The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-18
GOT OUT IN TIME.
Four People at Frisco Direct From
Tien Tsin.

Tien Tsin.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 17.-Four peo-
pie arrived on the Coptic direct from
Tien Tsin. They were the Rev Robert
Coleman, a Presbyterian minister, and
his wife, of Denver, and w. L. Ireland
and A. Mathes, mining engineers. Mr..
Coleman left behind him in Picking, to
share the awful fate of foreigners, a son
and his wife, with their six children.
The aged couple left Picking May g.
Minister Conger dined with them and
their son on the night before they left
They were at Tien Tsin the night of the
first raid by the Boxers They left by
armored train, with scarcely more than
twenty minutes to get ready This was
one of the last trains to leave Tien Tsin
The couple had with them their daughter
Jennie and her five weeks old child
They reached a Chinese merchant steam
er, which was to bear them to Shanghai
and an hour later they learned that the
forts Of Taku were to be bombarded that
night Their steamer was just behind
the foreign gunboats, separated from
them by a narrow neck Of land, and in
the line of the fire of the Taku forts. All
night they remained thus, with Shells
bursting over their heads.
They saw the Monocacy struck, and
witnessed the termination of the bonn
| bardment in the blowing up of the forts,
bringing death to thousands Of Chinese.
They made their way to Shanghai with
out further interruption, and there babe
farewell to their daughter.
DR. Coleman's son was formerly the
private physician Of Ii Hung Chang. A
daughter married Prof. Clifford, of the
imperial university at Tien Tsin.
Rev. c. I. Woodbridge, a Presbyterian
| missionary, who has been at Chin Kiang,
on the Yangtse river, for the past fifteen
years, arrived from Shanghai with his
wife and children on a furlough. He
| expects to return to Chin Kiang when
! the present troubles are over.
The whole city, as well as all other
| cities and towns along the Yangtse, was
! greatly excited and on the verge OF an
uprising when Woodbridge left Chin
| Kiang on June 10. In fact, day had
been fixed for the destruction of all prop
erty owned by the foreigners and the
murder of the foreigners themselves and
Woodbridge believes that by this time 6
terrible fate has met those foreigners
who failed to heed his warning and fly
from the impending massacre
| at would be difficult to estimate the
number of foreigners along the Yangtst
river" said Woodbridge. There are III
orally thousands of missionaries In the
| great valley, and beyond, further in the
| interior Nearly every one of them ha:
a family. Just before left Chin Kianl
1 telegraphed to 200 Presbyterian mis-
sionaries to wait no longer but get down
| to Shanghai as quickly as possible.
1.-The fate of all the Yangtse countr!
hangs on the words of two viceroys. On
of them is Chen Chi Tung, at Hankow
the other is Liu Kun Yih, at Nanktn
these men waver an uprising of terrible
| proportions will result among the mil
lions in that thickly populated portion o.
the empire.
DIR. Worth, a grandson of Gov. Worth
of North Carolina, had house and hos
pital at Kiang Yin, and was ordered by
the natives to leave, as his property wa:
to be burned. If he remained, he wa!
to be murdered"