The Telegram. — 1901-04-02 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

MISSION LADY'S PERILOUS ADVENTURES.  There arrived recently at Hankow a party of missionaries from the far north of China, including a Mrs. Ogren and her two children. This lady was stationed with her husband at Yung-ning-chow, abouk:eighty miles south-west of Tai-yuen-fu. The story of her adventures from the time the troubles began is given by the Shanghai correspondent of the Standard. During the first part of their journey south Mr. and Mrs. Ogren and their children slept in caves. All they had was taken by robbers. After the robbers came the Boxers, who, says Mrs. Ogren, took us away two days' journey to Taochiao, about ten miles from Ta-ning-lisien, where there was a large temple, which was their headquarters in that district. My husband was taken into the temple and tied to a tree in the tour yard, but they told me a woman's presence would defile the temple, so they kept me outside. I could hear them beating my husband, and SHARPRNING THEWS SWORDS ON STONES, and yelling. I heard him call for me, but they beat him; he asked for water, and they beat him. At night I was locked up in a room full of Coffins waiting to be buried. They wont': give me no food, but I got a little cold wales for baby. I asked for my husband, and they said he had run away, but I knew they had killed him. Next morning they gave us a little fond, and an escort of Boxers took us away. At Ta-sing-hsien, the magistrate made me kneel before him, and after some kind of trial ordered toe to be locked up in a dark and filthy cell. It was a city where three of our ladies had already been tied to trees and butchered. After two days I heard my husband's voice in the Yamen calling ane. I could not believe he was still alive till ' Cae door opened and he was locked in the cell. He was in a dreadful condition. Ills whole body I was one mass of bruises; there was a wound on his hack several inches deep, and the scalp at the hack of his head was cut away, exposing the skull for nearly a hand-breadth. Ile said that the Boxers had taken him to the riverside to behead him, but first cut off his queue, as the Boxers do before beheading people, taking the scalp with it. As the sword was raised to strike, someone said: "carer CAN TOUR 6013 DO FOR YOU NOW ?"  And in a moment he felt so strong that he sprang up, dashed through them, and jumped clean into the river. The current carried him away, but, although his hands were still tied behind him back, he managed to reach the other side, and the Boxers could not find him again in the dark. He freed his bands by rubbing the ropes against a rock, and after learning where we were made his way to the Ta-ning-hsien Yemen. They would not give me cloth to bind his wounds, so I washed his only shirt and made bandages of that. We could not get food to eat. The magistrate allowed a hundred cash (20.) a day for food for the three of us, tint the gaoler kept most of it to himself. It seemed as if we were not to be murdered, but only starved to death. Then my poor husband lost his reason; he was quite mad and often violent. We were two months shut up in that dreadful cell, bnt how we lived through it do not ask me, for I really Cannot tell. At length orders came from Taiyuen-fu to have us sent on to Ping-yang-fu, at which place my husband died, shortly after we reached it. Mr. APKie and the two ladies were brought to Ping-yang a week after us, and this was a great mercy to me, as I had another baby born in Ping-yang.