Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-07-22

NEW YORK, July 21.-The Eve
ming World publishes the following
from It's Tien Tsin correspondent
under date of Che Foo, July 10.
via Shanghai, July 81:
The attack on the native city of
Tien Tsin on July IL resulted in
the narrowest escape from what
seemed UP to midnight would be a
terrible disaster for the allies.
The Russians swinging north
and the other allies south, at day
break the Russians were to take
the forts near the native city Wall
and the other allies the city itself.
Gen. Fukushina, the Japanese
commander, promised that the Jap
anese engineers, after three hours
shell fire from all the guns, would
cross the bridge over the MoaC be-
fore the wall, and blowing up the
great south gate, make breach
for the infantry to enter
Upon this depended everything.
Gen. Fukushina had not secuted
the brldse, and In twenty-tour
hours had not secuted the ground
over which the charge on the
bridge had to be made.
DESTROYED THE BhiDGE.
The Chinese destro~ Il the bridge
and flooded the lind around 1t.
The allies shell fire in nowise ID
dued the Chinese rife fire from the
loop-hoIed wall, which was thirty
feet high with a moat twenty feet
in depth around 1t.
An outer wall of mud made 1T
impossible for the infantry aud
marines coming on the field tc re-
ply to the Chinese fire. They lost
City men in ten minutes, then
rushed back from the mud wall
which they had reached.
Gen. Dorward. the British COM
hander, FASTENED forward with a
,ragmentary instead of an integral
skirmish line.
The American marines and the
Welsh Fusiliers together under
command of Waller. were on the
extreme left. Then the British
marines and the French advanced
with the Japanese along the road
toward the gate in the mud wall.
Forwards plan for the Ameri-
cans to support the Japanese was
not made clear to Col, Liscum of
the Ninth United States infantry.
BLAMES COL. LISCUM.
Dorward lays the blame for the
blunder and sacrifice of life on
Liscum, but Forwards chief of staff
was heard to say when Liscum
moved:
Get in down the road anywhere,
quickly"
Col. Liscum hurriedly led his
men through the gate in as open
order as possible.
They were Immediately under
fire. The staff saw them pass over
the bridge leading to a field which
proved to be a cul de sac
Before the two battalions of
Americans, numbering 426 men,
could extend themselves, they were
subjected, besides the fire from the
loopholes in the fort, to fierce
fire from the embrasures in a line
Of fortified mud houses on their
flank
Three thousand rifles probably
were turned on them with an ac-
curacy which has amazed every Of
fcer among the allies.
COULD SEE BLUE SHIRTS.
The blue shirts of the American
troops made them distinct marks
where the Khaki uniforms of the
other allies could not be seen.
Col. Liscum, guiding his men,
walked up and down the line, not
even ducking his head while the
bullets fell around.
The Americans charged into the
flank fire with rushes. The ground
over which they charged was
marshy and lined with bitches.
1t was evidently Col. Liscum's
intention to rush the houses from
which the flank fire was coming
and thus get position for flank
ing the wall.
At 1890 the line had just reach
ed the shore OF the canal and thir-
ty yards separated them from the
houses when the color-bearer fell