Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15
MASSACRE OF MISSIONARIES.
Story of Miss Hartford, One OF the
Survivors, Who Witnessed
the Slaughter.

NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-The Worlds
correspondent at Foo Chow cables
the story of theHwasang massacre, told
by Miss Mabel G. Hartford, one of the
survivors. Her statement follows:
"Aug. Lat 1880 am, | heard shouts.
They were yells of servants, who
rushed in, shouting to me to get up,
for the V~egetarians were coming,
tearing down the houses on the hill
belonging to the English mission. A
few minutes later q teacher came to
my door and told me TO run. lput on
my clothes and rushed to the door.
was met by a man with a trident
spear, who yelled, here is a foreign
woman
"He pointed the spear at my chest.
/ twisted it to one side and it just
grazed ear and head. He threw me
to the ground and beat me with the
wooden end of the spear. A ervan
came and wrenched the spear away
and told me to run. ] jumped down
the embahkment and ran along the
road. A servant came and pulled me
along until I got up on the side of the
hill. / then lay down there to get
more breath. After resting twice ]
reached a secluded spot and lay there.
All this time the yells went on and
two houses were burning to the ground.
Alters while the yells stopped. Isup-
posed the Vegetarians had gone away.
A servant went to see how matters
were. He returned in half an hour,
telling me to come home; that five
ladies of the English mission had been
killed and some had been wounded,
but that my house, a rented native
house, had not been troubled. | went
home to find Miss Codrington much
cut about the head and beaten all
over; Mildred Stewart, II years old,
knee cut and bleeding very hard Her
bert Stewart, 6 years old, cut on the
head and almost dead; Baby Stewart,
with one eye black and swollen; the
second Stewart girl, Kathleen, IL years
old, with the second boy, Evans years
old, were beaten and pierced with a
spear, but not seriously injured. The
boy vomited all day, but we thought
it was from fright.
"Mr. Philips of the English mission,
who lived in a native house some dis
lance away, escaped all injury, only
arriving in time to see the bodies of
the dead and hear the Vegetarians
say: we have killed all the foreign
ers.'
"At first we heard that some for
eigners had escaped and were hiding,
but Mr.. Stewart did not come and we
feared the worst. Mr.. Phillips went
to the ruins and found eight bodies,
Ave not burned and three burned so
as not to be recognizable.
CDR. Gregory arrived at dark and
dressed the wounds of the patients.
Collins were made and the bodies
were put in them. The bones of the
burned YER put in boxes.
"Another burned body was found,
making nine grown people murdered
R. q. Stewart and his wife, a nurse
from Ireland called Lena, Nellie Saun-
ders, Topsy Saunders of Australia,
who lived in the upper house, called
the Stewart house; Thessie Newcomb
OF Ireland, Elsie Marshall and Lucy
Stewart of England and Annie Cor
don of Australia.
''The first four we're burned beyond
recognition. Topsy a out Of the
house and was killed outside. Thessie
was thrown down the embankment,
with her head nearly severed from
her shoulders. Annie Gordon's head
also was nearly cut off.
"The bodies we're put in collins, and
we left Hwasang for Suikow about 4
O'Clock Friday afternoon, August 2.
We reached Suikow about s a. m,
Saturday, and telegraphed to Foo
Chow for a steam launch. We left
Suikow in native boats at 3 p. m, and
on Sunday morning met a steam
launch going toward Foo Chow taking
soldiers. We engaged it to take us
to Foo Chow. Soon afterward we
the rescuing party in a launch.
The party consisted of the United
States Marshal and two English mis-
sionaries, bringing full supplies for
the sufferers.
"When | was thrown down my
tAanher's wife pallad IN onp,auuoa,,u
men around to save me. There were
four men there to only one Vegeta-
rian, but they would not help me.
She came and tried to pull me away
as he was beating me. The Vegeta-
rian kicked me When the Vegetarian
who beat me started down the hill to
come to u house three others were
with him, but these ran off after some
Cinnamon, so | escaped with only one
prosecutor. There were about sixty
Vegetarians, but only saw one, the
man who attacked me, who shouted,
Here lie a foreign woman Some
harsh words ere spoken and guns
fired of. The natives say there were
hundreds of shots fired. Wong, the
Ru Cheng magistrate, came to
Hwasang Friday afternoon, August 2,
with 100 soldiers. He viewed the
bodies, saw the. injured, inquired the
names OF all of the injured and made
out an account. He did what he could
to help US get Off to Suikow.