The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-03-01
Yellow Rioters in China Start
on Bloody Crusade.
MISSIONARIES ARE SLAIN
Mission Houses Fired, English Family
Eutchered and Fourteen Amerl.
cans Escape Same Fate Only
BY Flight.

Consul General Rodgers at Snang-
hal cab!ed the state department on
Monday that the American missions
at Narchang, in the province Of Kiang-
81, have been destroyed. Telegrams
state that the fourteen American mis-
s;onaries there escaped, but the King
ham family, English, two adults and
two children are reported to have
been killed.
The American gunboat, Ell Cano, at
Nankin, has been ordered to proceed
Immediately to Kiu Kiang, where she
will probably arrive by Wednesday.
The scene of the trouble is about 400
miles up the Yangtse river.
= .Mr. Roberts later cabled that the
inland British missions are reported
safe.
It is alleged that after long con-
tinued disputes between the Catholic
priests and the Chinese magistrate OF
Nanchang the priests invited the mag
istrate to banquet, where they tried
to compel him to sign an agreement
for the payment Of large 1ndem-
nitv for the destruction of the Cath
clio mission property. According to
one report, the magistrate became In
dignant and committed suicide, but
the Chinese assert that priest at
tackled and killed him. The officials,
fearing to arrest the priest, called
public meeting, whereupon the Cath
oIics, according to the Chinese YER
sion of the trouble, set fire to their
own premises.
The public meeting Of the Chinese
developed into riot in which, ac-
cording to one story, six of the Cath
olics were killed, tho1gh later ae-
count says the number of Catholics
killed was four.
H. C.. Kingman, Protestant mis-
sionary, and his wife, also, were killed
and of their two children was wound
ed, the other being rescued. The
only Protestant mission buildings de-
stroyea were those of the Plymouth
Brethren.
Fourteen Americans escaped in a
boat ..'
l. A Pekin dispatch says: According to
a Chinese official occupying high
station, the finding CT dynamite in
the street outside the gate leading to
the royal palace on Friday, February
2S, followed by the receipt of a warn
ing against revolutionist students az
irving in Pekin has precipitated
panic in the palace. ,,
The reception Of many newly ap-
pointed officials scheduled for Satur-
day was hurriedly countermanded lest
there be revolutionists among them.
Military precautions were taken, and
whenever the dowager empress has
walked in the grounds of the Forbid
den City since Friday she has been
escorted by guard of eight soldiers
carrying rifles.
The officials in Washington accept
Consul General Rodgers suggestion
that the trouble at Nanchang is To-
cal, as has been the case with tho
last two preceding attacks on foreign
missionaries in China. Therefore,
there is little apprehension that the
trouble will spread. However, it is
realized that the incident itself ap-
pears to justify such operations az
are now under way from a military
point of view.
The report that English subjects
have been killed is the most serious
phase of the affair, for it is said that
this fact may be made the basis of
forcible measures on the port of the
British government that might en-
fame the entire Chinese population.
Nanchang, where the missions were
destroyed, lies on the shores of Lake
Poyang, in the northern portion o.
the province of Kiangsi and the
Yangtse river is navigable to that
point as we'll as the lake itself for
warships Of considerable size.