The herald., 1895-08-18
anti MISSIONARY RIOTS
Story OF the Troubles That
Occurred at Cheng Tu
CANADIAN PREMISES LOOTED
No Protection Afforded BY the Soldiers
OF the Yameu
Four Days Of Horror Endured by White
Peaple In the Midst Of
Chinese Rabbie
Aasociated Pres. spsclal w,rs.

Associated Press Special wxe.
SRATTLE. Aug. l..-R. B. Whittlsey
ayoung American missionary at Chenf
Tu, China, sends the following descrip p.
ston Of the antimissionary lots there
20 ths Post st-Intelligencer:
On the afternoon OF May 25th crowd
began to collect oatsdo the gate of the
Canadian Methodist mi ssion at Cheng Tu
Mr.. Jackson was there, having come in
the day before. About pm the crowd
began to get rowdy outside. The mission.
aries sent to the officials for help. Rough
conduct Increased and the doors were
smashed and the mob began to surge in
to the gateway. Drs. Kilborn ana Ste
venson came out and the crowd scattered
In two directions, as one had shotgun
and the othor rifle under his arm. Thus
they kept the gateway for one hour an d
half. waiting for official help, but none
came. The ladies were taken to the hos
pital comopund next door.
At length about dozen men, who said
they we're yamcn runners, and three SOL
aievs stepped out and said they would
disrefse the mob and gradually they doc
tors retired to where the ladies ware. The
gate Of tho hospital compound was also
surrounded and they seemed hemmed III.
In the meantime the lob swept past tho
yamon and com mencec their work of
destruction By looting and pulling tho
dwelling houses to pieces. The friends
tried to hide under soma timbers, but
All old opium patien. turned up and ad.
vised them not to do so as they would be
fonnd and perhaps burned. They fred
shot through the top OF the gateway
into the ai.. The crowd cleared off at
this and they scrambled through the bro
xen panels into the street; they sought
yefusc but no ono would give it to them.
They won't down the street (four adults
tnd tour very young children) amid cries
ot BEAT them to death ~ They made their
way into some barracks, tut the sold iers
surrounded them AMI drove them out,
ana ono Of them kicke Mrs. Stevenson.
In the dark they made their way to tho
city wall. One Of the children was lost
Ivy native woman. but afterwards found
by servant from Kia Ting and restored
20 Mrs. Stevenson. They were on the city
wall ill about midnight, and from tn ere
tney could see thei- compound burning.
Some chairs were sent from another mis-
zion, and in the small hours of the 18th
they made their way to the .China island
mission house, The next morning, very
early, two old houses OF the Canadian
Methodist mission (Rev. G.. Partwslls
M tre ladies') were destroyed and they
joined the others at:the Z. l. M. house.
The people OF the street at Kuh Fuh
said: "You have been here over ten
years and have done good; no one will
touch you here" This, however, was
not true; the mob began to collect. Mr..
Vale went to give notice to the yamen.
and whilst tho crowd was Kept at one
side OF tho street by the few soldiers, Dr.
and Mrs. Stevenson and Mr.. and Mrs.
Mccormack got away in chairs to the
yamer. Tho door was barricaded with
boxes Of books. ETC., but these were
cleared off by the rioters, and ere long
Or. n"d Mrs. Kilborn. Mr.. and Mrs. Part
well, the children and Misses Brackbill
AND Ford had to escape by ladders over
the sack wall. They entered small
hou." and by three rings Of silver GO
t.s!O sivSn to three brothers OF the
hvGscio.d, obtained conceaiment inside
TIE Bed curtains IN the inner room --some
AK adults and ssveral children For
!Elae hours they dared not speak above
whisper. whist the work q. destruction
WAS going on within a few feet in tho {,
I. NJ. com pound. The ex-opiUm pa ticnt
VINO bsfriended them the night before
was there again. and Kept the neighbors
q'nat with promises OF money. The man
IN whose house they were conceale d
pala! out his nod and smoked his OPT
un. and the women worked on Ms
though nothing had happened. At night
khe mi 81 lir.n q n,t.{ ,iptar 10.
ness reached the yamon.
At the methodist Episcopal mission q
similar state OF things had happened
About thres hours after their return from
the yamen the moi burst in and shey
had to escape over the side boundary
wall. Had they gone over the back wall
1hey would have found themselves III the
bands Of armed robbers. as did their
nst;vs helper. who had to ransom him.
self with 10 taels of silver. AS 1t was.
thu Lord provided way of escape in a
ii,,,s Io!t next door. from which place
they could see the iootine and wrecking
ot the promises. Later OH they too made
shsir way to the yamsn and Joined the
other friends. This same day all this
Roman Catholic PLACES were looted and
DESTROYED; that IS, in all Protestant and
Roman Catholic-eleven places--such
day of destruction as had never been
known in the west bsiore. The Roman
Catholic bishops house was next to the
yceroy's .yamcn and could easily have
been saved. nut on appeal for help he
was refused il more than once.
That night saw. :hirty-one foreigners,
men. women and children, French and !
British. IN the yamen. homeless. their |
houses level, d or burnt, with scarcely a |
whole tile lett. Some silver. a few tins !
Of milk. Two typewriters. little bed !
ding and some Instruments, with the |
clothes on their banks, being the only |
valyagc. wire was sent off to the |
Ching King consul, but when the viceroy !
heard OF it he ordered the operator to |
:ctcn it back. but il was too late. and the !
news got through to Pskin. The district |
magistrate took care of the refugees and |
treated them as we'll as he could in his
ysmen.
The next day was exceedingly trying.
A man and killed chicken the day be-
eOre and sprinsl-d the blood OH the walls
O. evidencce that the foreigners killed
people others openly brought the bones
ard skui o: Roman Catholic priest,
who hal been buried on their premises.
W. fdrtntr evidence. This excited the
people stil! more. and they threatened to
wreck the yamen and kill the foreigners.
BY the fourth day the Lsung.li- li-yamen ~
pnkir had ipnda tho vicorOv art and q.