Show SLAY LAY WOMEN AND CHILDREN neither aye aue nor sex Is spared by imperial troop troops at when slaughter begins Ill historic la Is in the shadows of tho the manchu butcher fridays sun set upon a scene of fire rapine desolation and butchery un rivaled in modern history hiday night 11 1000 manchu and imperial old style soldiers held purple hill where they are ed while from beneath their strong hold they drove before them hordes of chinese out of the city innocent ChI chinese leaving ever every thing behind them thern fled bed terror strick en and destitute to shelter in the fields at the rear of the reform forces the litter itter numbering be he teen 20 COO and are impotent to check the slaughter or avenge the lain slain because of their lack of ammu since the night of november 8 when the first attack wes was made by the revolutionists the tartar general has endeavored to terrorize the in habitants by wholesale executions those whose queues had been cut off were be headed but friday when the order tor for a general slaughter was given the whole native city wan wait in abed bs b the manchu soldiers aho vho nita sacred ed men women and children even een the aged and women with babes in arms were shown no mercy forty niner to take back trail san francisco Franc Seco cal abraham anel 1 ler ter a forty niner aged 82 announced that he woud would once more go over the trail I 1 and brave the perils of the sandy waste veller neller Is a pioneer of the gin valley walking from st louta louis in 1849 when he was twenty years old ho ile was a placer kuld gold miner ho ile will start to walk alk to salt lako lake city thence to ot of louls taking the road ho lie canio came over to california in 49 |