The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-06
BUTCHERED 5000
Chinese Catholic Converts Mas
sacred by Native Soldiers.
Streets of Pekin Are Rivers Of
Blood.
TORTURE AND DEATH.
Dealt Out to All Foreigners and
Native Christians.
Fresh Edicts Issued Ordering
determination.

London. July 6.-There is a mass of
wild rumor from the far east. Though
so contradictory on most points, it con-
| tinues unanimous as to the consumma-
ton of the tragedy at Pekin. To con-
sistent reports of the massacre Of the
whites are now added the additional
| horrors that savage soldiery butchered
| at the capital five thousand natives. Ro-
man Catholic converts. This comes in
a Shanghai dispatch Of July 5, which
only adds to the reports given by re-
spectacle Chinese who have arrived
from Chiau Flu and who describe Pelxln
as inferno, the streets literally running
with blood They confirm numerous
stories of executions and untold tor
lures inflicted on isolated foreigners and
European soldiers captured by the moo
The authority of Xupg L.u, the Chinese
imperial treasurer who advocated mod
GRAFTON, was completely effaced by
| Prince Tuan, Kang Ye and Tung Fuh
| Sian, who issued fresh edicts ordering
| the naerciless determination of all for
| eignerS in the empire.
CRIME OF THE CENTURY.
Victoria, Be, July 6.-Correspondents
! of Japanese papers writing from Pelxin
| as late as June IS, tell of the daily ar
rival there of refugees from ali the sur
rounding country. Many Of the incom-
| ing parties had been wounded. Some re-
port having left others dead behind
them.
| The boxer hosts at Pekin practically
commenced their work Of destruction at
the capital, according to the correspond
ents on June II, when a mob burned the
| summer houses of the ministers, the
race course and foreign cemetery at
| Sihshan. On the following days. thous-
| ands gathered outside the city with
| banners. Then, owing to the terror that
| reigned among the refugees and the for
| eigners, the ministers ordered all to
| gather in the British and American le-
! cations, which had been barricaded.
| Guns were mounted and other prepara-
| tions made for siege. The custom
| house and cathedral also had been bonn
| barded, but were not held. On the 18th
| the mob attacked the eastern part of the
/ city during the night and burned it.
1 This part included the cathedral, the
customs house, several missions and
foreign houses. Hundreds of native con-
| verts were massacred- Some were
| hacked tosdeath with swords and others
driven into the burning houses and Gre
\ mated.
AT Tien Tsin the boxers had destroyed
| two of the mission buildings and had
massacred a number of native Christ
| ians. On June 13 a band of 500 strong
| entered the city by the iron bridge over
| the Pei Ho and set fire to the Roman
| Catholic mission and two houses used
| as schools by the missionaries. AS the
native Christians ran out they were put
| to the sword by the boxers or pushed
| back into the fire. 1t was not known
how many had been killed. There was
| great terror lest the boxers should fire
the city.
II AMERICAN MISSIONARIES
Chicago, July 6-Officers of the Amer
| lean missionary board in this city state
| that probably II or more of their repre-
| sentatives from the North China mis-
SionS are victims of the Pekin massacre
if the reports from Shanghai be correct.
Following are the names Of those
from the Chicago district whom Il is
feared were murdered by the boxers:
Rev. William s. Ament, head of the
Pelxin compound. who went to the meet
ing early in May.
Miss Mary E. Ambrose. of the Tung
| Cho mission
Miss Abbie B. Chaplin. Tung Cho.
Miss Jane Evans, Tung Cho.
Miss Adam Havan, Pekfn.
Mrs. Mary l. Mater. Pekin.
Miss Luella Minor. Tung Cho..
Miss Virginia Murdock, Pekin.
Miss Nellie Russell, Pekin.
| Miss Elizabeth Schefield, Pekin.
Rev Arthur Smith, Pang Chuang.
| Mrs. Emily Smith.
Rev. E. G. Tewksbury Tung Cho.
Mrs. Grace Tewksbury
Rev. Mark William Kalgan. b.
| Miss Gertrude Wylxoff.
| Miss Grace Wykoff, Pang Chuang.
The annual convention of North
China missionaries Of the American
! board and the board OF the interior-the
| woman's branch Of the same organiza-
| tion-was held at Tong Cho beginning
May q. Tong Cho is IS miles north OF
Pekin- While the convention was in
| progress, an attack was made on the
| town by the boxers and after some days
| of fighting the building owned by the
| American board, where the convention
| was in session, was burned. AS no re-
! port mentors any one as having been
| killed at this point, the officers here ar
| que that the members of the gathering
must have fed to Pekin for safety.
| AS nothing has been heard from them
! since that time the mission officers fear
| they are numbered among the dead in
/ Pekin.
INSURRECTION IS EXTENDING.
Washington, July "a dispatch has
| been received at the state department
| from Consul General Goodnow at
Shanghai dated July in which ne says
/ the situation is serious and the insurrec-
/ tionary movement is extending. If the
meet with reverse the disturbance will
| certainly extend to central and south
| China resulting in the expulsion and
murder of foreigners in the interior and
! ruin of trade. A strong force. he says
is necessary to check the viceroys in the
north and to support the viceroys in the
south.
It is understood that all the consuls
of the powers in China have sent iden-
| tical dispatches to their respective gov
| ernments.
| MISSIONARIES WHO ESCAPED.
| New York, July Cdr. Halsey. of the
Presbyterian board received a cable
gram from Che Foo saying that Cort-
| wife, DR.. G. Taylor and the Rev. 8 z
| Simcox and his wife are at Pao Ting
| Flu and have not made their escape. The
/ Rev, J. Lowerie has escaped from Poa.
/ Ting Flu and is now at Tien Tsin and
/ the Rev. ]. A Miller and Mrs. Miller
| have escaped and gone to Corea- The
cablegram also indicates that the Pekin