The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-09-12
Favor the Burning of Pekin
American Woman Subjected
to the Most Horrible Usage
Before Being Tortured
to Death.

Shanghai. Sept. 4--Dispatches an
bouncing that the American govern.
ment refuses to agree to the with.
drawal of the troops from Pekin be.
fore satisfaction for the outrages UPON
andItbe losses of it's subjects is given.
have been received here and are ap-
plauded by the entire foreign colony
in Shanghai Any other policy, &C.
cording to the business men and mis-.
sionaries with whom the Associated
Press representative has talked,
would be vital blow to the prestige
OF the foreigners and would weaken
their status in China The English
papers fercely denounce the propo
sails to evacuation as defeat The
masses of Cinnamon now believe that
the Chinese arms are victorious.
The Chinese papers printed in
Shanghai contain long circumstantial
accounts of alleged Chinese victories
at Pekin, Tien Tsin and Lung Chou,
and the chops in the native quarter dis
play for sale 'urid pictures of the &C.
lestial army driving the European sol
diers into the sea at Taku and cut
ting them to pieces at Tien Tsin.
They also show pictures of the for.
eign adm:rals being tortured 10 the
pr ence of the viceroys. The peo.
pie ccept these reports as correctly
repr, enting the situation and consid.
er IT, 'eports of the English press as
"mere foreign lies "
The 'ropean community contin.
ues to mand the destruction of
Pekin and the exemplary punishment
ofthe officials deeming indemnity and
paper promises of new treaties in
adequate Undoubtedly the infor
nation in detail of massacres Of for
eigners daily received infames this
sentiment. The empress dowager is
living in the Yamen at Tai Yuan Flu.
in Shan 81 province Fifty mission
aries have been slaughter in that va
men under her orders and practically
in the presence of the viceroy. Three
wese behesded in the inner court and
the others were killed babariousIy IN
the outer court yard. Their bodies
were thrown to the dogs.
The empress has ordered commits.
sioner to investigate the conduct of
the southern viceroys who made a
compact with the foreign consuls aud
their degradation is expected
The Associated Press representa-
tive learns from official sources the
facts of the killing of several Ameri
can woman missionaries At the
request of the mission board the de-
tails were withheld out of regard for
the feelings of the relatives O: the
murdered women. but other promi
nent Americans who have long anita
gonized the policy of sending women
to isolated inland posts, think it i'm
portant that the facts should be
known The names of the victims
are withheld by request Two of
these women we're captured while
attempting to leave the stations
where they we're located, were led
about the country naked, repeatedly
outraged and finally killed by q
method too revolving to be described.
Two other American women were
coming to the coast with o psrty
which number of Cinnamon follow.
ed and stoned. The wemen fell ex
hausted and we're taken by the Chi
namen into the presence of the local
officials
They were prostrated upon the
execution block and feint was made
of beheading them One of them
became hysterical and laughed. and,
thinking her insane, the Chinese
escorted her to the coast because of
their superstition regarding the in
sane. On the journey. however, the
woman was repeatedly criminally
assaulted by her escort. The other
woman, after being exhibited naked
for some days and suffering assault
by several men, was tortured to
death by the same shameful methods
as were practiced in the other case.
Two Swedish missionary women
arrived at Shanghai after similar ex.
perience except that their lives we're
spared
The foregoing are matters of official
record
The IA English missionaries, in.
Guiding six women and four children,
who were murdered at Chu Chau. in
the province of Che kiang, accord
ing to the story of a Spanish priest
who escaped, were killed with hav
forks and ancient spears by the mag.
lstratc's bodyguard and their naked
bodies were hanged from trees
These incidents make ienient