Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1879 — A Trooper’s Story of the Cabnl Massacre. [ARTICLE]

A Trooper’s Story of the Cabnl Massacre.

A dispatch from Simla, in India, says: “One of the troopers of Maj. Cavagnari’s escort has arrived at Lundi Khot&l. He says that the roof of tho British Residency at Cabul was commanded by other houses, and was con' sequently untenablo by the besieged, who made a, trench outside. At about l o’clock in the afternoon on the day of the massacre Maj. CavagDari received a wound from a ricocheting bullet in his forehead. Mr. Jenkyns, Maj. Cavaguari’s assistant, who arrived at the residency during the attack, wrote to the Ameer for help; the Ameer’s reply was. “Good will. I am making arrangements.” A previous request for aid from M ij. Cavagnari had met witn the same reply. Mr. Joukyns wrote again when Maj. Cavagnari was wounded, but the bearer of the letter was cut to pieces by the mutineers. “ The trooper then started, but was disarmed and imprisoned. He succeeded in esc i ping at daybreak on the 4th of September, and visited the residency, where he saw the corpse of Lieut. Hamilton, commanding the escort of Ihe British mission, lyiug across a mountain gna He says that Mr. Jenkyns was with a person called Yahyah Kahn, . and was, therefore, presumably alive. The escaped trooper saw no troops on the road from Cabnl to Jelallabad and Dabka, and, so far as he knew, none were coming. A comrade who was confined in Cabul informed him that Lieut Hamilton shot three of the mutineers with his revolver, and killed two with his saber. Dr. Ksiley, who was oonnected with tho mission, was lying dead inside the residency. Maj. Cavagnari was in a room which wasjburnt, and which had fallen in. His body had not been fouod. Three native officers of the guides were burned to death near the residency."