Wholesale Murder of Missionaries.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 32, 6 August 1895, Page 2

Wholesale Murder of Missionaries.

FEARFUL ATROCITIES. FURTHER PARTICULARS. (Per Press Association.) Shanghai, August 5. Fearful atrocities have been committed on the unfortunate missionaries at Kuchong. The mob set fire to the residence of Dr Stewart who, with his wife and one child, perished in the burning building Seven lady missionaries were butchered with spears and swords. Miss Codrington was severely wounded, and several children were badly hurt. Tho rising was incited by the mandarins. The American missionaries escaped the massacre. Ten English were killed, including Misses Marshall, Gordon, and Stewart, of the Zenana Society. Some of the jchildren had their eyes gouged out. The Chinese have appointed a Commission of Enquiry, but as the Commissioner is the Prefect who is himself implicated, the thing is a mockery. Later. The authors of the outrage in Kuchong are members of a newly formed society composed of the rabble of the city. The women were subjected to the most revolting cruelty. At Kucheng there was a scene of great carnage. The Misses Saunders, of Melbourne, in attempting to escape, were hacked to pieces, and the Chinese soldiers, who were near at hand and witnessed the outrage, took no steps to prevent it. The burning of the Mission houses occupied two hours. Some of the women were horrribly tortured before death ensued. The United States' Mission, near Hangkow, was destroyed, but, fortunately, the occupants escaped without injury. A meeting of foreign residents here was held, and it was decided to request the various Consuls to appeal to the European Powers demanding reparation for the Kuchong outrage. Sydney. August 5. Mr Marsh, secretary of the Church of England Missionary Society, bas received a cable from Archdeacon Wolfe, at Foochow, stating that Miss Gordon and the two Misses Saunders (of Melbourne), Dr Stewart, wife, son, and four ladies were slaughtered at Kuchong. Dr Stewart, who was a fellow of Trinity College, visited Australia and New Zealand some time ago in the interests of the mission, and founded a number of missionary societies.