Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-06-11
TO REPAIR RAILWAY.
Trainloads of Marines Left
Tien Tsin.
AMERICANS WERE AMONG THEM
Mcdonald scored Chinese Government.
Missionaries Murdered Number Of Ma
tive Christians Butchered-Sa Nashville

lien ltiS, June ID L ne special
train that went 70 examine the line and
reconuoiter returned here. The railway
was found clear two miles beyond Yang
Tanh. The engineers. with the guards,
walked about mile and half further
They found the ties and two bridges
burned and the railway torn up They
saw few hundred persons, apparently
villagers, gathered ahead of them.
The first repair train, with Admiral
Seymour and his staff, $50 British, Cap
tain McCalla's 100 Americans, 40 ItaE
lans and % Austrians, left here. A
Hotehkiss and other guns were mounted
ON a car in front of the engine The
rest of the guns were mounted in the
center of the train. A second train
left at II with 600 British, japanese,
Russian and French troops. Repairing
material and new rails were taken
along.
There were 81 foreign war vessels at
Taku.
A message from Pekin to the ad
mirals asserts that the situation is
growing more dangerous for foreigners.
All those at Pekin have taken refuge in
Legation street The civilian males are
under arms to fight with the regulars if
necessary The approaches to Legatio on
street are surrounded by bowling mobs
of undisciplined soldiery, with cannon
and bayonets. The International guard
We're holding off the mob, which scream
ed insults and threats.
This was the situation Saturday when
she couriers got through with the latest
dispatches. The empress dowager was
amusing her self at the palace with the.
atricals.
1t is reported that government arms
are being dealt out to the Boxers. The
troops of Yung Fuh Seang are said to
be assisting to kill native Christians,
after malignant fortunes.
WASHINGTON, June l.-Admiral
Kempff's force will be increased soon by
the arrival of the Monocaey and the
Nashville. With the additional ma
rines these vessels accommodate the
available force of men subject to Minis
ter Conger's needs or demands will be
considerably increased.
LONDON, June 1l.-Sir Claude Mac
Donald, British minister in Pekin, sent
a telegram to Shanghai on June z, say
ing in part:
The movement against the foreign
ers, which has been allowed to grow to
such an extent, has resulted in the
burning of railway stations and in the
interruption of railway communication
for five days. Two British mission
aries and several foreign missionaries
have been murdered III the district near
Pekin. In the country round, numbers
of converts have been murdered and
chapels have been pillaged and de.
stroyed, while in the capital itself the
British missionaries have been obliged
to leave their houses and to take refuge
at the legation, which is defended by rs
marines.
sHIhe Chinese government is effected
by these event so far as to send high of
fieials to parley with the Boxers, but it
does not show any intention of sum-
marily suppressing them. Probably it
still has power to do SO, but the throne
is still strongly influenced by sympathy
with the movement, and the spirit of
the troops is doubtful. All is well up to
the present"
LONDON, June IA special dispatch
from st. Petersburg, dated Saturday.
June 8, says:
Il have learned from an absolutely re-
liable source that minute dispatches
have been sent to the commanders of
the Russian troops in Manchuria, di.
recting them to prepare three regiments
of Cossacks ON the Chinese frontier, to
be in readiness to enter on the day or
ders are received !"
LONDON, June 1.-THE Pekin CORE
spondent of The Times, telegraphing
Sunday, said in part:
''The American mission buildings at
Tung Chau, 10 miles from Pekin, which
were abandoned by the missionaries
have been looted and burned by the
Chinese soldiery who were sent to pro-
teet them.
"Within three days 10 native Christ
ians, well known men who had been
trained for years by American mission
aries, have been massacred near Tung
Chau. Many of them were burned alive
1.-THE Intimidation of Christians cor
tinues within Peiin itself Most of the
mission compounds are closed, and the
missionaries are being collected under
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