Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-08-08

Special Cable from n Missionary Givin:
the Horrible Details.


NEW YORK, Aug. S.-The World pub
fishes the following special cable from
Foo Chow, China: DR.. Gregory, an
American missionary who escaped from
Ku Cheng, gives the following account
Of the massacre there: cat 1880 p. IN.
on Thursday, Aug. l, a native Christian
rushed into my study saying that several
of the foreign ladies at Hwa Sang. a
mountain resort about twelve miles from
the city of Ku Chcng, had been killed
that morning and two houses had been
burned. Fifteen minutes later note
from Mr.. Phillips confirmed this. He
wrote that five ladies were dead, tho
Stewards were missing and four persons
Were seriously wounded.
II immediately went into tho Yamen,
where hundreds of excited natives had al.
ready gathered, and requested the dis
trict magistrate, Wong, to send some SOL
dicrs at once 20 Hwa Sang to protect
those still living. In half an hour the
magistrate went to Hwa Sang under an
escort OF about sixty soldiers. At p. H.
l left ku Cheng city under an escort Of
thirteen soldiers. arriving at Hwa Sang
at 8 p. III. to find that nine adults, all
British subjects, had been murdered and
that all thoso still ulive at Hwa Sang
eight only-had been more or less Sc
verely injured, excepting Mr. Phillips,
who arrived there only two or three days
before, and was lodging at native
house some distance from the English
cottages.
"On my arrival set to work to make
the injured as comfortable rs possible"
He then describes the wounds of the dead
and living, all of which were of q horrible
character. and describes the attack on
Miss Hartford, Of the Methodist mission,
the only American resiiing ia Hwa Sang
at the time. She was living in q small
native house some twenty rods from the
English cottages, and was attacked By
one assassin armed with a trident. She
received slight cut in tho lobe of the
right ear, was thrown to the ground, and
beaten about the lower extremities and
tho body. While the murderer was en-
gagged in this attack a servant grappled
with the assailant, AMI during the strug.
gle Miss Hartford escaped.
DIR. Gregory continues: "From vari.
reports of those who saw the attack be-
lieve that about eighty men were en-
gagged. They were armed with spears
and swords, and seemed strongly organ.
lied and under one chief LEADER. The at.
tack came like n thunder bolt out of a
clear sky, not one OF the victims having
tho slightest intimation of the intention
to assault them. Thirty minutes from
the time the onslaught commenced not q
single Vegetarian was to be seen near the
scene of the massacre.
IAN the wounds were apparently made
by swords or spears. OF those killed out
right Mr.. and Mrs Stewart, Nellie
Saunders and Lena Pillow, an Irish
nurse, were almost wholly incinerated in
the burned house. In all probability
they were murdered before the house
burned"
The doctor gathered up the wounded
and with great trouble got conveyances
to Suikow. where boats were obtained by
the help Of the native magistrate, and the
wounded embarked, en- route to Foo
Chow. The heat was intense and the
wounded suffered severely and meeting a
steam launch taking a sub-prefect to Sui
kow the doctor insisted that the prefect
turn round and tow the boats to Foo
Chow. This was done and the journey
was finally ended and the wounded placed
under proper care.