The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-11-09
he WAS WITH TITUS
Corporal w, P. Brose, Wich-
itan, Writes From China.
TELLS OF WALL SCALING
And of the Battles Following
That Event.


Titus at the time Of the historical seal
ing Of the wall at PeEn and in the bat
ties following has written to brother
T. w. Brose Of this city. from Matou
China.
Corporal Brose served IN the army dur
ing the Spanish war He was in the bat
tie ar Santiago ard after his term Of en-
listment expired. returned to this city,
where he remained for some time After
being here with his relatives for some
months. the desire to return to the army
came on and as q result, he enlisted for
the foreign service. lie first was sent to
the Philippines and then to japan and
over 20 China
Tn his letter he describes in a modest
way. the taking of the imperial city. He
speaks Of the wall scaling Of the forcing
Of the gates and of the resistance Of the
Chinese. The letter from Corporal Brose
is dated September 26. and was received
here on wednesday last The letter bears
the date of October in China and there
are no stamps on IT,
Tn his letter Corporal Brose states that
it was nearly impossible to get paper to
write his letter on and that it was en-
tirely impossible to secure stamps and
for that reason the letter was not
stamped when it reached this city
The Fourteenth regiment in which
Wichitans were members saw the hard
est fighting at the taking Of Peldn. Cor
poral Brose speaks of the firing and Of
the work and states that it was the
hottest time in that country that he
ever saw
The letter Of T. w. Brose IS as follows:
Matou China, September 26. 1900.
'Dear Brother. T wrote YOU letter
from Nlagaski, Japan. when Z was there
ard this time r will try and tell you of
few places 7 have been since wrote
to you last. We landed at Taku. China,
August J. and took the train to Ten
Tsin. about thirty miles distant, and
went into camp at the American mis-
sion the same day
On the 9TH Of August we started the
advance on Pelin and on the 5th the
English and Japanese had fight at Pu
Tsang. We were I'm reserve that day and
did not get into the fight. On the 9Th
we had a fight at Yang Tsu and St was
good and hot for two hours and then we
took the town.
"The Fourteenth infantry had sixty
three killed and wounded G. company
had one killed and two wounded. After
ten DAYS Of the hottest marching I ever
saw. we got to Pekn on the 18th
"Tne walls and the gates Of the city
were held Toy the Chinese troops. but a
few shots from our artillery made them
scatter. One company of the Fourteenth
Infantry scaled the wall under fire and
planted our c0lors on the wall after
which p and G companies made q dash
for the gate and got into the city with
out niue trouble.
1.-THE Chinese opened a hot IRE on us
after we got into the city and we had
some hot shooting for a while but we
soon had them on the rum
AFTER fighting nearly half the day we
marched into the foreign legation with
colors flying and found that ali the for
eigners i'm the legation were safe.
some English troops marched into the
city about the time we did. on the 18th
we started into the Imperial city but the
Chinese troops objected. A few wen di-
rected shots from our artillery changed
their minds and few more shots opened /
the first gate to the CITY Some Of the
Fourteenth infantry were through the
gate and cleared the way for the artiI-
lery and the second gate was opened
the same as the first had been. The +
third gate was finally opened and then
we had a rest There was then one more
gate between us and the palace. but
General Chanee said chat he had done
enough and then we marched out Of the
Imperial city.
con the 10th we went into camp where I
We stayed until the 27th OF OF August +
and then c. company moved to Matou. +
where we have been ever since Sine /
rest Of our regiment IS stn IN Pczin.
"The casualties of the Fourteenth req (
-iment ali told was 130 of G company. 7 /
fant through everything and was with +
the company every day. got rather
tired some 6avs out got through an .
right Before the thing was over i was /
somewhat sick. but after a little rest I +
was an right again.
sAIatou is telegraph station on the F
Pieho river between Tien Tsin and Pekiu .
and we are here to guard the line Of
communication
~ received your letter Of June ~ while
I was in Pekin. T would have answered (
it sooner but could not get amy writing
paper before. Tt took me two weeks %
get this paper and postage stamps we
cannot set at all. hear however. that
our postage VIII he paid and guess that
# &c is not YOU VIII be willing enough to
hear from me TO pay the necessary
amount
'You have no IDEA bow this trouble
has destroyed THINGS fra this country
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