The Kucheng Massacre.

Manawatu Herald, 5 September 1895, Page 3

The Kucheng Massacre.

— China news gives further details of '^fche Kucheng massacre. One of the Burvivors, me Rev. Mr Phillips, states that' he found the Rev. Mr Stewart's eldest daughter, Mildred, with a^ejlous wound on the knee. He drSSjPjf^the wounds and then attej djigbo Herbert, a son, who was hacl ed^Efl 6ver. He found Miss Codringtbn in a fearful condition. After staunching the bleeding, he went to the assistance of others and found the bodies of Miss Saundere, the Misses Stewart, Gordon, and Manhail, the latter awfully cut, and her head almost severed, Miss Nowoombe was at the foot of the hill in AjDnt of the house where- she had evidently been thrown. He also learnt from Mi?s Codlington that five ladies of the Zenana Mission, who lived in the lower two bouses, which formed the Kucheng sanatorium, after futile attempts to escape were surrounded by the Vegetarian?. The ladies pleaded for their lives and some seemed touched by their pleadings. An old Hosian man begged his fellows to spare their lives, but the leader ordered them to be killed. Had they been able to escape into the brushwood at the back of the house there seems little doubt that- their lives would have been saved. Mr and Mrs Stewart were not dressed at the time of the attack. Lena, an Irish nurse, died protecting their baby ; the latter was injured in the eye. NeltiA^Aunifin was knocked down at the nursery ioor, while going to the assistance of the children. As w« afterwards found the remains of a burnt bod; we had little doubt y~ that it was hers. For a long time it was thought that the Stewarts had escaped, sub* Bequently we found their remains in the asjoes of the bedroom. Dr Gregory states that Miss Mar* shall's^thtoat was frightfully cut. On Mis? Stewart he failed to find a serious wound, and thinks she died from shocks. Misß«fc"Gordon, received spear woundißin\#ie; neck. > Topsy Saunders' death was caused by a spear wound in the right eye penetrating the brain. Apparently no post mortem mutilation was at* tempted. No one. in or near Kucheng received aiSy warning. The entire time consumed during the attack did not exceed thirty minutes. M

magnate. A peculiar fact in connection with this flock is that it is looked after, not by sheep dogs, but by six carefully trained Spanish game cocks. They are armed each morning with spurs, and have so fierce a way of attacking any sheep that tries to run away or will not be driven that the animals are now tbo- ! roughly afraid of the birds, and obey , their directions perfectly. Mr Migg's daughter brought the birds from the j Canary Islands.