St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

At this point, however. tens Of thou
sands Of Abyssinians sprang out of
the hills. They rode their horses right
up to the cannon and cut the Egyp-
tians down almost to a man. Of the
Z,5O0 men 1900 were massacred. Those
who were wounded were brutally
mutilatd. Their bodies were not
buried, and a French consul who Wis
tied the battlefield a few days after
ward tells how he saw the bones OF
600 men piled up together in one
place, and in another jackals. wolves
and hyenas eating at the corpses
Arendrup was killed.
THEY MUTILATE THE DEAD
The horrors of an Abyssinian battle
held cannot be described They mutil-
ate the dead as well as the living, and
their hghting Is accompanied by all
Sorts or unnecessary cruelty. The
scalping done by the Indians is a re-
nned and gentle custom in comparison
with that of the Abyssinians in their
wars: They cut up different parts of
the body and carry away pieces as
trophies. Gen. Dye says that in going.
through the battlefield he saw one
mass of mangled human remains. The
pod1es looked as though they had been
chewed up by wild beasts. There were
hundreds of heads, which had been cut
on, and hundreds of naked and bleed
ing bodies, the faces of which were
distorted with pain and fear, and the
eyes or which were protruding and
glaring. Some of the bodies were
burned. Some had been dubbed and
hacked with swords, and all were mu-
tflated In such way as cannot here
be described.
In this battle above referred to the
Egyptians lost between five and six
thousand men. all Of whom were well
armed, and who had cannons to assist
them In their fighting. At the signal
for the charge the Abyssinians came
right up to the batteries. They were
armed with swords, pistols, guns and
shields. They jumped behind the rocks
at the time of firing, and though an
incessant fire of rocket, shell and shot
was thrown at them, they came to the
very jaws of the batteries and finally
took them.
THEIR PRISONERS.
In this battle they killed 1000 men.
wounded 1,600 and captured as prison.
ers 2,188 OF the 1000 prisoners, 1000
were massacred in cold blood the next
day. Those who were saved belonged
to their captors. and their fate was
even worse than that Of those who were
killed. In the first place, the prison
Ci . "CiO GA SlAipPcu anu tnen InaU0
to run along, naked, with their cap
tors at the point of the lance They
were jabbed with the lances if they
did not keep up, and some of those
who escaped and got back to Gen.
Dyes camp Came in bloody from head
to foot. Many Of them had been shot,
then cut, lanced and speared and
speared again. Many had their hands
cut off, and, in addition to this, had
scimeter cuts on their heads, shoul-
ders and necks. Some Of the prison
ers were bound hand and foot after
having been stripped, and were kept
for some time without food or water
and then slaughtered in cold blood.
Often a victim was partly unbound
and told to run for his life. He was
pricked with the spear to hurry him
on. and then shot down after he had
gone but few steps.
AMERICAN PRISONERS.
During this battle one Of the Amer
lean surgeons, who were connected
with the khedive's army, was taken
prisoner. This was Maj. Johnson, of
Tennessee. Gen. Dye had sent him
from one part Of the field to another