Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-21
flank fire was coming and thus get a
position Tor Ranking the WALL

flank fire was coming and thus get
position Tor fiauking the wall.
LIsCUM PICKS UP THE COLORs.
At 1890 o'clock the line had just
reached the shore % the canal and thlr-
~ yards separated them from the
houses. when the color bearer fell Col
Liscum picked up the colors and stood
looking around apparently for a ford
Better get down or theyu hit you.
shouted Major Regau.
II guess not was Liscum's reply.
The next instant a sharpshooters bull
let went through the coloncrs abdomen.
I've got IT, he said as he fell
Get az them II YOU can the dying
officer said, and added as his last
words;
DON'T RETREAT, BOYS"
Don't retreat, boys, keep on firms.
RegaH was hit Immediately after
ward
All day long the allies lire lay under
any cover the men could find, running
out Of ammunition. The July sun was
beating down on them and they had
nothing to drink but the salty marsh
water
Meanwhile the wounded came strug.
cling and crawling through the gate in
the mud wall There was no order.
They were sent anywhere without men
70 carry the litters. The doctors were
MT by the sharpshootors while trying
20 attend the wounded " The Ninth.
They could not attempt 90 carry of the
wounded from the bloody field
Major Iegan Captain Bo0kmnler and
captain Noyes We're am hit twice
Noyes. who was adjutaut. was HIT I'm
the arm before going from the field and
then hit IN the leg. He crawled back
through the ditch with the water 90
his neck 10 report the situation % Col
Dorward
JAPs ENTER THE CITY.
At I o'clock Gen. FukushIm reported
100 writing 90 Dorward that the japan
csc We're IN the city. / could see the
l0ophOles blazing bullets and lvddite
shells No infantry could charge I'M the
face OF this fire from o'clock until 9.
Thus, acting conformity neither Dor
ward nor FukushIm knew each others
Whereabouts. Under cover of darkness
the men OF the Ninth crept back from
their dangerous position bearing their
wounded They executed This movement
with loss of one man killed The cas-
ullteis Were 81 men and five officers out
Of i26 The marines lost thirty. includ-
ing Captain Davis. who was shot
through the heart while talking 10
Col Meade on the night OF July IS. il
was decided 60 withdraw when news
came that the Chinese We're evacuating
The Russians were not so successful as
hoped during the day and total loss Of
the allies was 700.
To-
The Japanese were most gallant in the
fight But for the Americans stopping
the flank fire the japanese loss would
have been much heavier The French
japanese, American and British entered
the city az o'clock on the morning OF
July a. Their entry was unopposed.
OLD GLORY AT HALF MAST
The American flag at half mast was
hoisted over the south gate. The walls
were strewn with the corpses Of Chinese
soldiers killed by the shell fire which
caused their flight.
None apparently were hit by bullets
the damage being done by lyddite
shells.
There 70 a terrible row over the burn
Ing Of the town. Several foreign officers
are reported lost.
The tired soldiers remained on the
wall The natives went lootIng through
the Chinese town, The bank and the
arsenal were heavy sufferers.
An advance movement on Pekln IS
not contemplated soon.
The American wounded crowd the
hospital but all are doing well The
flags Of the allied armies are all half
maated
Col LIscum was buried al Tong Ku.