The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-08-06
DR. ROBERTS HEARD FROM
WRITES ON DATE or JUNE 13 FROM
 TIARA OSO MONGOLIA.
Wife Has Received Letter from Him = Tells Of Thrilling Experience With Chinese Massacres by Boxers Others Who Are Safe.

Hartford, Aug 1.-The Rev. pr. James K. Roberts. the Hartford mis- sionary in China, who was reported to have escaped across the desert into Si- beria yesterday, is to-day known to be safe beyond a doubt. Ills family here received letter from him this morning containing the news which lifted thl terrible load of anxiety which has been theirs since the many conflicting re- ports of the missionaries fate began to arrive.
 Following is, an extract from MT. Roberts letter:
 Ia Shao Yehs, Mongolia,
 June 13 1900.
 On June 6, Wednesday, Dr. Murdock, MT. Williams, Chlh I and I left Pektn for Kalgan with two filters and three mules The Pekin missionaries expect ed an attempt would be made in day or two to massacre them. The same day, or about that time the Tungcho mission buildings were burned, and the missionaries took refuge In Pekin in the Methodist compound. The day we left was burning hot, but we kept our litter doors shut almost all the way to Kuan Shih and paid extra to avoid going past the Huang Chi Ting We had very peaceful journey, but were not greeted cordially in the inns except Chi Ming I and Hslan Hua Flu.
 We arrived in Kalgan on Sunday. South of Pekin the country was in state of war, and we were anxious for the missionaries of Kalgan. It had been said that our houses were to be burned by the Boxers on that day or the day before, and great crowds of men and boys went out to see the smoke go up. We had to go through the crowds to get into the yard, and they yelled savagely. They tried to climb over the wall. My only comfort was, that the men had empty hands, no sticks nor swords. That afternoon we had consultation as to whether we should go to Urga or not. In the evening an attack was made on our gate with stones, and another attack was made In the night Our chief fear was not because of these local troubles, but because the government had ceas- ed to protect foreigners. The Wan Chuan Yamen in Kalgan was unable to. MT. Robinson and perhaps MT. Norman, Noi were) murdered at Yung Ching Hslen, midway between Pekin and Tien Tsin, on June 2 Their chapel was called Tien Gnu Tang (Chapel of the God of Heaven) and the GOO Boxers who at- tackled them may have thought they were Roman Catholics. Thirty foreign civil engineers employed on the Poa- ting-fu railroad were attacked on their boats going to Tien Tsin several | wounded and at least one killed. We heard in Pekin, June 5, that seven or i eight foreigners in Pao-ting-fu had been | maseacred. That day foreign guests of l the United States legation were not al- l lowed to buy tickets to go to Tien Tsin. | Boxers were entering Pekin every day | with cart loads of guns. It Is said that l on June 6 the gates of Pekin were l closed so that no one Cor no foreigners) l could go In nor out. In these circumstances, do you won l der that we thought we could not hold i the Kalgan property, if attacked, nor defend the Christians? The only alter native was, to dismiss the schools, tell i the servants and Christians to scatter, and ourselves take refuge in yamen. So we packed what we could that Sun day night, June 10, and started just be- fore dawn, June Il, for the Tu Tung yamen. That is the biggest yamen in Kalgan, and 1t governs large part or and my thought was, that II could send Us to the Russian consul at Urga, and protect us on the way. we got into the yamen more easily than l expected, and were treated ciVilly, almost pleasantly though 1t was evl- dent we were regarded as nuisance. During the day pr. Ching told MT. |