The sun., 1900-07-14
NIL HOPE IS GONE
7inal Attack In Peking
Made July Z.
10 REPORTS GOODNOW.
Adds That the Worst Is Gen.
orally Believed.

Messed by Receipt of Dispatch
From Our Consul General at shang-
hal - Minister wu Undertakes to
Transmit Message From Secretary
Hay to Minister Conger, If the Lat
ter Is still Alive-List of Americans
AssauIt on the Legations - War
CounciI Held by the British Cabi-
net.
Washington, July 13.-The department
Of State has received a dispatch from
Consul General GoOdnOw at Shanghai
saying that the governor of Shangtung
wires that the Boxers and soldiers were
bonibarding the legations for final at
tack upon the 18th of July. He is ex-
tresney anxious for the safety Of the
ministers and friendly Chinese in Pc
king. The consul adds that fears OF the
worst are generally entertained.
Tho state department has also received
diSputch from Consul NicWade Mt
Canton saying that Niccroy Ii Hung
Chang has engaged quarters upon the
ChiDcse steamer Anping, but that the
late Of his departure for the north is MS
yet undecided.
The short cablcgram from Consul Gen
eral Goodnow announcing the beginning
of tlc final attack on the legations at Pc
King has terribly depressed the officials
here. All along they have suspected that
the various communications received
from Chinese forces in Shanghai have
been preparing the way for the announce
mefst of the determination of the foreign
minister's and their wives, children, at
taeIles, dependents and guards.
Abandonment of Hope.
The consul generals message, it is un.
ierstood, it but a repetition of the latest
press reports from Shanghai, but the
state department has come to place
high Estimate on Mr.. Goodnow's advices.
II appreciates the fact that he does not
send every piece of unreliable gossip
afloat in the sensational news center
where he il stationed, but uses good
Iudgment in sitting out the probable from
the other kind of news.
Moreover, his advice this time is from
the Chinese governor of the province
wherein Shanghai is situated, and it is
hard to conceive of an adequate reason
for the Justification of the facts by that
official in the direction of this particular
report. Therefore the state department,
which has all along been hopeful Of the
ultimate rescue of the ministers at Pc
king, has now joined European chancel-
Ieries in the belief that they have all
been Killed.
The department officials find it hard to
estimate the value of the statement of
The consul at Canton that Ii Hung
Chang has again engaged passage north
ward owing to the lack of a date on the
cable message, and it is suspected that
Il 4; tnt thut ha huc
ibandoned the trip to Peking is of later
late than Mr. McWade's notice. Should
lie great viceroy go northward his COM
ng to Taku and Tien-tsin would raise at
,nce d question as to the conditions un-
Ter which he undertakes to go to Pekin,
ind Incidentally the decision as to whetli-
n or not he should be permitted to pass
he lines would involve the decision of
he other question as to whether or not a
tate OF war exists.
Americans In Doomed City.
The following Americans have prob
lbly perished at the legation in Picking;
Edwin II. Conger, minister; Herbert
J. Squires, secretary; William L Balm
bridge. second secretary; Fleming c.
cheshire. interpreter; Mrs. Conger, Mrs
NJ s. Woodward, Miss lone Woodward
IL Chicago, Miss Cecil Payne. Miss I.au-
"a Conger, Miss Mary Pierce, Miss Mary
}. Smith, Captain John ID. Myers, u. s
NC, of the Oregon; Captain Newt II
aall, ~. S. NJ. c.; DR.. Thomas NJ. lip
,itt Resistant surgeon; guard of I Off
.ers and SO soldiers.
Among the many missionaries in the
.ity were Rev. John Wherry. Shippens
,urg. Pa, Mrs. Wherry; Rev. J. l.
Whiting, New York; Rev. c. III. Fem
Clyde. N. ", Mrs. &. III. Fenn theii
wo children, aged 4 and q years respec
lively; Rev. Charles A. Killie, Marshall
lis; Mrs Killie, DIR. and Mrs. John NJ
tnglis, Miss Eliza Il. Leonard, NJ. ID.
<ossuth, Ia; Miss Grace Newton, Soutl
Orange, n. j.. Rev. f.. Il. Simcox, Bul
ion. Pa. Mrs. SimcoX, their two chill
lren, aged and 4 years; DIR. q. Yardle!
Taylor, Tayl0rsville, Pa; DIR. Cortland
yan Rensselaer, Hodge, son of Rev. DIR
hodge, secretary of Presbyterian boar,
i education in Philadelphia.
wu Assists Hay.
The Chinese minister, Mr.. WI, ha
undertaken to get through cipher cabl
nessage from Secretary Hay to Unite,
states Minister Conger at Peking an,
o have the answer brought back if MI
longer is alive. The message was pre-
AIRED by Secretary Hay, and its content
!re Unknown to any one save him. l
vas sent to Shanghai, with explicit in
fractions from Minister WI to spare NJ
lfforts or expense to get it in the hand
# Mr.. Conger.
An&attempt has been on foot for som
lays past TO arrange between the power
low operating in China for an interna
ional cable connecting the base o
,hiHese operations either with Shanghai
Fort Arthur Yokohama or some othe
oint Through which more speedy com
nun{cation can be had with the outsid
y0rld@ The state, war and navy depart
nenfa have all been parties to the con
ere1tre. which has been conducted wit
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