The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-08-18
STORY OF THE RIOTS
A Survivor Of the Recent Chinese
Massacre Tells About II.
BRUTAL, lNHUMAN FlENDS
1t Was Indeed Sorry Time for the
Missionaries DIR. Stevenson
Does Not Say That He
VIII Return.

Vancouver. b c.. Aug. l7.-Among
the passengers on the Empress OF ia
pan were DR.. Stevenson and family,
missionaries at szechuan. China. who
narrowly escaped murder at the hands
OF the natives In the first OF the re-
cent riots. Or. Stevenson belongs to
Canadian Methodist mission and Is
now en- route to his home In Milton.
Ont. having had to leave China owing
to the ili-health of his wife. who Is
still suffering from the effects Of the
recent horrors. DR., Stevenson said that
the vicious ofYicial system OF the en-
pire is responsible for the persecution
OF the missionaries. Left to them
selves. the people of Szechuan were
peaceabie and well disposed toward
them. The missionaries had built a
hospital In Oheng Tu. now destroyed.
at considerable cost. and DR.. Steven
son was one of the doctors employed.
On the 2Sth Of May a placard was
posted up, declaring that the foreign
ers fried children for the oil In them.
A request was made that these pla-
cards should be torn down and few
were torn down, though several per-
sons objected. "Dr. Bllborn." contln-
ued the doctor. was just filling Mr..
Jackson's teeth and was doing some
light work about the dspensary when
we heard some children yelling and
throwing small stones. This was about
4:30 O'Clock. We sent our cards at
once to nearly all the yamens. They
were received. except one sent to Payo
Kiachii. a man who followed up his
refusal with a vicious proclamation.
DIR. Kilborn had a double-barreled gun
and l had a Martin rifle. We held the
crowd at bay until the chairmen ar
rived. who promised to keep the street
clear. adding that the officials would
soon appear. Good liars, but bad po-
lice. they soon allowed the people to
come right into the gate. Again We
cleared the street. Our wives had
picked up the babies in their night
clothes and ran to the hospital through
dividing wall. and we soon heard
the crowds beating at the hospital
gates on a back street. DR.. kilborn
blew a big hole through the top panel
of the gate and frightened the crowd
back. We now went Into our dispen-
sary building and tried to lock our
selves In, but we soon heard a roar
and crash OF glass on the dwelling
side. We made several attempts to
escape into an adjacent lot. We final.
ly found hole In the wall made by a
stone thrown by a rioter. There was
Just room for one to get through the
hole. was the last TO get out. and
pointed my rife at q man who was
yelling strike dead
While we were running out into the
parade grounds brutal soldier kicked
Mrs. Stevenson. I leveled again or
this wretch. and had he tried to fol
low II up there might have been an
other story to tell. Next day the part,
made their way to the China inland
mission house, from where the,
watched the destruction Of the two ole
houses Of the Canadian Methodist mis-
sion.
THE mob broke In and Mrs. Kilborr
Mr.. and Mrs. Hartwell. the children
and Misses Breckbill and Ford escaped
by ladders over the back wall. The,
entered a small house and bribed tn,
owners to conceal them inside the bee
curtains. For three hours they waited
in terror while the work Of destruction
was going on about them. At nigh
they succeeded in getting away.
''The same condition OF affairs pre-
vailed at the Episcopal and Roman
Catholic missions. In all. eleven place,
were looted and the inhabitants barely
escaped with their lives. The next da,
was exceedingly trying. The excited
people assembled and threatened tC
kill the foreigners. BY the fourth dal
the Tsung Ii Yamen at Peking haC
made the wceoy act and a stir pro
ciamation was issued. Eleven day,
after the riot all the British and Amer
lean missionaries except Mr.. Jackson
left by boat for Chung King. the mag
istrate sending two or three official
and six small boat loads OF soldiers a
escorts. There Is much sameness in tn
reports from the different towns. an,
there is no doubt that there was a gen
eral agreement among the rabble L
drive out the missionaries"