New-York tribune., 1900-08-23
MESSAGES FROM PEKING.
FIRST CABLE NEWS FROM MISSION
ARIES SINCE SIEGE BEGAN
ARRIVES HERE.

The first cable messages which have come to the
mission boards in this city from Peking since COM
munieation cut off. more than two months
ago, arrived here yesterday One OF them re-
ceived by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis-
sions, 1t came from the Rev. DR.. John Wherry. OF
Peking and dated from Che-Foo, where it is
supposed to have been sent via Tien-Tsin. 1t was
as follows:
Property mission, private, totally destroyed Wire
friends,
Robert E. speer. one of the secretaries of the
Board, commented on this as follows:
Several words orc are msspeleweTIe for ,1 wire
culcate," the Boards cable address-and there Is
The most hopeful inteTpretation is that it refers to
Pao-Ting. Flu, and that some converts may be a
the mention of DIR. and Mrs Hodge about whose
that they were in Peking and that Dr. Wherry
supposed this was known in New-YOrk or 1t is
reply to the cable. message sent from New York
missionaries in Pektng and whether they were
safe DR.. Wherry. assuming that the Board would
PeRng were theTe Wond need ne to be informed only
of the presence of DR.. Maud Mackey and of Mr.
the regular missionaries Of the Presbyteran Church
at Peking and DR. Maekey are safe. and that the
property, either in Peking or Pao-Tlng-Fu. is de-
stroyed
The Rev Dr. A. B. Leonard of the Methodist
Missionary Society. also received a cable dispatch
from Psking. 1t follows:
This was signed by the Rev. George Davis and
the Rev p D. GamewelI. There were eighteen
members of the Methodist mission in Peking dur
ing the siege.
The Methodist missionaries at Picking include the
Rey and Mrs F. D. Gamewell, the Rev. and Mrs
W, F. Walker the Rev. George ". Verify, the
Rev George D. n. Lowry, Mrs. Charlotte Jewell
Mrs Edward x. Lowry and the Misses Anna D.
Gloss, Alice Terrell Elizabeth Martin. Emma Mar
tin, Gertrude Gilman and Edna G.aTerry, NJ. D.;
VxT n d II L Ly{ cd
the Rev. George r. Davis.
DR.. Leonard has received letter from the Rev
Frederick Brown, from Che-Foo. in which high
compliment is paid TO Consul Fowler Mr.. Brown
says
che-Foo is unsafe. and we shall have, to move
only one Consul worth anythng-Consul Fowler. of
sionarles i'm this and other provinces would have
] ID three n Cheers eHe Were given OF or
and groans for the British upstart; both English
thus that you may bring this to the notice Of
Fowler's superiors
The Simcoxes mentioned by Mr.. speer are the
Rev and Mrs +. E. simcox. They stationed at
Pao-Ting- Flu, Miss Mackey and Dr. Cort-
laTG T6t Van Rensselaer, HGdge and Mrs. Podge
ton who were there during the siege were the
Rev Dr. John Wherry, the Rev. ]. L. Whiting,
and Mrs; Charles A. kIle, DR.. John NJ. Inglis and
can.
A letter from Charles F. Cannon, superin-
tendent of the coPorteurs OF the American Bible
Society at Tien-Tsin. given out the office of
the society yesterday 1t Is dated June Is, and
contains a para graph concerning the action OF the
Russian troops at Tien-Tsin which has particular
interest In view of Mrs. Drews recent repudia-
tion of an interview with her sent broadcast over
the country. The paragraph says: -l-.
The Russians have been lootiug many houses no
foreigner being respected by them. What they do
not carry away they simply destroy, and a house
looks a total wreck after they leave Ii. They are
killing chinese right and left. swinging little chill
dren against house corners, bayonetting women
their quarters in terror have been killed without
mercy; and they have left one alive in the viii
lagos about here. II is simply awful and sicken-
ing.
CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONARIES SAFE.
Boston, Aug 22.-The American Board of Com
missioners for Foreign Missions received to-day
cable message from Che-Foo as follows:
Psalm cxxlv I. Pekng and Tung-Chow mission
aries, also Chapins, Smiths, Wyckoffs, saved.
The passage OF Scripture alluded TO above is:
Our soul is escaped a bird out Of the snare of
the fowlers; the is broken and we are
escaped
The Pekng missionaries are the Rev w S
Ament, the Rev. c. E. Ewing wife and two chill
dren; Miss Ada Haven. Miss Nellie Russell and
Mrs ]. l.. Mateer The Tung-Chow missionaries
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