Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-30

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
TEN TSIN, China, July 1.-THE an
cient stone walls of the Chinese city
Of Tien Tsin, surrounded on the days
of its occupation by the allied troops,
a square mile of such filth, ruin and
death, such turmoil and pillage as his
tory could hardly duplicate. Under
normal conditions the place was no bet
ter than a huge cess pool, restoring
with the accumulated rubbish and Stops
from a population of nearly million,
packed into labyrinth of novels
around the palaces of Viceroys and
petty taoIais who absorbed their wealth
and gave them not even sewers in re-
turn. Now it is the incarnation OF all
the suffering, horrors and waste of war.
The European soldiers when they
fought their way up to the walls, saw
floating in the canals and bitches out
side dozens of Chinese slain by their
own people because they refused to
fight. The bodies were headless and
their hands were tied behind their
backs. The heads were discovered
afterwards. Rows of them decorated
the outer walls, hung by their pig tails.
Five flags were flying from the high
pagodaS on the city walls when the
newspaper correspondents entered-the
French, japanese, American, Russian
and British. ct was hard enough TO
get those flags up there" remarked a
foreign officer, but the real trouble
will be to get them down."
The Suburbs OF the City
presented a foretaste of what was in
side. Shells had torn the huts and
plowed the ground, while dead men
scattered among dead horses, pigs and
dogs, testified how thoroughly the bull
lets had swept the region the day be-
fore.
The sights inside compelled respect
for the fighting qualities of the Chinese.
Their dead were everywhere. Dressed
in the coarse blue coolie blouse and
trousers decorated with characters,
guaranteed to render them invulnerable
to foreign bullets, they were strewn all
along the top Of the wall wherever
dhey had fallen. Walking a quarter of
mile along the embankment the bod
les averaged one in ten feet and the
wall was nearly one mile long.
Throughout the city demolished nous
es and hundreds of killed gave evil
dence Of how vastly more effective had
been the foreign shell fire within the
walls of the city when the Chinese
bombardment of the foreign settlemen.
which, lasting for a month had killed
only dozen people. The viceroy had
constructed in the palace yard two COM
Portable and Impenetrable bomb PROOFS,
excavations guarded by sand bags, but
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Many women and children were
Lying Dead in the Streets,
torn terribly by shrapnel. The living
populace 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 under foot without
bothering to turn aside. Before the
shooting in the streets was finished
thousands Of Chinese had emerged
from their burrows, carrying while
flags or the flags Of foreign nations,
principally the Japanese.
Most remarkable CT all the sights
was the looting of She city. The mid
die Of the place was like an ant Mill
kicked open. Chinese swarmed every
where, thousands ard thousands CT
them diving into the flames CT The
burning shops, getting urt3er falling
walls and into choking clouds Of smoke.
Most of them were haf naked, Crime
with smoke and sometimes dripping
with blood. They preyed upon one an
other A Chinese appearing WI a
prize must fight his way. Cher Chi
nese sprang upon him and c}utChed
his plumber 1Aey rolled among the
corpses, pulling ard tearing, while
children being ,rampied down cried for
help and the mob poured riulI, along
over them.
The palaces, the mint, the pawn
shops, the stores of silks, furs and
jewelry, were the first objects Of at
tack. Near the middle of the city was
the most
Most Prosperous Pawn Shop,
an institution that had probably existed
for centuries. Wealthy Chinese We're
accustomed to store their winter cloth
ing there for safe keeping. When the
doors were battered down they flowed