a-tremble as stood reading these words on the stone that covers the we'll: 'Saored to the perpetual memory of great company of Christian people, chiefly women and children, cruelty massacred near this spot by the rebel, Mana Sahib, and thrown, the dying with the dead, into the we'll beneath on the 18th day of July, 1857." On the arch of the mausoleum were cut the words, "These are they who came out of great tribulation.'
 The Fate of tho Rebel.
 The sun was sinking beneath the hori- zon as came down the seven or eight steps, of that palace of sepulcher, and bethought myself: "No emperor, un- less it was Napoleon, ever had more glories around his pillow of dust, and no queen, unless it were the one of Tai Mahal, had reared for her grander ceno- taph than crowns the resting places of the martyrs of Cawnpur But where rest the bones of the Herod of the nine- teenth century, Mana Sahib? No one can tell. Two men sent out to find the whereabouts of the daughter of General wheeler tracked Mana Sah1b during a weeks ride into the wilderness and they were told that for awhile after the mutiny Mana Sahib set up little pomp in the jungles. Among few thousand Hindoos and Mohammedans he took for himself the only two tents the neighbors had, while they lived in the rain and mud. Mana Sahib, with one servant carrying an umbrella, would go every day to bathe, and people would go and stare. For some reason, after awhile he forsook even that small attention, and disappeared among the ravines of the Himalayan mountains. He took with him in his flight that which he always took with him-a ruby of vast value. He wore it as some wear an amulet He wore 1t as some wear a life pre- server. He wore 1t on his bosom. The IT J--