Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-06


!, and Shanghai July 5.-Those best in
formed in Tien Tsin consider the position
OF foreigners in Pelxin as almost helpless.
1t Is hopeless to attempt to force the way
with the force available Commanders
are willing to resort to desperate means,
but to attempt a forced march from Tien
Tsin with the forces at hand means GER
tain destruction to the army, besides
slaughter of the civilians left at Tien
T,sin. Enough soldiers are necessary to
defeat the Chinese army maintain com
munication with the base of supplies
and guard the hospitals en- route
The water supply is an important prob
lem DIN a. country furnishing none except
The Chinese are committing terrible at
rocities upon the wounded. They are
mutilating all the dead which fall into
their hands. General Tung Fuh Slang,
with 10000 of the best disciplined troops
in the Chinese army, Mahommedans, are
marching from the southeast toward Pc
kim The army whereabouts numbers 50,-
900. The empress dOWager fled to her
summer palace. The Mahommedan Box
ers are fighting in Pekin. The regiments
OF General Nieh's command north of
Ten Tsin are reported ITO have desertd
and gone to pillaging the country. Resi-
dents declare that the Chinese commune
was inaugurated and peaceable Chi
mese have been the greatest sufferers.
Ing 1isn the outssirts % Of TEN rsn h to deprive ]
the enemy or sle e,ter. The Boxers are
destroying outlying villages for loot.
The smoke of a hundred fires can be
seen in every direction.
Tien Tsin was not bombarded for the
first time today for fortnight. Fami-
lies are returning to their homes for
their possessions. Women and children
will be sent to Taku as soon as travel is
safe. No unfriendly Cinnamon are WIS.,
ible i'm the streets. A few of the richest
with thair families "a are huddlad in the
outhouses for protection, badly fright
ened Others concealed i'm various houses
, shoot at the Europeans on the street.
The Chinese dead about Tien Tsin num-
Der thousands. Most of those who have
been killed lie unburied in the fields
river of Taku is full of floating bodies,
and many have been washed up by the
tide. Dogs are feeding on these bodies
along the banks.
The small American contingents
everywhere distinguished themselves.
Captain McCalla and Major Waller are
at Tien Tsin. Their men are placed in
the lead of every movement. BY com
mon consent the British are close behind
them The foreigners in Tien Tsin de-
clare, however, that they owe their lives
to the Russians, without whom the
other small detachments must have been
| overwhelmed on that darkest Wednes-
day when the Chinese were pressing on
every side and the bravest men We're
mander, Colonel Wozack. arranged the
main body with the civilians to make a
sortie in the direction of Taku. He left
400 Russians to defend the city and en-
+, gagged the attention of the Chinese, the
intention being for them to ultimately
sacrifice themselves. The arrival of the
Americans saved the day. Their arri-
val proved a complete surprise.
Among the military evidences of care
! full Chinas preparation for war may be
! men toned that arsenals and stores hith-
J erto unknown, have been discovered
with $1O,OO0,OO0 worth of arms and am
munition of the most modern type.
These arms and ammunitions have been
destroyed. and in three arsenals outside
of Tien 1,sin several thousand troops un-
! der General Mich are holding the native
CITY five miles north of Tien Tsin.
/ 1t is rumored that 10000 Chinese will
attack the place at noon today. The
! troops under arms failed to materiallze.
! Admiral Seymour was wounded slightly
recently by spent ball, which struck
him in the shoult.-r while in the house
with Commander McCalla and Com
mander Taussig. The hero of Tien Tsin
/ is James Watts, a young Engllshman,
perhaps the best rider In China, VINO.
| with three cossacks, ran the gauntlet to
Taku with messages charging through
| villages under fire repeatedly. SeVeral
!. foreign commanders have recommended
!; ta,e auartette be decorated