The National tribune., 1900-10-11
PEKING HORRORS.
A Graphic Account of the Boxer
Outbreak.
NIGHT OF BLoODSHED AND SORROW.
How Militant Missionaries Captured the
Great Key and Locked Out the Mob.
epecia, correspondence to THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE

epecia, correspondence to THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
Peking, China, Aug. %.
Since the siege of Peking has lifted and
the besieged fully realize the extent of the
Government conspiracy to wipe out all
foreigners, they look back with more than
astonishment upon the daring Americans
who locked the great Hauta Gate in the
face of q raging mob and under the eyes
of the Imperial soldiers, who five days
later shot and killed Baron Won Ketteler
and commenced the bloody siege that laid
wounded 100 others out of total of 400
allied marines.
On the morning of June 13 the bloody
18th, as it will go down in history, the
native Christian converts in Peking
aroused to find their gate-posts smeared
with blood, mark put there by and for
the Boxers, so that there should be no
chance of the fanatical infuriated mob of
Boxers missing their victims.
Many of these marked quarters were
new ones for the native Christians, they
having left their old homes because ap-
prehensive of coming evil. But so per-
1eClly WAS lut Sy Sltlli VI tSDloldSt
by the Empress and Prince Tuan that not
only had they a map of every foreign
compound and native compound in Pc
king, but the spies had tracked each Chris
tian family as it moved about. Only
spies could account for the accurate
knowledge of the Boxers as to the where
abouts of every one of their victims; for
while some few fled and escaped, abso-
lutely none was undiscovered and no quar-
tiers they had rented or used escaped de-
struction.
Keepers who sold foreign lamps, heather
teachers who taught Legations, bank man.
egers in connection with foreigners, Chi
Aese shops that sold foreign medicine, all
Eere put in the persecution list. So great
vas the fury against the foreigner that
Q scrap of foreign paper, an old foreign
Medicine bottle often meant death to its
swner. And in the night of June 13 the
knife fell, foreign compounds were looted,
burnt and the streets ran with Christian
natives blood The rice Christian and
the pretender paid the penalty of follow
ing the foreign devil" while the true
Christian died as glorious death as Chris
tian martyrs ever did at the stake of Nero
or upon the rack of the Inquisition.
By June 10 the large Methodist-E -Episco-
pal Mission property, situated half-mile
from the United States Legation, down a
side street from the great Hauta Meu
street, and almost in a curve of the city
wall, alone, of nine or 10 mission COM
pounds in Peking, was left standing. Its
street chapel was burned the evening Of
June 13, but further attack was re-
pulsed by the advance of the United
Minister Conger to help guard the mis-
sion, where were gathered for protection
20 missionaries and 600 native refugees,
who had fed thither from prosecuted coun-
try districts.
The little band Of 20 marines and IS
armed missionaries were busy all night
and day warding off desultory attacks of
Boxers, and various attempts to fire the
buildings, covering an area of four or five
acres in extent.
On the night Of June IA great mob
had gathered in the south side of the wall
and began beating at the big outer gate of
Hauta Meu street. The night was calm,
the sky was clear except for the lurid
flames and smoke rising from foreign COM
pounds. Still the din and uproar in the
southern city held every heart terrified.
A pack of bloodhounds in widest rage
could not have sent forth the demoniacal
din .nd clamor of the infuriated Boxers
and their sympathizers.
xiii, kill, kill, kill the foreigners"
they shouted; climb the wall, kill, kill,
killr' Such beastlike, demonlike yells and