The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-01-19

school. Very solemn were the faces but
sweet and trustful. and long and earnest
were the prayers that assembled from closets
as we'll as in the daily public prayers and
the Lord showed us plainly when it was
best to send them homo. Gradually the
pestilence that walketh in darkness, drew
nearer and nearer. 1t was in front and in
the rear and on the west side of us. Then
in the school building
TWO RATS AND THE CAT DIED.
We then removed all the scholars to the
second and third floors. but 10, one morning
it was here in our very midst. The teacher
in the primary department came in leading
ii little girl by the hand who had all the
symptoms of the plague. The doctor was
sent for and she was examined. Yes, she
had it, not violently but she had it. and we
could not tell how many more might come
down with it. We dared not keep them
longer so they gradually dispersed to their
homes and we are very thankful that they
are away from US now during the present
state of excitement.
The very stringent measures taken in
Hong hong on account of the plague have
caused great deal of dissatisfaction and
suspicion among the Chinese and many
are very much inclined to attribute their
calamities to the malign influence of for
eigners. At one time a general uprising
was planned. We were in ignorance of it
until four O'Clock in the afternoon when
we heard there had been mob on Hanam,
an island on the opposite side of the river
and that Miss DIR. Halverson of the United
Bretheren Mission
HAD NEARLY LOST HER LIFE.
AS many erroneous accounts of what oc-
cured that afternoon have been reported to
the papers, the Rev. K. Z. Fix of the same
mission has written correct statement
from which l copy the following.
About noon on Monday the 18th of June
one of the servants came and told DR..
Halverson that man was lying on the
front door step and he thought the man
was sick. She sent down at once and saw
Immediately that the man was suffering
from the plague, when asked it he had any
friends in the city, be SAID no, that he was
from Sun vi and as working on boat and
that when he became i'll they put him off
the boat and he had wandered here not
knowing where to go. He was told OF the
hospital boat down the river, opposite the
Canton Mission hospital and asked if he
wished to go there. He said he did but
had no money. DR.. Halverson then sent a
servant to the ferry LANDING to call boat
to come up and take the sick man to the
hospital boat. He then said that he was
very thirsty and when asked if he wished
a cup of tea, aid yes. 1t was brought him
and after drinking it he thanked the doctor.
Dr. Halverson then started for the river
followed by the sick man who was able 10
walk. She gave him no medicine. They
went straight to the river through an alley
and waited for the boat TO come up. The
boat did not come but the servant soon re-
turned and said that he could not get a
boat 1t is always difficult, TO procure a
boat to carry sick person. The doctor did
not intend 10 accompany the men TO the
hospital but only to the river to procure
boat and send him down SO she started to
the ferry landing to try and secure boat
She avoided far as possible the main
street and went by quiet street along the
river just before reaching the main street
| leading out to the ferry and by large tea
| store she encountered the mob without any
warming They shouted to the sick man
| that the foreign devil woman was taking
him away to kill him, that she had not given
him lea but poison. she did not enter in
| to any wordy alteration with the mob, sim
ply told the men what she wished to do and
| that she would be glad if they would take
the man and take care of him. AT this
| junctu1e some one knocked her hat off.
| She walked on to the main street. the mob
pushing her back and forth They yelled,
| kill her,
KILL THE FOREIGN DEVIL WOMAN"
! fl,o oh md n n 20
| the tea store asked the man in the door to
| let her go through his store to the street
leading home. but he would not allow her
| to come in and with a murderous lace said,
| Go on there so on
| Then tie mob began 10 beat heI with their
asts, shouting that they were going to kill
| her. At the corner of the street leading
from the river southwaru out TO an open
| sandfeld, she again broke through the mob
and ran into large pork shop and asked the
prourietor to send the mob away, but he
and his men shouted to her to get out.
| Then some of the mob came in
AND DRAGGED HER OUT
and started south with her toward the open
! field, cursing and yelling that they would
| Kill her. They dragged her along the street
| the shopkeepers to let her in but they
barred their doors as their answer.
| When they passed the street leading west
| of our home, she tried to get loose and come
| home but they dragged her back. At this
| corner of the street is porkshop. Here
! they knocked her down and thought they
| had killed her as she did rot get up. They
did not want her to die in the street as
| that would make the street responsible for
the death. Some one threw tub OF dirty.
| bloody fish water over her. The cold water
revived her little and the mob seeing she
was not dead dragged her up and Selling
her by the arm pushed her along towards
the open place. The pommeling began
ap ain worse than before one man in partic-
cular distinguishing himself by his terrific
blows on her back and sides. She thought
| each blow that the next would kill her.
| Frantic with pain and despair she tore her,
sell loose from the mob and ran into shop
| and through it to the cook room at the rear.
! There she seized hold of something. she
| knows not what. One of the mob came in
| but could not pull her away. Others came
| in and they tore her loose and out again
| into the street. The leader snatched off q