Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-09-21
CIRCUS NAN N
T|EN TS|A WAR
Advance Man. Got Into
Circus That Played
for Its Life.
DETAIL OF HORROR
WAITING REINFORcEMENTS
Made Last Stand Against BarbarOuS
HOrdes---Sad Arrival Of Relief
Column - Suffering All
Along the Line.

The best description OF the terrible
Tien Tsin siege that has been publish.
ed comes from the pen of Mr.. Phuegc",
the advance agent Of Warren's circus
that was an unwilling participant in
Chinese troubles. Pnueger went to
Tien Tsin in advance Of his company
and gives his experiences as follows
in the Hongkong Telegraph:
81 reached Tien Tsin." he said, "two
weeks ahead of the show, on May 2Sth
There was nothing unusual there at all
then. About a week after my arrival
there were rumors of robbers and Box
ers. The rumors were considered wor-
thy Of no attention by the French and
United States Consuls; all sorts OF
stories were Of course current on the
streets. On the 4th of June a detach-
ment OF twenty-five American marines
landed from a mud barge by the Aston
House, and next day twenty-five Brit
ish marines landed, followed by fifty
Germans, some forty Italians and thir~
ty Austrians. They constituted the de
Tense Of Tien Tsin, with about sixty.
three volunteers. Even then no seri-
ous trouble was expected :be troops
being looked upon merely as guard.
The first incident of significance took
lies. He was at the railway station
of June, when the relief column came
in.
The Imperial railways at Tien Tsin
are governed by Mr.. Tong, who had al
ways been friend to foreigners and
claimed to be strictly neutral. He is
now a prisoner In a house with 200
other influential Chinse and their fami-
lies. He was at tn erailway station
when the troops came up under Cap
tain Bayley, who was In command Of
the British force OF Admiral Seymour
in Tien Tsin. The men had come down
to go as a relief expedition to PekinS,
and numbered seventyfive Of each Ea.
tionality. Captain Bayley demanded
a train from Tong, who refused ani
defied the officer to take one. Captain
Bayley used some strong Anglo-Saxon
and threatened to hang Tong to one
of his bridges. Mr.. Tong said, "YOu
are assuming an awful responsibility,
and the captain replied that he would
assume 1t. He then ordered bayonet
charge on the railway shed. The troops
got a train out, equipped It, and sent
1t out at p. m. that day. On Monday
the 18th, and Tuesday, the 18th, sinai
fires in the native city were easil,
visible from the towers Of Goron Hall
On Wednesday night they assumed
greater magnitude, and on Thursda,
and Friday the place was one vast sei
OF fire. 1t looked to me as II the whol'
place was destroyed, but am told i
was not On Friday night the Frencl
Cathedral and mission churches wer'
burned.
It was reported that the Viceroy'
yamen had been burned down and tina
he had poisoned himself, but this ha
no confirmation. The first firing com
: menced on the Foreign Settlement OF
Saturday morning, when horde trie'
to invade the Settlement from the Tia
liu road, but were repulsed by Unite
States marines from the Monocacy an
Yorktown, one of the marines bein
| EillaI nj In
same day at sunset, heavy firing bega
all round the settlemnt and lasted al
. night, weakening by daylight O
' Sunday, the 18th, pitched battle too
J place between the Russian regimen
under Col. Asimioff, together with III
combined British, German, America
and Italian troops and the Chimes
The foreigners totalled less than 200
men, against an overwhelming enem,
whose numbers are purely problemat
cal. The battle ragged for six douh'
full hours.
The foreign troops, entrenched alon
the railway embankment, fred wolfe
| aitei Noiiey, Dut thcii hic was ih'h''
tual after six hours, so numerous WEI
the Chinese. Despite enormous loss IL
S enemy closed ranks and advanced
little. The situation was now riol
desperate. Captain Bayley had place
himself under Colonel Asimioff, as h
latter had more experience of fightlu
barbarians. The Colonel ordered
hayonet charge ms last resource
prevent the invasion of the Settlement
Praise for Russians.
The charge was made at midday, al
tn Russians alone lost that day PIG
n killed and wounded. These figures
got from Mr.. Batty, Russian tea me