The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-08
AT ITEM TsIN JUNE 81, 1870.
That Years Massacre of the French
Consul and Missionaries.


Pail Mass Gazette.
1--WE must have a man-of-war, for
when there is none disorders increase.
There is no doubt that the Chinese are
most hostile to all foreigners; the fire
is smoldering and may at any moment
break FORTH
Thus wrote. on June 90 1870, Mr.. Lay,
British consul at Tfen TSin, to Mr.. Wade,
the British minister. The smouldering
fire burst into a confiagration on the
following. day. Early in the morning
the gong was heard summoning the
butchers to the shambles.
A vast horde of China's lowest scum
surrounded the French consulate. hurled
stones at its gates, windows and doors.
Too late came M. containers awakening
be his negligence what it may be, he
faced his death as Frenchmen in face of
danger are wont to meet it, fighting to
the last He was cut down, his head
severed, his body mutilated. The mob
forced their way into the gardens of the
consulate, and there massacred M. ST.
mon, M. and Nine. ThomaSsin the
friends of M. Fontanfer. Separated from
the French consulate by a wall were the
French Catholic church. presbytery, con-
vent and orphanage.
Fathers Chevrier and Gu, the latter a
native priest, fastened to meet the riot
minister the last rites of their church
to the French consul and his friends.
They were at once surrounded and muir
dered, their bodies ripped open their en-
tire length and afterward thrown into
the river. The maddened mob made
their way to the convent gate. Here
Sister Monguet awaited them. A cut
from a two-handed saber severed her
skull; her body was shamefulIy mutt
lated. Sister Andreoni was the next to
fall by blow with a Ratchet; she was
impaled and her body carried high over
the heads of the rioters. Sister Clave-
lin met her murderers at the southeast
angle of the convent. She was dragged
to the pharmacy and while still alive her
eyes and her heart were torn out; her
shrieks rose high above the yells and
excavations of her assassins Sister
Violet, deicate nun, tainted and was
killed. Sister Legras was cut in halves.
Sister O'Sullivan was seized close to the
kitchen. The rioters seeing a sauce
pan Of boi ing water close at hand threw
it over her. The poor sister, maddened
with pain and half blinded, rushed to the
chapel, where she was dispatched An
appalling death awaited Sisters Pavilion
and Tfllet. They had sought refuge
with some of their orphan children in
the crypt beneath the chapel Here the
wretches kfndled a fire and roasted alive
their victims, the men holding their legs
and arms. Sister Lenu was the last to
meet her death from a blow Of a lance
on the temple.
The ambassadors in Picking signed q
collective note of protest to the Chinese
minister Of foreign affairs, whose gov
eminent paid a substantial money indem-
nifty for loss of property, exiled several
n1andarins of lesser degree, and decapi-
tated certain coolies who came forward
as substitutes for those really guilty, in
consideration of the sum Of 500 taels-
about &15Lbeing handed to their fami-
lies, and themselves being laid to earth
in fine clothes and collins. It is more
than probable that had not France been
IN the throes Of the German war meas
ures more vigorous than threats would
have been taken by her government