Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-08-15
Attacks ON MISSIONS
Details Of the Outrages Re-
ceived in Washington.

| Destructive WorR-Even the Paw
ing Stones Removed from One
Mission House-A Viceroy's Plan
To Seek Revenge for His Removal
Washington, Aug. 10-Acting Secre
tary Adee has received from United
| States Consul General Jer1ligan at
| Shanghai dispatch, dated July IL, en-
closing four letters received by him
from missionaries giving in great detail
accounts of the events in China leading
up to the riots against the missionaries
| at Chengtu in the province of Szechuen
| One of these from Spencer Lenir, ver'
comprehensive in scope, dated Chuns
king, China, says that the West China
missions of the Methodist Episcopal
church is the only American mission
represented at Chengtu. The Ameri-
cans there were the Rev. Olin Cady and
wife, H. L. Cartwright, NJ. D., and wife
and two children, and Rev. j. F. Peat
and wife and two children. This mis-
sion owned but one piece of property in
Chengtu on which was Chinese build
ing fitted for the residence of two fami-
lies a Chinese building used as a chapel,
a dispensary and minor structures.
Mr.. Lenir says that substantially all
these are gone, even the paving stones
being carried out of the courts. The
total loss. exclusive of personal losses, is
about G, 600 taels. The American Baptist
Missionary union had stations at Sui Flu,
Kiating and Yacheo. The missions and
personal property in Kiating and Yacheo
are probably all lost, though particulars
had not been received by Mr.. Lenir when
his letter was written. At Sui-Fu the
Americans owned a great deal Of prop
erty, but not much damage was done
to it.
Mr.. Lenir- describes the various at
tacks made on the missions at Chengtu.
the particulars of which have been
printed in the American newspapers.
madam Methodist mission, the two
physicians in charge of the hospital and
chapel which We're afterwards looted
and burned, kept the mob at bay, but
the officials would give no assistance,
although several of them We're quite
near. Late that evening, May 2Sth
the members of the American Metho-
dist mission sought refuge in the dis
trict magistrates yamen, but were re-
| fused and told they would be protected
| if they returned home. Relying on this
promise, they were entirely unprepared
| for the mob which soon visited them
and had barely time to escape. Opera
tions were renewed by the mob at day
break next day and before noon the at
tack was general on all the Catholic and
| Protestant mission places.
| The American Methodists from their
hiding places in an attic only six feet
away watched the mob for twelve hours
| plundering their houses. Some of the
| 10000 soldiers of the province assisted
| in the looting and dug up number of
| bones which they took to the district
magistrates yamen representing them
| to be the bones of babies which the for
eigners had eaten. The viceroy, says
Mr.. Lenir, and consequently all lower
officials, were simultaneously suffering
from severe attack Of indisposition
He makes serious charges against the
| viceroy, Chico Taoti claiming that as he
had been degraded and was soon to be
recalled he was bent on giving parting
hit both at the foreigners, whom he
hated, and the government.
When the flames burst forth from the
Roman Catholic bishops residence
scarcely stones throw from the vice
roy's yamen, the viceroy remarked ac-
| cording to Mr.. Lenir, that this was q
matter for his successor to attend to-
and he states that only after everything
was quite destroyed did the viceroy
make an effort to restore order, in the
meantime having sent out telegram,
that mutilated child had been found
at foreign place, with result that
nearly all the natives believed the story.
| Mr.. Lenir scores the viceroy severely
| and demands the punishment of hostile
officials. He enclosed copies of tho in
damatory placards that were posted
| everywhere charging that the foreigners
were kidnapping children and using oil
| from their bodies.
George w. Hill of the American
Baptist Missionary union at Yachan
tells of the flight of himself and party
from that place and of an attempt to
mob them while proceeding down a
river in boat. He was unable to tell
at the time the letter was written
whether OF not the Baptist mission prop
erty ut Yachan had been destroyed, but
he learned before leaving there that all
the stations on the Chengtu and Yachan
roads, Catholic and protestant had been
| looted. and there had also been riots al
Hung va Kiating, Sui Flu, Lii Chinang
and other places where the missions
were attacked Mr. Hill praises the
action of the Chinese officials in giving
them every protection at Yachan.
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