Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-07-17
COLONEL LISCUM.

| ceived from Tien-tsin, dated July 13, via
Shanghai. July l6:
AT o'clock this afternoon 1000 ot
the allied troops were attempting to
storm the wall Of the city. The attack
began at daylight Its success is doubt
| full. The Chinese on the walls are esti
mated conservatively at 10000. They are
ponling u terrific hail of artillery, rife
and machine gun fire upon the attackers.
The americans suffered terribly. A.
the correspondent, left the field the chief
surgeon of the Ninth infantry said con
srrvative estimate was that 25 per cent
of tho americans were hit. Colonel EN-
prson II. Liscum is reported to have been
mor1nly wounded as he was walking in
front Of the troops. Major Regan and
Captains Bucklniler Wilson and Noyes
are among the wounded.
LOSSES Of Marines.
"The marines losses include Captain
Davis killed and Butler, Leonard and
several others wounded.
"Otiicers declared that it was hotter
than Santiago.
"When the correspondent left. the
Americans were lying in the plain be
tween the wall and the river under al
entiladng and direct fire. 1t was equal
ly difficult for them to advance or retire.
THE correspondent counted 300 wound
ed men of all nationnlites."
Colonel Emerson H. Liscum of the
Ninth infantry was one Of the most gal
liant of the old civil war veterans still in
the service. At the outbreak of that war
he volunteered as a corporal in Company
III of the First Vermont infantry, having
been born in Vermont. He was mustered
out of the volunteers in August, 1861, and
Immediately entered the regular army as
a private in the Twelfth infantry. Pro
motion was rapid in his case, and he re-
ccivcd his first commission in the regular
army as IL second lieutenant in February,
1868
lie was transferred to the Thirtieth
infantry in 1866 and later became cap
tain in the Twenty-ffth. He also served
in the Nineteenth infantry as captain, in
the Twenty infantry rs major. in
the Twentyfourth as lieutenant colonel
aud became colonel of the Ninth infantry
ON April 25, 1880. He was brevetted q
captain in 1864 for gallant service in the
battle of Bethesda Church and in the
campaign before Richmond.
Colonel Liscum was in the Santiago
campaign with the Ninth infantry and
was badly wounded at the battle of San
Juan Hill. The war department had tax
en- note of his splendid SERVICE and his
name was to have been presented at the
next session of congress for promotion to
the rank of brigadier.
Cabinet Council.
Secretary Hay called cabinet council
to consider the Chinese situation. Few
cabinet officers are in the city, and the
only attendants were Secretaries Hay,
Root Long and Gage.
The council lasted for some time, and
the situation was thoroughly discussed.
In all probability the president will come
here within the'next two or three days.
There is reason to believe that 5000 OF
10000 troops will be got together as
rapidly as possible and hurried to China.
Some of these probably will be taken
from Cuba. If the situation requires
more men, congress will have to be called
together to provide for them.
The Japanese legation has received a
dispatch dated Tokyo. July 10. stating
that the Russians guarding Tientsin
were severely pressed and called on the
Japanese troops for assistance. A COM
bined attack was made on the Chinese,
and the latter were repulsed. The Jap
ancsc lost . captains killed and 80 non.
commissioned officers and privates wound
ed. This dispatch probably refers to one
Of the early fights at Ticn-tsin.
Miss Cora Brush Of Williamstown Is
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