Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-04
GUT TO PIECES
REPORTED FATE OF CAPTURED
LEGATION GUARD AT PEKIN.
HEADS ARE BORNE ON SPEARS,
Zealots Chant "Kill Foreign Devils"-
Accounts of the Death Of
Won Ketteler.

London, July 4. 2:4O q. m.-Couriers
who arrived at the seats Of government
Of the southern viceroys from British
agencies in Pekin give vivid but frag-
mentary pictures of h is being enact
ed in the capital. These courihrs SEEM
ingly left Pekin a day or two later than
the messenger of Sir Robert Hart, the
inspector general of customs, who start
ed o. the night Of June "a. .
The reports that the heads OF some of
the captured legation guards were being
borne through the streets at the tops of
pears. followed by Zealots chanting
foreign devils; kill, kill). The city's mil
lions have been reused to patriotic fer
vor, breaking out in the widest excess,
while over half the city could be heard
fighting around the legations.
Sir Robert Harris runner who was in
terviewed by the correspondent OF the
Associated Press at Shanghai. has III
plemented the tragic sentences of the
dispatch he bore by a narrative of some
things he saw. He saw the foreigners
were making a last stand in the extern
sive buildings and enclosures of their le-
cation. They had many dead and wound
ed. Among them were many women and
children. All were short Of food, even of
the commonest necessities. The women
We're starving as they gave a part OF
their small allowance to the children.
The foreigners, nevertheless, were hold
ing out under a terrible fire, upheld by
the hourly expectation of relief.
They knew they would not be abandon
ed, and that the armies of their govern
ments were advancing. Sometimes they
thought they could hear artillery in ac-
ton before the wall. They We're unable
to return the fire of the Chinese except at
moments when an assault seemed immi-
nent. Then the machine guns and re-
peating rifles tore the storming parties
to pieces. The messenger expressed the
belief that it would be impossible for the
foreigners to resist much longer as the
Chinese were preparing to batter down
the wall of the courtyard and the de-
tenders ammunition was running low
Orders were given by Prince Tuan, the
messenger said, that since some had been
killed, not another foreigner should be
left alive. The Chinese soldiers were en-
horting to sacrifice their lives without
hesitation, if so doing they could help
exterminate the wang kuie tse."
Extreme precautions had been taken to
prevent the foreigners from letting any
one outside of the city and a number of
runners who had been sent out were kill
ed by the Chinese. This messenger sue
ceeded in getting through by smearing
LIZ llCC III plil 4 ofoou oAiu JoAAA
ing in the cutlery against the foreign
devils" He passed the remains of for
eigners of Admiral Seymour's force who
had been killed between Lang Fang and
Lo Flu. Their bodies had been cut to
pieces and the heads carried at the ends
of bamboos.
A large army of Manchu Chinese i'm
perial troops with 20 guns is reported to
be advancing in the direction of Tien
Tsin.
Reliance is placed in Shanghai on most
of the statements made by the minister
as he is known to be faithful to the for
eigners. The consulate body at Shang-
hal are of the opinion that the food and
ammunition of the besieged legation
force at Pekin, having become exhausted
they must be dead or imprisoned and that
it would be futile to make desperate eff
forts for their relief with an inadequate
force. It is regarded at Shanghai as ap-
palling that nothing is being done for
the relief Of the besieged foreigners and
that they should be abandoned to a hor-
rible fact.
The inability of 1.600 men. the latest es-
innate of the number landed, to advance
is explained by the statement that the
Chinese army between Tien Tsin and Pc
kin has been heavily reinforced, and that
it has abundant artillery and numerous
cavalry, giving it large advantages over
the allies. Remembering parties run a
great ndZdTu Oh DeIHS SuFIiuildcu, cap
tured and probably executed by torture,
A long delay seems certain before an eff
fective advance can be made. Severe
fighting, according to vague reports. con-
Times around Tion Tsin.
Various accounts Of the murder Of Baror
Won Ketteler reach Shanghai. The corre
snondent of the Fynress SAYS that Prince
Tuan. who Is the dictator at the caDital
ministers to leave the legations so tina
thew might be maesacred by fanatics, thu
evading governmental responsibilities TO
their death. The American. British. Frenc'
and Russian ministers susnected a plot ant
refused to leave the legations.
the 'e' Invitation ito and left the German iegatio,
with a small escort Of German maries. On
posite the foreign office he was assaile'
( times. The FOREIGN Office was burned b.
s the marines in their endeavor to defan'
! Baron Won Ketteler. whose body was hide
! Another account has it that all the min
{ listers were invited to a conference wit
! the Tsung Ii yamen and that Baron vo1
] dered. The other ministers then refuse
to enture on the street. A British office
and some soldiers were attacked while try
s ing to rrotect Baron Won Ketteler. Ger
3 man sailors. this account says, set fire t
3 the Tsung I'll Yamen building. Emiss;1rte
3 of Prince Tuan are circulating through tn
3 south provinces. and SIS the southern vice
4 roys assert through public proe'amatio
4 cree a civil war is considered probahl.
3 The Boxer movement appears to be spread
= ing rapidly southwark.
. The Canton correspondent of the Dali
e Telegraph. wiring under date Of July
y says the large Chinese steamship CON
: panies are applying for leave to transfe
4 their Sims to the American flag. Rusines
is almost at a standstill and another r.
verse to the allied troops would precip
tate a massacre of foreigners in the soutl
which Lii Hung Chang would be utterly vi
able to avoid.
A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph fro
a Shanghai correspondent. dated July
says the chief pastor of the Moukden mi
sions has been killed. together with q nun
Der of native Christians.