Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1894 — WANTONLY MASSACRED. [ARTICLE]

WANTONLY MASSACRED.

Horrible Work of the Sofas—Hundred*, of People Butchered. A London cable of Fob. £osays: A correspondent describing tho march of the expedition under Col. Ellis, against the Sofas in Sierra Leone and the engagement between the French and British troops noarWarina, gives horrible details of tho Sofa raids. In some cases entiro towns have been wiped out and their inhabitants butchered and scattered. Tho once thriving town ofTekviama, which a few months ago had three thousand Inhabitants, is now a scene of desolation. All the bouses are in ashes and the headless and mutilated trunks of men, women and children are lying heaped among the ruins. Tho stench arising from these mounds of decaying bodies is horrible. The route taken by the Sofas was marked by similar evidences of wanton massacres and destruction. The absenco of hod les of young men and women indicated that they were sparod only to be sold into slavery. Col. Ellis liberated hundreds of ■laves,