Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-22
THRILLING STORY
ALMOST INCREDIBLE STORY OF
ESCAPE FROM BOXERS.
THREE MONTHS WITH FIENDS.
Starved, Beaten, Miraculously Re-
leased, Victims of Malice-One
Kind Boxer.

Pao Ting Flu, October 25.-(Correspond-
ence of the Associated Dress.) When the
story of the period of blood ana lnassa-
ere in China is told. few of its chapters
Will be as brilliant as the narrative of the
Green party who We're found almost
dead by the allied expedition. The tale of
their hardship and abuse and almost
miraculous preservation has leaked to
the outer world by pieceneal. but to the
correspondent of the Associated Press its
details Of suffering and cruelty We're told
for the first time by Miss tIreig.
Mr.. and Mrs. Green, members of the
British-Chinese Inland Mission. with
their two children. a boy and girl, aged
fVe and three years and Miss Greig, an
assistant, We're stationed at Huai Du, a
small town 120 miles south OF this place.
During the first week of July. rumors
of massacreS of missionaries We're re-
ceived in Pao Ting Flu. On hearing of
the state of affairs. the little party NOV
ed away to the mountains. They took
with them only a few bare necessities.
carrying the children asleep in their
arms and We're, conducted by two or three
Chinese servants to a Chinese temple a
short distance back in the hills. Here
they remained two days and were then
informed by the villagers who used the
temple that they must at once leave.
Some friendly Chinese showed the party
a small cave a little distance from the
temple. where they remained secreted
for two days and three nights. suffering
the utmost discomforts. their hiding
place being only about seven feet by four
with water dripping from the roof. White
the party lay In the cave, the Boxers
,r-a,, I,N,,l 800 ~at;,r ~, ~,,,,,tn;,. fnr
the foreign devils. On the thirl day their
servants discovered them al, led them
to a farmhouse, where the entire party
lived in one room for a month. On Aug
ust 10. the Boxers discovered their hiding
place. from which the host had made a
tunnel to a cave some distance away.
The Boxers demanded that the little bdnd
be given up to them. On hearing their
benefactor being beaten and tortured.
Mr.. Green determined to give himself up
and dc what he could to save the women.
Wounded and bleeding he. pleaded for
the women and children but with no
avail. The Boxers ordered them from the
tunnel and the frightened women came
forth expecting death or worse. They
were then made to march to Huai Lu.
their former home. Here they We're met
by the mandarin, upon whose advice
they had zone into hiding.
The mandarin then said he would
SEND the party to Cheng Ting Flu with
an escort of imperial troops. The party
was placed in the rough wood four
wheeled carts and started on their jour
ney. About three miles out they were
Overtaken by the Boxers. who had orig
lnally captured them, and, on reaching
Cheng Ting Flu, were refused admission
to the city because of their escort. For
three days and nights, without a stop
except at rare intervals, they were
carried through the country to Pao Ting
Flu. Loaded with abuse, mistreated n
suffering, the place literally swarming
with Boxers demanding their lives, the
helpless prisoners We're escorted to the
yamen of the chief magistrate, Ting
Yuen, who refused to receive them.
Then occurred a strange incident. The
chief Boxer himself pleaded for his
prisoners and induced Ting Yuen to
come and speak to Mr.. Green. He ex-
pressed sorrow at the condition of the
prisoners, and said he would send them
to Tien Tsin under ar escort of i'm
perial troops and with his official pass
port. He also offered to provide them
with sufficient money to secure food on
the journey. That morning they We're
taken to a boat. but found neither
troops nor passports. They We're. in
fact, again in the hands of the Boxers.
who took them some thirty miles down
the river. and or Wednesday afternoon
landed them in a marsh covered with
high reeds, and informed them thai
Ting Yuen had ordered that they should
be put to death n their bodies dis
posed of. Finally they We're left alone