The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-09-10

"Thou Misa OOdrington Oont mo

"Then Misa Codrington sent mo q
message that she, too, was in the house.
found her in fearful condition. but
with cold water and rags we managed to
staunCh the bleeding. She begged mo
not to wait, as she thought TopSy Saan.
ders was still alive. | then rushed to
tho back OF the house and found the
bodies OF Miss Saunders, Miss Stewart,
Miss Gordon and Miss Marshall. The
latter was awfully cut, her head being
almost severed, but beyond the wounds
given in the struggle, the bodice we're
not mutilated. Later l found Miss
Coombs'S body at the foot OF tho hill in
front Of the house, whore it evidently
had been thrown. AS then l could 500
no signs OF Mr.. aud Mrs. Steward, Miss
Saunders and Lena, tho nurse, we
hoped they had escaped, and returned
to the house where tho Steward children
and Miss Codriugton were. Presently
Miss Hartford arrived. She had re-
cetved y cut under ono OF her ears, but
had been saved by n native Christian.
learned later that the five ladies OF tho
XenaaR mission society, who lived ia
two houses which formed the Ku Oheng
sAnatorium, after iutilO attempt to o..
cape, got out Of the back end and warc
Immediately surrounded. Some OF tho
VegetarianS were Inclined to spare them,
but were ordered by their leaders 10
carry out their orders: XIII, and spare
not Had they been able to escape to
the brushwood there seems little doubt
1ha,, ,yhN hnVn knnt, .n,,nI
"Mr. and Mrs. Steward were killed 40
they sprang from bed. Lena, the nurse.
died while protecting the baby, whom
Kathleen managed TO carry out OF tho
house, though not before its eyes had
been cut out. Miss Nellie Sanders was
also knocked down at the nursery door
when going to help the children, and, ns
we afterwATd found tho remains OF
burned body there, We had little doubt
that il was hprs. For n long timo Eo
thought Mr.. and Mrs. Steward had Ga.
caped, but later / found their bodies,
or rather aHheO, in what had been their
bed room.
"Iho Hau Sang people seemed to have
had, as n whole, no hnnd in the affair,
though doubtless four or five vegetarian
families were concerned. The natives
say tho vegetarian band came from tho
cast road Of Ku Cheng city, many from
Ang.Long and Adong.ijang, within
thirty or forty miles Of Ku Uhoug"
MISS lARTLAND's ESCAPE
Misa Harttund says the whole affair
was over in thirty minutes, and that
tho attacking party numbered about
lOO vol organized under ono loador.
Her own terrible experience she relatvs
thus: ~ heard shouts and yGlls on the
streets. and, putting on my eloshos |
ruahOd to tho door, 10 DO mot by Il man
with n trident and spear, who yelled;
There's foreign woman Tho inan
pointed his spear at my breast, but |
twisted the weapon TO ono aide, aud IL
just grazod my car aud hUAd. llo thnn
threw tho to tho ground aud boat tho
with the wooden ond Of tho spear, but q
servant came who wrcnchOd tho wOn.
pom away and told mo to ily. iumped
down tho OmbankmenL aud ran nlong
tho road. Tho servant followed and
pulled mo along tho road until got up
to tho side OF the hill, whore lay down
TO got breath Alter resting twice I
reached secluded spot aud lay thsro.
"All this time tho yelH went on and