Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1890 — CHRISTIANS MASSACRED. [ARTICLE]

CHRISTIANS MASSACRED.

Advipps from Chung King, China, by steamer China, state that the troubles at Ta Chu Hsien arose from the massacre of Chinese Christians at Loong Tuy Tsin by members of the Loo Huy Sos Society durng a celebration in honor of the society’s patron deity. After the celebration had asted several days the brotherhood consulted their god.s as to whether it would be safe to plunder the Christians. The reply being in the affirmative the brotherhood made a raid on a number of well-to-do Christian families and carried off a lot of booty. A few days later they made a fresh attack and massacred over twenty persons, nineteen bodies being counted in tho streets. Several more are known to have been cut into pieces and thrown into the river. The mission buildings and many others were burned and the corpses thrown into the flames; On the following day tho brotherhood proceded to another market town and made an assault on the Christians there. The latter fled, but one of them was killed.