The age-herald., 1900-07-22
DON'T RETREAT. BOYS. KEEP FIRING'
 WERE THE DYING WORDS OF LISCUM
Description Fearful Battle Which the Gallant Ninth Regiment Suffer ed and Their Commander Fell Dying.

ton to rush the houses from which the flank fire was coming, and thus get po- sition for flanking the wall.
 At l2:30 the line had just reached the short of the canal and thirty yards sepa- rated them from the houses, when the color-bearer fell.
 Colonel Liseum picked up the colors and stood looking around apparently for ford. Better get down, or they will hit you, shouted Major Reagan.
 "I guess not" was Liscum's reply.
 Llscum Was Shot
 'The next instant a sharp shooters bull let went through the Colonels abdomen.
 "Tve got it,, he said as he fell.
 Get at them if you can, the dying of ficer said, and added as his last words, Don't retreat, boys; keep firing.
 Began 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 struggling and crawling through the gate in the mud wall. q
 "Thera was no order. They were sent anywhere without men to carry the filters. The doctors were hit by the sharpshooters while trying to attend the wounded of the Ninth. =
 Major Reagan, Captain Bookmiller and Captain Moves were all hit twice. ys.'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. I could see the loop holes blazing bullets and lyddte shells. No in fantry could charge in the face of this fire from 2 o'clock until 5. Though acting con- jointly, neither Dorward nor Funkushna knew each others whereabouts
 Men Crept Back
 'ITnder cover of the darkness the men of the Ninth crept back from their dangerous position bearing their wounded.
 "They executed this movement with 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 Made on the night of July 13
 Tt was decided to withdraw, when news came that the Chinese were evacuating. 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 gall lant in the fight. But for the Americans stopping the flank fire 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 un- opposed. The American flag at half mast was hoisted over the south gate. The walls were. strewn with the corpses of Chinese soldiers killed by the shell fire which caused their flight. None apparently was hit by bullets, the damage being done by lyddite shells. There is a terrible row over the burning of the town. Several foreign officers are reported lost..-
 ''The tired soldiers remained on the walls. The natives went footing through the town. The bank and the arsenal were heavy sufferers.
 An advance movement on Pekin is now contemplated soon. The American wound ed crowd the hospital, but are doing well.
 "The flags of the allied armies are all half masted.
 Colonel Lscum was buried at Tong Ku."