Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-08-29
NEW VERSION OF TROUBLE
Chinese Official Gives Chinas Story Of The
Pek.n Outbreak,
Says IL Was Hegun by Hoxer Outlaws
-Blames Foreigners for shoot
Ing TOO Soon,

san Francisco, Aug. 2S.-From the
diary of a "high Chinese official in
Peln, published In the North China
Daily News. the following eXtract7 are
taken:
"By the 4th of June the Boxer out
laws had begun 20 tear up and destroy
the railway between Pekin and Ten
Tsin, and from that day also began
90 enter the city walls Of PekIn,
crowding IN at the rate of over 200 a
day. Affairs gathering places for re-
cruits, etcJ were erected by them an
over the city
AT this time also these outlaws be-
gan the wholesale slaughter OF Chris
tians and burning OF churches outside
of Pekin, until none of the latter have
been left standing. As many as could
escape amongst the Christians. then
poured into the capital, taking refuge
10 the legations situated in the Tung
CHA street otherwise known as Lee
CATION street,. This state of affairs, /
may say, existed in the capital during
the first days OF June.
Thirteenth June. lg0O--l7th day Of
the 9th moon, Goth year OK Kwang Hsu.
About dusk. while in the University Of
PeNn, ] saw four places on fire
WhereupOu i Immediately returned TO
my house, subsequently learning that
all the churches and mission property
"a k1 q
fire TO and entirely destroyed. the con-
fagration 10 the LampIIPht market
having been especially destructive.
lasting far into the next day. Tonight
there was a huge connection and riot
ing mostly In the eastern and western
great th0ruughtares. after which a
great fusilade of rifle nring succeeded
This was due 90 those places being
near the Austrian legation the In
mates of which, however hearing
great commotiun amongst the Boxers
iu the great lhJruushfarCs and seeing
them approach close 90 the legation
began 90 shoot them. The Boxers re-
turned the fire. the mutual fighting
lasting 60 1850 p, m, when both sides
ceased,
Fifteenth June-ThIs morning there
We're several dead bodies lying near the
Austrian legation, the result Of last
nights riot
sixteenth June-Today the fire and
smoke rising from buildings set on IRE
in the Great street leading from the
south gate OF the palace was awful
So dense was the smoke that through
out the day there was q pail over the
capital, making the sun a pale yellow.
IT seems that the Boxers had set fire
to the old established Toa TIE Tang
drug shop and there being at the time
a strong southwest wind blowing the
couilagutiun had destroyed several
hundred shops
Nineteenth June-At noon today as
the German minister and his INTERPRETER
were riding IN sedan chairs 90 eet 10 the
and had got Just north
OF the single memorial arch. suddenly
there was heard "a shot In the sedan
chair of the minister. due % the reyoly-
co which he carried as personal protec-
ton going of accidentally The soldiers
on guard 40 the Belgian legation. sus-
pecting that the shot had been fred by
our government troops the foreign sol
diers Immediately opened their gates
and began firing on passcrs-by. The
Belgian legation Is just next the Tie
HsIng Tang house. Thereup0n our gov
sument troops returned the FIRE. Dur
Ing the mutual fusilades those In the |
sedan chairs were hit. the German min
lister fatally This was the beginning OF |
actual hustilities. The government. |
feeling that, under the circumstances, /
the matter had got beyond recall. ac- |
2ordiugly decided for the first time. 10 |
order out the Kan Su corps TO attack |
he various legations.
goth June-At B.. m. today Kan Su |
roops began firing on The Austrian le- |
CATION from the Princes palace Great /
street, The firing lasted all night.
"2lst June-At 1880 y. m. the Aus
rian legation was captured by the Kan
'u troops. and az about p. M. they be-
gan settling fire 20 the buildings near By.
rs night fen the buildings just east Of |
he Austrian legation. namely the Inn
lerial Chinese bank and the Dollar
Mint. got on fire
AS morning broke we could see that
he c0ndagrati0n was spreading east to
vest and burning more hercely than
Yer. and u seemed that the large rail-
way school between the Austrian llga-
ION and the Imperial Chinese bank had |
lso been destroyed The troops belong
ng Co Jung LUIS own personal commend !
anne on the scene 90 restore order and
reserve the peace. but instead OF doing
his they actually Joined the Kan Su
men In getting loot Eventually It was
0und that Jung LUIS own army were
DE greatest sinners ln this respect.
9th June-Commencing from today.
he rifle firing has never ceased. spring |
lg up on an sides that iu the direction |
I The bridge over ihe imperial canal be-
lg HE most severe
"2,th June-Today the British lega-
ion was taken and the foreign troops
0ok refuge In a lane. The houses in
hiao Ming street had been by this time
I burned Co the ground, scarcely any
.ting left standing"