Regarding the alleged massacre of missionaries and native Christians in Shansi, which we have spoken of with bated breath as a hideous possibility, the following face's have been carefully gleaned from a native Christian, authentic wed by these from whom he came, and vouched for by varies knowing him well, who lust Saturday, fis story is related cleatly and concisely, and. there is no reason to think it unreliable in any detail, as he has been particularly careful as to date, and the way in which news was forthcoming of the sad events he relate If the story eres in any way one inclines to think that more minute details would add to and not decrease its horror.
His story opens with the deaths of Miss Whitchurch and Miss Sewell at Hsinoihsian, with the bare fact of which we are familiar. 'This occurred on the 2nd or Srd of the sixth moon, or 28th or 29th June. A crowd of Boxers came to their house, broke in the door, and gonerilly acted in a most alarming' manner, The ladies, who were quite alone, sent at once to the Magistrate, who came in person, flow into a great rage, and toll them his soldiers were for the protection of the se, not for such as they! He then went away, and the people readily appreciated the fact that they had nothing ts fear fom him, They then rushed me to the house and removed everything of value, looting it thoroughly. "The two helpless Indies were seized, stripped of all their clothes, and clubbed to death, and it is to be feared they were treated to the slow torture inflicted on Miss Rice and Miss Huston move recently, as the informer stid it was stared the Boxers were an hour killing them. After all wa: over the Magistrate returned and buried them in the Baptistry. These facts became known through the missionuies at Yenchow fa sending a courier to Hsiaoibsinn, who returned the day after the tragedy, On the same day, 3rd day sixth moon, the house of Mr. Stokes, a C.LM. missionary at Taiyuanfu, was attacked by soldiers. Mr. Stokes had some arms in the house, and he and the others in the house managed (o keep the troops at bay for some time. They saw that they mast be outnumbered, however, and as the soldiers prepared to fire the house, they made their escape by the back to the house of Inv. Farthing, English Baptist Mission. Ong Indy, a Miss E, Coombs, ever, in her anxiety about some native Christians, became separated from the others, and'in the confusion she'got left behind, The soldiers caught her and knocked her down, but did not stun her. She pleaded with them for her life, but the ruffians seized and finny her into the burn-i ing where it is to be hoped her were brief. All the Protestant missionaries collected in Mr. Farthing' house, and there they stayed until summoned to Governor Yii's Yamen on July ninth under a promise of escort to Tien'sin. This party consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Stokes of the C.LM.; Mr. and Mrs, Simpson, Hsouyang Mission; Mr. and Mrs. Beynon, with, it is believed, two children; Mr. ani' Mrs. Farthing' with several children; Dr. and Mrs. Wilson, C.LM,, Pingyangfu; Dr, and Mrs. Lovitt
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