The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-10
.CANNIBAL FEAST
WOMAN MISSIONARY SAW ELEv-
EN- MEN DROWNED.
Her Own Hairbreath Eseape-sava.
ges in Canoes Followed Schooner
Until Fired Upon by
Warship.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Aug. 4.-Miss Beu-
lab Logan Tuthill, a Methodist mis-
sionary. whose ancestors were mis-
sionaries before her, startled the big
Methodist camp meeting on the Des-
planes River by telling how she saw
eleven persons killed and devoured by
cannibals. She was taken to the Car
DINA Islands when she was years
old, and began her missionary work
when she was II. In 1900 her parents
left the Carolinas and went to Sidney,
Australia. She remained on the island
for several months afterward.
Then she took passage on the steam
(, er Aragul for Sidney. A terrific
i. storm swept the vessel near the is
land of New Ireland, 200 miles north
east of Australia Miss Tuthill was
swept overheard, but she was an ex-
pert swimmer and was picked up by
some Christian Malays. They were
subsequently wrecked on a sand bar,
on which a schooner was going to
pieces. This bar was two miles of the
cannibal isle. She said:
"As the tide began to rise to free
Us, the horror began One of our
/ lookouts gave an exclamation of ter
tor. We looked and there on the
shore we saw a horde of savages
coming down the beach-fully 200 of
them-in fullwar panoply, armed with
shields and spears and heavy clubs,
with which they were accustomed to
dash out their enemies brains.
"They stole down upon the schoon-
er and then attacked it with a rush.
The sailors made no resistance They
had concealed themselves in the hope
of escaping, but one by one, eleven
men in all, they were found, dragged
out and killed with blow on the back
of the head with a great war club.
Then they dragged the bodies
ashore and prepared for the feast
They beat on tom-toms and strange
drums. Then strange thing came
They seemed actually to make re-
ligious ceremony out of this horrible
affair. They beat their tom-toms and
pulled their hair and uttered their
weird, gutteral cries.
THE rest is too horrible-how they
cooked their human food; how they
danced about their victims; how at
last that company tore the smoking
human flesh to pieces with their nails
and teeth in mad orgey.
"The chief eat first, and after dane
! ing he allowed his followers to par
take. Then at last, when it seemed
to me that surely could stand it no
longer, the savages formed in line
and started to march away.
Frantic to escape, the frightened
sailors who had rescued me, made
haste to pull away. But now we were
seen. The savages broke their line
and rushed to the beach. score or
more of them entered a canoe and
pulouCu Us 1ncy Sdlucu upOu uS
fast, faster. turned sick at heart.
"Three miles away, across the bay
there was a German station and for
this we headed. They gained up us
more and more. We could hear their
savage cries, but, thank God, there
was German gunboat in sight. They
saw our predicament CHANGING to-
ward the warship. I saw a little puff
Of smoke and four-inch she'll came
across the water toward the canni-
bal canoe. 1t missed Then another,
and this time it hit squarely and ex-
ploded, and dealt death and destruc-
ton. could see the survivors jump
ing into the water and swimming for
the shore. The Germans welcomed
us, and could not thank them suf-
ficiently."