The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-08-15
SPEARED BY FIENDS
Survivor Of the Chinese Massacre
Tells the Story Of Murder.
OF WOMEN AND BABES
Set Upon by a Mob of Religious Fanat'
les. While Soldiers Stood
Idly By.

New York, Aug. S.-The World will |
print tomorrow special telegram from
Shanghai. China. giving an account of
the massacre of missionaries at Hwa- |
sang, written by Miss Mabel &. Hart |
ford, one of the survivors of the massa-
ere, and the only one who witnessed 1t.
Miss Hartford's statement Is as follows:
August /, 1880 a. M heard shouts.
They were the yells of servants, who
rushed in, shouting to me to get UP, for
the vegetarians were coming, and were
tearing down the house on the hill be-
longing to the English mission. A few
minutes later a teacher came to my
door and told me to run. i got on my
clothes and rushed to the door. 1 was
met by man with spear, who yelled,
Here is a foreign woman He pointed
the weapon at my chest. ] twisted it
to one side and 1t just grazed my ear
and head. He then threw me to the
ground and beat me with the wooden
end Of the spear. A servant came and
wrenched 1t away from him and told
me to run. jumped down the embank-
ment and ran along the road. A SER
want came and jostled me along until l
got up on the side OF the hill. l then
lay down there to get some breath. AT
ter resting twice, l reached a secluded
spot and lay there. All this time, the
yells went on and the two houses were
burning to the ground After a while
the yells ceased. / supposed the vege-
tarians had gone away. A servant went
to see how matters We're. 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 trou-
bled ] went home, to find Miss Cod
rington much cut about the head and
beaten all over; Mildred Stewart, II
years old, knee cut and bleeding very
hard; Herbert Stewart, years old, cut
on the head and almost dead; baby
Stewart, with one eye blackened and
swollen. The second Stewart girl, Kate,
IL years old with the second boy,
years old, named Evan, We're beaten
and pierced with spears, but not seri-
ously injured. Mr.. Phillips of the Eng
fish mission, who lived i'm native
house some distance away, did not re-
ceive any injury, only arriving in time
to see the bodies of the dead and hear
the vegetarians say, we have killed all
the foreigners
FOUND NINE BODIES.
AT first we heard some 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, three burned so as not to
be recognizable. DIR. Gregory arrived at
dark and dressed the wounds of the pa
tents. Collins were made and the bod
les put in them. The bodies of the
burned were put in boxes. Another
burned body was found, making nine
grown people massacred. They were
r. G.. Stewart and his wife. a nurse
from Ireland called Lena, Nellie Sarn-
ders, Topsy Saunders of Australia, who
lived in the upper house called the
Stewart house; Bessie Newcombe of
| Ireland, Elsie Marshall and Lucy Stew
| art of England and Annie Gordon of
| Australia
1.-THE first four were burned beyond
recognition. Topsy ran out of the house
and was killed outside. Bessie was
| thrown down the embankment with
| her head nearly severed from her shout
| ders. Hannah Gordons head was also
nearly cut off.
THE ESCAPE.
1.-THE bodies were put in collins and
| we left Hwasang for Suikow about
o'clock Friday afternoon, August 2.
| Herbert died about three hours later,
| just below Coiong. We took the body
in chair and had a coffin made for it
at Suikow. We reached Suikow about
5 a. m. Saturday. and telegraphed to
| Foo Chow for a steam launch. We left
| Suikow in native boats at p. M, and
on Sunday morning met steam launch
going toward suil1ow, taking soldiers.
We engaged 1t to tow us to Foo Chow.
Soon afterward we met the rescuing
| party in launch. The party consisted
of the United States marshal and two
English missionaries. bringing full sup
| plies for the sufferers. When / was
| thrown down my teachers wife called
| on some Hwasang men around to save
me. There were four men there to only
only one vegetarian, but they would not
| help me. She came and tried to pull me
| away, as he was beating me.
1.-THE vegetarian kicked her. When
the vegetarian who beat me started
down the hill to come to our house
three others We're with him, but these
ran off after some Cinnamon, so 1 es-
capped with only one prosecutor. There
were about so vegetarians, but 1 only
| saw one.
"Uong, the Ku Cheng magistrate,
came to Hwasang Friday afternoon,
| August 2. with 100 soldiers. He viewed
| the bodies. saw the injured. inquired the
names and residences of the injured
and made out an account He did what
he could to help us 20 get off to Suikow
MABEL HARTFORD"