Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-08-14
MURDER OF MISSIONARIES IN
CHINA.
Miss HartfOrd's Story,

NEW YORK, Aug. S.-The World will
print to morrow in special cablegram
from Shanghai. China, an account of
the massacre of missionaries at Hwa-
sang, written by Miss Mabel G. Hart
ford, one of the survivors of the massa-
ere, and the only American who wit
messed it. Miss Hartford's statement
is as follows =
august 1, at 7:3O A. M, | heard
shouts. They were the yells of SER
wants. who rushed in. shouting for HE
to get up, for the Vegetarians were
coming, tearing down the houses on
the hill belonging to the English mis-
sion. put on my clothes and rushed
to the door. l was met by man with
a trident spear, who yelled, Here is
foreign woman He pointed the spear
at my chest. l twisted it to one side
and it just grazed my ear and head.
HE threw me to the ground and
beat me with the wooden end of the
spear. A servant came and wrenched
the spear away, then told me to run
jumped down the embankment and
and pulled me along until | got upon
the side of the hill. l then lay down
there to get more breath. After rest
| ing twice | reached a 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. l sup
posed the Vegetarians had gone away.
A servant went to see how matters
were. 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 at all.
Il went to find Miss Codrington
much cut about the head and beaten
all over; Mildred Stewart, twelve years
| old, the knee cut and bleeding very
hard; Herbert Stewart, six years old.
cut on the head and almost dead; Baby
Stewart, with one eye black and swol
len. The second Stewart girl, Kath-
leen, eleven years old, with the second
boy, Evan, three years old, were beaten
and pierced with spear, but not seri-
ously injured. The boy vomited all
day, but we thought it was from
fright.
'Mr. Phillips, of the English mission,
| who lived in native house some
distance away, escaped all injury, only
arriving in time to see the bodies of
the dead and hear the Vegetarians
say: we have killed all the foreign
ers.' Mr.. Phillips went to the ruins
and found eight bodies, five not burned
and three burned so as not to be recog-
nizable. DIR. Gregory arrived at dark
and dressed the wounds of the patti
ents. Collins were made and the bodies
were put in them. The bones of the
burned were put in boxes. Another
burned body was found, making nine
grown people massacred. r. J. Stew
art and his wife, nurse from Ireland,
called Lena; Nellie Saunders, Topsy
Saunders, of Australia, who lived in
the upper house, called the Steward
House; Hessie Newcomb, of Ireland;
Elsie Marshall and Lucy Stewart, 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 embank-
ment with her head nearly severed
from her shoulders. Hannah Gordon's
head also was nearly cut off.
1.-The bodies were put in collins and
we left Hwasang for Suikow at4 O'Clock
Friday afternoon, August g" Herbert
died three hours later, just below
| COiOng.