Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-08-09
1900 BOXERS WERE KILLED
Appalling Slaughter in Sundays
Battle.
CORRESPONDENT SAW FIGHT.
Americans led the Victor ious Column
Pretsang Set on Fire with American
shells-Vslorous Fighting by Russians
and japanese Troops

| for Hearst's Chicago American has ar
rived here with the following addi-
tional report of Sundays battle:
Shanghai, Aug. Your second
courier from Tien Tsin has arrived
at Che Foo. whence he sends the fol-
| lowing:
Left Tien Tsin Sunday, IL a. m.
Allies gained great victory over Chi
nese and Boxer forces at Pei Tsang
where determined attempt made by
| Chinese to check the advance north.
Country on east side of Pei Ho has
been flooded, but not thoroughly.
Advance begun by Americans and
| the British, who took the west side
of the river, and the Russians and Jap
| anese, who took the east side. The lat
ter were greatly hampered by the
| flooding of the lowlands.
THE march was begun at daybreak
Saturday morning, 1900 troops of all
nationalities going forward.
Large bodies of Chinese were met
late Saturday afternoon, who fired a
few shots with Mausers and small can
non and then retreated.
Camp was broke at midnight Sat
urday by preconcerted plan, and a
| rapid march made north.
by a. m. Sunday the troops
reached bridge that spans the Pei
Ho, where terrific fire was opened
upon them by the heavy guns of the
| Chinese and a stady rifle fire that
killed and wounded many of the allies.
THE Americans and British, on the
west bank. made the better progress,
and the Fourteenth regiment, with
Major Reilly's battery in support and
two Mains of the British, pushed for
ward and engaged the enemy at close
range.
THE Chinese fought bravely enough
but were in great masses, and, there
fore, the shells of the allies tore grea;
holes in their ranks as they exploded
! Until broad daylight the allies adj
vanced with great steadiness, facing a
| CALLING and destructive fire.
Hundreds of Russians and Japan
csc. both of whom acted 18th the
| greatest GOODNESS and bravery, were
killed and wounded and the road on
| the west side of the river back to
Tientsin is filed with trains of the
! suffering wounded.
| The American marines and the
British captured large number of
| Chinese.
| "Cossacks among the Russian force
were for putting them to death, but
the Americans protested and they
| were sent TO the rear
The American Ninth, SO badly cut
| up at Tientsin. were in the lead at 7
a. m. and did some magnificent fight
| ing shoulder to shoulder with the
British, jumping the trenches of the
Chinese and bayoneting them by the
hundred
There must be at least 1000 Chi
rrese killed
Il am afraid TO make an estimate of
the number of casualties among the
allies. 1t will probably reach a thou
sand. Killed and wounded.
When l Jeff the battle was still in
progress, though not with the fierce
ness that characterized it early in the
morning, the Chinese in many places
throwing down their arms and run
ming away. Many of them were armed
with spears and great knives and ac-
tually faced volley from the rifles of
the allies with only the steel of their
Anticipated weapons
Some of the shells of the allies set
fire TO houses in the town and the
flames spread. making the enemy good
marks as they moved in the darkness
between the allies and the fire.
THE Japanese suffered more than
any of the other, but never once
wavered
AT Z o'clock the Chinese lines be-
gan TO waver, in face of the allies
storm Of shrapnel and shell and de-
termined charges by troop after troop
of the trained soldiers, and as | left
they had begun 10 retreat through Pei
Tsang and up the river.
1T is reported as ! finish this that
the commander of the Japanese was
killed and the Russians lost fourteen
of their officers, the latter in a hand
to-hand battle in the Chinese trenches.
There is hardly any doubt that the
allies have demOralized the Chinese.
and that Pei Tsang will be occupied
successfully by the allies"
MESSAGE FROM CoSGER