New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-24


considerable yelling was heard A messenger was
dispatched Immediately with cards to the yameh'
calling on the street of1cials on the way nc
ne-throwing Increased and presently another
messenger was dispatched to the yamen with urgent
messages for, helm. Dr. Stevenson Mr.. Jackson and
7 Thought best TO remain quietly inside until some
ron, damage was done or the officials arrived with
force enough to scatter the mob. Our wives ana
children were sent over to the hospi'ai sue
The stone throwing and the yelling or the mon III
creased momentarily. Not until the large strong
compound gates fell in with crash did we show
ourselves. Mr. jackson. empty handed Dr. ste
venson and each with loaded gun under his
arm appeared In sight and the crowd vanished
from the gateway We fred four shots In quick
succession and out upon the street. Inc crown
had divided and run both ways. While we held
them at a respectful distance. say thirty or forty
yards each way from the gate. about ten or twelve
men In ordinary dress stepped out from the crowd
saying they we're come to protect us. A Few
minutes later three soldiers appeared In their red
coats. These twelve fifteen men exhorted the
crowd 10 go home, in the usual native fashion, but
without the slightest effect. While Dr. stevenson.
Mr. jackson and remained on the street. the two
divisions Of the rioters. although somewhat bois-
ferrous, kept their distance.
'Three-quarters OF an hour must have been spent
in this way. and during this time our messengers re-
turned from the yamen saying good force OF men
would be dispatched to our aid Immediately. we
requested
to go to the yamen for more help. but they would
not listen Then they asked to step inside our
gate while they scattered the mob But the mo-
ment were out of sight the mob closed H. ana
the stone throwing and yelling began again with in
creased vigor. After ten or fifteen minutes or
this when the leaders of the mob seemed to be
gaining courage for grand rush into the compound
yard. we made another sally, firing shot or TWO
from our guns. The mob parted and ran as before
but not going so far this time. Dusk was coming
on, and the rioters had gained such courage that
they fairly rained stones upon us. our ground be-
came untenable. and we beat orderly but hasty
retreat to hospital compound, whose gates open
on the opposite side OF the block There re-
Joined our wives and children. Almost Immediately
our dwellings were filled with bowling mob. while
the smashing Of glass and the crashing OF timoers
less than the demoniacal yells of the furious
rioters. told that the work of destruction was
In full progress.
ESCAPE OF THE MISSIONARIES.
THE hospital gates still Stood though some OF
the lower panels had been smashed through A
shot fired through the top OF these gates had the
excellent effect OF determining the most OF the
crowd on that side to run around the block to Join
the more successful party OF the loot. And thus
opened up to way OF escape. Covered by
the darkness. crawed one by one through one
OF the holes broken by the stones of the rioters In
the hospital gates. The ladies and three
the now comparatively quiet street to the parade
ground. DR.. Stevenson's third child was in the
hands OF Christian nurse, but she become sepa-
rated from In the street. At the head or the
street at the edge Of the parade ground Is
barrack in which were quartered 80 or 200
soldiers We ran in thinking TO obtain protection.
AT first sight of us the soldiers drove us out with
most hideous yells and curses One of them kicked
Mrs. Stevenson in the side as we passed out but
the bruse fortunately proved slight one. DR.. Ste
venson promptly threatened this man with his rifle,
which he carried, and to this we believe is
partly due least the fact that we were
not followed. We across the open
parade ground to the city wall. once the
wall we took way at more easy
pace past the north gate TO the northwest
angle OF the city. When a mile more
from late homes bright reflection In the sky
told that the rioters were finishing with fire
what they had begun with stones. The fire did
not die away till midnight. little while after mid
night we left the city wall and reached the China
Inland Mission compound In chairs. There we were
safe for the night
Here we learned the fate OF DR.. stevensons
little GIRL who in of the nurse had become
separated from us soon after leaving the hospital
gate. Some OF the rioters discovered that she was
carrying a foreign child; they caught her by the
hair and began beating her. She dropped the child
and managed to escape from them A few minutes
later the hospital gateman discovered child slid
ing along in the dark street, crying lie picked her
up and carried her to Of the other compounds
that still intact.
LITTLE PROTECTION GIVEN.
mo protection was given from the yamen
cept those doubtful twelve runners and three SOL
diers notwithstanding that than two hours
elapsed from the time cards were first sent TO
the yamen until we abandoned the gateway Next
day learned that the magistrate and the project
had and stayed about five or ten minutes,
about the time were crawling through the hos
pital gates to the street But they went away i'm
medatey without doing anythng-without even in
curing, so far as know, to the fate of the
foreigners.
AT dawn on the morning OF May 20 we heard that
the mob had reformed and was rapidly carrying
away all remaining bricks and debris left on our
compound the night before Early in the morning
further word was brought that Mr.. Hartwelrs house
and compound directly across the street from DR..
Stevenson's and mine) being looted and burned.
Before o'clock Mrs. Hartwel. with her two little
ones and Misses Brackb and Ford. Joined us in
the China Inland Mission compound They had
climbed the back wall Of their compound as the mob
came in at the front. We were now eleven adults
and seven children gathered in one place. We de-
cided at once TO go to the magistrates yamen while
the street remained quiet. and by O'Clock chairs
called and all preparations made. But the
Chief of Police arriving with retinue OF twenty
men, we yielded to his solicitations to remain where
we were He assured that he had ample means
TO protect there Between and 10, how
ever crowd rapidly gathered In the street, and
they grew so turbulent that by 10 o'clock this same
Chief of Police advised us to return TO our original
plan and start for the ysmen as rapidly as chairs
could be obtained But chairs now difficult to
obtain, so that about 1880 only six OF the
eleven adults had started for the yamen After the
fierce and the uproar increased AS the gate closed
behind the sixth chair 1t became evident to US who
remained that the crisis had come: We ran for the
back wall OF the compound climbed a ladder and
dropped down the other side, and not a moment
too soon for before the last over the mob had
burst through the front gates. -
I'VE found ourselves in narrow court, in which
lived some eight families The only exit from this
court was by long alley, which opened on the
right in the midst of the mob Our only nope,
therefore lay In concealment. and In moment we
had darted through open door and into the back
room Of a little two-room mat house. The three
ladies' Misses Brackbill and Ford and Mrs Kilborn.
and Mr. Vale and myself. besides three children. In
Guiding belonging TO those who had got on