The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-08-29

Of the Province Of Chi LID with the direct
object OF occupying the latter place.
RAILROAD IN BAD CONDITION
Berlin, Aug 2s.-The German Vice Ad-
miral at Taku reports the arrival at Pc
kin Aug 22d OF German convoy with
provisions.
The railroad from Tien-Tsin to Yang
Tsun is working, but from the latter place
TO Pekin the road is I'm bad shape.
the palaces of viceroys and petty tato-
tais. who absorbed their wealth and gave
them not even sewers In return. Now
n is the incarnation of all the suffering,
horrors and waste of war.
The European soldiers, when they
fought their way up to the walls. saw
floating in the canals and bitches out
side. dozens of Chinese slain by their
own people because they refused TO night.
The bodies were headlesS and their
hands were tied behind their backs. The
heads were discovered afterwards. Rows
of them decorated the outer walls, hung
by their pig tails.
FIVE FLAGS FLYING.
Five nass were flying from the high
pagodas on the city walls when the news
paper correspondent entered. the French.
Japanese, American, Russian and British.
1T was hard enough to get those flags
up there" remarked a foreign officer.
but the real trouble will be TO get them
down."
The suburbs OF the city presented q
foretaste OF what was inside. Shells had
torn the huts and plowed the ground.
while the dead men scattered among dead
horses. pigs and dogs, testified how thor
oaghly the bullets had swept the region
the day before
The sights inside compelled respect for
the hghting qualities of the Chinese.
Their dead were everywhere. Dressed in
the coarse blue coolic blouse and trousers,
decorated with characters guaranteed to
render them invunerable 10 foreign bull
let's, they were strewn all along the top of
the wall wherever they had fallen.
Walking a quarter of a mile along the
embankment, the bodies averaged one In
10 feet, and the wall was nearly 10 miles
long.
EFFECTIVE SHELL FIRE,
Throughout the city the demolished
houses and hundreds OF killed gave evil
dence Of how vastly more effective had
been the foreign shell fire within the walls
than the Chinese boubardment of the for
eign settlement. which. lasting for a
month, had killed only a dozen people.
The viceroy had constructed In the pal
trable bomb-proof excavations guarded
by sand bags. but the common people
we're less fortunate Many women and
children were lying dead in the street torn
terribly by shrapnel
The living populace were utterly indif.
ferent to their dead. They would not take
the trouble TO drag them out OF the streets
or even cover them with mating. as the
foreign soldiers did afterwards, but
trampled th0h under foot without both.
ering 70 turn aside.
Before the shooting i'm the streets wa.
finished thousands OF Chinese had
emerged from their burrows carrying
white nags. or the flags OF foreign ma.
tions, principally the Japanese.
SwARMS OF CHINESE.
Chinese swarmed everywhere. thousa nds
and thousands OF them diving into the
flames of the burning shops. getting un.
der falling walls and into chokine
clouds OF smoke
Most of them were half naked, grimy
with smoke and some times dripping with
blood. A Chinese appearing with a prize
must hght his way, as other Chinese
sprsrs upon him and clutched his plum.
der. -
They rolled among the corpses. pulling
and tearing. while children being tram.
pied down cried for help and the mot
poured right along over them.
The palaces. the mint. the pawn shops
the stores OF silks. furs and jewelry
were the first objects OF attack Near
the middle Of the city was the most pros
porous pawn shop. an Institution that had
probably existed for centuries.
wealthy Chinese were accustomed q
store their winter clothing there for SAT,
Keeping.
TIDAL WAVE OF LooTERs.
= When the doors were battered down tn,