The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-31

brick house. 1t was Impossible to climb
1t from tho outside. There are three
iron gates OF extreme thickness so that
no she'd or ball could possibly penetrate
either the gates or wall. and on top the
wall IS Wldc enough to drive eight horses
abreast Between the outer and inner
walls is distance Of 1900 yards, which
Is open and level Our men had no pro-
teGlion from the artillery and infantry
fire.
The Third battalion was not In the
worst of the battle, but we lost, out OF
400 men. twenty-nine killed and forty
three wounded, two officers being killed
We held our position behind the stone
wall ut night without food or water and
thought / would perish for water.
AT daybreak next morning my company
was ordered back for ammunition. We
had to run through hail of bullets, but
we only had two men hit going out. When
we got our ammunition we were ordered
TO holp bring In the dead and wounded,
but as soon as we came In sight OF tho
wall We heard terrible explosion that
shook the earth for miles around, and in
a few minutes We saw the Japanese flag
were in the city and our battalion COM
mander ordered my company to the city
to raise the Stars and Stripes and cap
turo what we could.
Here came the sights. We passed over
the battle ground OF the evening before
and here lay the dead and wounded. Our
dead was piled together and II took the
Japs two days and nights to get their
dead and wounded off the field. Dead
Cinnamon were there, not by the dozens,
hut by thousands women and children
among the rest. We saw one little alley
with over 100 dead Cinnamon in It.
!. We marched into the city about three
! miles when we were fired upon from
housetops, doors and windows. We res
turned the FIRE aud the fight lasted near
~ an hour. think we killed 200 China
/ men and among them were women and
children. They would put a woman or
child IN front OF them and then shoot, 30
We shot them all down, not sparing any.
( The English sent a company to help us
and three companies OF marines came to
our rescue, or we would never have come
out alive.
! We captured a mint with millions Of
/ ore and Bars OF silver 10 II and we filed
our haversacks with the silver, but soon
began to throw It down as we were too
badly exhausted to carry It.
We had TO walk around the city on tho
walls and this took us three hours. Wa
4 captured an arsenal with twenty-nine
Krupp guns and no 900 arms with nmmu-
milton. all kinds OF modern arms, Hero
we nuartered and had fopd sent us, and
we toasted. We stayed two days and
nights and had TO leave as the stencil
from the dead could not be borne any
longer There were Cinnamon lying On
tho strickland are yet--that have been
killed for DAYS. We are worked nearly 10
death hurying them and are not near done.
The civilians that We're here made for
tunes out OF tho plumber and some OF tho
soldiers also. was glad to get out with
my life. / got 500 in silver and carried
It about two miles and the officers took
It from me.
The Chinese loss In this city Is thought
10 be 10000 and the allied forces loss IA
estimated al 1000 killed and wounded.
/ Il hope my part OF the fight is over, "
we go up against Pekln I think we VIII be
thing OF the past. as there IS no number
Ing the Chinese soldiers and we are but
few The Chinese have good guns ana
have proved that they can shoot
| must Quit now and go 70 huryins
Chnks. ! send y,u some Of tne
Chinese paper money took out Of the
sam Z. Poole