Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-08-24
DR.. Stevenson Tells of the At
tack of the Mob.
RABBLE ENTIRELY TO BLAME
Women and Babies Escaped From House
to House Finally Reaching
the Coast.

Vancouver, b. c., Aug. H-Among
the passengers by the Empress OF jap
an were Doctor Stevenson and tam1iy'
missionaries at SZechuan, emma VINO
narrowly escaped murder at the hahus
of natives in the first of the recent
yio+a DIR. Stevenson belongs to
Canadian Methodist mission, and is
now en- route to his home in Milton
ont having had to leave China owing
IN the i'll health of his wife, who Is
still suffering from the effects or recent
borrors DIR. stevenson said that the
vicious official system of the empire
is rasnonsible Tor the persecution OF
missionaries. Left to themselves IhG
naon1e of Szechuan were peaceable and
well disposed toward them. The mls-
oioraries had built a hospital in Cheng
tn. now destroyed, at considerable
cost, and DR.. Stevenson was one Oh lhe
doctors employed On the 2Sth day OF
NAV placard was posted up, declaring
that the foreigners fried children for
the oil in them. A request was hlaue
that these placards should be torn
down, and a few were torn GOWN
though several persons objected.
T. IL
"was lust filling Mr.. Jackson's teeth
and l was doing slight work ABOUT the
dispensary, when we heard some GILL
dren yelling and throwing small stones
This was about 4:30. We sent out cards
at once to nearly all the 1amens' 1hey
were received. except one sent to
Tsong Pao Fiachii, Human man. VINO
followed UP his refusal with Vici-
Gus proclamation.
Dr. Kilborn had a double-barreled
gun and I had a Martini rifle. We held
the crowd at bay until cha1rmen ar
rived, who promised to keep the street
clear. adding that the officials would
soon appear Good liars but bad po-
lice, they soon allowed the people to
come right into the gate.
"Aeain we cleared the street. Our
wives had picked up the babies in their
night clothes and ran to the hospital
through the dividing wall, and we soon
heard the crowd beating at the hos
pital gates on the back street DR.. Kill
born blew a big hole through the top
panel of the gate and frightened the
crowd back. We now went into our
dispensary buildings and tried to lock
ourselves in, but we soon heard the
roar and crash of glass and panels
on the dwelling side. We made several
vain attempts to escape into an ada
cent lot. We finally found hole in the
wall made by a stone thrown by
rioter.
There was just room for one to get
through the hole. l was the last to get
out, and pointed my rife at a man who
was yelling strike dead While we
were running out into the parade
grounds a brutal soldier kicked Mrs.
Stevenson. l leVelled q gun on this
wretch, and had he tried to follow it
up there might have been another story
TO tell.
BARELY ESCAPED.
Next day the party made their way
to the China inland mission house;
from there they watched the destruc-
ton of the two old houses of the Cana
dian Methodist mission. The mob
broke in and DR.. and Mrs. Kilborn, Mr..
and Mrs. Hartwell, the children and
Misses Breckbill and Ford escaped by
ladders over the back wall They en-
tered a small house and bribed the
owners to conceal them inside the bed
curtains For three hours they waited
in terror, while the work Of destruction
was going on about them. At night
they succeeded in getting away. The
same condition of affairs prevailed at
the Episcopal and Roman Catholic mis-
sions. In all IL places were looted and
the inhabitants barely escaped with
their lives.
1.-THE next day was exceedingly try