Connecticut western news., 1895-08-08
AMERICANS SPARED.
TEN BRITISH MISSIONARIES WERE
 MURDERED AT KUCHENG, CHINA.

Eight of Those Killed Were Women, Who l Suffered Tortures Worse Than Death.
 Chinese Officials Charged With Inciting
 the Massacre.
 LONDON, Aug 5.-A Shanghai dispatch | to The Times says that the mission and sanitarium at Wha-Sang, near Kucheng province of Fokein, has been attacked and ten British subjects killed. The Rev. Mir. Stewart, wife and child were burned in their house. The Misses Yellow and Marshall, two sisters named Saunders, two sisters named | Gordon and Stettie Neweombe were mur- dered with spears and swords. | Miss Codrington was seriously wounded about the head, and the Stewards eldest child had a kneecap badly injured, while | the youngest had an eye gouged out. The Rev. MT. Phillips, with two Ameri- | cans-Dr. Gregory and Miss Hartford were both wounded, but arrived safely at | Fu-Chau-Fu. The prefect of Chengu, who was on tho inquiry commission, Is seriously implicated.
 A two column letter from Hankau on | the Szu-Chuen mission outrageS published | by The Times this morning declares that officials are at the bottom of all antifor eign agitation, and that the Chinese peo- | pie themselves are quite friendly. The | letter suggests that if the powers tried little benevolent retaliation it would prove an infallible cure.
 l The Standard, in its editorial on the Ku- Cheng outrage, says:
 "We must speak to China in a manner which cannot be misunderstood. Not only must the murderers be punished, but a | stefn example must be made of the offi- cials whose neglect permits such out | rages."
 The Standards special from Shanghai | says that the news of the massacre was suppressed for three days by the Chinese officials. J. Courtney Hixson, the Ameri- can consul at Flu -Chau, with several vol unteers went to the scene in steam launch and brought back the wounded | Americans.
 Their experiences. the dispatch con- | tinues, "were terrible, and death was the least part of the sufferings of the butcher | cd women.
 "The indignation here is intense. A mass meeting will be convened tomorrow. The mandarins will cndeavor to throw all | the blame upon the secret societies, but it is known that they were encouraged by responsible officials.
 "The Chinese are repeating their old tactics of cutting telegraph communica- ] tions
 Miss Hartwen CHartford0 was fearful ly injured and bears evidence of the fear ful treatment and cruelty she received at the bands of the mob.
 Several English and American chill dren have been killed"
 | Eight Women, a Man and a Child Killed.
 The massacre commenced early on TN Tsl- | The houses were fired, and eight ladies a man and a child were killed and several were wounded, two probably mortally. The bodies are expected to arrive at Flu chau today.
 The Chinese troops have been dispatched to the scene. The British and American consuls will have an interview with the | viceroy tomorrow.
 The Times says of the above: "The Rev. | Mir. Stewart resided at Ku- Cheng and su- | perintended the work of the prefectures of Ku-Cheng and Ping g-Nang. Rev. MT. Stewart, writing under date of February, 1895, described how sect known as yege- tarians, taking advantage of the war, sprang into vigorous life and committed numerous outrages and became so formi- dable that the converts wanted him to or ganize and arm. He concludes his letter as follows:
 "'I have just learned that 3, 900 of these have enlisted in the last six months. They are mostly of tho lowest order and at the present time the reins of government are practically in their hands.
 The Times comments editorially on the massacre as follows: "The Ku- Cheng out rages will justly form the subject of strong representations to China by England and probably by America also. It is quite pos sible that the outrages are due to the i'm bittered feeling against foreigners engen- dered by the calamities of the war, and that the mandarin believes that blow must be struck now or never to frighten foreigners against availing themselves oi the concessions granted under the recent China-,Japanese treaty"