Show the little Eli english gliSh church was filled with off officers leers and their wives and children with tradesmen trades men and with the half breed residents of the city who he had adopted the christian faith service was nearly over when the sound hound of musketry and the distant booming of cannon was as heard some of the off officers leers hurried out nut to learn of the cause A moment later all were summoned to their duty while the woman and children were fleeing in vain for their lives As the first officers left the church and looked towards the pa parade r ade ground aroun around d which stood their homes and the soldiers barracks they saw their bungalows 0 in in flames 11 I 1 that the rebellion of which they th y had been warned but in which lew lev believed had broken out the officers offic erh harried towards their barrack barrac kr hoping to restore order among their mutinous troops the move cost them their lives of the ills officers oll there were thoe of the eleventh infantry the infantry and the third cavalry on the HIP road they met a body of the troops and without warning they were fired upon colonel finni of t the be eleventh infantry fell riddled by bullet bul letE and of the other officers hardly half a dozen escaped to reach the church anil and aid the defenseless in seeking refuge io in the jungle all that that day dav the women and children to the number of nearly a a hundred tied hidden in the thicket with neither water or food while the riotous looted the stores and homes of the british residents in the city |