The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-04

FIGHTING FOR
THEIR LIVES.
Edict Issued by Prince Tuan That
None Shall be Left Alive-Le-
" cation Guards Dccapitated.
TWO MINISTER'S MURDERED.
Report Says That British and French
Ambassadors Were Sacrificed.
Men Hacked to Pieces.

LONDON. July 4, 2:3O a. m.-Courlers
who are arriving at the seats OF gov
ernment OF the southern viceroys from
their agents In Pekin. give vivid but
fragmentnry pictures of what is being
enacted in the capital. The couriers
seemingly left Pekin n day or two later
than the messenger OF Sir Robert Hart.
the inspector general Of customs. who
started on the night Of June "a. They
report that the heads Of some captured
legation guards were being borne
through the streets at the top of
spears, followed by zealots chanting
"Tapl Yang Kuei Use; Tapi, Tnpi,"
('.Ilill the foreign devils. Kill! Kill!"l
The clty's millions have been reused
TO patriotic fervor, breaking out into
the widest excesses. while over half OF
the city could be heard fighting around
the: legations.
Foreigners Making Last Stand.
Sir Robert Harts runner. who was in
terviewed by the correspondent Of the
Express at Shanghai. supplements the
tragic sentences Of the dispatch he bore
by narrative OF some things he saw.
He says the foreigners were making a
last stand In the extensive buildings
and enclosures of the British legation.
They had many dead and wounded.
Among them were some women and
children, All were short of food, even
OF the commoncst necessaries. The wo-
men were starving rs they gave part
of their small allowance to the chill
dren. The foreigners nevertheless,
were holding out under terrible fire
upheld by the hourly expectation of re-
lief. They knew they would not be
abandoned and.that the armies Of their
governments were advancing. Some
times they thought they could hear ar
tlllery In action beyond the wall, They
were unable to return the fire Of the
Chinese. except at moments when IN
assault seemed imminent. Then the
machine guns and repeating rifles tore
the storming parties to pieces.
Il Cannot Resist Much Longer.
50 The messenger expressed the belief
that It would, be Impossible for the
foreigners to resist much longer, as the
Chinese were preparing 10 batter down
the walls of the court yard, and their
ammunition was running low.
0rdarc >parn ryI1,op Ia, fo,tza
said the messenger, that. since some
had been killed. no other foreigners
should be left alive. The Chinese were
exhorted to sacrifice their lives without
hesitation II by so doing they could help
exterminate the Wang Kuei TIE"
Extreme precautions had been taken
to prevent the foreigners from commu-
nIcatIng with any one outside the city
and number OF runners who had been
sent out were killed by the Chinese.
This messenger succeeded In getting
through by smenring his face and
clothes with blood and Joining in the
outcries against the devils" He
passed the remains Of foreigners OF Ad-
miral Seymour's force who had been
killed between Lang Fang and Lo Flu.
Their bodies had been cut to pieces and
their heads were carried at the ends Of
bnmboos.
A large army Of Manchu Chinese i'm
perial troops with twenty guns, is re-
ported to be advancing in the direction