The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18
Others from the Two Missions mt that
Place Had a Bare Chance in
Possible Official Help.
THOUSANDS IN GREAT DANGER
MANY MISSIONARIES STILL SHUT IN
THE YANG-TsE VALLEY.
Situation at observation-disclosures De.
stroyed Near Korean boundary
Some of the Refugees.

NEW YORK, July 1.-THE Rev. DR.. c.
G.. Cregan, general agent of the Ameri-
can Board (Congregationalist), received to-
day a copy of a cablegram received at his
home office in Boston yesterday. This
cablegram was from the Rev. Henry ID.
Porter, M. D., d. D., a missionary at Pang-
Chung, about $50 miles south of Tien-Tsin.
He cabled from Che-Foo, under date of
July IL. as follows:
Information has been received from Pc
king fourth day of July. Think they are
safe up TO present. (paper) At P~ao-Ting-Fu
the 18th of June, the position was not dam
gerous Ewing and Perkins sailed on Mon
DAY for Japan. Will probably remain some
time. 1t is reported Wright is at Peking.
PORTER"
1t is not known what is meant by the
word paper" The two missionaries re-
ferred TO as having left for Japan are the
Rev. George II. Ewing, of P~ao-Ting-Fu
and the Rev. Henry p. Perkins, of Ling
Ching.
The Rev. DIR. f. f. String, the editor of
the Missionary World, who forwarded the
cablegram, says that it is known from
other sources that Prof. George Frederick
Wright was at vladivostock and not at
Picking. and probably is safe. Professor
w TlBnI Il a iii VI II IdCulNs VI
Oberlin University.
While hope for the missionaries in Pc
king was practically abandoned several
days ago there still remained a CLEAN of
hope hat the little band reported on July
6 as at Pao-Ting-Fu might have escaped
the fate of their colleagues in the capital.
that some who were reported to have gone
to Peking were detained and are still at
| their stations. But the lack of further news
has caused grave anxiety for the safety of
those at Pao-Ting-Fu, except for the two
| spoken of as having gone to Japan.
The Belgian engineers who fled in the
first part of June and reached the coast,
said the missionaries had taken refuge in
house of the Chinese ruler, but the uprising
started in Shan-Tung province. and the
Boxers. in order to reach the capital.
| marched northward through and by Pao-
Ting-Fu, which lies 100 miles southwest of
Picking, and is the capital of the province
of Chilli. Unless secreted by the Chinese
rulers there seems little chance that they
have escaped.
There were two missions at this place,
that of the Presbyterian Church. which
also supported a hospital. and that of the
Congregational Church. Several from both
missions escaped during the first part of
the disturbances, ana three OF the COngre-
gGtionalistS were reported to have gone TO
Feking TO attend the annual conference of
their church. But they may have been pre-
vented from going, and may be still at Pao-
Ting-Fu. These three were the Rev. Hor-
ace Il. Pitkin, Miss Mary S.. Morrill, and
Miss Annie a. Gould.
The six Presbyterian missionaries re-
ported on July 8 to be still in Pao-Ting-Fu,
were the Rev. f. Z. Simcox and Mrs. Sim
cox, DR.. G.. Yardley Taylor. DIR. and Mrs.
Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, Hodge and DIR.
Maud A. Mackey.
The Rev. +. f.. Simcox and Mrs. Sim
cox. who was Miss Mary Gibson, were both
born i'm Pennsylvania. They went to China
in 1898. a few months after their marriage.
Two children. six and four years old. are
with them. Mrs. Simcox's nearest relative
is III. D.. Simcox, of Bullion, Pa. Mrs. Sim
ccx's father, Thomas Gibson. lives in Lon
don. Pa.
DIR. G.. Yardley Taylor was born in Tay-
lo~rsville, Pa, May Is, 1862. and went TO
China from Burlington, n. j., in 1886. His
brother. B. F. Taylor, lives in Washing
ten. He was graduated in medicine from
the University of Pennsylvania, passing his
examination with high honors.
DIR. Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, Hodge, son
of the Rev. DIR. Hodge, secretary of the
Presbyterian Board of Education in Phila-
delphia. and nephew of Alexander Van
Rensselaer,, went to China within the last
| year. He is accompanied by his wife. form
erly Miss Elsie Campbell Sinclair, He was
born in Burlington. n. J., and she in Cedar
| Rapids, Ia. DIR. Hodge is a graduate of
Princeton University and was president
Of the Presbyterian Hospital in Philadel-
phia for several years before sailing. They
were married after they had agreed to de-
vote their lives to missionary work in
China.
Miss Maud a. Mackey. who is an orphan,
has been in China only a little more than
q year. She was born in Evanston, ILL.,,
Jan. 10. 1872. Her two brothers and a sister
live at Los Angeles. Cal.
The board of management of the Mis-
sionary Society of the NJ. r. Church., at
its monthly meeting this afternoon. passed
a resolution giving full authority to the
secretaries. acting with the China commit
tee. to recall all missionaries Of the So
ciety now in China, if they should at any
time deem il wise to do so. The resolu-
ton authorizes the expenditure Of any
sums necessary to effect the purpose.