Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-09-09
The AWFUL DETAILS.
Testimony Of Ey1 Witnesses 10 The
Massacre 10 China
ALL OVER ~ THIRTY MINUTES.
Eleven Fngli.h subj els Murdered by
Member. u a s,oro, Soggln
tic Vcgsiarians.
ALL OVER N THIRTY MINUTES.

VICTORIA. 49, e., Sept o.-Pdvats
loilors from Shanghai just resolved
hero announces that the C0umiaion
sppoln'ed by the British anu hmeri.
car governments 10 invosilgall the
ku Cheug masssoro a. Ausu; ls',
reached Zoo Chow on Augus lJ,
suikOw Two days later anu 80 Chcng
On August i7th Without shadow Of
M oiesl alton ION tho bafbar0us hofJes
legged by Chinese UiliclaI5 TO have
eat bllshyd q roign Of terror through.
out tue province.
Tho commission, oonsisting OF ,ho
British consul, Il. r. Manifold, the
Americas corful. Col. }. Courtney
II zsou, the Busi,h ylce c0nuI, l.. %.
Allen, from psggIa Anchors ,,; Lluui.
Evans Of the u. q. =, - IrIG, tins
liuv. W. BGuuists5. ioIrsScr.lHs the
Euzlan church missionary society,
and Dr.. Gregory Of tho American 20.
T.. mission, win an CfuITt OF Uui 100
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ItacipliaCd tUlllcry, q CltCum.taE,s
which SUPP Utls tut iocDly tue Chi
uosr conttutiIn that ~ o massacre was
entirely beyond .iiiUiSi prevention,
OWING 10 tho country being % revolt.
THIS dufunsn Ia regarded by all British
anu American residents o. Chimes
territory AS quite rs fafgiyl. ga tho
csinmiusi0u, unsupported ~ Do b. by
~ . |.H...
force, Hni Indignation g'u. hIsu at
the apathy displayed by tneiU govern.
muut M TsgnI4 90 tilu nas1aJIJ.
ltis argued that the official defense
IA totally untenabie, as un1tr the
Chitcse Law % eystom Of mutuu Tee
possibility prevails, all public tlli rlRis
being held personally fespYnH.u.v Tor
the C1mmi' sion Of crimes within their
Jurisdiction, whether they ate lcgiu.
mstely biamosblr or not, ami arc Welt.
eI with the penalties attached In the
event VI their failing to nppfchcud and
punish the criminal In person.
TESTIMONY OF BYE WITNESSES.
The commission mad at last adyicss
received the statements Of three wit.
uussea, DR.. Gregory Of the American
NJ. r.. mission al FOn Cow, tue Rev.
n. +. Philips anu Miss Harmon OF
Iiu Cheng, the latter two haviHg
been eye witnesses OF the ieariul
scents ~ August Let,
The Rev. Df. Phillips tells how he
was awakened al o In the morning by
ths shouting iu the direction Of the
Stewards Home. Hs AZ nat thought
u was children playing, hut soon
recognized the voices VI excited men,
he dressed hastily AMI went over,
al wAs met n few yards from my
uwelllng," he says, coy a native friend
who, while thrOwingl his arms
around me to uelgin me, told me tue
Negelafiana had come. shook him
"a md went on ami soon came IN
eIglt vi tbs hOufe, from which ~ OF
30 bsnlitB weTy carrying lOsds Of
IlundtT, their lrsdor holding
slott email red nas. oUull
,se nothing Of cur EuropenuA
and, rs was In iull view OF
tho rioters. I oreIl up u hill In the
bTushwUUu aud concealed myself NO.
hind two trees, from twcuty to thirty
yarIs from the hOuse' There l could
zee everything and not be- seen. AsI
could sec no foreigners, concluded
hey had escaped, And as ~ 20 down
was certain death, / thought II better
~ wait where Wss,
"AileT "a minute or Two the retreat
horn sounded and the NsgetRfisus he.
gan to lesy,-lnt, however, tettirR
IRE TO tho house. Ten minutes Ailur
tuis every Vegetarian had gone.
came down ana looked about tHs fIout
Of tho house but Cguld sco nothing Of
anyone. feared something dreadful
had happened, ~ ] beard tho Ncg0.
tarians ~ they lott sEy! Now oil the
Foreigners ere killed.
81 lust then met OIr OF the servants
who told me thu Chinese we're In the
house IN which Miss Hartford, Of tho
American mission, was staying. I
fJund Mr. HaTtiJr'silIa Laughter, NH.
dtyd with n Brri No wound on one
knee aud severe ca. When had
washed these / turned 10 Herbert,
Stewarps sOD, WHO was feariully
hacked anu cut everywhere. Then
Miss CodrlnRtOh nut me a messlBs
that she, too, was in thp house. found
her In fearful condition, but with
| cold water and RAGS We managed 10
etaunoh the blsedinR. Bhs begged NE
not to wait, u sh' thought Topsy
San !era was fill alive.
then rushed 10 Tie back OF the
houte anu found III, bodies OF Miss
| SspdotB, Bliss Htewltl, Misc Cord u
! and hiiss Marshall. Ihe latter was
Hwiully cut, her hgI being almost
iBvbred, hut beyond lu wounds gwen
In the struggle the bodies were not
mutilsled. Later found tho body of
Mira NewCOmb NJ tie foot OF the hill
In front Of the hUwt, whore 1t had
evidently been thrown,
"As then ] could re no sigma Of
Mr. anu Mrs. Stewart, Mis- Saunders
and Lonh, tito nute, Ee hoped they
hgi escaped, aud returned to the
house where the Stewart children and
Miss Codrlngtou w1gu. Presently
Aiiss Hartford aIrvsi, Sho had Ie.
| Culvsl cut unLU one ear but h.u
been 6Eyei from death by native
! Christian. L leArgti inter mat thB Eve
ladies OF the ZrnMa Mission society,
who lived IN the two hUuteF which
form the Ku Chen ssuitsrlum, eflcr
futile ot10tt 10 UhnTei TOt out Of the
uh1k sad were Immediately burfeune.
go. Come a tn NtgutaribnB were
iscllned 10 spare ihcmi tut were OF.
dcrtu by their leader iu carry out their
orders: 'hill and oar u11''
"HHd they been Eu'e TO tHcapo TO
| tho brentwood tNt Hygn!s little uOubt
lhry might have )ern hnvel'
IA misfortune we iuat only two were
| dtesasJ. hr. mi llrs. stewart were
si"in gs they sphng rom bid. Lens,
tnu LurS", uinl Suilh protecting tho
baby, whom kRthlgou managed to
| carry out VI the house, though not be-
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