The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-04
Cablegram from Shanghai Reports
Five Women Teachers, One from
This Country, Killed.
VERIFIED AT WASHINGTON
OUTRAGE TOOK PLACE AT KIU-
KIANG UP THE YANG-TsE-KIANG.
Both Methodist and Baptist American
Mission Schools Located In
That Region.

SHANGHAI. Aug 3.-Advices from Foo
Chow are that a telegram received there
on the Sd says that fearful massacre OF
Christians has occurred at Kiu-Klang. Five
foreign ladies were among the murdered.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3-The State De-
partment has received - cablegram from
United States Consul Jernlgan. at Shanghai,
stating that one American female mission
ary was wounded and four British female
missionaries killed at the mission of Kiu-
dispatch, and the place described is believed
to be in the province of Hupe. far UP on the
banks of the Yang-tse-Kiang beyond
the reach of men-of-war. and about AGO
miles north Of Peng-Tu, where the last mis-
slonary riots occurred. The State Depart
ment will take steps in the matter at once.
Under Instructions from the State Depart
ment United States Minister DENLY is now
engaged in investigating the damages sus-
tanned by the American missions at Kiang-
Su, China, during the riot there. The Chi
ances that 1t will pay a suitable indemnity.
and has taken steps to ascertain for itself
through commission the extent Of the
losses sustained by the foreigners
Methodist Missionaries There.
NEW YORK, Aug. 3.-The cablegram
telling of a massacre Of Christians, in
cluding five women, at Kiu-Kiang, excited
the gravest fears at the headquarters of
the foreign board OF Methodist missions in
this city to-day. The Methodists have
mission at Kiu-Kiang. 1t is in charge of
Miss Mabel c. Hartford. Her assistant is
Miss w. II. Rouse. In addition to these it
is feared two other women, Miss Mabel
Allen and Miss Sarah Peters are also in
te hvicinity OF Ku-Kiang. Corresponding
Secretary A. B. Leonard. of the Methodist
board of foreign missions. said to-day:
I'm view of the fact that We have re-
only hope for the present that our people
are safe and well. Had any Of our people
been massacreed 1 am sure that the Rev.
w. H. Lacy, our representative and treas
urer at Foo-Chow, from which place the
advices were received, would have cabled
The Rev Job Gillespie, secretary Of the
foreign board OF missions Of the Presby-
terian Church, said to-day that his church
has no missionaries WITHIN Zoo miles OF hlu-
Kiang. He expressed the opinion that the
massacre affected most seriously the Church
Missionary Society of England, which es-
tablished mission at Kiu-Kiang in 1s47.
The mission attached to the Church of
England has two mission houses there.
The society maintains twenty-five schools
in the province. There is also a small
church for lepers in the leper village just
outside of the south gate of the NJ Z.
Compound.
The Rev. E. E. Chivers, secretary of the
Baptist board Of foreign missions, said that
the BaptistS have no missions near the
scene of the alleged massacre. Other mis-
sionaries located at kicheng, which is
also about two hundred miles from Kiu-
Kiang.
Board of Commissioners Not Informed.
BOSTON, Aug. 3.-Rev. Justin Smith. d.
D., one OF the secretaries of the American
board of commissioners for foreign mis-
sions whose headquarters are in this city.
said to-day, regarding the cablegram from
Foo-Chow, China. that the massacre Of
Christians occurred at Kiu-Kiang.
Il have heard nothing OF such a massacre
and cannot say whether or not the report
is correct. 1 received a letter from one of
our missionaries In that vicinity in June,
but he said nothing of any friction between
the Chinese and Christians at that time.
Foo-Chow Is the head mission station of
that section of China for the church mis-
sion and the American board and there are
a large number of missionaries, both men
and women, in that section. 1t is not men,
toned in our latest list Of Foo-Chow mis-
sions, but Kiu-Kiang mission has been es-
fQhighed a reCeutly however,