The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-04
MASSACRE In CHINA.
Five Female Missionaries Re-
ported Killed at kueheng.
ONLY ONE AN AMERICAN.
The Others English-The American
MethodiS.s Have n Mission
There and Two Women.

New York. Aug. Am Associated Press
telegram telling Of massacre OF Chris
tians. including five women. at kucheng
excited the gravest fears at the headquar-
tiers of the foreign board of Methodist
missions in this city today. The Metho-
dists have a mission at Kucheng. 1t is IN
charge OF Miss Mabel c. Hartford. Her
assistant is Miss W. Fl. Rouse. In addi-
ton TO this it is feared two other women,
Miss Mabel Allen and Miss Sarah Peters,
are also in the vicinity of Kucheng. Cor
responding Secretary A. e. Leonard, OF
the Methodist board of missions, who has
spent considerable time in China, said to-
day: In view of the fact that we have
not received a message from China, we
can only hope for the present that our
people are safe and well. Had any OF our
people been massacred am sure the Rev.
". H. Tach. our representative ana treas
urer at Foochow, from which place the
advices were received. would have cabled
10 us without delay. We will not commu-
nicate with Mr. Tach unless we receive
information of the alleged massacre from
him"
Miss Hartford is resident of Dover, n.
H. and has spent several years as a mis-
sionary in China. She was some time ago
put in charge of the woman's work at
kucheng. Miss Rouse, her assistant,
came from Lakefield, Mimi.
The Rev. Job Gillespie, secretary of the
foreign board of missions of the Presby-
terrain church, said today that his church
had no missionaries within $50 miles of
kucheng. He expressed the opinion that
the massacre affected most seriously the
Church Missionary Society of England
which established a mission at kucheng
in 1s47. The mission is attached to the
Church of England and 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 outside of the south gate of
the NJ. f. compound
The Rev. +. T. Chivers, secretary of the
Baptist beard of foreign missions, said
that the Baptists have no mission near
the scene Of the alleged massacre.
Boston. Aug. 3.-Rev Justin Smith, ID.
d., one OF the secretaries of the American
board of commissioners for foreign mis-
sionS, with headquarters in this city, said
to an Associated Press reporter today, re-
garding the cablegram from Foochow
that a massacre of Christians had oc-
CURED at kucheng.
II have heard nothing of such mas
sacre, and cannot say whether or not the
report is correct. received a letter from
one of our missionaries in that vicinity
in June. but it said nothing of any friction
between the Chinese and Christians at
that time. Foochow is the head mission
station of China for the church mission
and the American board. and there are a
large number of missionaries, both men
and women, in that section. AT the pres
ent time 1 do not know of any mission at
Kucheng. Indeed, / have never heard of
the place before. 1t is not mentioned in
our list of Foochow missions. 1t may
have been established recently"
Washington City, Aug. 3.-The state de-
partment has received a cabiegram from
United States Consul Jernigan, at Shang-
hal. stating that one American female
missionary was wounded and four Brit
ish female missionaries killed at the mis-
sion of Kucheng. No further details are
given in the dispatch. The place describ-
ed is believed to be in the province of
Hupek, far UP the banks of the Yangste
river, beyond the reach of men-of-war,
and about 400 miles north of Chengtu.
where the last missionary riots occArred.
The state department will take steps In
the matter at once.
Under instructions from the state de-
partment Minister DENLY is now engaged
in investigating the damages sustained by
the American missions at Chengtu, China,
during the rioting there. The Chinese
government has already given assurances
that il will pay a suitable indemnity, and
has taken steps to ascertain for itself
through a commission the extent of the
losses sustained by the foreigners.