The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-30
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How All Hands Turned in to
Spoil The Heather.
ENTRANCE OF THE ALLIES
And What Chastity Sights
They Saw Within.

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Tien Tsin, Aug 1.-THE ancient stone
walls Of the Chinese city of Ten Tsin
surrounded, on the days of its occupation
+, by the allied troops, a square mile Of
such filth, ruin and death, such turmoil
and pinage, as history could hardly dup
licate Under normal conditions the place
was no better than a huge cesspool, fes-
! tering with the accumulated rubbish and
Stops from population of nearly mill
ion, packed into labrynth of novels,
around the palaces of viceroys and petty
taOtais, who absorbed their wealth and
gave them not even sewers in return.
Now it is the incarnation of all the suf-
rering, horrors and waste of war. The
European soldiers, when they fought
their way up to the walls, saw floating
in the canals and bitches outside dozens
Of Chinese slain by their own people be-
cause they refused to fight. The bodies
were headless and their hands were tied
behind their backs. The heads were dis
covered afterward. Rows of them decor
ated the outer walls, hung by their pig
tails.
Five flags were flying from the high
pagodas on the city walls when the news
paper correspondents entered, the French,
japanese, American, Russian and Brit
ish. at was hard enough to see those
flags up there" remarked a foreign of
ficer, but the real trouble will be to get
them down" The suburbs of the city
presented a fOretaste of what was inside
Shells had torn down the huts and plow-
ed the ground, while the dead men, scat
tered about among dead horses, pigs and
dogs, testified how thoroughly the bull
lets had swept the region the day before
The sights inside compelled respect for
the fighting qualities of the Chinese
TEei rdead We're everywhere. Dressed in
the coarse blue coolie blouse and trous-
ers, decorated with characters guaran-
teed to render them invulnerable to for
eign bullets, they were strewn all along
the top of the wall wherever they had
fallen Walking a quarter of a mile along
the em5anl1ment the bodies averaged one
in ten feet and the wall was nearly ten
miles lorg.
Throughout the city the demolished
houses an hundreds of killed gave evil
dence of how vastly more effective had
been the foreign shell fire within the
walls of the city than the Chinese bonn
bardment of the foreign settlement,
which, lasting for a month, had killed
only dozen people. The viceroy had
constructed in the palace yard two com
Portable and imDenetrable bomb proofs.
excavations guarded by sand bags, but
the common people were less fortunate.
Many women and children were lying
dead in the streets. torn terribly by
shrapneI. The living populace were utter
~ Indifferent to their dead. They would
not take the trouble to drag them out Of
1 the streets or even cover them with mat
ting, as a foreign soldier did afterwards.
but trampled them under foot without
bothering to turn aside. Before the shoot
! ing nthe streets was finished thousands
of Chinese had emerged from their bur
rows, carrying white flags or the flags
Of foreign nations, principally the Japan
csc.
Most remarkable Of all the sights was
the looting of the city, the middle of the
place was like an ant hill kicked open.
Chinese swarmed everywhere, thousands
and thousands of them; diving into the
flames of the burning shops, getting IN
der. falling walls and into choking clouds
Of smoke. Most of them half naked,
grimy with smoke and sometimes drip
ping with blood. They proved upon one
another. A Chinese appearing with a
prize must fight his way; other Chinese
sprang upon him and clutched his plum
der. They rolled among the corDses,
pulling and tearing, while children being
trampled down cried for help and the
mob poured right along over them.
The palaces. the mint, the pawnshops,
the stores of silks. furs and jewelry were
the first objects of attack. Near the
middle Of the city was the most prosper
Gus pawnshop an institution that had
probably existed for centuries. Wealthy
Chinese were accustomed to store their
winter clothing there for safekeeping.
When the doors were battered down they
flowed in like tidal wave. There were
British officers, naval and military, SOL
diers and sailors with a good sorinkling
Of Sikhs. but principal Chinese. In a
twinkling all was pandemonium. The
Chinese knew where the best treasure
was to be found and the soldiers follow
ed them. Two forces coIuded in the gate
way, a rush line of Chinese struggling
TO enter and another line fighting to GET
out with great armfuls of loot while an
occasional soldiers wen through the
crowd like one Of the Broadway squad.
! Ten Tsin experienced sweeping re-
, distribution of wealth but on the old
scheme OF prizes To the strongest.
J The looung lourished fer three DAYS.
On the first day it vas entirely IN
restrained. Many white people accumu-
lated stacks Of goods by simply standing
al the city gates and holding up the hes,
laden Chinese from the endless process
sion that flowed out Pack horses. carts
rickshaws coolies loaded with trunks and
sacks and piled with loose silks. furs and
bronzes. crowded al the roads leading
down 70 the settlement English officers
, rode with their horses concealed under
dry goods. and soldiers sIung bundles or
their bayonets
On the second day conference q;
Commanding officers decided TO adoot r..
preSsive measures. The commanders. ex.
eepting the French. empowered the Brit.
ISM who were doing provost duty. 4
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