Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-11
SITUATION WORSE
TEN THOUSAND FOREIGN TROOPS
FOR PEKIN.
RUMOR CAPITAL IS BURNING.
Reported Government Arms Are Be-
ing Dealt Out to Boxers-Re-
pairing Roads With Jackies.

THEN Tsin, June 10.-The special train
that went to examine the line and re-
%connoiter returned last night. The
railway was found clear two miles Id
yond Yang-Tsuh. The engineer with
the guards. walked q mile n Ia half
further. They found the ties And two
bridges burned and the railway torn
up. h. nc.
The first repair train. with Admiral
Seymour and his staff. $50 British, CAp-
tain McCalla's 100 Americans, forty Ital-
ans n rs Austrians. left this morning
at $3.50. A Hotchkiss and other guns
were mounted in the center Of the train.
A second train left at II o'clock with 800
British. Japanese. Russian and French
troops. Repairing matter and new rails
We're taken along. ~
There are thirty-one foreign war YES
sells at Taku.
London. June 11.-2:4o a. m.-rhe ad-
mi1afs at Taku, acting in concert. are
forcibly %reopening the railway from
Ten-Tsin to Pekin. Gangs Of laborers
are repairing the damaged line. which
is guarded by $500 men, composed OF
detachments fro the foreign fleet.
One hundred Americans, under Captain
McCalla. are among them. They have
guns and ammored trains for use when
the line is repaired. which can hardly be
Effected before Monday night.
Ten Thousand troops of all nationali-
ties, according to a dispatch to the Daily
Express from Shanghai. will be sent to
Pekin to back UP the demands of the
minister upon the government, or, If
necessary to suppress the boxers them
selves. A message ron Pekin to the ad-
mirals asserts that the situation is
hourly growing more dangerous for for
eigners.
All those at Pekin have taken refuge
in Legation street. The civil males are
under arms to fight with h regulars
if necessary. The approaches to Lega-
ton street are surrounded by bowling
mobs of undisciplined soldiery with can
non and bayonets. The international
guard were holding of the mob which
screamed insults and threats.
This was the situation yesterday (Sat-
urday) when the couriers got through
with the latest dispatches. MI En-
press Dowager was amusing herself at
| the palace with theatricals.
1t is reported that government arms
are being dealt out to the Boxers. The
troops of Tung-Fuh-Seang are said to
be assisting to kill native Christians
| after malignant tortures.
London, June 1.-The Daily Mail has
the following from Tien-Tsin, dated
Friday:
The widest rumors are current here
to the effect that Pekin is burning, but
they lack confirmation"
Trouble has broken out at New
Chwang. The state of anarchy around
Pekin is likely to be initiated in many
quarters. Asiatic artillery has been
ordered from Hong Kong to Tien-Tsin.
On Friday, according to a dispatch to
the Daily Express from Shanghai, a
force of cossacks, r~econnoitering outside
of Tien Tsin, was attacked by a rabble
of thousands, armed with spears and
swords and some rifles. The .cossacks
fired upo their asailants, killing several.
A Russian lieutenant was wounded by a
bullet in the stomach.
There is a serious rising at Marking.
Yesterday the mob is sale to have at
tackled the palace of the viceroy.
All dispatches out of Pekin are Gen.
sored in the interest of the empress
The determination of the foreign min
listers to increase the garrison al Pekin
adds to a belief in foreign circles in
Tien-Tsin and Shanghai that the pow
ers will never cave the Chinese CAPT
tai, but will make China another