New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-07-25
THE FIGHT AT TIEN- -TSIN.
GALLANT WORK OF ANIERICANS-TOTA
LOSSES EIGHT HUNDRED.

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| eighteen wounded
| Major James Regan, 9th Infantry, was
wounded in the leg; Captain Edwin V Book
miller, 9th Infantry, in the leg and groin; First
Lieutenant Smedley D. Butler, United States
! Marine Corps, in the leg; Captain William h.
Lemly, United States Marine Corps in the arm,
and Second Lieutenant Frank r Lang, 9th In
! fantry, in the foot
First Lieutenant Henry Leonard, of the Ma
! rine Corps, carried Lieutenant Butler from the
! field under fierce fire. He shot in the
upper left arm while returning. but ran and
swan a mile under fire getting to the rear.
! The surgeons hope to save Lieutenant Leonard's S
arm.
Captain Charles R. Noyes, who had been
slightly wounded in the and leg, swan a
mile to deliver a request for reinforcements.
First Lieutenant Louis B. Lawton, of the 9th
Infantry, made dash for reinforcements under
fire. and received three slight wounds.
Colonel Lscum was shot in the abdomen, and
died half hour later His last words were
Keep up firing"
HARDSHIPS OF THE NINTH.
The 9th was ordered to support the Japanese
who We're receiving enfilading fire. After
crossing a mud wall half mile from the city
wall the 9th shifted, advancing against the
fanking fire. and reached a marsh beside the
body of Chinese in a burned village under the
wall just across the river, where they were
strongly barricaded. poured in fire, and when
ever an American raised hand he was shot. A
Nordenfeldt gun and two small cannon were also
trained upon them.
The men lay in the mud all day. without
surgeon to attend to their wounded, without
food and drinking the canal water. They had
exhausted their ammunition. except few
al
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
wounded including heat prostrations in the
estimate.
After the Americans had retired under cover
Of the darkness they struggled back to
Tien-Tsin in squads all night pitifully
hausted and carrying their wounded. The
Americans hospital was crowded and short Of
surgeons, there having been no expectation of
such losses
RECOVERING THE BODIES
To-day squads searched the fields, collecting
the dead and wounded. Colonel Liscun's body
was escorted to a boat this evening by two bat
talions of English troops, with general and a
colonel at their head. Lieutenant Colonel Coo
dge, who is commanding the regiment,
and Major Lee. among the pallbearers.
The chaplain of the Marine Corps read the SER
vice at the canal lock. The body will be shipped
to San Francisco.
The total losses of the allies are about eight
hundred The British lost fifty. The Japanese
estimate their killed at fifty and wounded at
25O The Russians estimate their casualties
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 remarkably brave and
praised by all their colleagues. When some of
the foreign officers counseed retreat last night
the Japanese General said: when my men move
II VIII be forward. 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 refrained from looting, while of the
European soldiers were having orgy
Dead Cinnamon cover the walls and streets
of Tien-Tsin.
Fifty guns were captured. The place was
full Of munitions of war. Many fires have been
started.
The Chinese are retreating toward Picking.
JAPANESE TAKE THE ARSENAL
July 13.-After fighting all day force of
1000 Japanese, supported by British and Rus
slams, captured the Chinese fortified arsenal two
miles east of the city. making a night attack.
The foreigners charged under a heavy fire from
the arsenal following the Cinnamon and killing
400 Of them. The foreign loss was heavy
The Chinese bombarded the foreign city of
Tien-Tsin heavily for three days and killed
some British sailors on a tug to-day, besides
several Frenchmen.
The foreigners are mounting heavy guns from
the fleet, among them being four 12-pounders
and four 4-inch guns, and will attempt to locate
and silence the Chinese guns.
An explosion Of dynamite killed twenty Rus
slams.
Two battalions of the 9th United States In
fantry and 300 marines from the cruiser Brook
lyn diSembarked and started for Tien-Tsin to-
day on lighters. AS they went up the river the
foreign ships cheered them heartily.
Refugees OF all nauionalities will be taken 10
Japan by the transport Logan.
HORRIBLE SCENES AFTER THE BATTLE.
July 15-Chinese from the walled city report
taken shelter in a bombproof. About seven
thousand Chinese were engaged IN the battle
here on July 13 Many more are coming from
Pekng
General Mich was imprisoned because he op-
posed making the foreigners. but after
ward was released on the condition that he fight
them. To this he acceded with lukewarmness |
After the battle he committed suicide.
A large part of the walled city burned |
last night, and to-day the Chinese held perfect
orgy plungerirg. smashing houses and fighting |
like demons over stores Of silks furs and lew |
elry Hundreds Of dead Cinnamon along the |
walls or women and children killed by shrap- |
rel. are lying among the smoking ruins
1t is reported that some correspondents have |
in their dispatches asserted that General Dor |
ward thinks Colonel Liscum blundered in taking |
the 9th Regiment to the right instead of TO the |
left, and that the feeling is strained between |
the Americans and British. The fact is, the |
greatest harmony and cooperation exist. Cen |
eral Dorward has asked the names of Americans |
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