Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-11-07
DURING PEKIN sEAGE.

0eAle1 by the Presbyterian board Of
aorxgn missions to take charge of the
Attain hospital in Pekin. They start
cd for China the day after hiswedding.
MTs. Inglis ds a daughter of Senator
7. L. Marshall OF Usage City, Kas DIR.
and Mrs. Inglds are homecoming home
by the way of India and the Suez
canal.
The doctor took AIN active part in
the defense of the band of foreigners
and native Christians in the British lie.
gaition and was witness TO the hor.
rors of the seige. He kept a diary
which covers the flight of the mission
aries to the Qegation, the terrible siege.
the relief by the allies and their
vengeance upon the Imperial city. The
next of his diary, almost entire, is
herewith presented:
June 9.-Just at dusk yesterday we
gathered together "a few of our goods
and provisions, put them into a cart,
and, leaving everything behind, fed
for our lives. We had received word
just before dark that ALL Americans
except those already ait the legation
would take refuge an the Methodist
compound, whittier a guard of 20
United States marines would be sent
from the legation tor protection.
Theodore and the baby getting inside
The cart, l STARTED outside with nv re-
volver in hand. Bt was almost 10
o'clock p. m. when we arrived, so we
found almost every other refugee al.
ready here. reports from native
sources are alarming. The raG,lu,oad has
been torn up baLween here and lien.
Iusin, and whole vilJagep or native
Christians destroyed.
Jnue 10.-N alive Christians are pour.
ing in from the country wAh terrible
stories of disaster. Sons who have
seen their parents killed before their
eyes, old men and women, boys and
| girls, hus bands without wives, pare nds
w4thout children, are coming fromoat
side districts, all telling the same sad
| STORY: The Boxers are burning our
homes and kilIing US because we are
| Christians.
June 11.-Our place ds being forti-
fed day and night. Twenty of us have
been armed with rifles, and are drill
| ing with the United Statues marines
Inns makes forty armed men all told.
We are cut off from the outside world
today.
| June 12.-The church Is being forta-
fled for place TO make "a final stand
In case of aOtack. Mr. GameweH, a
Deaa'cher in the college, is the fortifer
Mo,ne refugees hourly. We now have
between 300 and 400. Al men with
firearms have TO do sentry duty five to
twelve hours day. The ladies make
coffee at midnight and then again at
| a N.
| June 13.-This has been an awful
day. Chinese soldiers and Boxers
pouring into the city. No foreigners
can go beyond the range of our rifles
with safety. Chinese soldiers have
0aken possession OF the big city gate
near us.
| June 1l.-God only knows what
went on in Pekin Last night. 1 was
stationed on guard upon the roof of
the church. just ait dusk an immense
mob gathered. lit fired the street
Chapel alt the end of the lane and then
STARTED up the lane to attack us. The
marines made a bayonet charge and
the mob concluded ito fire us some
other night. Last night the rioters
burned every foreign house, church
hospital i'm the east city except the
ones we were holding at the American
Methodist compound.
Stra ggling Chinese Christians are
coming in today telling the most ew.
full bDoodshed thRt occurred Last night.
My first assistant at the hospital II
here, and has lost his wife. She wan
separated from him in the mob. He
lives next door ITO the hospital, and
Says that lnkit night the mob ATTACKED
It, loOting what it wanted and burn
ing it to the ground. My second as
sastant its reported KILLED; third and
fourth not heard from; the fifth bare
~ escaped with his life. A young
teacher lied hither alhuer seeing her
mother lying dead on the street-her
skull sp.lt open by Boxers sword
The stores CT rapine and murder are
too terrGLt, t., pen.
June L.. ASH night AN immense
mob of Et ~ gathered in the south
eTn city. incir one cry waL xiii, kill
the foreign devil, kill, nil, kill, KILL
1t seemed ss If adj demons i'm he'll had
been let loose for the dreadful perse.
cuuion of Christians. German soldiers
killed seven Boxers last night. Fires
continue over the city. No word from
T6en-tsin and no word of the troops
I went with four civilians and sir
marin'S To ;,ltuack "a temple near US
where the Boxers had a rendezvous
When We got up TO it our birds had
flown. After this we cleared the street
between us and the GegaJiion. The
work of fortifying goes on rapidly.
June 16.-SOldierS raided "a temple
killed 80 Boxers. Last might DIR. ]. H
Ingrane, Messrs. Tuel0esbury, Ewing
and / went over TO the big City gate
one and one-fourth miles away, and a,
the points of our rifles Cooked and ID
took the key.
This was done Ito prevent the mo-
from coming in from the southern
city. The gate WAS guarded by 2Ot
Manchu soldiers. They watched u
in dumb astonishmenlt, but didn't fir.
a shot.
June 19.-Chinese government order.
foreign ministers to leave the city ia
"a hours. Believed by these who hav,
lived here to be trick to deliver u.
bodily into the power of the Boxers
Ministers ask for MORE time. Som.
missionaries refuse Co desert the nati7vs
ChriStGa Ms.
J June 20.-Chinese soldiers turn on
US. German minister killed and hir
interpreter wounded while going t.
ehe yamen. Our place has to be give1
up because it is untenable with tn,
Chinese soldiers on the wall. The
United Staitks minister orders I'd NJ
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