The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-08-09

ford, a Survivor, and the Only Amer.
lean at tho Ku ChsuG putohOry,
Tell. Her FrIGhtful Experience.
ysw YonE, August s,-Ths World
tomorrow will print the following
,p.cial dispatches from Foo Chow,
China:
A mob has just looted the American
mission chapel at InGhOk, fifty miles
from here. Unless prompt, effective
action is takeu there iS danger Of great
riots in other places, Tho Chino'a
soldiers, sent to Ku ChOnE to protect
foreign property, pluudsrsd the Stewart
residence. No American Vunboat has
come here. The situation iS critical.
An official on his way to this city
from Ku Cheng was killed yesterday.
There is no American protection. The
American governments neglect iS in
famous.
The evidence already obtained shows
that tho massacre at Hwasang was
planned at least q week beforehand.
An official OF Foo Chow sent two
hundred aud ten soldiers into that sec
tion on the 24th Of July to prevent the
VsgssariAuS from numbering Chinese.
Tho VeSetariauI thought the mission
aries had caused the troops to be sent
sui decided 10 kill thsm. The Vo2o'
ufi,ns publicly declared their intantion
To destroy the churches aud 10 kill the
ChrisIlanS.
The night before tho massacre ma
tive pastor in the city OF ku ChenG
heard that the Vegetarians were going
to kill the foreigners on the morrow.
He wrote a letter OF warning TO Mr.
stewart at HwaSang, but delayed send
iug II until daylight The messenger
arrived half an hour too late.
A SURVIVORS, STORY.
The World will print tomorrow In a
special cablegram from Shanghai.
China, an account Of tho massacre Of
missionaries at HWassRg. written by
Miss Mabel G. Hartford, one Of the sur.
yivOrs Of the massacre, and tho only
American who witnessed II.
iliis Hartiord's statement is aS tol.
lows:
August / at t7:SO a. m. I heard shouts.
They were the yells OF servants, who
rushed In shouting TO me TO get up, Tor
the Vegetarians were coming, tearing
down the houses on the hill belonging to
the English mission. 1 put on my
clothes and rushed to the door. | wac
met by a nau with trident spear, who
yelled. Here is foreign woman.
"IIe pointed the spear at my Ghost !
twisted il TO ono side aud 1t just graZed
my ear aud hair He threw to the
gtound and beat mo With the wooden
cad OF the spear. A servant cama and
Vrenchsd the spear away, aud then told
me 10 run. jumped down the em
baukmcnt and ran along the road. A
servant came and pulled mo along until
lgot upon the side Of tho hill. then
Law down there 10 gst moro breath:
After resting twice REACHED secluded
poland lay there.
"All this time tho yollS went on and
two houses were burning to the ground.
AiicrA while the yS!ls stopped. SUP.
posed the NegetariaD4 had gone away.
servant went to see how matters
were. He returned In half an hour,
telling me 10 come homo. that i've ladiea
Of the English mission had been killed
ani some had b0en wounded, but that
my h)use-a rsnlod native houSe--hAd
not been troubled.
81 vent home 10 hud Miss CodrinEson
much cut about tho hBad and beaten all
over; Mildred Stewart, twelve years
Old, the knee cut and bleeding very
hard; Herbert Stewart, aged o X year,
c1t On head and almost dead; Baby
S'eTlrt. with ono eye black and swolIeni
the second Stewart girl, Kathleen,
eleven years old, with tho second boy,
h'ln, three yonri, were beaten and
niercsl with a spear, but not seriously
IninrHl. Tho boy vnrnitsd all day, but
We thought 1t was from fright
Another burned body was found,
making snIno grown people maiaacr cd.
THE DEAD.
"Fonr wero burned beyond rOcoVnl.
ton, lopsy ran ont Of tho hou,O and
was killed outside. TloSSiO was thrown
down tho embankment with her head
nearly scvOred from lor Shouldcrn
]! annah Gordon'a head also was nearly
cut Of.
The bodiCu wotc put in collins and
W. left llwa'ung for auikow about A
o'c'lck Friday nfternoon, August 2.
"tterboft died about ttrts hours
later Just below CoiOnh NO took tho
blIy IN q chair and had aCoIlin made
IJrit a. Suikow. WO rOachsh SukOw
opont s a. M, Saturday aud
loInlraphsd TO Foo Chow ior steam
I1nrcr Wo loft SuikoW 10 n
native boat At Q p. ln, aud on
sunday morning mot steam launch
pg.ug towards ghlkow lakInl s,ldlorI
Wo engaged II 10 tow ~ u Foo Chow
bonn afterwards Wo mot tho ro'rnlng
p1fiv In a launch. Tho party cons sicd
pI Tho United States minister and two
hn'.I,li missionaries. bringing fuff sup
plies Tor tho sufferers.
lSgnVl) "MABEb llARTHoRD."