The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-07-25

| fire. He was shot in the upper left
 arm while returning, but ran and swan
 mile under fire, getting to the rear l His arm was amputated to-day. Captain Charles k. Moves, who had | been slightly wounded in the arm and leg, swan mile with only his nose
 abve water, with a request for rein | folcements.
 First Lieutenant Louis B. Lawton of | the Ninth infantry made a dash for le- | Inducements under fire and received | three slight wounds.
 Colonel Liscum was shot in the ab- | domen and died half an hour later. His 1 last words were: Keep up firing. | The Ninth was ordered to support | the Japanese, who were receiving an | enfllading fire. After crossing mud wall half a mile from the city wall the Ninth shifted, advancing against the | flanking fire, and reached a marsh be-
 side the river at the southwest corner of the city. A body of Chinese, in burned village under the wall, just | across the river where they were strongly barrcaded poured in fire and whenever an American raised hand he was shot. A Nordenfeldt gun and two small cannon were also trained on them. They lay in the mud all day, without surgeon to attend their wounded and were unable to move or help the wounded without food and drinking the canal water. They had exhausted their ammunition, except a few rounds which were retained in or der to repel charge if it should be p1adp Mono eypactad to asraDe 4 few reaching the rear reported that half of the command had been killed or wounded, including heat prostratons in the estimate
 After the Americans had retired un- der cover of the darkness they strug- gled back to Tien Tsin in squads all night, pitfully exhausted and carrying their wounded. The American hospital was crowded and short of surgeons, there having been no expectation of such losses.
 To-day squads searched the fields, collecting the dead and wounded, Col onel Liscum's body was escorted to a boat this evening by two battalions of English troops, with a general and colonel at their head, Lieutenant Col onel Coolidge, who is now commanding the regiment, and Major Lee were among the pallbearers. The chaplain of the marine corps read the service at the canal lock. The body will be ship ped to San Francisco.
 The total losses eof the allies were about 800. The British lost 30. The Japanese estimate their killed at 50 and wounded at 250, The Russians estimate their casualties at one hundred and fifty. All day long the work of bring ing in the dead and wounded was con tinued.
 The Japanese were the heroes of the battle. Their fighting was remarkably brave and was praised by all their col leagues When some of the foreign of flcers counSelled retreat last night the Japanese general said: When my men move it will be forward" This morn ing 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 footing while some of the European soldiers were having an orgie
 Dead Chinamen 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 and most of the city will probably be burn ed
 The Chinese are retreating towards Pekin.