The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-11-10
HORRORS I. Il i'm CHINA I I'M
Extract From a Letter Written by
Prominent missionary.
OFFICIALS COMMITTED MURDER
Neither Age Nor Sex Was Spared by
the Devilish Boxers-Horrible and
Nameless Administrations Wo-
men Nor Children Saved From a.
Miserable Death.

WASHINGTON. D. c.. Nov. o.
A graphic account OF the atrocities
practiced by the Boxers of China on
missionaries and their families. regard
less Of age or sex, has been received In
this city from a well-lnformcd mission
airy who is now at the scene Of some of
the recent troubles. A part Of the let
ter follows: II
1.-THE massacre at Pao-ting-fu, like
all the others, was carried out by the
direct order Of the officials, and the
governor In whose yamen they took re-
fuge is doubly responsible for refusing
them protection and sending them to
death In their own homes. We know
from letters written as late US June Is
that the missionaries were all In tn,
yamen Of the governor, and they antic-
ipated no danger. The reason they felt
secure was because they had faith In
the willingness and ability Of the gov
ernor to protect them. In less than
five days from the date OF that letter
they were sent to their homes and to
their death.
1T is not conceivable that they went
from the yamen without protest, for
they would know that the moment they
passed out Of the door they left all hope
behind. There can be no doubt that the
highest official in the city. whose duty
It was under the treaties to protect
them. forced them to go to their homes,
because he did not want to have them
butchered In his yamen. He had not
the reckless disregard for. consequences
which was shown By Yu Hsien, the saw
ago who ruled tho adjoining province
Of Shausi. -,
Brutally Massacred.
June 80 tho Boxer mob attacked
tho Roman Catholic and American
Presbyterian missions. The premises
Of both missions were Destroyed by
FIRE. DO not know how many Catholic
missionaries wero slaughtered, but Mr.
and Mrs. simcoR and three children.
DR.. and MrS Hodge and Or. Taylor, OF
the Presbyterian mission. were brutal
" massacrod. All OF the native con-
verts Of both missions who could be
found shared the same fate. Mr.. and
Mrs. simco1 are said to have defended
themselves and their three children
until they were overpowered. They
were then bound and taken three miles
away to the grave of Boxer. whers
they were sacrificed. One Of the ladies
was unable to walk and she was car
ried. Another Of the ladies' begged for
the life Of her little girl. offering her
own freely II this boon were granted
her, but her plteous pleadInga and tears
did not move these tends incarnate,
and the little one was cut down before
the mothero eyea
"Dr. Taylor was working with his
patients almost up to the hour Of his
well-known skill his head was placed
In sacrifice before an idol in the tenn
pie. After tho mob had exterminated
the Presbyterian and Catholic missions,
9 heavy. rain Interrupted the further
prosecution Of their helllsh work, butit
was resumed tho next day. Mr.. Pltkin
was shot on the tnrrace in front Of the
chapel while defending the two ladies'
Of his mission. He was Immediately
beheaded. Mr.. Bagnell. Of tho China
inland mission. was killed near a tenn
pie In the city. The fate OF Mr.. Cooper,
of the Same mission. is unknown. nor is
1t known how Mrs. Bagnall and her
child met their death. After the decap-
itation of Mr.. Pitkin the two ladies' Of
the American board mission, Misses
Gould and Merrill. were seized and ia
ken to the Boxer headquarters.
1.-THE people Of the United States
should know that the eleven men, wo-
men and children who were done to
death in Pao-ting-fu could have been
saved by the officials. even II they d!d
not order the murder, and they should
see to 1t that Just and adequate punish
ment is inflicted upon the ASSESSING and
their accomplices. no matter what their
rank or position. 1t must not DO for
gotten that It was In fleeing from this
city and within tho Jurisdiction Of tile
governor Of this province that the Lu-
han railway engineers and ttelr ladies'
were murdered. The bodies Of all were