The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-04
AT TIEN-TsIN JUNE FL, 1870.
That Years Massacre of the French
Consul md Missionaries.

Pail Mall Gazette. ~
I'VE must have a man-of-war, ror when
there is none disorders increase. There is
no doubt that the Chinese are most hostile
&c all foreigners; the fire is smoldering and
may at any moment break forth"
| Thus wrote. on June 20, 1870, Mr.. Lay,
British consul at Tien-Tsin, to Mr.. Wade,
the British minister. The smoldering fire
burst into a co%nfiagration on the following
day. Early in the morning the gong was
heard summoning the butchers to the
m
A vast horde of China's lowest scum sur
rounded the French consulate. hurled
stones at its gates, windows ana doors.
Too late came M. Containers awakening;
be his negligence what 1t may, he faced his
death as Frenchmen in face of danger are
wont to meet 1T, 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 NJ. Simon, NJ. and Nine. Tho
massin, the friends of NJ. F%ontanier. Sepa-
rated from the French consulate by a wall
were the French Catholic Church, Presby-
terry. convent and o~rphanage.
Fathers Chevrier and Gu, the latter a ma
tive priest, fastened to meet the rioters in
the hope of being in time to administer the
last rites of their church to the French
consul and his friends. They were at once
surrounded and murdered, their bodies
ripped open their entire length and after
mob made their way TO the convent gate.
Here Sister Monguet awaited them. A cut
from a t~wo-handed saber severed her skull;
her body was shamefully mutilated. Sister
Andreoni was the next to fall by a blow
with a Ratchet; she was impaled and her
body carried high over the heads of the
rioters. Sister Clavelin 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, a delicate num-, 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
boiling water close at hand threw 1t 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 Tillet.
They had sought refuge with some of their
orphan children In the crypt beneath the
chapel. Here the wretches kindled 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 n lance on the temple.
The ambassadors in Picking signed a col
lective note of protest TO the Chinese min
lister of foreign affairs, whose govern
ment paid a substantial money indemnity
for loss of property, exiled several mand-
rims of lesser degree, and decapitated GER
tain coolies who came forward as substi-
tutes for those really guilty, in considera-
ton of the sum of 500 taels-about f150-
being handed to their families, and them
selves being laid TO earth in fine clothes
and collins. 1t is more than probable that
had not France been in the throes of the
German war measures more vigorous than
threats would nave been taken by her gov
ernment.