The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1900-08-02

TEN TsIN, Saturday, July IA, via
Che Flu, July 16 and Shanghai, July
24.-The Ninth Regiment, United
States Infantry, entered the fight at
Tein Tsin with 43O men. An incom-
plete list OF casualties shows Is kill
ed, IS wounded and 2 missing. The
marines had killed and IS wounded.
Major James Regain, Ninth Infantry,
| was wounded in the leg; Captain Ed
win V. Bookmiller. Ninth Infantry, in
the leg and groin; First Lieutenant
Smedley d. Butler, United States
Marine Corps. in the leg; Captain
William b. Lemley, United States
Marine Corps, in the arm Second
Lieutenant Frank K. Lang. Ninth In
fantry, in the foot.
First Lieutenant Henry Leonard, of
the Marine Corps, carried Lieutenant
Butler from the field under a fierce
fire He was shot in the upper left
arm while returning, but ran and
swan mile under fire, getting to
the rear His arm was amputated to-
day.
Captain Charles X. Noyes, who had
been slightly wounded in the leg and
arm, swan q mile with only his nose
above water, with a request for re-
endorsements.
First Lieutenant Clayton, Of the
Ninth Infantry, made a dash for re-
endorsements under fire, and received
three slight wounds.
Colonel Liscum was shot in the abb
domen and died half an hour later.
His last words were: keep up fir
ing" The Ninth was ordered to sup
port the japanese, who were receiving
an enfilading fire. After crossing
mud wall half mile from the city
wall, the Ninth shifting, advanced
against the thanking fire, and reached
a marsh beside the river at the South
West corner of the city. A body of
Chinese in burned village under the
wall Just across the river, where they
were strongly barricaded, poured in
fierce fire, and whenever an Ameri-
can raised hand he was shot. A
Nordenfelt gun and two small cannon
were also trained upon them. They
lay in the mud all day without sur
geon to attend their wounds, and
were unable to move or help the
wounded, without food, and drinking
the canal water. They had exhausted
their ammunition, except few
rounds, which were saved to repel a
charge if it should be made. None
expected TO escape. A few reaching
the rear, reported that half of the
command had been killed or wound
ed, including heat prostrati"ns in the
estimate. After the Americans had
retired under cover of the darkness,
they struggled back into squads all
night, pitifully exhausted and carry
ing their wounded The American
hospital was crowded and short of
surgeons, there having been no ex
pectation of such losses.
To-day squads searched the fields,
collecting the dead and wounded.
Colonel Liscum's body was escorted
to a boat this evening by two battal-
lions of English troops, with Gen
eral and a Colonel at their head.
Lieutenant Colonel Coolridge, who is
now commanding the regiment, and
Major Lee were among the pall-bear-
ers. The chaplain of the Marine
Corps read the service at the canal
lock. The body will be shipped to
San Francisco.
The total losses of the allied forces
were about 800. The British lost
about 80. The japanese estimate
their killed at 80 and wounded 25O.
The Russians estimate their casual
ties at $50. All day long the work of
bringing in the dead and wounded
was continued.
The Japanese were the heroes of the
battle. Their fighting was remark
ably brave, and they were praised by
their colleagues. When some of the
foreign officers counseled retreat last
night the japanese General said:
when my men move it will be for
ward"
This morning they charged the
breaches in the wall made by the
artillery and fought hand-to-hand in
the streets. Their conduct after the
fight was equally good, as they re-
Trained from lOOting while some Of
the European soldiers were having an
orgie. Dead Cinnamon cover the
walls and streets of Tien Tsin. Fifty
guns were captured. The place was
full of munitions of war.