The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-08-30
HORRORS B ( OF i WAR.
sTien Tsin the Incarnation Of All the
sufferings Imaginable. III
FIVE FLAGS WERE FLOATING.
Over Its Walls--Dead Men Lying
Among Dead Horses, Pigs ! and
Dogs Testified to the Havoc Done
by the Allies-Looting Flourished
For Three Days-city Looks Like
& a Tornado Had Struck; It. 4!

Correspondence OF the Associated Press. !,
ITEM TsIN, China, July 1.-THE 5an-
I cientJstope wallis OF the Chinese city;pf
!sTien Tlsn.surrounded on the dnysso of lts
occupation by allied troops, Is a square
mile OF such 9th, ruin and death, such
turmoil md plllage as history could
/; hardly publlcate. Under normal condi-
tlons the, place was no better than a
huge cess pool, fostering with the &C.
4 illuminated rubbish and Stops from a
I population or nearly million. packed
Into a labyrinth OF novels around the
4 palaces OF yiceroys and petty taotals
who absorbed their wealth and gave
them not sewers In return. Now 1t Is
y the"incSrnation OF all the suffering, hor-
rors and waste of war The European
4 soldiers when they fought their way, up
7 10 the walls; saw floating In the canals
and bitches outside dozens of Chinsss
slain by ;heir own people because they
refused to fight. The todlss. were head
I less and their hands were tied behind
2 their backs. The heads were discover
ed afterwards Rows OF them deco.
rated the outer walls, hung by their pig
tails. i$ ~ IRE.
Five Flags Were Flying. A,
Five flags were flying from the high
lpagodas on the city walls when the
newspaper correspondents entered, ths
French. Japanese, American, Russian
and British. 1T was hard enough 10
get those flags up there" remarked a
foreign officer. but the real trouble
: will be to get them down." s.
The suburbs Of the city presented 4
foretastc of what was inside. Shells
( had torn thu huts and plowrd the
ground. white dead men scattered about
dead horses, pigs and dogs, testified
& how thoroughly the bullets had swept
the region the day before. q
The sights inslte compelled respect
for the fighting qualities of tha chln&se.
Their dead were everywhere Dressed
in the coarse blue blouse and trousers,
\ decorated with characters. iguaraateed
eto render them invulnerableS TO foreign
bullets. they were strcwn all along thc
top OF the wall wherever they had fall
en-. Walking = quarter of a mile, along
the embankment the bodies averaged
: one In ten feet and the wall were nearly
one mile long. 1tS.
Hundreds of Killed.
Throughout the city demolished
houses and hundreds Of killed gave evil
dence Of how vastly more effective had
7 been the foreign shell fire within the
walls of the, city than the Chinese bonn
: bardment OF the foreign. settlemen:
which. lasting for. a month had killed
only 4 dozen people The -yiceroy hal
constructed in the palace yard two
Z comfortable and impenetrabie bomb
; proofs, excavations guarded by aand
bags, but tho common people were less
fortunate. Many women and children
Z were lying dead In the streets, torn ter
ribly by shrapnel The living populace
Z were utterly Indifferent to their dead.
They would not take the trouble to drag
them out OF the streets or even. cover
them with mating. as a foreign soldier
did afterwards, but trampled them un-
der foot without botheringi 10 stuin
aside. Before the shooting inethe streets
!! was finished thousands of Chinese hnd
i emerged from their burrows, carrying
i white flags or the flags of foreign ma.
tons. principally the Japanese.
Looting of the City.
Most remarkable OF all the sights was
1 the looting OF the city. the middle Of the
< place was like:an ant hill kncked open.
s Chinese swarmed everywhere, thou
sands and thousands OF them; diving
!. into the flames of the burning shops.
getting under falling walls and Into
choking clouds OF smoke. Most OF them
Z were half naked. grlmey with smoke
and sometimes dripping with blood.
They preyed upon one another A Chi
nese appearing with n prize must fight
Z his way az other Chinese sprang upon
him and clutched his plumber. They
I. rolled among the corpses, pulling and
tear!up. while children being trampled