New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-07-26
MISSIONARY PERILs GROW.
CABLE MESSAGES FROM CHINA TELL OF
THEIR WHEREABOUTS.

THEIR WHEREABOUTS.
Gable messages were received at the ofices Of the
Episcopal Missionary Society and the International
Committee Of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton yesterday from representatives in China The
message the Episcopal Society indicates that the
situation in Central China. in the Yang-tse-Klang
Valley and the ueighborhood Of Shanghai is be-
coming daily more and more precarious- The dis
patch was from Bishop Frederick R. Graves, at
Shanghai. and read:
Situation growing worse. Clergy-native, foreign
In previous dispatches Bishop Graves said that
the women Of the missions had gone TO Japan and
that the men had been ordered 10 the ports The
dispatch suggests that with the exception OF
Shanghai the treaty ports Of Central China are
not considered safe. The Episcopal society mas
missionaries IN the Yang-tse-K iasg Valley only.
The dispatch received at the Office Of the Inter
IA tionaI Committee OF the Young Mems Christian
Association was from Robert r. Galley, who had
charge Of the Young Mems Christian Association
work in Tien-Tsin Mr. Galley is in Toxic japan
His dispatch IS response 10 one asking about the
Y. NJ c A property in Tien-Tsn. He says;
All are well From information at hand. We
believe the propeTtv has not peeh oes0roseu- Ot'
II further notice address TOXIC
The association building at Tien-Tsn was built
BY Mrs J. Livingston Taylor, OF Cleveland CIllo d
an expense Of $1,000.
shortly after the appointment Of William W
Rnckhfll as Special Envoy TO China was announced
the Rev Dr. Arthur J. Brown, one OF the secre-
+a-fes Of the Presbyterian Board Of Foreign MIS-
siors wrote inviting him TO luncheon WIN q
,,,r,be- ~ rhe officers and members of the Board
FOR the purpose Of discussing the Chinese SITUATION
Dr. Brown received a reply yesterday IN "nIcH
Nj Rockhfu said that he would be unaDle 10 &C
cept as he intended 70 leave washington % u
dav and sail from San Francisco august D. I.e
said that II was his desire to do everything IN ms
no1var 70 see that the rights and property OF
American citizens were protected.
The letters from missionaries in North OAllla
which have been received recently throw hshI upon
he rrecise wherea bouts ef several missionaries
b,+ whom, there has been some uncertainty II Is
now known that the Rev. Horace 7. PitSin. Miss
Annie A Gould and Miss Mary 5. Morrill, OF the
American Board Congregational, were, when com
rn1rnica ton was cut at Pao-Ting-Fu The Rev and
Mrs William P. sprague were at Kalsan, and. II is
believed that they can escape through Russian ter
rftory All those connected with the Congrega-
tionaI College at Tung-Cho. the Rev. Dr. CAauncey
Goodrich his wife and three children; Dr. James
H Ingram his wife and two children; the Rev
z C Tewksbury his wife and two children; the
Rev Howard s Gait and wife Miss Mary E. An
drews Miss Jane G. Evans, Miss Abbte G Chaplin,
Miss LuelIa Miner and Miss V c. Murdoch NJ D,
were taken to Picking under escort Besides those
stationed at Tung-Cho, there were several other
missionaries there at the time the
Boxer outbreak occurred, attending the annual
meeting Of the North China Mission Among those
known 70 have attended this meeting from other
points were the Rev. and Mrs. F NJ. Chaplin Of
Lin Ching; Dr. and Mrs Arthur H Smith and the
Misses Gertrude and Grace Wyckoff. Of Pang-
Chuang and the Rev. James H. Roberts and the
Rev Mark williams Of Kalgan- These went TO
Picking for safety.
Letters from Miss Miranda Croucher and the
Rev Frederick Brown received at the Offices Of the
Methodist Missionary Society indicate those who
escaped from Picking and those who could not get
away.
The Rev George R. Davis. the Rev. Frederick D.
Gamewell. Dr. George D n Lowry and the Rev.
" F Walker Mrs Charlotte N Jewell and DR..
Edna G. Terry are among those known TO be in
Picking. There have been various rumors as to
Miss Terr's fate being 10 the effect that she
was murdered This is the first definite that
she was II Picking Among those who left Picking
on the last train go to TienTsin before the line
was torn UP were Miss Miranda Croucher Miss
Anna D Gloss, Mis- Ida NJ. Stevenson. the Rev.
J. H Pyke the Rev J Frederick Haynes, the Rev.
Dr. y. S Hopkins and the Rev. Frederick Brown.
The trip is described by Miss Croucher in letter
sent from Tien-Tsin June 7. which is just made
public:
six men, left Picking for Tien-Tsin. We arrived at
thirty miles away. and that one engine had gone
out with an inspector 10 look al things. We wired
ma5e lIp and we went on not Knowing Whether
we could get through not. We found out after
went through without authority and with only a
fireman. Our men were heavily armed with three
Mausers pistols and other firearms, and as We ap-
preached the disturbed place they hung out Of the
windows with arms cooked and ready for use.
did this as we passed three stations The stations
had been burned. and an attempt made TO burn the
we got into Tien-Tsin alive but found every one
scared 10 death about US with wires going back
burned by Boxers. and more trains have gone
through 10 Peking.