The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-18
TALES OF TERROR.
Missionary Talks of the Bloody and
Brutal Deeds.


VANCOUVER, B. c., Aug. H.
among the passengers by the Empress
of Japan were DR.. Stevenson and fam
lily, missionaries at Szechuan, China,
who narrowly escaped murder at the
hands Of the natives IN the first Of the
recent riots. Or. Stevenson belongs to
Canadian Methodist mission, and is
now en- route to his home in Milton,
Ont, having had to leave China owing
to the ill-heaith Of his wife, who is
still suffering from the effects of the
Vicious Official System.
DR.. Stevenson said that the vicious
official system OF the empire is re-
sponSible for the persecution Of the
missionaries. Left to themselves, the
people OF Szechuan were peaceable and
well disposed toward them. The bet
ter class OF Chinese are quick to ap-
preciate their superiority in many re-
spects-in medicine, for example-and
DR.. Stevenson had his hands full at
tending TO his numerous patients
among all classes. The viceroy of this
province may be regarded as a typi-
cal specimen of his class, or little
worse, if anything. Receiving merely
Z nominal salary from headquarters,
lie made up the deficiency out of the
pockets of the people with such good
results that in a few years he amaSsed
no less than $4,000. He even al
lowed his rapacity to get the better of
his discretion and behaved so tyrani-
cally that his own countrymen grew
Disguised.
VicerOy Disgraced.
The popular clamor was SO great
that the central government was
forced to recognize it, and last year
Il DIT 1,o
could not be removed until a successor
was appointed, a process involving
considerable delay in China. Seeing
himself ~ the brink of political ami
hilation, he thought to regain favor
and make an enviable reputation by
turning the missionaries out of the
province. 1t was afterward learned,
moreover, that he had secret instruc-
lions to that effect. All kinds of out
rageous stories about the missionaries
were circulated among the populace,
for the purpose of securing their CO.
operation. The missionaries had built
a hospital in Cheng tn, now destroy
ed, at considerable cost, and DR.. Stew
e'lson was one Of the doctors en-
ployed.
On the 2Sth of May, a placard was
posted Up, declaring that foreigners
fried children for the oil in them.
A request was made that these pla-
cards should be torn down and a few
were torn down, though several per-
sons objected.
DR.. Kilborn," continued the doc
tor, was just filing Mr.. Jackson's
teeth, and I was Going slight worl,
about the dispensary, when we heard
some children yelling and throwing /
small stones. This was about 4:30. We
sent our cards at once to nearly all |
the yamens. They were received. ex-
cept one sent TO the Tsong Pap Kia-
Chi. Human man, who followed up |
ms refusal with a vicious proclama- |
ton. This man had been cured of an !
ulcer in the leg of 90 years stsndi,,g
oy Dr. Kanright short time before /
ine crowd attacked the Canadian mis- |
sion and broke in the doors
Good Liars, But lad Police
Dr.. Kilborn had a douple-barreIlad ,,,r
ana mad Martini rife. When we Sn-
SeaIe9 on the scene the crowd disap
PEG peared IN hurry out of the gate and |
Ired three shots low down into This ard
men ran right into the street. We held
the, Inc crowd at bay until. the police ar
cleTr. adding that the officials would soon
ap 'ear Good liars. but bad police fbe,,
soc soc allowed the people to come right into
Again we cleared the street. In If
re while our wives wanted 70 see ms.
1uSs <leLu piChS0 up the DdEieS in their
night clothes and ran to the bosnifaI
through the dividing wall, and we soon
feard crowds beating at the hospjtai
gates Oh the back street. DR.. Kflhorn
blew a. big hole through the top panel oF
the gate and frightened the crowd back
We now went into our dispensary build |
irgs and tried TO lock ourselves in. hi,t
we soon heard the roar and crash of glass
and panels on the dwelling side We made
several vain attempts to escape into an
adjacent lot.
Expected Death.
1--WE fully expected death, hut in a short
time a man whom i cured of onium
smoking found US and told lis we must ,
leave at once. He had found a hole in
the hospital gate, made by stone from
a riotey- One OF my twin babies was
taken by woman servant of DR. XII
born, the other by the opium pa+ient
My wife held on to the little baby, and I
hela the rife. We all ran to the gates.
There was just room for one to get
through the hole was one of the Ia ST
to get out, and pointed my rifle at man
who was yelling "Ta-sze" lstrike deadl
He. shut up at once, as there were only
a dozen or so by the hospital gate. was
forced to resort to this expedient several
times. While we we're running out into
the. parade grounds, q brutal soldier
kicked Mrs. Stevenson. I leyeled again
on this wretch and had he tried to follow
IL up there might have been another story
TO tell. But he saw me and stopped
After this my ride was needed no further