St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-08
APPALLING DETAILS OF THE
CHRISTIAN MASSACRE AT q
HWASANG
coLD-BLooDED BUTcHERY.
MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN
HACKED AND BEATEN -
TO DEATH.
MISS HARTFORDsS ESCAPE.
One of the Survivors Tells the
Story of the Horrifying -
Tragedy. @Gt

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE World,
tomorrow will publish the following
special cable from Foo Chow, China:
DR.. Gregory, an American mis-
sionary who escaped from Ku Cheng,
gives the following account of the
massacre there: AT 1890 p. m. on
Thursday, Aug. 1, native Chris
tan rushed into my study saying
that several of the foreign ladies at
HWaSang, a mountain resort about
twelve miles from the city of Ku
Cheng, had been killed that morn
ing, and that two houses had been
burned. Fifteen minutes later 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
expressed the hope that I was then
on my way to Hwasang. 1 imme-
diately went into the yamen, where
hundreds of excited natives had al
ready gathered, and requested the
district magistrate, Wong, to send
some soldiers at once to HwaSang
to protect those still living. In half
an hour the magistrate went to
sixty soldiers.
At p. m. left Ku Cheng city I'M
der an escort of thirteen soldiers,
arriving ait Hwasang at p. M, to
find that nine adults, all British SUBJ
jects, had been murdered, and that
all those still alive at Hwasang-
eight only had been more or less
severely injured, excepting Mr.. Phil
lips, who arrived there only two CT
three days before, and was lodging
at a native house some distance from
the English cottages. 1 was delayed
in leaving Ku Cheng owing to the
fact that the coolies refused to carry
our chairs.
HACKED WITH SWORDS.
On my arrival 1 set to work to
make the injured as comfortable as
possible. Miss Codrington received a
sword cut extending from the left
angle of her mouth, diagonally, seven
inches long, completely dividing the
lower lip and exposing the interior
maXlllary bones; 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 five
inches long on the right side of the
neck. The last two were skin wounds,
There were also wounds on the outside
of the right thigh. Her condition is
serious. Miss Mabel c. Hartford, of
the Methodist mission, the only Amer
lean residing in Hwasang at the time,
was living in a small native house
some twenty rods from the English
cottages. She was attacked by one as
sasSin, armed with a trident She re-
ceived a slight cut in the lobes of the
right ear, was thrown to the ground
and beaten about the lower extremities
and the body. While the murderer was
engaged in this attack a servant Crap
pied with the aSSailant and during the
struggle Miss Hartford escaped. Miss
Hellos remained hidden until all was
over. Her nervous system sustained a
serious injury.
THE STEWART CHILDREN.
Mildred Stewart, age0 twelve years,
received a wound on the outside of the
right knee joint, six inches long, eX-
posing the Joint, and two punctured
wounds, one on the left leg and one on
the left foot. Her condition is serious.
Kathlene Stewart, eleven years old,
received several slight wounds and
bruises about the face and the lower
extremities. They are not serious.
This fearful massacre was done by
members of the secret society known
as the Vegetarians, which is causing
much trouble alike to Christians and
heather in and around Ku Cheng city.
From various reports of those who
saw the attack I believe that about
eighty were aged. They were
armed with spears and swords and
seemed strongly organized. and under
one chief leader. The attack came
like thunderbolt out of a clear sky.
Thirty minutes from the time the on
sIaught commenced not a single Vege-
tartan was to be seen near the grounds.