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

ee1e y kAem by home governme1fa
The imperial troops have fired ON US
shot and sheiR for % days from the
walls of the emperors city and the
gates OF the city way itself In other
words we have simply been fighting
the Chinese army and theNemperess
dOw'ager's own guards.
August 14.-TheChineee have made
one more effort TO massacre us. We
believe they tried to do THE be-
cause they know the troops are near
ing the city.
Uater.-We can hear the foreign
troops outside the city cannonading.
Help has come ct Last The Chinese
troops outside the legation continue
to fire ON US.
10 Q. m.-Our soldiers on the wall
have seen the Chinese troops on the
WALL turning their cannon toward in.
vading army.
IL m--We-are waiting to see the first
relief SOLDIERS who get in, for we know
they are knocking down the gates of
the old capGtial.
p. m.-The cry il going over the
legation: They have come! they have
come!" hurried down into the tennis
ground and found the British regi.
menf from India ON the ground. How
glad We were TO see these sun. burned
British officers and the dark-skinnned
Sikhs! The laGter ARE magnificent sol.
dke1S. 1 understand the Americans
were first ITO raise their flag on the
walls OF Pekin; the British the first
10 reach our besfeged quarters. The
Chinese opened fire just after the
British got in, and one Sikh was bad
~ wounded. Soon after the Sikhs ar.
rvsf they shoulderel their guns and
Oh they went to drive the Chinese sod
dters from their barricades.
August 15.-I stood ON the walls of
Pek1n today by the side OF a 15-pound
gun; watched it Smelling the forbidden
cIty. The American soldiers did most
OF the fighting from a. IN. to p. NJ.
When they reached the gate before
the forbidden palace (the last one to
be taken before reaching the palace of
tine empress) they were recalled and
the Russians allowed to capture the
richest spot in China. 1t was a great
disappointment to our soldiers and to
the Americans in Pekin. When we
aslced why the American soldiers after
fighting ALL day were not allowed t.,
enter the palace we were told it was a
pOlItictaf maiiter.
August 1s.-Three days have spen,
In riding over Pekin, now occupied by
bordgn troops. The empress dowager
has fed with her court and army. ]
Tsode up to where my hospital stood
1t W'ae q scene of complete obstruction
Out OF eight buildings. all brick, 1 did
not zee a dozen whole bricks that had
been left On the place. 1t was MOI
only burned down, but what would
not burn was torn down and the
bricks and the foundation stones car
rded off. Whole families of our nartfvs
Christians have been l,eheaded Riding
up street l met little boy YEARS old
the von of one of our elders. He called
to me and then, amid tears and sobs
told Of how his father and mother
and little sister had been killed by the
Boxers. Infant babies we're torn from
mothers arms and Dut ITO death. Ths
child, the aged grant .:rcIther and the
strong young man were one and al
objects of the Boxers vengeance.
August ia special Thanksgiving
service was held in the British Iega
tion to-day; Rev. Charles Norris of the
Established church conducted it. DIR
A. III. Smith American Congregation
ahst, made the address The United
States and British ministers, American
marines and the roysl artillery .werx
All In attendance.