The Savannah morning news., 1900-10-08
FIFTY DAYS or TORTURE.
shocking Experience Of Fieeing
Missionaries In sbanri.

NtssionnFfea IN Nhmnsas
From she New York sun.
A writer In the North China Daily New
in a copy OF the paper just received here
SAYS that Of an the provinces IN China
shansi has been the worst IN respect Of
the diabolicol maHsacres and barbarities
pracs iced against foreigners. IA one
time he writes. -, looked as II not "a
single foreigner could by any possibility
escape the murderous purpose 81 Yu
Hsien Fortunately come have escaped.
party Of refugees from Shauh recently
arrived az shanghai after encounterlng
such .ufferlnRs and hairbrsadth escapes as
will be dinlcuit to md a PARALLEL any
where
The party couslsse ed Of Mr. and Mrs a
II Saunders with two children two 9th
ers Of their children died on the way) and
a Jennings and siiss Guthrie. all from
Pingyno; p. J. Cooper and two Children
from Luchcng (Airs. Cooper. Miss Rice and
Miss Houston also from that city were
killed on the way or died from injuries
received. Mfr and Mrs A. y. Glover
with two children and Miss Gates. from
Luan All were members Of the China
Inland Mission. and Of the nineteen who
started Ave perished
The survivors tell the following story
Late IN the evening n mob arrived a.
our house IN the suburb. and We were
driven 10 take refuge IN the yamen The
magistrate declared he could not help rs.
He had received orders no longer to pro
tect foreigners. and bnde us depar IN
peace A. ZENITH. IN answer 90 our en-
treaties he agreed 20 send ~ 10 Taiyuan
80 u distant. under escort 80 we started
north for tho capital We got within TWEEN
IS u % g. without adventure when We met
a native Christian whom We knew heelng
south Hc inpored us 10 turn back ~ tho
Inland Mission had been already burned.
the Roman Catholic establishments pulled
down and M the foreigners were IN the
Baptist Mission compound surrounded by
n rrent mob who were threatening 20 burn
II with I'll who were inside. ON this We
turned back toward pinRyao. and our es-
eort at once left NJ We had noe much
money and the people demanded exorbitaut
prices FOR everything. even for the simple
permission 20 paes along the road We
sold our clothes and pawned whatever
would pawn. including our wedding rings.
and On this way reached our station ~
IucheuR. safe but stripped
"Lucheng had not yes been rloted but
only two days peace vas allowed rs when
with the friends there. We had 10 nee for
our lives at midnight with nothing but one
donkey iosd Of bedding and clothes and n
supply 81 silver which we divided up
among the party Which direction 20 takc
we did not know To 70 norsh again was
out Of the question ana eastward 20 shan
tung was equally impossible. so We made
for the south hoping 20 get through Honan
and Hupeh 10 Hankow Bui we had only
got forty % from Lucheng when We were
stopped o. large village hy some two
hundred people who dema nded mony We
could not satisfy them. 20 they seized our
donkey and IN sheer wanion mischief tore
all our bedding and clothes 10 pieces
Then they stripped us next taking each
persons clothes. hat. shoes and stocking
ana little store ~ silver. leaving us moth
Ing. ladies and children aiike. In shir
anair we lost the natives who were SC
companying us. some 81 whom We fear
I were Killed while We were driven along
The road by men with clubs. II was n
terrible situation The blazing sun burned
no 20 the hone. and some OF rs had no' 80
much rs little piece 81 rag 10 wet ana
mt on the TOP Of our heads As every
village We were attacked and driven from
one TO the other with blows and curses
THE villages there are very thick and
before we got clear u the mob from one
the mob from the next had already arrived
10 take Us In hand Neither food nor water
could b. obtained How We contrived %
existt w hardly know, for days our only
support vas found w tho flthy puddie~ by
the roadside When ~ reached a city ~
was n little better Apparently each
magistrate was anxious that We should
come % our end w tho next county. ~
when we went 20 the yamen they would
/ give us = little food and send an escov %
! see ns safely oyer The borders OF that