The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-05
BROTHER MOURNS
FOR DR.. MACHLE
NEWS OF CHINESE MASSACRE
BRINGS DEEP GRIEF.
Post Commissary j. B. Maclle, U. s..
A, at Fort Smelling Is Brother Of
8 American missionary Who Was Be-
/ reaved by Murder of His Wife and
! Little Girl, with Three Others =

News of the massacre of FIVE Ameri-s
cans by Chinese at the Presbyterian
mission and medical school at Lien
chow, China, which shocked the entire
civilized world, brought particularly
deep sorrow to the members of the gar
rison at Fort Smelling. Post Commits
sary. Sergeant j. B. Machle, U. S. A.,
stationed at the fort, is a brother Of
Dr. +. q. Machle, who was badly
The victims were DR.. Eleanor Chest
medical missionary who was DR..
Machle's assistant in the medical |
school and the hospitals; Mrs Machle, |
who had charge Of the girls school; his |
8ty!ear-old daughter, who was born in
dren OF the very people who turned |
upon and massacred her; Rev. j. l.. |
Peake, Presbyterian missionary, who |
had charge of the religious instruction,
and mis- wife. |
The accompanying cut shows all the
Another cut shows the mission, a char
acteristic, Chinese building, whose red
tiled roof for more than twenty wears
has sheltered this happy and earnest
family in their efforts to benefit the
people who have finally turned upon
Lhou hlllSO tu6Iu.
The full facts of the unfortunate af
fair are not known, but two appar-
emily authentic stories have been pub
lshed. One Of these is that the little
girl ignorantly desecrated a Joss or
Chinese idol, and that an Infatuated
mob committed the terrible crime be-
fore the authorities could interfere.
angry because DR.. Machle had tried to
obtain the removal Of a Chinese the
alter which had been established in an
adjacent compound and the continual
din of which was nuisance to his
hospital and to the mission.
Doubted at First.
AT any rate, it is known that the
missionaries were compelled to flee
from the mob, taking refuge in a cave,
where all but DR.. Machle were killed.
He escaped with serious wounds, after
defending his family as long as pos
s1ble. The story was doubted at first
DR.. Machle was reported, it being held
by all who knew him that he would
never escape alive when his family
was in danger. ~ + =.
The news was received with. great
sadness at the home of Sergeant and
Mrs. Machle, but not with great sur
prise. The lives Of these devoted mis-
sionaries have been in danger before,
and it had been felt that they were
liable to seal their devotion with a
martyrs death at any time. But the
news came as a great shock, neverthe-
less, to. q wide circle of relatives in
CINCINNATI, Philadelphia and at Fort
Smelling, as well as to the church whose
devoted missionaries these people have
been for seventeen years. Nv '@.'s. ~ :, 81
The. uprising was probably. a serious
one, since these missionaries have been
. well known for many years in China,
where they are famous for their benev-
olence, as well as for their consecrated
efforts, to. carry the gospel tidings to
Escaped from Boxers.
The mission consisted Of three
schools, a hospital, a free dispensary,
and the usual religious features. Tie
schools have been in existence over
twenty years, and DR.. Machle has been
enteen years At the time of the Boxer
massacres his life and that Of his fam
lily was in danger, but he was saved
at that time by the gratitude Of man
DARN whose life had been saved in 8
critical illness by DR.. Machle, and who
at considerable risk to himself, sue
ceeded in saving the mission and the
missionaries at that time. ~ "
about eight Chinese girls We're W. Ti
taught by Mr.. Machle. In addition tx
religious instruction, they were taught
needlework, housekeeping, the rudi
ments of western civilization, ant
to give them with the facilities at com
mand. There was also a boys school
where about forty-fve boys were under
similar instruction, and also were be
ing. taught such industrial methods Of
civilized countries as could be taught
at that station. Paganism was being
Had Medical School.
In, addition to these schools, DR.
Machle had established medica
school, for the conduct of which he wa
peculiarly gifted, at which he had
about a dozen promising Chinese stu
dents who were rapidly mastering mod
ern medica! methods. He had in con
nectlon with these schools and the mis-
son, which was in charge of Rev. MI
Peake,, a hospital and free dispensary
at which every applicant for medica
attention received free aid.
DR.. Machle is a graduate Of Wooste
university and of Jefferson Medica
= college, Philadelphia, Pa. He has tw
children at school at Wooster, Ohio
Blsie' aged 10, and Victor, aged IL
Iooli WIZ DoIh buc u1SSlOn III LIEN
chow. They were brought to tn
United States in 1898, just before til
Boxer outbreak, and were then place
In school at Wooster, where they ar
very promising students.
The Presbyterian board Of foreig
missions, New York, has reported til
case officially to the state departmen
at Washington, demanding the imme
date punishment of the assassins, an
a heavy indemnity. If it can be prove
that any Of the Chinese officials pal
ticipated in or encouraged the mol
their removal will follow. Lien-cho,
in. Kwang Tung province, about "a
miles southeast of Canton. Commun
cation is necessarily slow, and it wi
require several weeks before all tn
details of the affair are known.