New-York tribune., 1900-10-07

having his favorable proclamation taken down
from the walls and thai MOP MOI d9 h9d aeaay 61 in
the evening, a mob arrived at our house in the
yamen The magistrate declared he could not
help us. He had received orders no longer to pro
tect foreigners, and bade US depart IN peace a. AZ
Length m IN answer to & our rde ne eg SO
we started north for the capital We got within
twenty Ii of it without adventure when we met a
implored us to turn back as the Inland Mission had
already been burned the Roman Cathollc est estaD, o.
shment pulled down and all the foreigners We're IN
the Baptist Mission compound surrounded by a
toward Ping-Yao and our escort at once left US
We had not much money, and the people demahqj5e ma j
exorbitant prices for everything, even I3r nS tnS
simple permission to pass along the road we 500
cnS o 9H9 eddRa@ and in this Way
our station at Lucheng safe, but stripped. two
there we had TO fee for our lives at midnight with
nothing but one donkey load of bedding and clothes
the party Which direction to take we did not
know To go north again was out Of the question i1
and eastward to shan-Tung was equally imp6ssl2&if &
Ho-Nan and Hoo-Pe to Hankow. But we had only
1t a large village by some two hundred people, who
demanded money. We could not satisfy them so
chief tore all bedding and clothes 10 pieces
Then they stripped us next akng & eacH te Store
o silver leaving US nothing women ana cntlorfn f
this affair we lost the natives who were accom-
while we were driven along the road by men win WIN
clubs. 1t & terrible situation The Dlazlng
so much as a little piece of rag to wet and put on
the top of our heads; At every village we were were
Ref"Te We got Clear of the mob from one
from the next had already arrived to take US in
hand. Neither food nor water could be obtained
How we contrved to, exist We hardiy Know; LOT tor
days only support was found in the hlthy
puddles by the roadside When we reached E a @ citg y
was anxious that should come to our end n
they the Would give us little food and send escort
yroro Arrived
ESCORT always left us and we had to struggle on
Miss Rice was killed on the road htty, Il north
of Tseh-Chau-Fu in shan55Se: Ihat day aa ooth t1d
saying they would willingly die. but walk another her
magistrate had given small piece of silver.
which We had to carry IN our h hahG, ha{a4g fhg{
be able to hire cart for the women with this
piece Of silver, so two OF us went to yilSge age 10
the same time they pounded our knuckes with a
ddSN dToTe us US down the road away from our party
Just then began to rain ana the parry, WIN tne
to an empty guardhOuse near by. There mob fell
tfp fpon two he6iess women got left and We're beaten
death. Nothing could be done until Jseh-Chau-
to inquire. Miss Rice was found to be already
iuTed was still alive. She died afterward at Yum
mung. in Hoo-Pe and the body was brought On
The crossing of the Yellow River was one of our
most trying eXperienGes Il The Xamen had ;, glazed
soon as were in the boat the carts drove away,
declined pointblank 10 have anything TO do with
US For two days we sat on the bank of the Yellow
River knowing what to do. We like the
Israelites the Red Sea Pharaoh was behind:
neither right left there any retreat. and
no means of crossing over. On the third day the
boa tmen unexpectedly changed their minds and
took over
The first city south Of the river was
Chang-Chow. The magistrate here bitterly
anti foreign and said had only arrived twenty
four hours sooner he would have had the pleasure
of killing US all His orders to allow no
foreign devil TO escape, but the Dowager Empress
had taken pity on them, and he had Just been in
sructed to have them all sent as prisoners into
sent across Ho-Nan from city to city as prisoners
by the yamen, sometimes in carts and some
times mounted the hard wooden pack sad
dies of donkeys. For food they gave US bread
and water and nowhere showed US any Kind
ness till reached Sin-Yang- Chow. the last CITY
in Ho-Nan. Here no longer treated as
prisoners. and here met with the Glovers from
Luan who had arrived there after a similar iour-
ney. The Hoo-Pe magistrates were exceedingly
kind. At the first city, Wing Shan. were sup
piled with food and clothing and kept in the va
soldiers proceeding to Peking. whom it would not
be safe TO meet. The Ying- Shan native Christians
also sought out and showed great Kindness
as they also did at the cities OF Tehngan Yum
mung and Hsaokan. Mrs. F. J. Cooper died at
Ying- Shan OF the injuries and hardships under
gone and her BODY brought TO Hankow for
burial. Thus ended at Hankow. August H. a
Journey OF fifty days duration, OF which the Won
der is that single survived TO tell the tale.