The herald., 1895-08-10
Official News to the State
Department
CHINESE OFFICIALS GUILTY
Americans Send q Cablegram to Presi.
dent Cleveland
State and Naval Officers will Do Nothing
Until Minister Denby Requests Gov.
ernment Interference
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-Acting Secre-
tsry Ades has received advices from
United States Consul General Jornigan at
Shanghai dated July u, inclosing letters
received by him from missionaries, giving
In detail accounts Of the events in China
leading up to the riots against the mis-
sionaries at Cheng-Tu. in the province Of
6zen-heun. One of those from Spencer
Lenier, very comprehensive In scope,
dated Chung King, China, says that the
West China Mission NJ. +. church is the
only American mission represented at
Cheng-Tu. The Americans there were
Rev. Otis Cadis and wife, H. L. Wright
and wife and two children and Rev. II.
+. Peel, wife and two children. This
mission owned but one pisce of property
in Cheng-Tu, on which was a Chinese
building fitted for the residence of two
families. the Chinese building used as a
chapel.a dispensary and minor structures.
Mr.Lenier says that substantially all these
are gone. The total loss. exclusive Of
personal losses, is about 5000 taels.
The American Baptist Missionary union
has stations at Sui-Fu, Kia-Tona and
Yacheo. The mission and personal prop
erty in Kia-Ting and Yacheo is probably
all lost. although particulars have not yet
been received by Mr.. Lenier when his
letter was written. At Flu the Amer.
leans owned great deal of property, but
not much damage was done to it. Mr..
Lenier described the various attacks made
OH the missions at Cheng.Tu.t the partlcu-
lara of which have been made public IN
the American newspapers.
In the attack on the Canadian Metho-
dist mission the two physicians in charge
OF the hospital, which were atterwa ids
looted and burned. kept the mob at bay,
but the officials would give no assistance,
although several OF them were quite near.
Late in the evening. May 23th. the MEM
bers OF the American Methodist mission
sought refuge in thu district magistrates
houss at the yamen. but were refused
and told they would be protected If they
returned home. Relying on this. they
were not ready for the mob which soon
visited them, ar d. had barely time to
escape. Operations were renewed by the
mob at day break next day. and before
noon the attack was general in all the
Catholic and Protestant missions. The
American Methodsts from their hiding
places. in an attic. only six feet away.
watched the mob for twelve hours
plundering their homes. Some OF the
up number of bones. which they took
to the district magistrate at the yamen,
telling HIM they were bones of babies
which the foreigners had eaten.
The viceroy, says Mr.. Lanier, and con-
senuently all the other officials, were SIM
ultaneousIy suffering from severe attack
Of indisposition. He makes serious
charges against the viceroy. Cho Taoti,
claiming that as he had been degi AIDED
and was soun to be recalled he was bent
on giving a parting hit, both at the for
eigneYs, whom he hated, and the govern
mcnt. When the flames burst forth from
the Roman Catholic bishops residence,
scarcely stones throw from the vice.
roy's. he remarked. according to Mr..
1.anier. that this was 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. meantime having sent out tele-
grams that a mutilatea child had been
folno at foreign place with a result
that nearly all the natives believed the
story. Mr.. Lanier scores the viceroy
severely and demands the punishment
OF hostile officials. He encloses copies of
the intiammatofy placards that were
posted everywhere charging that the
foreigners were kindaping children and
using oil from their bodies.
letter from Mr.. II. L. Cartwright
confirms Mr.. Lanier's statements.
George W. Hill. the American Baptist
missionary at Yechan. tells of the flight
OF himself and party from there and an
attempt to mob them while going down
the river in boat. He was unable to
tell at the time the Letter was written
whether the Baptist mission property at
Yechan had been destroyed, but he
learned before leaving there that all the
stations on the Cheng Tu and Yechan
roads. Catholic and Protestant. had been
looted and there had also been riots at
Hu Hung va. Kia Ting, Sui Flu. Ii
Chinang and other places where the
mlssions were attacked. Mr.. Hill praises
the action Of the Chinese officials in CIV
ing them every protection at Yechan.
The British government had moro
cause for making demonstration than
the United States, and yet no English
forces had been sent to the scene Of trou-
Die. Mr.. Adee said that an order from
him to Admiral Carpenter might inter-
fere with plans or operations that the
commander had insview or under way.
President Cleveland Asked for Aid
SHANGHAI, Aug 9.-The Americans
here have sent cablegram to President
Cleveland protesting against United
States Minister Denby's action in con-
senting that the British consul should
raprasnrt Anaricn in the Szechuu in.