The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-10
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ON THE WALLS OF PEkIN
Adventures OF AN oklahoma Boy, 8
Marine ON the newark.

Marine On the Aewark.
Guthrie o. T., Oct. 9.-Following is part
of letter just received by F. Upham. of
near this city, from his son, who is a
United States marine on the Newark
| The letter was written from Pekin,
China, on August 80, and gives many in
teresting details of the defense of the mis-
sionaries by the gallant blue Jackets:
con the 18th of June the foreigners
were all ordered to leave Pekin, giving
them twenty-four hours. Twenty of our
men were guarding he methodist mis-
sion On the goth we were ordered to re-
turn to the United States legation, bring
ing the missionaries and Christians with
US. The next day the Chinese troops
| opened fire on US from the city wall in
our rear and on legation street they tried
to burn US out, but we picked so many
of they off, they had to give it up; then
they tried to shell us out from the Chin
Men (main gate) Captain Myer took
twenty of US upon the wall and drove the
soldiers down to the gate house. We
made three hcarges down the wall from
the German legation the last one, we
built a barricade across the top of the
wall. The wall Is sixteen miles long,
sixty feet high, sixty feet wide at the top
and eighty feet wide at the base We
had warm time up there for f1fty-ive
days standing off from 7,oO0 TO 1000
Chinese soldiers. the worst amongst them
being the Tung Foo Scheon troops They
were armed with Mannlchter carbines.
which were far superior to our own for
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ammunition they wanted and kent up a
continuous fire all the time. You ought
to have seen our first barricade. Il was
literally shot to pieces: we had to
strengthen from the rear. making it about
fifteen feet thick. The Chinese made one
attack on our wall to take the barricade
We let about forty get out in the open
and then turned loose on them and only
six get back: that settled them from
making any more charges. They built
barricade so close to ours that they stole
the brick from our harrica1e to build l..
We jumped over cur barricade that night
and charged them. Killing about sixty
with loss Of two killed and our Captain
Myers wounded. We took their ha~rlca1s
and fixed IT up, putting ten Russians ana
four Of our men 70 man IT. The Ger
mans French and Austria1s wee driven
from the wan at the German legation.
leaving our rear exposed. Cautain Hall
sent Private Daily. Carr and myself ont
the next night with tventy-cielt c71Iies
to build barricade about 30 yards, from
cur main trench We worked all nfrhf.
having warm tine Of It. for about two
hours from . o'clocIl til .: after thas
il was very quiet until morning when We
lost man. shot through the right lure.
The next day an arm:s:ice was declarsd.
which lasted about ten DAYS. during
which time we rested M ana had q soo4
time but IT 60 too moa7tonous. 50 ws
started the ball rolling again by picking
OF some sharDshoote-s who were anus
Ing themselves by Shooting a. our coolies
We kept it up uutB the troops arrived on
the 18th Of August. We expect a. leave
here for Tien Tsin a. soon as Captaia
Myers can be removed