The age-herald., 1900-07-25
STARTED 45O STRONG Daring Deeds of Both the Off,
 cers and Men. LAY IN MUD DURING THE DAY No Surgeon Was Present to Attend to the Wounded, and the Chinese
 Troops Kept Up an In
 ceSSant Fire
.AY IN MUD DURING THE DAY

Tien Tsin, Saturday, July 1-Nia Che Foo, July 16 and Shanghai, July A.-The Ninth Regiment, United States Infantry, entered the fight at Tien Tsin with 43O men. An incomplete list of casualties shows IS killed, 75 wounded and two missing. The | marines loss was killed and IS wounded. Major James Began, Ninth Infantry, was wounded in the leg Captain Edwin V Bookmiller, Ninth Infantry in the leg and groin; First Lieutenant Smedley D. Butler United States Marine Corps. in the leg; Captain B. Lemley, United States Marine Corps, in the arm; Second Lieutenant Frank R. Lang, Ninth Infantry, in the foot.
 First Lieutenant Henry Leonard, of the Marine Corps, carried Lieutenant Butler from the field under fierce fire. He was shot in the upper arm while re. turning but ran and swam a mile under fire, getting to the rear. His arm was anna putated today.
 Captain Charles R. Moves, who had been slightly wounded in the arm and leg, swan a mile with only his head above water, with request for achievements
 First Lieutenant Louis B. Lawton. of the Ninth Infantry, made a dash for reiinforces ments under fire and received three slight wounds. Colonel Liscum was shot in the abdomen and died half an hour later. His l last words were; 'Keep up the firing" l The Ninth Shifted l The Ninth was ordered to support the Japanese, who were receiving an enfiladiug fire. After crossing mid wall half mile from the city wall the Ninth shifted, ad- vancing against the 1anking fire and reached marsh beside the river at the southwest corner of the city A body of Chinese in burned village under the wall just across the river, where they were strongly barricaded, poured in a fire, and whenever an American raised a hand he was shot. Nordenfeldt gun and two small cannon were also trained upon them, They lay in the mud all day without d surgeon to attend their wounds were unai ble to move or help the wounded, without food and drinking the canal water. They had exhausted their ammunition except Q few rounds which were retained in order to repel a charge if it should be made. None expected to escape. A few reaching the rear reported that half of the comS mand had been killed or wounded, includ. ing heat prostrations.
 After the Americans had retired under cover of the darkness, they struggled back in squads all night, pitifully exhausted and carrying their wounded. The American hospitals will be crowded and short of sur- geons, there having been no expectation of such losses.
 Today squads searched the fields, col- lecting the dead and wounded. Colonel Liscum's S body was escorted to a beat this evening by two battaons of English troops, with a general and a colonel at their head. Lieutenant-Colonel Coolidge, who is now commanding the regiment, and Major Lee among the pall-bearerS. The chaplain of the marine corps read the service at the canal lock. The body will be shipped to San Francisco.
 Allies Total Loss 800
 The total losses of the allies were about S00 The British lost 50. The Japanese es- timated their killed at 50 and 250 wounded. The Russians estimated their casualties at 150.
 All day long the work of bringing in the dead and wounded was continued
 The Japanese were the heroes of the bat tie Their fighting was remarkably brave, and was praised by al their colleagues. When some of the foreign officers counsell- ed retreat last night the Japanese General said:
 When my men move 1t will be forward"
 This morning they charged the breaches in the wall made by the artillery and fought hand to hand in the streets. Their conduct after the fight was equally good, when they refrained from footing, while some of the European soldiers were having an orgie.
 Dead Chinamen cover the walls and streets of Tien Tsin.
 Fifty guns captured, the place was full Of munitions of war. Many fires have been started and most of the city will prob- ably be burned.
 The Chinese are retreating toward Pekin.