The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-08
THIRsTED FOR BLOOD.

armed aud organized, ana able 10 with
stand the Chinese troops.
THIRsTED FOR BLOOD.
Awful Details of the Geld BIooded
Slaughter Near Ku-Cheng.
NEW YORK Aug. 3.-A special to The
World from Foo Chow, China, says:
DR.. Gregory, an American missionary,
who escaped from Ku-Cheng, gives the
following account Of the massacre there /:
AT 1880 p. IN, Thursday, Aug. /, a
native Christian rushed into my study,
saying that several Of the foreign ladies at
Hwsang, q mountain resort about IL
miles from the city Of Ku-Cheng, had been
killed that morning, and that two houses
had been burped. Fifteen minutes later a
note from Mr.. Phillips confirmed this.
He wrote that five ladies were dead, the
Stewards were missing, and four persons
were seriously wounded. He expressed
tho hope that / was then on my way to
Hwasang.
i Immediately went into the Yamen,
where hundreds of excited natives had
already gathered, and requested the dis
Gict magistrate, Wong, 10 send some
soldiers at once to Hwassng to protect
those still living. In half an hour the
magistrate went 10 Hwasang under an
escort of about 90 soldiers
At 3 p. IN. left ku- Cheng under an es-
cort of l3 soldiers, arriving at Hwasang at
s p. m, to find that nine adults, all Brit
ish subjects, had been murdered, and that
all those still alive at Hwasang-eight
only-had been more or less injured, ex-
cepting Mr.. Phillips, who had arrived
only two or three days before and was
lodging at a native house some distance
from the English cottages.
WAS delayed in leaving Ku-Cheng, ow-
ing to the fact that the coolies refused to
carry chairs. On my arrival | went to
work to make the injured as comfortable
a. possible.
Miss CodrinEton received n sword cut
extending from the angle of her mouth,
diagonally, outward and downward seven
inches long, completely dividing the lower
lip and exposing the interior maxillary
bone; 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, three inches long, on the right
side Of the neck. The last two were skin
tusons on the right arm and deep pune
tured wound on the, outside Of the right
thigh. Her condition is serious.
Miss Mabel Q. Hartford, OF the Method
list mission, the only American residing
In Hwasang at the time, was living in u
small native house some 90 rods from the
English cottages. She was attacked by
one of the assassins armed with trident.
She received a slight cut in the lobe of the
ear; was thrown to the ground, beaten
about the lower eytremites and the body.
While the murderer was engaged in this
attack servant grappled with the assail-
ant, and during the struggle Miss Hart
ford escaped.
Miss Hellis remained hidden until all
was over. Her nervous system sustained
q serious injury.
Mildred Stewart, aged II years, received
wound on the outside Of the right knee
joint. six inches long, exposing the joint,
and two punctured wounds, one on the
left leg and one on the loft foot. Her con-
dition Is serious.
Baby Stewart, % months old, has a
severe injury TO the right eye, a small
penetrating wound in the frontal region,
which enters the cranial cavity, and sew
oral severe bruises on the head and body.
The injuries will probably prove fatal.
All the wounds apparently were made by
the swords and spears.
OF those killed outright, Mr. and Mrs.
Stewart, Nellie Saunders, and Lena Pei
low, an Irish nurse were almost wholly
incnerated in the burned house. In all
probability they were murdered before the
house was burned. Kathleen Stewart saw
Nellie Saunders lying unconscious on the
nursery floor, and removed Baby Stew
art from beneath the body of the dead
nurse.
Hessie Newcomb was cut on the left
cheek and left hand, probably with a
spear, and then was thrown over n steep
embankment, where we recovered the
body.
Miss Marshall's throat was frightfully
cut, and there was deep sword wound in
the left wrist.
failed To find any serious wound on the
body Of Miss Stewart. ! am inclined to
think she died from shock
Miss Gordon received deep spear wound
In the face, another i'm the side OF the
neck and ono on tie right sdspf the head.
Topsy Saunders death wd8saused by a
spear wound on the right side'of the head,
the weapon entering the brain. The last
three bodies were lying in one heap.
This frightful massacre was done by the
members Of the secret society known as
the Vegetarians, who have been causing
much trouble alike TO Christians and
heathens In and around kuCheng city.
From various reports Of those who saw
the attack, believe that about 80 men
were engaged. They were armed with
spears aid swords, and seemed strongly