The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-28
SAVAGE bATI-F)RE|M MOB.
British Consulate at Skashi
Burned by Rioters.
INMATES NARROWLY ESCAPE.


The Japanese liner Rieiun Maru. Capt
II. T.. Moses. arrived In port last even
ing. after a rerna rkahly fast trip across
tho Pacific. She brings the latest adv.ces
from the Orient. having left Kobe on May
IL. The day she left Kobe news WAS re-
cesyed from Shanghai by cable that the
British consulate al Smash! and ;he en-
tire European settlement had been burned
during an anti-sore.gn riot. The British
consul. the European missionaries ana
steamship agents barely escaped with
their lives by taking 20 the silk haiks
moored in the Yangtsekisng river.
Two B-.tisa gunhoats had been ordered
to shasfl from flangkow. los miles down
the river. ard Consul Nicholas Hamen. at
Shanghai. had sent another ganboat from
that point. II Is said that no Europeans
iost their lives The British government
will pu, In ! clasm for heavy damages.
The Rio5un brings the news that the
plague has arrived at Shanghai on the T.
4 o. steamer Bengal. Al Hongkcng the
plague Is making frlghsfui Roadway among
the natives. and several Europeans have
died from the dread scourge. Two Sisters
of Mercy In the hospital at Honghong died
OF the disease about May !.
Rev. William Taylor. OF Shanghai. who
fer nine years has been in the interior OF
China for the Chinese Inland Missionary
Society. returned on the Riojun with his
l,sf sfIs1
porter the following accoun. OF the dis
order at shashi:
'The dag we left Kobe, May II, cable
was received from Shanghai which told
Of serious anc-foreign riots At Shashi.
about go miles west OF Shanghai. on the
yangtsek!ang river. There had been sew
erai small RIOTS there earlier in the year.
and q strong ants-foregn feeling devel-
oped On May .. as nearly as We could
learn, hundreds of Chinese started a riot,
They appeared n numbers before the Brit
ish consulate and began throwing rocks
through the windows. The building was
a new and imposing structure. and was
occupied by the British consul his family
and several Europeans. AS the anger of
the rioters increased. the occupants Of the
consulate. together with the other Euro
pean Inhabitants. escaped through rear
entrance ana made their way 10 one OF the
silk hunks raooTed In the river.
ION finding that the hated whites had
ssrapea. tho Chinese ret FIRE TO the build
ing They then looted the European
stores or hongs. as they call them They
then burned the buildings. The fire brands
were next applied to tho offices of Jardine,
Mathason & Co. and Butteriield a. Swire
ouerat.ng the Red and Black Funnel
steamship line. understand that the
rnlsEien houses OF the China Inland and
swsdisa Missions were not burned. as the
busId.ngs used mere Of native construction.
The European missionaries were eompeil-
ed 10 flee - slse silk hulks with the other
whites
"E understand that two British gunhoats
that arc always kept at Hangkow, to
miles down the river. were ordered to Sha-
sh, as soon IA the news was received. An
other gunboat was ordered up the river
from Shanghai by the British consul. The
sunboats will restore order without dill
Guilty. for the Chinese are very much
afraid of the long guns
"shashl was made an open port af'er
the Japanese war; II was one OF the
no!nts insisted on In the treaty or peace.
II In but eighty miles south OF the prov
.nee OF Hunon. the worst anti-foreign
province in entire China. The feeling
ADAMS, Europeans In this province is SD
stroag that IL was NOT until a short time
sso that We were able 20 establish mis-
sion stations there. Even now the resi-
dent missionaries are natives and the
whites only visit the missions occasional
~, Shashi Is in the province OF Hupeh.
ard the natives objected very strongly TO
the advent e Europeans. They objected
particularly 20 the erection % European
bindings on the ground THAT {; tended TO