New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-28
FOUGHT FOR THEIR LIVES WITH MOBS
DAYS OF TERROR FOR FOREIGNERS IN THE IN
TERROR OF CHINA.
TERROR OF CHINA.

Chicago June "A dispatch to The Tribune
from Victoria. B. c. says: "Advices received by the
Empress of India give graphic details OF the es-
cape from Picking and Tien-Tsin Of foreigners. or
all the fugitives to reach the coast none had
harder fight for their lives than the American.
French and Belgian engineers. who were sur
rounded by the Boxers at Feng-Tai the terminus
of the railway that was to Hankow-
When the Boxers attacked the station and the
machine shops the engineers barricaded themselves
in the machine. shops and held the Chinese on for
some time. They had several women with them.
wives of some of them These women loaded the
mems rifle belts otherwise assisted TO repel the
Boxers Soon, though the foreigners found their
position in the shops untenable. as some OF the
Chinese had rushed them and set fire TO part OF
the building
Then they ran for 1t. fighting their way through
the Boxers. When they had got through tho
Boxers lines the Chinese gave more attention TO
them, but instead began to ptlase and destroy the
station and machine shops. Two Of the BelgfanS
then hurried Picking. where they reported the
danger of the party and called for volunteers TO
help them
"A number of Cossacks were dispatched 70 the
rescue. They set June and encountered
large crowd of Boxers forty miles from Tien-Tsin,
and were obliged to return. being unable to night
their way through. The Cossacks. who numbered
thirty-three had two officers wounded
I'm the mean time the engineers were between two
forces of Boxers. There were thirty of them. They
had taken up position on small hill, and there
hour. holding off the Boxers to their front They
all unconscious OF the party IN their rear,
and after their hard lighting arranged that eight
should be left in the trenches TO hold back the
Boxers. while the other twenty-five. including the
had carts, and the men carried the weaker ones
when they became exhausted. The march OF the
fugitives to Picking awful one. When some
few miles from where they had been intrenohed
they found another party of Boxers, not so strong
the party before encountered. however. in their
front and the formed a hollow square with
the women and children in the centre, and, drag
ging along fighting and repeling the onSlaughts OF
the Boxers. they made their way 10 Picking, after
two days replete with terror.
The Boxers of this party were without firearms.
being armed only with poles shOd with iron and
knives and spears. They were kept at distance
b. the rifles and revolvers of the railway men, who
killed a number OF them
The eight heroes who were left behind guard
their retreat were slain by the Boxers There
three Frenchmen and one Italian among them. the
others being Belgians and Swiss The fugitives on
their arrival in terribly destitute condition.
American marines led the way of the relief party
to Picking. Despite the VicerOys edct that for
egners should be allowed to pass the Taku forts,
forty United States marines landed and made their
way up the river by lighter.
Reading the Chinese papers, would come to
the conclusion that China herself making an
EFFORT to suppress the Boxer rising. Referring to
the battle Of June between troops under General
Nteh and the Boxers, one paper says that several
hundred Boxers killed and five buildings were
burned down during the conflict and the local rail-
way station was destroyed. This Lola the
third station from Tien-Tsin. Another paper SAYS
the Boxers lost five hundred men in this engage
ment. General Mich took a prominent part In the
Chinese-Japanese War"