Evening star., 1900-11-21
THE MAssAcMs IN CHINA
DETAILS OF HORRIBLE ATROCITIES
REACH THIS COUNTRY.
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries
Beheaded by Order of Gov
ernor of Taiyuenfu.


perpetrated upon Americans and other for
eigners in China by the Boxers have been
received here. and in part, are as follows:
1.-The murders at Tafyuenfu the capital of
Shansi took place under circumstances of
exceptional atrocity. and they call aloud for
the swiftest and sternest retribution upon
the guilty governor and warm friend Of the
equally guilty empress dowager. There
was a small riot June q, in which DR..
Edwards hospital was destroyed and Miss
Coombs was killed. The letter which con-
veyed this information was written in Ger
man by Dr. Miller Wilson. and was sewn in
the sole Of the messengers shoe. The gen.
eral massacre took place July g. On that
day the governor, Yu Hsien, invited all of
the foreigners in the city before him, send
ing soldiers to escort them. In case they
refused the soldiers were to bring them
by force. 1t is said that 500 soldiers were
present and the Europeans were received
In audience by the governor, the prefect
and the subprefect being in attendance.
All Were Beheaded.
1.-The governor compelled all the Euro
peans to kneel before him and upbraided
them for the evils which, he said, they had
brought to the Chinese. He then gave the
order for their execution, and five persons,
including two Roman Catholic bishops,
were decapitated on the spot The others,
including the women and children, were
beheaded in the courtyard before the audi
ence chamber and in the presence of the
governor. All met death with the utmost
courage. Several soldiers are said to have
cut the hearts out of their victims in order
to inspect them. The bodies were taken to
a hillside outside the walls and thrown to
the dogs, but they were surreptitiously Sc
cured and buried by the native Christians,
200 Of whom were killed five days later Uhe
14th. because they would not recant.
The details of the massacre, which have
been confirmed from other sources, We're
obtained from a soldier, who was present,
but deserted the next day, the 10th. AS all
of the Europeans were killed (the gates of
the city having been secured previous to
the governors S Invitation to them to come
to his yamen, so that none might escape),
all that shall ever know must necesSari-
ly come from native sources. 1t Is not like
ly that the heathens would make the details
any worse than they were. Three dis
patches from officials in Tayuen have been
seen in the yamens to which they were
sent, In all of which 1t Is stated that thir-
ty-seven foreigners and thirty native con-
verts were massacred July 8.
THE list of those known to have been in
the city on that fatal day is five short of the
number given in the official report and 1t
is not known if the fifty-seven include chill
dren or only the adults.
'One foreign report from city near
Taiyuen) places the number at fifty-five.
The latter figures may be correct, for 1t is
known that some Of the officials were so
nOrrlneu AT tne OrQer OF u HS1en to XIII all
of the foreigners that they sent them into
the city for the governor to butcher him
self They said he had given the order, and
he might do the deed.
Protestant Missionaries Murdered.
THE total number of Protestant mission
aries known to have been massacred and
concerning whose death there cannot be
reasonable doubt, Is ninety-five. OF these
twenty eight were men. forty women
twenty married and twenty slngle), and
twenty-five children. OF the killed twenty
eight were Americans-nine men, thirteen
women Give married and eight single) and
six children.
There are still 125 people who are known
to be in the interior-ffty-six men, fifty
women (thirty-two married and eighteen
single) and nineteen children. OF these,
fifty-four are Americans-twenty-one men,
sixteen women (ifteen married and one
single) and seventeen children
There are still 100 persons in the prov
inces Of Shansi and Chilli, about whose
safety the utmost concern is felt. There
are sixty-four of these from whom the last
word was received May 8. No less than
forty-eight Of these are American citizens,
and entitled to all the rights and privileges
of such. There are fifteen Of whom the last
word received was letter dated June 80.
Catholics Sacrificed.
81 do not know how many Protestant con-
verts have been killed, but they are num-
bered by the thousand. 1 do not have the
same facilities for getting information about
the Catholics, but 1 have list Of thirty
five names Of missionaries who have lost
their lives since the beginning of these
troubles. OF these five were bishops. twen-
ty-eight were priests and two Sisters of
Charity. / am informed by one of the faith
ers here that. in addition to the above,
twenty are reported to have been massa cred
In Shansi and Shensi He also says that in
the northern provinces, including Manchu-
ria, they have lost between 1900 and
10000 native Christians, murdered by the
Boxers
1T seems to me that the above record Of
murder, outrage, torture and fiendish
cruelty is sufficient to stagger humanity and
to call for swift and sure retrbution upon
all the perpetrators, well as upon all
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