Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-08-29
FOOTING THE CITY
OF TEN TSIN.
Chinese Did Most Of the Robbing'
then Foreigners Held Them Up'
CITY Is PLACED IN RUINS.
...obte Account OF scenes in the Chi
n,se cry During and AMER
the Fighting

r,o Tsin. China, July 11-Corres-
,.,5.nea Of the Associated Press The
',..r. stone walls Of the Chinese city
If T..B Tsln surrounded on the days
ANS occupation by the allied troops.
s1u4r. mile Of such dlth, ruin and
g.t such turmoil and piIlage as his
,.ry could hardly duplicate Under
-,,maI conditions the place was no bet
,.-tfau "a huge cesspool, fostering with
accumulated rubbish and slops from
.5agaH0n of nearly a million, packed
into "a Labyrinth Of novels, around the
p,acs. of yicer0ys and petty Tao Tais,
vt, absorbed their wealth and gave
,bsn rlr even sewers in return Now
assn. incarnation of AN the suffering,
horrors and waste of war;
Th. European soldiers. when they
fgra. their way up Co the walls. saw
f.Ha. 100 the canals and bitches out
saa dozens Of Chinese slain by their
ran Uln'. because they refused 90
f.ft Ih. bodies were headless and
n.r hands were tied behind their
Irts Ih. heads We're discovered at-
towards Rows OF them decorated the
lgar WALLS. hung boy their Dis-taiIs
Fine FLAGS were dying from the high
raeu3a- 0n the city walls when the
newspaper correspondents entered. the
French japanese. American Russian
and British 1T was hard enough 90
BE-. ,hl. flags up there, remarked %
foreign officer "but the real trouble
WILDE 90 get them down. The suburbs
O.. Che city presented a foretaste Of
What Was inside Shells had town the
butts anl pIUWeI the ground. while the
dead men scattered about among dead
horses pigs and dogs, testified how
thruughly The bullets had sweut the
region ,be day before
Iha sights inside compelled respect
Nrthe lighting qualities of the Chinese.
Their dead were everywhere Dressed
n the coarse blue COOte blouse and
trousers decorated with characters,
guaranteed t1 render them uyulucr-
able 90 foreign bullets they We're
gtreun along the top of the wall wheT-
ever ihey hal fallen. Walking quar-
terUfa mile along the omhankment. the
bodies averaged one Ono ten feet and the
y.n e.s 1aar,v ten mile long
throughout the city the demolished
t.usa. Ind hundreds of killed rg,a eyi-
farr. of r1,y VASTLY moro effective had
laar fha foreign shcU fire within the
walls m. rIty Than the Chinese bom-
t.-fn.rf af tfo foreign settlement
vhI6 lasting T1r month had killed
,r.r dozen uaopIs. The yicarly mad
constructed In tnD palace ward TWO
f01farf4NI. and inparstrabIa bomb
rr5ots excavations Guarded bv sand
lac. buf Inc common peopfr were Iass
fortunate MANY women and children
ver. MING dead I'm me sfrppts torn ter-
rb'- by sbr9uuai The livine poulIaca
were utterly Indifferent ia These They
var1 not lake tha troIinIa t1 DRAG than /
ono 0f Inc streets or Gwen covar them
vrt uniting as n foreign soldier AID |
afterwards. but ramulod them under |
foa, without borbeiinp to turn them
aside Before the shooting In the
streets Was finished thousands uf chi |
rosa had emerged from their burrows |
carving white flags or the flags of /
foreign nations principally the JaDan- |
ese
Most remarkable Of an the sights was |
ths IU1Jug of the CITY. The middle of |
iha place was like an ant hin kicked |
open Chinese swarmed everywhere. |
thousands and thousands of them. div |
Ing Into tha flames OF the burning shops. |
getting under falling walls and into |
choking clouds OF smoke Most 1f them |
were half naked. crimy with smoke /
end sometimes dripping with blood /
They We're piled upon one another The |
Chimes. Who would win O. prize. must /
night F.a way other Chinese win spring /
upon h.m and pluck his plumber They |
m..i among the corpses, pulling and |
tearing. while children, beirg tr3mplod |
loNl. cried for help. and the mob /
poured Hgat along over them.
l-' palaces. the mint the pawn /
u Is, ln' stores ot silks. furs and Jew
tIt We're Che tist objects Of attack.
"r'r 'h. middle NJ the city was the
most prosperous pdwn-shop, an institu-
l.n lha. hal probably existed for cen-
l-i... wealthy Chinese were accuse
l.Nl iH store their winter clothing |
.'... l'I sale Keeping. When The doors
,M.t.. battered down the mob flowed IN
oHa..s naval and military soldiers and
sai..'. Win % good sprinkIing of sikhs.
~ Principally Chinese. I'm "a tWinkling
Su Nas lan.emonium The Chinese
tsNe. "h.f. the best treasure was TO Dee
s, |, ana the soldiers followed them
lN. ,'I..s nHlI.ded I'm the gateway, "a
.-'" .I. 'i chinese struggling 90 enter
eai another line fighting 10 get out with
t..a. HutJlis 0i loot. while an occl-
,t,..Ha. soldier went through the crowd /
,- one VI the Broadway squad. Tien
.'.N experienced "a sweeping rCdlcirlhu- |
eyl '. wealth. but ou an old scheme OF
i4a.. q. tHa strongest
q, L".l.Fs h1uusfed for three days. on
l ,.' INST day it was entirely unre-
,,,.a.n.a. Many white people accumu-
.o.sl sacks Of goods by simply stand
..-t .l on. city gates and holding up the
~, .a''n Chinese from the endless pro-
-,..'H Chat flowed out. Pack horses,
,..l. HothaWs. coolies loaded with
TRUNKS and sacks ana piled with loose
..'N.. Ilrs and bronzes. crowded an the
i-ls leading down 10 the settlement
'N-.a| officers rode with their horepe |