The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-07-25
CAUGHT IN A TRAP.
The American Soldiers We're at the
Mercy Of the Chinese.
THEY LAY IN THE MUD ALL DAY
And Had No Food and Only Canal
Water to Drink.
WERE MANY HEAT REGISTRATIONS.
The Survivors Struggled Back in Squads
All Night,
EXHAUSTED AND CARRYING THE WOUNDED
EXHAUSTED AND CARRYING THE WOUNDED
Japanese Were the Heroes OF
Battle mt Tien Tsin, They
Refrained from Looting.

Copyrighted. 1900, bv Associated Press)
Tien Tsin, Saturday, July IA, via Chez
Foo, July 16, and Shanghai. July 24.-The
Ninth regiment, United States infantry,
entered the fight at Tien Tsin with 430
men. An incomplete list OF casualties
shows eighteen killed, seventy-fve wound
ed and two missing. The marine LOSES
were four killed and eighteen wounded.
Major James Regan. Ninth infantry. was
wounded in the leg; Captain Edwin V.
BockmilIer. Ninth infantry. in the leg
and groin First Lieutenant smedley D.
Butter. United States marine corps. in the
leg; Captain w. Lemley, United States
marine corps. in the arm; Lieutenant
Frank r. Lang, Ninth infantry in the
foot. First Lieutenant Henry Leonard of
the marine corps carried Lieutenant But
ter from the field under fierce Are. He
was slsot in the arm while returning. but
ran and swan mile under fire. getting
to the rear His arm was amputated to-
day.
Captain Charles r. Noyes, who'had been
slightly wounded in the arm and leg swan
mile with only his nose above water,
with a request for achievements
First Lieutenant Louis B. Lawton OF
the Ninth infantry made a dash for rein
forcements under"sare and received three
slight wounds. Colonel Lisoum was shot
in the abdomen and died half an hour later.
His last orders were to continue firing.
After crossing a mud wall half mile
from the city wall the Ninth shifted, ad-
vaucng against the faSking fire and
reached a marsh outside beside the river
at the southwest corner of the city
body of Chinese In burned village under
the wall just across the river, where they
we're strongly barricaded, poured in fire
and when an American raised a hand he
was shot A NSdenfeldt and TWO cannon
we're also trained upon them. They lay
in the mud all day without surgeon 10
move or help the wounded, without food
and drinking the canal water. They had
exhausted their ammunition, except rev
rounds. which We're retained in order 10
repel a charge il it should be made. None
expected TO escape. few. reacbing the
rear. reported mat half of the command
had been killed. or wounded. INCLUDING neat
prostrations in the estimate.
After the Americans had retired under
81 III a IA EtruRglel
in squads all night, pitifully exhausted
and carrying their wounded. The Ameri-
can hospitals were crowded and short OF
surgeons, there having been no expecta-
ton of such losses
Today squads searched the fields, col
lecting the dead and wounded. Colonel
Liscum's body was escorted to boat this
evening by two battalions OF English
troops with general and colonel at
their head Lieutenant Colonel Coolidge,
who Is now commanding the regiment,
and Major Lee were among the pail bear
ers. The chaplain of the marine corps
read the service at the canal locks. The
body will be shipped to san Francisco
The total losses OF the allies were about
500 The British lost ffty. The Japanese
estimate their killed at fifty, and wound
ell at $50. The Russians estimate their
casualties at $50,
| All day long the work OF bringing IN
| the dead and wounded was continued
The japanese were the heroes Of the
battle. Their ighting was remarkably
brave and Wa praised by all their COL
| leagues. when some OF the foreign Of
fcers counselled retreat last night the
/ Japanese general said when my men
move 1t will he 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.
They refralned from looting, while some
of the European soldiers were having an
Iorgie.
Dead cinnamon cover the walls and
1 streets OF Tien Tsln. Fifty guns were
aptured the place was full OF munitions
of war,
Many fires have been started and most
OF the city Will probably be burned.
4 The Chinese are retreating toward Pc