Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1897 — GREAT MASSACRE IN CHINA. [ARTICLE]

GREAT MASSACRE IN CHINA.

Bebels Sack the City of Kuang Yang and Kill and Wound 1,000. The city of Kuang Yang,'in Hunan province, has been captured and its inhabitants massacred by a band of rebels forming part of a rebel army which is devastating Hunan and Kuang provinces, in southern China. Aug. 27 the bandits scaled the walls of Kuang Yang with the intention of capturing the provincial prison and releasing three of their members there imprisoned. One band tore down the prison, setting free several hundred murderers, thieves and imprisoned debtors. Another gang attacked the central part of the city, first murdering the magistrate who had sent the three bandits to prison. His entire family, thir-ty-two, including servants, was killed. The entire night was spent in slaying and plundering. All mandarins and every civil and military officer in the city were slain. The number killed and injured exceeded

1,000. The Insurgents numbered 15,000 men, ha|f of them armed. Their avowed object is to destroy existing government in southern China. The government is greatly alarmed, but has no adequate means of suppressing*the insurrection.