Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-21
Detailed Account Of the Fighting on
July Is.
AMERICANS IN A bot PLACE
Col. Liscum Killed While Cheering
His Men F Forward.
HE IS BURIED AT ToNGKU

NEW YORK, July 21.-The Evening
World publishes the following from it's
Tien Tsin correspondent, under date of
Chefoo July 10. via Shanghai. July 81:
THE attack the native city of Tien
Tsin on July ID resulted in the narrowest
escape from what seemed up to midnight
would be terrible disaster for the allies.
THE Russians swinging north and the
other allies south, at daybreak the Rus
slams were to take the forts near the ma
tive city wall and the other allies the city
itself.
Gen. Fukushna. the Japanese COM
mander. promised that the Japanese en-
gineers. alter three hours. shell fire from
all guns. would cross the bridge over the
moat before the wall and. blowing up the
infantry to enter.
Upon this depended everything. Gen.
Fukushina had not secuted the bridge and
in twenty-four hours had not secuted the
ground over which the charge on the bridge
had to be made.
flooded the land around 1t. The allies
shell fire in nowise subdued the Chinese
rushed back from the mud wall. which they
was thirty feet high with a moat twenty
feet in depth around it.
The outer wall Of mud made 1t impossi-
BILE for the infantry and marines coming
on the field to reply to the Chinese fire.
They lost fifty men in ten minutes, then
rushed back from the mud wall which they
had reached:
Gen Dorward. the British commander
fastened forward with a fragmentary in
stead of an integral skirmish line.
Americana on Extreme Left
THE American marines and the Welsh
F'usiliers. together, under command of
Waller. were on the extreme left. Then
no Ut; -t,
vanced with the Japanese along the road
toward the gate in the mud wall.
Forwards plan for the Americans to sup
port the japanese was not made clear 20
Col. Liscum Of the 9th United States In
fantry.
"Dorward lays the blame for the blunder
and sacrifice of life on Liscum. but Dor
wards chief of staff was heard to saw
when I1lscum moved:
Get in down the road anywhere, quick
Colonel Liscum huTriedly led his men
through the gate in as open order as pos
sible.
They were Immediately under fire. The
staff saw them pass over the bridge lea l.
! Ing to field. which proved to be a cul
de sac.
Before the two battalions of Ameri-
cans. numbering 426 men. could extend
themselves they were subjected, besides the
fire from the loop holes of the fort to a
fierce fire from the embrasures in line of
fortified mud houses on their flank
Three thousand rifles, probably. were
turned on them. with accuracy that has
amazed every officer among the allies.
The blue shirts of the American troops
made them distinct marks. where the khaki
uniforms of the other allies could not be
seen.
Col. Liscum. guiding his men. walked up
and down the line. not even ducking his
head while the bullets fell around.
| The Americans charged into the flank
/ fire rlShnS hinh
| they charged was marshy and lined with
| bitches.
| Intended to Rush the Houses
1T was evidently Col. Liscums intention
| to rush the houses from which the flank
| fire was coming and thus get position for
! fianking the wall
| AT 12:30 the line had just reached the
| shore Of the canal and thirty yards sep
1 arated them from the houses when the
/ color bearer fell.
! Col: Liscum picked up the colors and
stood looking around apparently for ford.
| Better get down or they'll hit you
shouted Major Regan.
| i guess not, was Liscum's reply.
| The next instant a sharpshooters bullet
went through the brave coloneTs abdomen
I've got H. he said as he fell.
/ Get at them II you can the diving
| officer said. and added as his last words:
! Don't retreat boys; keep on firing
/ Regan was hit Immediately afterward.
| All day long the allies line lay under
| any cover the men could find running out
/ OF ammunition.
| The July sun was beating down on them
and they had nothing to drink but the
| salty marsh water.
! Meanwhile the wounded came strug-
| CLING and crawling through the gate in the
mud wall There was no order. They
| were sent anywhere without men to carry
| the litters.
| Doctors Were Hit, Too.
i H.
while trying to attend the wounded of the
| 9th They could not attempt to carry off
| the wounded from the bloody field
Major Regain. Captain BookmiIler and
| Captain Noyes were all hit twice.
! 'Noyes. who was adjutant was hit in
the arm before going into the field and then
! hit In the leg. He crawled back through
| the ditch with the water to his neck to re-
| port the situation to Colonel Dorward
AT o'clock General Fukushina reported
IN writing to Dorward that the japanese
were in the city.
81 could see the loopholes blazing bull
let's and lyddite shells. No Infantry could
| charge in the face of this fire from O clock
to . pm. Though acting conformity neither
Dorward nor Fukushina knew each others
! whereabOu
Under cover of the darkness the men
| Of the 9th crept back from their dangerous
position bearing their wounded. They
| executed this movement with a loss of one
| man killed The casualties were ninety-one
men and five officers out of 426
| The marines lost thirty, including Cap
tain Davis. who was shot through the
heart while talking to Colonel Meade on
the night of July 13.
| 1T was decided to withdraw when news
came that the Chinese were evacuating.
Allies Losses Were Severe.
The Russians were not so successful as
hoped during the day. and the total loss
| Of the allies was 700.
| The Japanese losses were severe. The
japanese were most gallant in the fight.
| But for the Americans stopping the flank
| nre the Japanese loss would have been
| much heavier.
| The French. Japanese American and
British entered the city at o'clock on the
| morning of July IA. Their entry was unop-
! posed.
The American flag at half-mast was
hoisted over the south gate. The walls were
| strewn with the corpses of Chinese SOL
diers killed by the shell fire which caused
| their flight.
| None apparently was hit by bullets the
! damage being done by lyddite shells
There IS terrible row over the burning
| of h.. tom afaca