The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-09

and beat me with the wooden end OF the
spear. A servant came and wrenched the
spear away, and told me TO run. / jumped
down the embankment and ran along the
road. A servant came and pulled me along
until 1 got upon the side of the hill. /
then lay down there to get more breath
After resting twice / reached secluded
spot and lay there.
"All this time the yells went on and two
houses were burning TO the ground. After
while the yells stopped. / supposed the
Vegetarians had gone away. A servant
went 10 see how matters were. He re-
turned in half hour. telling to come
home. that five ladies of the English mis-
sion had been killed and some had been
wounded, but that my house-a rented ma
tive house--had not been troubled. 1 went
home, to find Miss Codrington much cut
about the head and beaten all over: Mildred
Stewart. twelve years DID, the knee cut
and bleding very hard; Herbert Stewart,
six years old. cut on the head and almost
dead; baby Stewart, with one eye black
and swollen. The second Stewart girl.
Kathleen, eleven years old, with the second
boy, Evan, three years old, were beaten
and pierced with a spear, but not seriously
injured. The boy vomited all day, but We
of the English mission, who lived in a
native house some distance away. escaped
all injury. only arriving in time to see the
bodies of the dead and hear the vegetsri-
ans say:
We have killed all the foreigners
"At first we heard that some foreigners
Stewart did not come. and we feared the
worst. Mr.. Phillips went to the ruins and
found eight bodies; five not burned and
three burned so as not to be recognizable.
DIR. 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 were put in boxes.
Another burned body was foung, making
nine grown people massacred-R. j. Stewart
and his wife, a nurse from Ireland, called
Lima: Nellie Saunders, Topsy Saunders, of
Australia. who lived in the upper house,
called the Stewart house; Hessie Newcombe,
of Ireland: Elsie Marshall and Lucy Stew
art. of England, and Annie Gordon, of Aus
tralia. The first four were burned beyond
recognition Topsy ran out of the house
and was killed outside. Hessie was thrown
down the embankment, with her head near
ly severed from her shoulders. Hannah
| Gordon's head also was nearly cut Off.
THE bodies were put in collins, and we
| left Hwa-Sang for Sui-Kow about o'clock
| Friday AFTERNOON, Aug. 2. Herbert died
! about three hours later, Just below Coiong.
| We took the body in a chair, and had a
coffin made for it at Sui-Kow. We reached
| Sui-Kow about s a. m. Saturday, and tele-
graphed to Foo-Chow for a steam launch.
| We left Sui-Kow in native boats at p. m,
| and on Sunday morning met steam launch
| going towards Sui-Kow. taking soldiers. We
engaged it to tow us to Foo-Chow. Soon
| afterwards we met the rescuing party In a
| launch. The party consisted OF the United
| States marshal and two English mission
| aries. bringing full supplies for the suf-
| ferers.
when l was thrown down my teachers
| wife called on some Hwa-Sang men around
| TO save me. There were four men there to
only one Vegetarian, but they would not
| help me- She came and tried to pull me
away as he was beating me. The yegetar-
| ian kicked her. When the Vegetarian who
beat me started down the hill to come to
| our house three others were with him, but
| those ran off after some Cinnamon, so es-
capped with only one prosecutor There
were about fifty Vegetarians, but L only
| saw one, the man who attacked me, who
| shouted, Here is a foreign woman He mad
trident spear. Some had swords. There
was at least one gun, for / heard it fired
| off. The natives say there were more
| Tong, the Ku-Cheng magistrate, came to
Hwa-Sang Friday afternoon. Aug. q with
| one hundred soldiers. He viewed the bodies
saw the injured, inquired the names of all
the places of the injuries. and made out an
account. He did what he could to help us
| get off to Sui-Kow.
MABEL HARTFORD"