New-York tribune., 1900-07-07
MANY MISSIONARIES SAFE.
PRESBYTERIAN BOARD ANXIOUS FOR
OTHERS NOT HEARD FROM.
DIR. MAUD MACKEY UNACCoUNTED FOR
EXODUS FROM THE LEGATIONS IN
PEKING REPORTED ON JUNE 6.

A cable message was received at the offices Of
the Presbyterian Board yesterday from the Rev.
w. o. Elterich at Che Foo. which brought news
that was cheering as well news that was
dispiriting 1t read:
Hodges. Simcoxes Taylor at Pao-Ting-Fu- Low
rie, Tien-Tsin. Millers, Corea- None left Pekng-
Shan-TunR missionaries safe
This dispatch was a response 70 one sent 10
Mr.. Elterich by the Board several days ago
directing that names and locations of all Pres
byterian missionaries stationed at Peking and
Pao-Ting- Flu known to be safe be sent by cable
dispatch and asking whether the missionaries
In the Shan-Tung provinces We're safe.
The Rev. DR.. Arthur ]. Brown yesterday pre-
pared and sent out to the relatives and friends
of the missionaries in North China letter in
forming them of the receipt Of the dispatch. In
connection with the dispatch Or. Brown said:
While this does not relieve our anxiety regarding
Peking II brings the welcome intelligence that the
Rey j. Walter Lowrie. the Rev and Mrs J. A
bers OF the East and West Shan-Tung missions
favorable news regarding the Others. Meantime 1
hope you will not be unduly alarmed by the reports
news has come from Pekng and PaO-Ting-Fu since
Shanghai are only the excited rumors prevailing
In that city. which really knows nothing more Of
grave. but let us keep faith IN God,
DISPATCH PROBABLY SENT By SEA
1t is believed that the dispatch was forwarded
by vessel from Che-FOO to Shanghai as the
cable company has sent out notice that tele-
graphic connection between Che-Foo and Shang-
hal has been broken. This probably explains
the delay in the arrival OF the message II bore
date.
The persons referred to are DR.. Cortlandt
Van Rensselaer, Hodge and his wife the Rev.
F. E. Simcox and wife, and c. Yardley Taylor
OF the mission bO have
unable to escape. The Rev. ]. Walter Lowrie Of
the same station. is supposed to have come out
TO the coast with his mother Mrs. A P Lowrie
when she started for this country some weeks
ago. and 10 have been unable 20 return further
than Tien-TsIn. The persons referred to as be-
ing in Corea the Rev and Mrs J. A Miller
OF the same mission. who in some way reached
that country. The dispatch accounts for all the
Presbyterian missionaries at Pao-Ting-Fu ex-
cept DR. Maud A Mackey, whose wherea bouts
are unknown. The Rev. DR.. A. Woodruff Hal
sey, of the Presbyterian Board. who received
the dispatch. said:
Pao-Ting-Fu is 12O miles away from Pekfng TO the
southwest. and l have strong hopes that all those
who were at that station will turn up safe
DR., Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, Hodge is a son
Of the Rev. DR.. Hodge. secretary of the Presby-
tertan Board of Education at Philadelphia He
went to China in 1899. His wife was Miss Elsie
The Rev. F. E. Simcox went to China in 1892
His wife was Miss Mary E. Gibson. They were
both natives of Pennsylvania he being born in
Bullion, and she in London. They have rela-
tives in those towns DR. Taylor was appointed
to the China field in 1886 He was born in
Taylorsville Bucks County, Penn. May Is. 1862
His brother. B. T. Taylor lives in Burlington
n. ].
Miss Mary A Mackey is native of Evanston
Ill, She is twenty-eight years old. She went to
China last year. Her home address is Los
Angeles. Cal.
MISSIONARIES STILL IN PEKING.
The Presbyterian missionaries supposed to be
in Peking who have not been able to get out
according to the dispatch. are the Rev John
Wherry, the Rev. ]. L. Whiting, the Rev and
Mrs. c. H. Fem and two small children the
Rev. and Mrs. Charles a. Killie. DR.. John NJ
Ingls and wife. Miss Eliza Z. Leonard, Miss
Grace Newton, Miss Bessie Mccoy and Miss
Jennie McKilIican.
The missionaries in the Shan-Tung provinces
thus briefly reported safe are the Rev Dr. c.
w. Mateer, the Rev. and Mrs. w NJ Hayes
the Rev. and Mrs. ]. P. Irwin. the Rev and
Mrs. H W. Luce. Miss Rebecca Y. Miller and
Professor and Mrs Mason Wells. of Tung-
Chow; the Rev. DR.. and Mrs. Hunter Corbett
the Rev. and Mrs. George Cornweu the Rev
and Mrs. w o. Elterich. Mrs. John L. Nevins
and Mrs. A. T Mills of Che Foo; the Rev. and
Mrs F. ID. Bergen and DR.. and Mrs. J. b. Neal
Of Tsing-Tan; the Rev. and Mrs w B. HamfI-
ton, the Rev and Mrs. V. F. Partch DR.
Charles Lewis, DR.. Edna B. Parks and the Rev
and Mrs. John Murray of Snan-Fu; the Rev
and Mrs F. H Chalfant, the Rev. and Mrs.
j. II. Fitch, Dr. and Mrs. w. r. FAIRIES Miss
Emma Boughton Mrs. NJ. NJ. Crosette and Miss
charlotte l.. Halves, of Wei-Hein; DIR. c. F.
Johnson, the Rev. and Mrs W. S. Faris and
Miss Z. F. Fleming, a doctor. of Ichow-Fu the
Rev. and Mrs. r. H. Bent. of Ginning Chow
1t was said at the Office of Cyrus Field Jud-
son, No. 40 Broadway, yesterday that nothing
slster-in-laW, Miss Mary COndit Smith who is
supposed to have been the guest Of Minister
Conger when Peking closed in by the
Chinese
A copy of The North China Herald and S,,
preme Court and Consular Gazette" dated
June q, was received from Shanghai at the
othce OF the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank
ing Corporation, No. % Wall-st., yesterday 1t
contained the information that the women and
children OF the Russian legation We're being sent
down 10 Tien-Tsin and that large number of
persons We're expected TO follow from the other
legations.
MISSIONARIES PROBABLY KILLED.
Chicago, July 6.-Oficers Of the American
Missionary Board in this city state that prob
ably seventeen more of their representa-
tives from the North China missions are vic
Tins of the Peking massacre if the reports
from Shanghai be correct. Following are the
names of those from the Chicago district who
it is feared were murdered by the Boxers:
AMENT the Rey William 5, head the Peking
AMBROSE. Miss Mary e, of the TUug-Cho Mission
CHAIlN Miss Ahhie Is. Tung Cho.
HATET MATI2H Y5i. e.: NJ; %5-r rfSioF; = EsI,n,
MINOR. Miss Luella. Tuns -C'h1
MURp0CK. Mss Virginia, Pekng
SHEFFIELD, Miss Elizabeth. Tekng