The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-07-17
Men, Women and Children Meet
an Atrocious Death by the
Sword in Picking.
With Ammunition Gone, They Make a
Desperate, But Futile Effort, to
Break Through Chinese Lines.
No News From Minister COnger, and
without a Doubt He Has Been
Murdered With All the Rest
of the Foreigners.

Shanghai, July 16.-An official tele-
gram was received Sunday night from
the governor of Shan Tung stating
that a breach was made in the wall of
the British legation at Peking after
a gallant defense and when all the
ammunition had given out. All for
eigners were killed.
London, July 15.-The Shanghai
correspondent, on the alleged author
ity of cOuriers who brought the
story, gives a very sensational account
of the massacre. He says:
"M6ddened with hunger, after hav-
ing been without food for many days,
the members of the legations and the
guards made sortie on the night of
June 80 and killed 200 Chinese in an
unexpected attack. Gen. Tung Fuh
Slang, enraged over the loss of SO
many men, brought heavy guns, and
Prince Tuan gave the order that every
foreigners must be destroyed. His
words were:
"'Destroy every foreign vestige aud
make China a sealed book to all west
ern powers
Prince Tuan had previously discov-
cred that Prince Ching was supplying
the foreigners with ammunition. He
therefore ordered Gen. Tung Fuh
Slang to fire on Prince Ching's troops,
and it is reported that Ching was
killed or seriously wounded.
I'm the final attempt to cut their
way through, the legationers formed
dren in the center. When the Boxers
realized that they were being at
tackled they became like wild beasts
and shot each other with revolvers.
Heavy guns bombarded all night I'M
til the buildings were demolished and
in flames. Many foreigners were
roasted in the ruins.
"The Boxers rushed upon them and
hacked and stabbed both dead and
wounded, cutting off their heads and
carrying these through the streets on
their rifles, shouting fiercely. They
then attacked the native Christian
quarters, massacred all who refused
to join them, outraged the women and
Drained the children. Hundreds of
mission buildings were burned. -
The correspondent adds:
'All China is now afame with re-
volt against foreigners. Only in the
extreme west is there quiet.
Every port, even Shanghai, is men
aced. In the province of Hupe and
Human thousands of native Christians
have been mutilated and tortured, the
women being first outraged and then
masSacred."
st. Petersburg, July II, via Paris,
July, 15.-The car has received with
great emotion the dreadful details
of the catastrophe at Picking. Tears
coursed down his majesty's cheeks as
he read the cablegram from Adm.
AleXyeff at Port Arthur, confirming
the horrible details of assassination
of NJ. DeGiers, which merely in form
of rumors had already reached Rus
STA. The admiral declares that the
Russian envoy was dragged through
the streets by the Boxers, insulted,
beaten and tortured, and even thrown
into great kettle and boiled to death.
Then the remains were thrown to the
dogs. While NJ. DeGiers was being
disposed of, the fanatic mob danced
around the caldron.
Nine. DeGiers, Adm. Alexyeff's adj
vices declared, suffered a fate worse
than death, and was beaten and tor
ture6 with sharp sticks until life was
extinct.
The legation officials are said to
have been tortured fiendishly until
death ended their sufferings. NJ. De
Giers and his legation officials resist
ed desperately and his brave body
guard killed many of the attacking
mob. In the midst of his tortures
the envoy is said to have heroically
proclaimed his faith in Christianity,
encouraged by the wife who so soon
shared his martyrdom.
London, July 16.-The following
dispatches from Adm. Seymour were
published here:
''Tien-Tsin, July 9.-The enemy's
position southwest of the settlement
was attacked at this morning. The
japanese by flank movement drove
the enemy out and captured four
guns. Cavalry pursued and completed
the rout of the enemy, killing large
numbers of soldiers and Boxers.
''The allied forces shelled and occu-
pied the western arsenal, capturing
two guns. The arsenal was burned,
as the allies were unable to hold it.
The enemy's loss was $50 killed The
loss of the allied forces was small.
THE allied forces have been in
creased by the arrival of 1900 Amer
icans."