The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-07-06
ALL WERE MASSACRED..
Not a Single Foreigner Now Alive
Within the City of Peking.
The Allied Forces at Tien-Tsin navc
Taken the Native City of That
Place - Chinese Losses Be-
tween 1000 and 5000.

press dOwager also took poison, but
is yet alive, though reported insane
from the effects of the poison. This
was officially reported to the German
consul.
Shanghai, July 5.-Three Chinese
servants of foreigners have, it is ru-
mored from a good source. escaped
from Peking. They report that all
the foreigners $1,000 in number, in
Guiding 400 soldiers, 100 members of
the Chinese customs staff and num-
Der of women and children) held out
till after their ammunition was eX-
hausted in the British legation. The
legation was finally burned and all
the foreigners were killed. 1t is re-
ported that Kwan-Hsu and the dow
ager empress have been poisoned.
London, July 5.-"Not a single for
eigner is now alive in Peking," is the
latest Chinese report which has reach
ed Shanghai. Earlier reports from
the same sources describe the condi-
ton of the British legation as some
thing awful. 1t is said that the rooms
of the legation were filled with sick
and wounded, the killed lying in the
streets in heaps. 1t is believed that
many members and officials of the
Tsung Ii Yamen persisted when the
German guard, maddened by the muir
der of Baron Won Ketteler, the Ger
man minister, set fire to the building.
The commanders of the allies in
Tien-Tsin inform the correspondents
that it would be suicide to attempt to
reach Peking with the troops now
available in the face of the colossal
force of imperial troops and Boxers
occupying the country between Tien-
Tsin and Peking. So, far from TAX
ing the offensive, the $4,000 interna-
tional troops at Tien-Tsin and the
5000 others at Taku and intermediate
points can barely keep up commune
cations, fighting necessarily with
overwhelming numbers, using far
more numerous artilleries than the
allies. This telegram has been re-
Ceived:
shanghai, July 4, 11:1O a. m. (via
Che-Foo) flemish city fell be-
tween and o'clock in the morning
of June 30"
1t is understood that Shanghai I'M
doubtedly referred to the native city
of Tien-Tsin, from which the Chinese
have been bombarding the foreign
quarters, and the dispatch is taken
to mean that the allies are more than
holding their own.
Other advices. received by way of
Shanghai, aver that the Chinese losses
around Tien-Tsin are between 1000
and 5000, according to official esti-
mates.
The correspondent of the Express
at Che-Foo says: adm. Seymour
was wounded while sitting in a house
at Tien-Tsin by Chinese sharpshoot-
ers. Official news received at Che
Foo shows that the Chinese have been
guilty of horrible cruelty toward the
wounded and captured, subjecting
them to what is known as ling che"
or the slicing process. Under this
hideous rite the bodies of the fallen
have been mutilated."
Washington, July 5.-While doubt
existed at first as to the extent of
the casualties reported by Adm
Kempff via Che-FoO, the navy depart
ment has finally accepted his cable
gram as showing that the casualties
were ten killed and 81 wounded among
the American landing forces. OF the
ten killed, four had been previously
reported, namely, Boatswain's Mate
Thomas, Gunner's Mate Benson, APP
prentice Broman and Landsman Sew
ersOn, all with McCalla's detachment
accompanying Adm. Seymour's col
umn. The other six deaths were
among the marines attached to Mai.
Walters command, and occurred dur
ing the attack upon Tien-Tsin and
the march thereto. The history of
the latter as shown by the records
here was as follows:
Corp. James Francis Lannigan, aged
80, enlisted at Brooklyn, August &c,
1899. Next of kin, Mrs. Arthur Noble,
1922 Rochester avenue, Boston.
Private James K. Miller, aged %,
enlisted at Philadelphia. December II,
1898. Next of kin, Miss Margaret Mil
Ter, 617 Light street, Baltimore.
Private John Hunter, aged 25, en-
listed at League Island, Pa, June IA,
1896. Next of kin not given.
Private Edward T. Provensal, aged
25, enlisted at Boston, May 4, 1899.
Next of kin, Isadore Provensal, of
Windsor Mills, Canada.
Private w. H. Nichols, aged "a, en-
listed at Mare Island, CAL, November
Is, 1898. Next of kin, VIM. Nichols,
Folsom, Cal.
Private Martin H. Morris mot VIM.
H., as given), aged 81, enlisted at
New York, November 16, 1899. Next
of kin, Mrs. f. Norris, Westbury, L.
l., n. Y.