The Masscre of Colonel Stewart's Party.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 37, 14 January 1885, Page 2

The Masscre of Colonel Stewart's Party.

to the rnasscre ®f the ; late Colonel Stewart and his party m the Soudan, the special correspondent of the Morning Post, writing ftom DongohVpn , October 23rd, says ; — " A concurrence of reports appears to enforce the conclusion that the whole party, excepting two, namely, an intrepreter and a Greek merchant, were killed, and the earlier reports, according to which the act was a i massacre easily' effected by ; means of a treacherous . show of friendliness, are , ■substantiated.'"' A late . account assigns a a terrible part m the tragedy to the saved intrepreter. The half of the party : wh6, leaving the 1 steamer, ; had gone to 'rest m ..-tha village, included 'tfye. interpreter. When these were killed he' was ..spared,, being ''.promised' his life df he would go back to the steamer and entice on shore all who remained on board, telling theni that their comrades iwere enjoying goot- treatment m the village, and had sent for: them. The wretched man fulfilled :his bloody; .'errand/ and gained his life, The Greek inerohant is said to have been spared because he. was -.known. .to ln' s captors. The sheikhs of that village 'are' said to have induced the men to leave ; ' their' arms behind by re? • presenting that thoi (villagers , were •frightened and would flee, takin« with them the camels which the wreckod jiarty were .-trying to obtain, should armed men land* There is atale also, somewhat vague, but apparently well founded, of three women who did not leave tho steamer andiWere afterwards killed when the steamer was taken, one of them being said to have defended herself, and to have cast boxes 1 , of ammunition overboard. Of these one was a negreqaj and this fact, if fact it is, seems to imply that , tho other women were Europeans, for the negress would be a servant."