THE KUCHENG MASSACRE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5124, 4 September 1895, Page 2

THE KUCHENG MASSACRE.

HOW THE VICTIMS WERE KILLED,

DETAILS OP THE HORROR.

Reeded September 4,11 a.m.

Brisbane, September 4.

Nows from China gives details of the Kucheng massacre, One of the Burvivors, Rey. Phillips, states that ho found Dr. Stewart's eldest daughter, Mildred, with a serious wound on her knee, and after dressing it, he attended to Hubert, the son, who had been stabbed all over the body, Ho found Miss Codrington in a fearful condition, and after staunching the bleeding, wont to the assistance of others.

Tho rev. gentleman says he discovered tho bodies of Miss Saunders, Miss Stewart, and Misses Gordon and Marshall. The latter was awully cut about and her head was almost severed from the body. Miss Newcombe's body was at tho foot of tho hill in front of the house where it had evidently been thrown.

He also learnt from Miss Codrington that five ladies attached to the Zenana Mission, who ai-riTed in the lower two houses which formed the Kuchoug sanatorium, after futile attempts to escape, were surrounded by the Vegetarians. Tho ladies pleaded for their lives and somo of the men seemed touched by their pleadings, and an old man pleaded with his fellow members to spare thoir lives, but the leader ordered them to be killed.

Had the ladies been able to escapo into the brushwood at the back of the house, there seems but litttle doubt there lives would bavo been saved. When tho attack was made Dr and Mrs Stewart were not dl'6B6od,

Lena, the Irish nurse was killed while protecting tho Stewart's infant, The latter was injured in tho eye. Miss Nollio Saunders was knocked down at the nursery door, while going to the assistance of the children, as Mr Phillips afterwards found the remains of a burnt body which he had little doubt was hers.

For a long time it was thought tho Stewarts had escaped, but subsequently their ashes were found among tho ruins in the bedroom.

Dr. Gregory states that Miss Marshall's throat was frightfully hncked about. On Miss Stewart he failed to find any wound, and thinks sue died from shock. Miss Gordon received spear wounds in tho neck. Miss Topsy Saunders' death was caused by a spear wound in the right eyo, tho weapon ponetrating the brain. Apparently -thore had been no attempt at tho mutilation of tho bodies.

No one in or near Kucheng had any warning of danger, and tho entire time occupied in committing tho massacre did not exceed thirty minutes,