Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-07
FROM CHINA.
Transport Logan Returns From the
Orient with Many Fugitives
on Board.
Many Stories Of Peril Told by the
Returning Missionaries
Sick Soldiers Home.
Account Of the First Attack on Tien
Tsin Given Long War
Expected.
Account Of the First Attack on Tien.

Taku. Via Japan, was allowed to dock
yesterday after passing quarantine.
There We're men women and children:
on the vessel direct from Tien Tsin,
who had escaped from the mobs of
Boxers. and the imperial Chinese troops.
Among them We're DR.. Diffendorfer ana
Mr.. G. Mcintosh Who We're in the mill
at Ten Tsin where the Chinese We're
held at bay before the first relief came
thru.
Earl Ragsdale and Miss Effie Rags
dale, children of the United States con-.
sui AT Tien Tsin, were also on board.
A large number of the refugees left the
transport at Yokohama to return to va
yrious parts of Europe and America by
regular steamers
4 Among the passengers We're follow.
ing:
Shanghai. NJ Mussen.
Taku-- Mrs. Drew. Mrs. Tenny and
four children, Mrs. Pike and four chill
sren. Mrs. Lowry and three children,
Mr.. and Mrs. Haynor and three child
rem. Miss Jones, Mr. Pike, Mr.. Diffen-3
darter. MIR. Mcintosh.
rien Tsin-The Rev. III. w. Houlding,
Wife ard son: Mrs. Frank +. Davis,
Mrs Montelle, Miss Title Fahr.
Che Foo Or. N. S. Hopkins. wife and
thsr chileire,: Mrs, II +. King and
thioe children. Mr.. ard Mrs. 5. Smith.
Yokohama The Misses Drew, Mr.. T..
Dfsw, o. G. Clifford. wife and child
Edward Wilson.
.Abeat ii,0 lnyalided soldiers also We're
san board There Mere three deaths on.
Jhe Logan during the voyage. two Of
them before Taku was reached.
on June % Private James II. Me-
NernN Of Company y Ninth regiment
sdied, ana July 5 James ID. ST: Croix
passed away.
7 Privat David Nutes, Of Company G.,
one OF tbs men who started homeward
owing to illness, died al SEA on july %.
The Logan made HE run from Ma.
snila liz thirty nine days from NaaasalSi
in eighteen and half days, and from
Yokohama in fifteen and half days
From Manila te Taku IL conveyed the.
Ninth Infantry and attachments of tine
sigma and haspital6cQrIss.
Among the passengers brought here
Were sixty,- me sick nlen af the Ninth.
Al Iaku ii Look aboard 17o Christian
refugees from lien Tsin All except
5forty-elg of these left the Logan at
Nagasak!.
DIR. r. r. sDiffendorfar of Philadelphia,
the builder and manager OF the first,
wa{iIen Mil established i'll the Chinese
emptre md u personal friend of Poo
Tong. aahHother 0f the Chinese emperor.
that Was. tells ths following story of the
attack on I'ieR Tam
II @as on esR4qfnsng OF JuIy1i that
tbs first clash between the Foreigners
and the e1pires s5lgiers occurred on
the afternoon u tie same. day the bufn-
bardmtnt Of this raku forts, began.
Capt. Bailey or the British ship or
Iando was cornnlaaslsr of the allied force
Eat I'ien Tsin on Juisa LAS capt Mccall
Ia Vas absent With Seymour at the
time. About II O'clock in the forenoon
he saw smoke rising from the railroad
track about -four miles distant from the
lefty and suspscting that the Boxers had
fired another bridge Capt Bailey or
|desed thirty of his biue-jacke,s, COM
manded by midshipman whose name
land investigate.
men wert fully armed When our fiat
found d bridge in which the timbers had
been burned away from the iron girdera,
I and considering ii unsafe to cross our
! u the city W. had gone about 500
ilot Of Chimes solders-about 15p--
-,
liahead of8us
They We're walking rapidly. and as
We approached tilesn all doubts as TO
isttieir being imperial troops disappeared
isThey did not NEAR the red turban and
sash that distinguished the Boxers, ana
as soon as We ;Ft within about 500
Yards of theEl they scattered and got
behind grave mounds, With which the
surface Of the country was thickly
j#studded.
Regarding This action az suspicious,
Tour midahipinaA gave the order to fire Ii
ivoiiey, and they quickly and vigorously
returned the salute. our field piece was
minus a sight, and most Of its shots
passed over the erleiny, 80 that afterten
minutes of hot firing We resumed our
iretreat, the Ghress iiring at us az long
i a. We We're sNll!flil5 EitlGE.4 mere were no
casualties on our side The significant
feature Of the incident vas its bearing
Ion the subsequent proceedings.
If it had not been for the action of
iour party that morning the lombard
ment of Tien 'rsin might not have com
menced that afternoon. in other WORDS
I i am inclined5tp believe that our attack
Ion the Chinese troops precipitated the
bombardment #of the city. And for that
reason the skiriniss may attain some
4 importance when final settlements are
| being made,
DR.. Diffendorfer believes that the
4 trouble in China will be at an end with
in a couple of years at the farthest.
1T Will be repetition of the TAPPING
i rebellion" he said, when the allies
Ihave captured Pekin the Boxers will be
broken into bands Of marauders."
I:ufraIo's Census.
/ washington, Aug 7.-Buffalo's cen
sus for 1900 shows a large increase. The
population of Buffalo is now S52,2l9, Of
i sc. 555 more than In 1890, when 1t wa.
1 255, 664. This is an increase Of BAIT pei
4 cent
Buffalo, like Milwaukee,, Cincinnati
Louisville and Washington, has shown
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