DELHI DURING THE MUTINY.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1701, 7 May 1886, Page 2

DELHI DURING THE MUTINY.

It is related of the printers employed in the Delhi newspaper office that, while carnage was going on all ronud them, they stuck to their work till the last, and sent forth the intelligence of their approaching death. With one exception they all perished — the sole survivor owing his escape to a plenti ful me of printing ink, with which he disguised his face, and to a passable knowledge of the native language. The groat magazine at Delhi was in charge of lieutenant Willotighby, who hitd with him two other lieutenants and six European soldies. This handful of heroes defended their post for three or four hours, and then finding it no longer tenable, fired a train ; and with a roar heard 20 miles away, nearly one- half of the enormous structure was blown into the air. Only fonr of those brave fellows escaped, the others falling in the explosion. All day long the pursuit and slaughter of Europeans was continued, little children beiug butchered before their mothers eyes under (.-iivumstanees of peculiar brutality. No help came from Meerut, al though even at the close of the second drfv the force remaining there idle unuld have crushed the nmt'iiy. On the 16th of Mny, six days after the ruitbivnk, fifty Christian men, women, and chiildren, who had been gathered into the fort by some of the less ' sanguinary of the mutineers, were J mustered into the principal courtyard • md muidered in cold biood. Their ' mangled bodies were then heaped on y lujUotk-caits and thrown into the < ;-i MM _ not a single European heintr » ■ft alive in DtHii. Tito Mo«ul Em ' pire seemed iv a fair way oi ■ cstoiM c

tian. Haw this was frustrated is a matter of histny.— Otiv a Month.