The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-27
The Building Set ON Fire and the
worshipers slaughtered as They
Attempted to Escape
BISHOP CRUELTY TORTURED
THEN DECAPITATED AND THE HEAD
PUT IN PUBLIC PLACE.
Reports Also Current that English
and American Missionaries
Have Been Murdered.

LONDON, July 81, 4:3o a. m.-The sensa-
morning is the report of outrages on mis-
sionaries There is an unconfirmed Chi
nese report that sixty Protestant and Cath
Ollie missionaries have been massacred in
Ki-Yuan-Fu and the vicinity.
The Shanghai correspondent of the Daily
Mail, describing the massacre at Mukden,
says: 1.-The bishop had armed two hundred
converts to defend the cathedral and a
body of Chinese troops had been sent to
defend the converts, but the soldiers were
leagued with the Boxers. While the Chris
tians were holding a service, believing
themselves safe under the protection of
the troops. the signal was given. and SOL
diers and Boxers surrounded and set fire
to the church. putting the escaping wor-
shippers to the sword. The bishop was
captured and taken to the viceroy's yamen,
where he was diabolically tortured and de-
capitated. His head now hangs in front of
the yamen.''
Reports are recurrent that number of
missionaries, either American or English,
have been murdered in Shan-Si. One of the
dispatches from Shanghai, published here
to-day, says: "The Canadian missionaries
who escaped from Ho-Nan had a terrible
experience EN- route here. The natives
everywhere were hostile. The rabble at
tackled the refugees, beat them and tore
their clothes from their backs. The ladies
suffered cruel indignities" The dispatch
continues: Canton remains comparatively
quiet The natives, however, are beginning
to fear that the reinforcements arriving at
Hong Kong intend to attack the Bogue
forts and occupy the city. The military
mandarin has asked the colonial secretary
at Hong-Kong for assurances that Great
Britain. does not intend to take Canton
The Rev. Dr. ]. f. Dodd, of the Methodist
Episcopal Missionary Society. to-day re-
ceived the following cable from Sharp
Peak: "Hing-Hua quiet. Ladies and chill
dren at Sharp Peak" This message was
sent by the Rev. W. N. III. Brewster, SUI
perintendent of the mission at Hing-Iiua.
Hing-Hua is some distance southwest of
Che-Foo, and Sharp Peak is still further
south Sharp Peak is said to be a summer
resort. 1t is inferred from the message that
Mr.. Brewster had gone over there to look
after the women and children. but that the
men were still at Hng-Hua, where there
was no danger Mr.. Brewster was recent
L. instructed to cable the present location
of missionaries. There are only half a
dozen missionaries located at Hng-Hua
The Hong-Kong correspondent of the
Daily Express wires as follows under yes
terday's date: 'An Italian priest has just
arrived here from Hen-Sien-Fu, in southern
Hu-An, where the Italian bishop and three
priests have been massacred after revolt
ing torture. This took place on July T.
six hundred converts were massacred after
the women had been subjected to heideous
brutalities. Six other priests fed 10 the
hills. where they were probably killed. The
priest who escaped had a perilous journey
to Hong Kong. He hid in a coffin on board
river boat for seventeen days.