The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-05
BUTcHERY OF CHRISTIANS.
Full Details of the Recent Chinese
outrage az kuchenE.


London. Aug. 4-The Telegraph to-mor-
row Will print dispatch from Shanghai
stating that the massacre at Kucheng
occurred on July 81. The officials sup
pressed the news for three DAYS.
The names Of the killed are: Miss Elise
Marshall, Miss Annie Gordon. Miss Bes-
sic NewcOmb and Miss Flora Stewart. all
of the English Zenana mission:
Miss Nellie Saunders. Miss Top
sy Saunders, Rev. DR.. Stewart
and Mrs. Stewart OF the Church
Missionary Society. Five of Mr.. and Mrs
Stewards children were killed and two
survive. one had one knee broken and
the other. a baby. lost an eye.
The following We're saved: Miss Ahrt-
ford Of the American mission. Miss Cod
dington of the English Zenana mission,
and Rev. H. S. Phillips of the English
Church Missionary Society.
United States Consul Hixson, who is
stationed a Foo Chow with party of vol
unteers, upon receipt Of the news OF the
massacre. started on a steam launch for
the scene, and has returned. bringing with
him the wounded Americans. The expert
ences of the survivors were terrible. They
say that death was the least part of the
sufferings of the butchered women. The
Indignation here is intense. Nevertheless
the many warships in the harbor are idle
A mass meeting has been arranged for to-
morrow, to protest against the lack Of en-
ergy on the part of the authorities and to
urge that reparation be made. and that
the guilty persons be punished.
The mandarins endeavor to blame GER
tain secret societies for the outrage. Euro
peans, however, regard this as nonsense.
The officials are renewing their old tao
tics of stopping kilograms. The reports
Of the outrage are rather mixed. The
latest says it is now known that ten per
sons were killed, including Miss Lena
Stewart and DR.. Stewards whole family
except two. The American missionaries.
Miss Hartford and Dr. Gregory, escaped,
but the former was fearfully injured. Sew
eral English and American children were
killed.
The Standard tomorrow will demand
that the murderers be visited with con-
dign punishment and that a stern example
be made of the officials who virtually
connived al the commission of the crime
The paper will say: IF the emperor can
not or will not protect British residents,
we must give him assistance of a kind he
will not welcome"
The Chronicle will say it trusts that
Great Britain and the United States will
combine to teach the Chinese a lesson that
will cause foreigners to be respected for
ever, but in view of the conditions exist
ing in the country the bodies sending
missionaries there, especially women, in
cur the gravest responsibility. The whole
question, the Chronicle adds, ought to be
reconsidered.
The Times will say: THE outrage must
of course, form the subject of strong rep
resentation to China from England and
probably from the United States also. II
must not be passed over as a trihe. I'M
munity of the murdreres would cause a
standing menace 10 the lives and property
of the whole European community in
China.
Washington, Aug. 4.-The state depart
ment received the. following cablegram
from Consul Jernigan at Shanghai to-day,
in reference to the reported massacre near
Kucheng:
Americans are safe; none hurt. Ten
British killed"