Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-07
SEYMOUR AND
PARTY SAVED
AngIo-American Column Rescues
the First Peking Relief
Expedition.
HEMMED IN BY CHINESE HORDE
Relief Party Cuts Its Way Through
After Some Sharp
Fighting,
HEMMED IN BY CHINESE HORD
FATE OF LEGATIONS YET IN DoUB1
Chinese Minister Receives Dispatch
From La Hung Chang Saying
They Are safe, but WASH
ington Is Skeptical.

Washington, ID. c., June 30.-Minis-
ter Wa called at the state department
this afternoon and exhibited the fol-
lowing cablegram:
"Canton.-Legation ministers, hav-
ing left Picking, are now twelve miles
from Tien Tsin with Seymour.
Iii Hung Chang"
The minister explained that the ca
blegram reached him from the Chi
nese minister at London. He be-
lieves the dispatch to be accurate.
State department officials are inclined
to doubt it.
Chefoo, June 30, via Shanghai at
Noon.-Admiral Seymour's expedition
has been relieved, having failed to
connect with Picking. There is no
news from Peking. The Russian Col
onel Schtell, commanding a combined
force of 10000 men, is supposed to be
proceeding to Picking. Admiral Sey-
mour's expedition is returning to
Tien Tsin. His force suffered great
ly. 1t is estimated that from 10000
to &C, 200 Chinese troops are now be-
fore Picking. Boxers from all sec
tons are swarming there.
ST. Petersburg, June 30.-The min
lister of wal has received the follow
Ing from Admiral Alexiff, dated Port
Arthur, June 81: y
During the night of June 25 a de-
tachment of four companies OF Rus
slams, Colonel S~chivensky command
ing, and the same number of foreign
ers, went to the relief of Admiral Sey-
mour and brought 200 Of his wounded
to Tien Tsin."
London, June 30.-The casualties of
the international force attacking
Tien Tsin were: Americans killed, 3;
wounded, 2. British killed, 2; wound
ed l.. Germans killed, Is; wounded,
The gun fire of the Americans and
British is described as beautiful"
After the relieving force pushed on
to relieve Admiral Seymour, Chinese
regulars under General Mich. says a
dispatch from Shanghai, again at
tackled Tien Tsin fiercely and bonn
barded the foreign settlement with
n terrific fire.
Colonel Dorward, British, COM
manded the column that relieved Adj
miral Seymour. American marines
participated in the achievement.
Thine admiral was found entrenched
and surrounded by immense masses
of Chinese, who were driven off by
the relieving COLUMN after IA brisk
fight. His men had made a brilliant
resistance, never failing in courage
for fifteen days Of continuous fight
ing. During ten days the men were
on quarter rations. They started with
provisions for ten days, and they
could have held out a day or two
longer.
The column was a few miles be-
yond Lola. Deeming it hopeless to
attempt to break through the hordes,
Admiral Seymour essayed n night re-
treat toward Tien Tsin, but he came
into collision with a strong force of
Chinese, arriving from the north
west, and could neither advance nor
retreat. There was nothing to do but
to intrench and to stand siege. He
vainly attempted photographic COM
m~unication.
Seymour's men caught several Chi
hCSC NllO w lC lCSdlIOho % bNNh
burned and the ministers killed; 9TH
ers said that the ministers had been
imprisoned.
The Chinese displayed fanatical
courage in the attack. Four thou
sand Russians left Tien Tsin four
days after Admiral Seymour, but they
never got in touch with him.
Railway communication from Taku
to Tien Tsin has been restored, and
the force is advancing toward Picking.
Fighting was in progress Wednesday
in the vicinity of Use Chulin. Large
preparations are being made to sup
port and reinforce the Picking reliev-
ing column. Twenty thousand troops
of all arms, largely japanese, have
now been landed.
The fate of the members of the le-
cations is still a mystery. If they are
alive and unframed at Picking the
Chinese government deserves some
credit, Shanghai correspondents think,
for restraining the fanatical mob.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph, wiring at 9:05 p. m.
yesterday says:
at is reported on good Chinese au-
therity that the government, alarmed
by the foreign military preparations,
has issued an edict ordering the per-
emptory suppression of the Boxers
and announcing a decision to protect
the legations at all hazards"
However this may be, the British
consulate at Shanghai received definite
information yesterday, the Daily tx
press correspondent says, that while
solemnly pressing abstention from
warlike preparations, the Chinese are
mounting several new 6-inch guns nj
the Wco-Sung forts.
Three British warships have sailed
from Hong Kong to reinforce the al
lied squadron at Shanghai. Tue
southern provinces are sending troops
toward Picking. and the exodus OF
Chinese of all classes from Shanghai