The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-07-27
THE T1ENTSI4t BATTLE.

A Detailed Account 81 the Recent At
tack ON the City By the $500
| Allied Forces. %,.4s
New York. July g. The Evening World
publishes the following from it's Tieptsln
correspondent under date of Chefoo, July
~. via Shanghai, July n: The attack on
the native city Of Tientsin on July -
resulted In the narrowest escape from
what seemed up to midnight would be 2
terrible disaster for the allies. The Rus
| sans swinging north and the other alMes
to take the forts near the native city
wall and the other allies the city itself.
! Gen. Fukushina. the Japanese com.
mander, promised that the Japanese en-.
E1neers after three hours shell fire from
al guns would cross the bridge over the
moat before the wall and, blowing up
the great south gate. make breach for
the infantry tosenter.
| Upon this:deDended everything. Gen.
Fukushipa had not secuted the bridge,
and inxA hourS had not secuted the
erouaf over witch the charge on the
bridge had to be- madeh !. :. .=.3,.yaz.,..,
BE chtgese DESTROYED the bridxs and
shkn fire in hewise eub4 lied tie Chinese
Faf1e fire from the loop-holed wall, which
vas 20 feet high with moat 20 feet in
n An butter ~ah otenad made st :,1apo.-
11ibleT for the Infantry and marines COM
hE on the field TO reply to the Chi
yThey lost 50 men III ten y minutes, then
rushed back from the mud. wall, which
aen. nefward. the British commands
er. hastened forward with frae menrary
instead of an integral sktrmish line. :
The APerican@ mariness and the Welsh
fusileers::>>> together undeE command Of
Waller, were On the extf eme left. Then
vanced with the Japanese along the road
| toward the gate In the mud wall.
Forwards plan for the Americans to
support the Japanese was; not made
| clear to Col. SLiscum, Of the Ninth United
States infantry.
Dorward lays, the blame for the blum
der and sacrifice of life on Liscum, but
Forwards chief of stan was heard to
say when Liscum moved:
Get in down the road anywhere,
! quickly
Col Liscum hurriedly led his men
| through the gate in as open order as pos
stble. They were Immediately under
| fire.
The stan saw them pass over the
bridge leading to a field, which proved to
be a cul de sac.
Before the two battalions of Amer
leans. numbering 426 men, could extend
| themselves, they were subjected, besides
| the fire from the loopholes in the fort,
| to a fierce fire from the embrasures in
line of fortified mud houses on their
| flank.
Three thousand rifles probably were
turned on them with an accuracy which
has amazed every officer among the al
lies.
The blue shirts Of the American troops
made them distinct marks where the kha-
XII uniforms Of the other allies could not
be seen. Col. Liscum, guiding his men,
walked. up and down the line, not even
| ducking his head while the bullets fell
around.
The Americans charged into the flank
hre with rushes. The ground over which
they charged was marshy and lined with
bitches.
1t was evidently COL Liscum,s intention
fire was coming. and thus get q position
! for thanking the wall. .
At 1890 the line had Just reached the
| shore of the canal and 30 yards sepa-
| rated them from the houses. when the
color bearer fell.
| stood looking around apparently for a
| ford.
Better get down or they'll hit you.'
shouted Mai. Regan.
II guess not" was Liscum's reply.
The next instant a sharpshooter's bull
| let went through the colonel's abdomen.
eve got it, he said as he fell.
Get at them If you can," the dying
! officer said, and added as his last words:
| Don't retreat. boys: keep firing"
| Regan was hit Immediately afterward.
| All day long the allies line lay under
any cover they could find, running out OF
ammunition.
The July sun was beating down on them
and they had nothing to drink but the
| salty marsh water.
| Meanwhile, the wounded came strag-
Cling and crawling through the gate in
| the mud wall.
There was no order. They were sent
anywhere without men to carry the
litters.. The doctors were hit by the
| sharpshooters while trying to attend the
wounded of the Ninth.
| They could not attempt to carry of
the wounded from the bloody field.
| Maj. Regan, Capt. Bookmiller and Capt.
Noyes were all hit twice.
| Noyes, who was adjutant, was hit in
the arm before going into the field, and
then hit In. the leg. He crawled back
through the ditch, with the water to
b his nssd. to report the atu"t'0n to COL
| At one o'clock Gen. Fukushina reported
| In writing to Dorward that the japanese
were in the city. I could see the loop
holes blazing with bullets and lyddite
shells. No infantry could charge in the
face of this fire from two o'clock until
five.
Though acting conformity neither Dor
ward. nor Fukushina knew each other
whereabouts.
Under cover Of the darkness the men
of the Ninth crept back from their dan
gerous position. bearing their wounded.
They executed this movement with loss
lof one man killed. The casualties were
91 men and five officers out of 426.
The marines lost 30, including Capt.
Davis, who was shot through the heart,
while talking to Col. Meade, on the night
| of July 13
It was decided to withdraw, when
news came that the Chinese were evacu-
ating. The Russians were not SO sue
| cessful as hoped during the day, and the
total loss of the allies was 700.
The Japanese losses were severe. The
| Japanese were most gallant in the fight
But for the Americans stopping the flank
fire, the Japanese loss would have been
| much heavier.
There is a terrible row over the burn
! ing Of the town. Several foreign Off,
| GERS are reported lost.
l. The tired soldiers remained on the
walls. The natives went looting through
| the Chinese town. The bank and the
arsenal were heavy sufferers.
An advance movement on Peking is
not contemplated soon. The American
| wounded crowd the hospitals, but all are
| doing well.
The flags of the allied armies are: all
half-masted. Col. Liscum was buried at
| Tongku.
Ordered Home from Cabs.
Washington, July 23.-Gen. Wood,
governor-general' of Cuba, had a con-
ference Saturday with the secretary