The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-08

NEW YORK, Aug. S.-The World
today will publish the following spec
ial cable from Foo Chow, China:
DR.. Gregory, an American mission
airy, who escaped from Ku Cheng,
gives the following account of the
massacre there:
AT 1880 p. m. on Thursday, August
1, native Christian rushed into my
study, saying that several of the for
eign ladies at Hwasang, a mountain
resort about twelve miles from the
city of Ku Cheng, had been killed that
morning and that two houses had been
burned Fifteen minutes later a note
from Mr.. Phillips confirmed this. He
wrote that five ladies were dead. The
Stewards were missing and four per-
sons were seriously wounded. He eX-
pressed the hope THAT l was on my
way to Hwasang. / Immediately went
into the yamen, where hundreds of eX-
cited natives had already gathered
and requested the district magistrate,
Wong, to send some soldiers at once
no Hwasang, to protect those still liY-
ing.
Under Escort.
'In half an hour the magistrate
sent me to HwaSang, under an escort
of about so soldiers.
At p. m. left Ku Cheng city I'M
der an escort of soldiers, arriving at
Hwasang at s p. m. to find that nine
adults, all British SUBJECTS, had been
murdered and that all those still alive
at Hwasang-eight only-had been
more or less severely injured, except
ing Mr.. Phillips, who arrived there
only two or three days before and was
lodging at a native house some dis
lance from the English cottages. I was
delayed in leaving ku Cheng, owing to
the fact that the coolies refused to
carry our chairs. On my arrival we
made the injured as comfortable as
possible. Miss Cordington received
a sword cut extending from the left
angle of her mouth diagonally outward
and downward seven inches long,
completely dividing the lower lip and
exposing the interior maXillary bone;
one cut on the crown, three inches in
length, and quite down to the inner
table of, the skull; one cut across the
nose, beneath the right eye, five inches
long and another three inches long
on the right side of the neck. The last
two were skin wounds only.
There were two Commissions on the
right arm and deep punctured
wound on the outside of the right
thigh. Her condition is serious.
Miss Babel c. Hartford, of the
Methodist mission, the only American
residing in Hwasang at the time, was
lodged in a small native house some
twenty rods from the English cot
tages. She was attacked by one as
sassin armed with trident. She re-
ceived a slight cut in the lobe of the
right ear and was thrown to the
ground and beaten about the lower ex-
tremeties and the body.
GrappIed With the Murderer.
'While the murderer was engaged
IN this attack servant grappled with
the assailant and during the struggle
Miss Hartford escaped.
Miss Heller remained hidden until
all was over. Her nervous system sus-
tanned serious injury.
Mildred Stewart, ager -, received
wound on tie outside of the right
knee joint. six inches long, exposing
the Joint and punctured wounds, on
the left leg and one on the left foot.
Her condition is serious.
"Baby Stewart, Is months old, has
a severe injury to the eye, small
penetrating wound in the left frontal
region, which enters the cranial cav
ity, and several severe bruises on the
head and body. The injuries probably
will prove fatal.
"All wounds were apparently made
by swords and spears
.Of those killed outright, Mr.. and
Mrs Stewart, Nellie Saunders and
Lena Pillow, an Irish nurse, were al
most incinerated in the burned house.
In al probability they were murdered
before the house was burned. We
found Kate Stewart and Nellie Saun-
ders lying unconscious on the nursery
floor and removed Baby Stewart from
beneath the dead body of the nurse.
Hessie Newcomb was cut on the left
cheek and on the left hand, probably
by a spear, and was thrown over
sleeping blanket, where they left the
body I failed to find any serious
wound on the body of Miss Stewart. l
am inclined to think she died from t>e
shock. This opinion is sustained by
Miss Cordington's report to ~. Miss
Gordon received a deep spear wound
in thS face, another in the neck and
another in the right side Of the
head
ceived several slight wounds and
bruises about the face and lower ex-
tremfties.
..Herbert Stewart. years old. re-
ceived a deep wound on the right side
of the neck four inches long; one or
the crown, one on the back part Of
he head four inches long, cleaving
the skull and exposing the brain and
circular scalp wound on the left
side Of the head, two and one-hals
inches inNdiameter A small woucd in
the interior part of the chest AID q
stab in the back. He died on the road
to Sukow.
Evans Stewart, 3 years old, was
stabbed i'm the left thigh, received
several bruises and scratches on the
head and body. His condition is not
serious.
His Head Cleft.