The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-03
CHINESE MOB FRENZY
Churches Sacked and Burned
and Missionaries Hunted.
CHRISTIAN coRPsEs DUG UP.
Buddhists Resent Invasion of Foreign
Notwithstanding Save the Lives of
Foreigners-Almost Rebellion.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 2-The steamer China
arrived this evening from Hongkong and
Yokohama.
The China Mail, under date of June 8, says.
The threatened riot at Marking took place. The
Methodist girls school was attacked and pill
aged of the contents and burned on May . by
the Chinese rabble. Several other mission
buildings were attacked by the rioters, and
would have been demolished but for the inter-
ference of body of Chinese soldiers, sent By
the viceroy only after urgent appeals had been
made to him by the missionaries.
On the Sunday previous the missionaries were
semi-ofieially notified that their premises would
be burned and accordingly twenty-three
missionaries and all the women and children of
the American and English missions took pass
age on the steamer for Shanghai the day before
the riots. Trouble is anticipated at Kin-Kiang,
and the residents are sending their vaIuables TO
Shanghai
Over twenty rioters have been captured at
Woo-Hoo. The viceroy has given the local
magistrates permission TO put the leaders TO
death on the spot Notice was given by the
authorities that they would cut of eleven heads
on May .. A telegram received at Shanghai on
June /, stated that the rioters had burned the
old French church at Tai Yang, which had
stood for 100 years. At Tan Yang on June /
fanatical mob surrounded the mission buildings,
oyerpowering the mandarins and soldiers. The
church and other buildings were burned.
The rioters dug up the bones in the Christian
cemetery. They piled the heads in heap and
dragged mandarin to the spot by the queue.
Fears are expressed for the safety OF several
smaller churches in the vicinity of Tan Yang,
and on June u telegram was received from
Chin kiang saying that the Christian churches
near Tan Yang were in ruins.
Admiral BeIknap, at Yokohama, has received
the following telegram from Shanghai. dated
June S:
Last Friday there was a riot at Kiang- Kisng
The English and French gunboatx aud the Palos
stopped IL. Foreign women aud children were
taken on board the gunboates. Two men were
killed at NoO-Hoo. The Palos proceeded there
immediately. Trouble is threatened at Hsnkow.
The gunboaI PorpOise is there. Serious appre-
tensions are again felt here. The foreign min
listers al Pekin have informed the Chinese gov
eminent that ii forei gners are not protected
they will take vigorous action. Seven foreign
gunaoats have gone up the river
On June Consul Leonard, of Shanghai tele-
graphed Admiral BeIknap as follows:
hand of Chinese who have attacked Yam
Chow destroyed the French mission st Woosick
last night and are reported 10 be seventy miles
from here. Their route leads directly 10 Shanv-
hai, and there is every indication that they will
destroy the French mission eighteen miles from
Shanghai and then attack the French mis- ion az
Srcswei four miles from shanghai. Russian
snd French gDnboats have gone up the river
making nine theIe now. 1 think 1t is Chinese
iusurreGfiOl.