The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 7, 1900, Page 3

O xH A KA KA KA AKAK AR IERRK AR RAK R KK AR KRR A KA K AR KKk K THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, auwusT 7, 1900 AMERICAN REFUGEES ARRIVE ON TRANSPORT LOGAN AND TELL TALES OF THEIR ESCAPE FROM BOXERS Terrifying Incidents of the Bombardment of Tientsin by Chinese Hordes Described With Startling Vividness by Men, Women and Children Who Were Rescued From Threatened Massacre by the Timely Atrrival of Reinforcements. THE LOGAN BRINGS TIENTSIN REFUGEES TH a crowd of men, women and children—refu- 7T FL Tie: r poop deck the United S States army transp med in through the She went at once into m 1. m., docking an hour later. passenger left the main deck 1" was wuttered when the wed ashore. ibing their from wholesale slaughter se Boxers while cooped 3 of the relief force from fostode + vrrimal rrival he first great struggle in the Asiatic hordes and the sol- On that occasion, tish, Russian and Jap- ven back with great Once the allied forces al exodus of Some of them came went to Europe, a few are making but all who could leave Chi- potver {merican, B dri wn there was a gener 1ed there. m temporarily went to Taku, China, and from d Stat 7 got as far as e wwere compelled to wait for trans- The Warren, from Manila, came i sold who had been inva- soldiers had to possess 1es, so the refugees 1fter of the IWarren the Logan put i from Man 1 0ps was a, > tr en a cable or- States Con was consid sul. m Tientsin the Logan rs, sixty-one The from Ma- 7 sail 1rines ntry and four prisoners. sick while en r liome. ined the Logan at Taku, but her. Among them were: and Mrs. Garley and child, Miss Croucher, E. G. Irs. Detring, child and g and Miss E. Detring. if daughter of fer weas formerly a dentist in Santa Rosa, 1 a woolen mill the Flowvery Kingdom is now home and azcait better times. oo and establis i to come @Frr I rr AR I IR A A A AR I I IA AR A ARk R A KAk Ah hkkhkhkhkkkk* @ GIRL'S ACCOUNT | ot it m 2080 e = P A c veen fig ht _n‘k ste _}“i?\ (:} attempt to reinforce those the ing on re Chey were driven back, however, nd then they joined those who were de- nding the stati Matters looked o th was thought best to get wagons in readin he - hitched and the women and n were told to be ready at a mo- t's notjce to board the wagons In case at Was forced. The plan was to of Taku, In the event frustrafed there were | o volunteered to shoot | 1 into the hands | it the most critical moment charged ahead of the Rus- latter following closely. The ridently thought reinforcements and they retreated like a forgot to tell you about al hero of Tientsin, and ould rise when his n. Jim' Watts who really him the women and chil- e their lives. uation was most critical if our men m i of sheer ex ‘Jim' volunteer- at the perll of his as fol- ody W n. everyt o : ted Chinese. Ammunition e United nothing that the Unite ot 2 el i Tnte- d not do for those in CAPTAIN BAILEY. ed for Taku at 8 p. m. He by three mounted Cos- | all night, reaching Taku k in the morning. It was on the 15th, that ‘Jim’ left Tientsin following Saturday relief came. none too soon, for our »munition were practic- the Boxers were again June 14,” Mi s destroyed s Ragsdale said, “th: two large That was the xers, although prior there had been ng on. were ordered to leave to Gordon Hall. When it locked. We were me, but the next time 1 no trouble getting into came back with the relief asked him at what point in his : oy % did_he fee most frightened. on I‘ff\xr~r'1‘};}:;;a.rl (ig (gr{lfi d it was when de into a nar- 1n . s | ane In a nt about halt 3 a vengeance, | way between Tients ku. He dis- | P exploded in the dining-| covered that there was a stone wall at | I people were eating, { end of the lane : 3d wite were killed. | the #nd of - no further. There wi | and several armed CE: that he could go e a lot of people amen in the street he cellar under the d ® | They looked at ‘Jim' suspiciou p d a half forty shells | gl "Ordered him 1o halt.” Ho srs tra it a case of life or death and he ordered his men to charge. They dafd “Jim’ included, firing at the same time. | They escaped without the loss of a man though one of the Cossacks was injured quite badly. Now, maybe we didn't give |“Jim’ a warm reception. He told us of | the capture of the Taku forts by the al- | lies 2:1d we knew then that the worst of | our fears were over.” The Americans left Tientsin July 2 on several launches captured by the Unlted States troops. At Taku they boarded the ocacy and the next day they were ansferred to the Newark and later they were again transferred to a French trans- out to carry nd sandwiches. | ail around me thirty feet the explo- The situation was worst on the | port, which conveved them to Nagasaki, th, and most of us ecxpected to die. | where they boarded the transport Logan. There were 400 Russians protecting the | The voyage was very pleasant, the sea | foeoefe s oo sloefefufertoeflufufenfocfefutulnfaetoldnlol @ plains to the | e D R SRR SCR SRR SORLSORE SISO SO 8 CDED® 450D +H S D - being €0 calm that a launch could almost have made the t dals 1s no tat all glad the to be hon bardment h like to be W danger of bom- in t to those w & 2 turned her home into a hospital before she left and she wishes she could have stayed there to hel MiSS FAHR HAS THRILLING TALE F the many thrilling stories related by the refugees eds in in- terest that told Tillie M. Fahr of Lincoln City, Indiana, who spent two yvears in Tientsin t vate famil times Miss Fahr within a h breadth of being killed by the Boxers. One of the unus ual incidents of the young woman's flight learning to which she cigarettes, 2 make: fact “It was while coming down the Pelho iver that 1 smoked by first cigarette,’” said M Fahr in relating her experi- ences to a Call reporter at the Occidental. “Our boat was the first to attempt to make the trip in three weeks. A num- ber had already lost their lives in making imilar attempts, and we were told that we were running chances even then. “As our boat proceeded we were horri- o0 see heads of Chinamen floating in water, while along the river banks dismembered bodies, and in some dogs were eating the decayed flesh, It was the most sicken ght I have n The s from the fie the were s long as I could. Then I turned to a couple of the marines on leck and in & voice that could be 1 by everybody around me, said: have any of you a Cigarette?” her women looked on in horror as 1 took a cigarette from one of the sail and calmly oke it. It my first, but not my t. I found th; its odor was a reat relief from the sick- ening per: which rose from the water an r banks and 1 kept on | smoking until we reached Taku. All told 1 smoked twelve e f irbance oc- of a body Tt w. had and told to diately. The morning of June ed from sleep n Hall imme- w of the danger first 1 kne was when I heard a chanting sound some up the street. Then in the dim ht could distinguish a lot owly making their way to- y were going through a lot c cteristic of ge an attack. of movements w them before the They wore gr hats and were swi in with red sashes and ng red lanterns in front of them. Only a few had guns, most of them carrying swords, three of which had_been taken out of their sheaths. We could see them glisten in the light of the lanterns. “We expected, of course, we would be captured before reaching Gordon Hall, and I had taken out my revolver and was | on the point of killing myself when, from come hidden place, a detachment of Ger- ds came between us and the Boxers. The guards charged upon the Chinamen and drove them back. “] remained at the Gordon Hall until June 2. During the shelling we were in the cellar and we took our chances be- tween the firing to get outside and eat One day 1 went outside and was turr the corner of the building when a three- inch shell burst back of me. But I had just got around the side of the building and so escaped the force of the explo- jon. A plece of the projectile, howeve Struck me and I picked it up and have saved it as a memento. “After the railroad station and arsenals had been reduced there was a continuous rain of bullets and many of the Boxers managed to get by the allies’ guards and into the city. They would get on top of GO0+ 0000000009 aching in a pri- | ame | smoke | RAGSDALE AND THE HAYNER CHILDREN, 4 L S N A R P SO THE REV. some of the high buildings, from which n the street below. All died from their wounds. 'One night [ was standing at my win- | dow, close to which was a big tree. Sud- | | denly T heard two rifle\shots, followed in- stantly by the spattering of bullets on the window shutters. I ran into the hall and told one of the officers. He made a hurried inyestigation and found a_Boxer up in the tree.” At the point of the gun | he was ordered down and the first thing he asked was if he had killed the Chris- tian in the window (meaning me). He was given a trial, found guilty and shot. | ‘““‘Another time I standing in front | of “a mirror. I lighted a candle for a | minute, but felt that it was not safe to | keep it burning, so blew it out. No sooner ) had I done so than the mirror in front of | me was smashed to smithereens. I could not understand what had happened and struck a match to see what the trouble was. A bullet had struck the glass not two inches over my DOCTOR JOINED FIRST SORTIE R. DIFFENDORFER tells an inter- esting story of his experience dur- ing the height of the Tientsin trou- | ble. “Tongue cannot tell nor the mind of | an ordinary American cltizen imagine the | state of affairs that now exists in China,” | said the doctor yesterday. *“I have been out there a year and a half and through my connection with Consul Ragsdale got a good insight into the situation. This out- | break is not a thing of the moment. It has been growing and gathering s 1o¥ monthis, and the Chinese Governman: | is behind if. There is no question about | that. Sentimentalists can say what they Please, but China must be whipped into ine, or else the foreigners and mission- aries can never hope to make a home re again. B B S e e e o SCE S I 00 ? tHtt ettt ttttt ettt bttt bttt bttt bttt ttttttttt bttt ittt DR = DI/FFENDDEER PDIEIDIDODIPOII D OIPITIIIDIDPEDIDPEDIDEIIDIIED ®Ie D ededed @ DR. CHALFANT ADDRESSING THE PRESBY- TERIAN MINISTERS ON THE BOXER UPRISING, AND REFUGEES FROM TIENTSIN WHO ARRIVED HERE YESTERDAY ON THE TRANSPORT LOGAN. m@w*-o«—@wmomowowg | at 3:10 o’clock on the afternoon of oint they would pick off the forelgners | It was a Sunday and we had been'!e‘;’ézc‘z.l A Russian officer | Ing it. At 11 and three of his men were ‘sniped’ in this | Smoke about four miles away in the di- | rection of Peking and at once coneluded |y ‘the marines and soldiers were hold- * [ O O e Ol S . that the Chinese were burning the bridges. Captain Bailey of the English service ordered out an engine and a flat- car and thirty bluejackets from the Eng- lish sloop-o r Orlando were ordered to the front. arles McIntosh, my ass ant at the woolen mills, knightly lad never into active ser- vice. I do not remember his name, he was later killed in the a but ult on Tien- n. “McIntosh ran the engine and when we | had_gone about three miles we found the road so undermined that a halt was called. Ahead of us we | and a close were imp on us with with a field p “T think it W saw a number of m y showed that they They began firing and” we answered rs iis sortie that precip- itated the attempt to take Tientsin. The attack on the Taku forts began at m. and the assault on Tientsin by Chinese at 3:10 p. m., so that both events may be said to have been simultaneous. “On the 17th the Imperial Military Col- lege at Tientsin was taken by the allies ‘E\ir,\‘ one of the ninety killed. They were all the of Chinese diplomats and their relatives will ery for ngeance. Nothing could stop the Ru in their pursuit of the Mongolian were out for blood and they made it flow like water. Everywhere a Chiness was seen outside of the English conces- sions he was shot down. “Dr. Kin, a_fine Chinese gentleman, a graduate of Yale and president of the military college, was murdered with his students. He took lunch that ¢ Lieutenant Wright of the Engl | rines, who advised him not to go back to | the place. Dr. Kin had sent his family | down the river that morning, but the | Boxers _knew them and turned them back without molesting them. They told them that they did not want to hurt them, but that they wanted to get hold of Dr. Kin because he was a friend of the for- eigners. Dr. Kin knew that his family had returned and went back to the coi- lege and to his death. “If the missionaries told their story as | a layman would tell it the civilized world would stand agbast. People in America have no idea of the atrocities that white | Ev(enp]e have to put up with in the Flowery ingdom. “As to the allies. The Cossacks are great soldlers. Had it not been for them | we would never have got out of Tients! ’The Japanese are great fighters. Th can fire quicker and do more execution than any soldiers on earth. The British, | Americans and Japanese stand together and when the fall of Peking comes I think you will find the three powers in the advance guard.” SHOT BOXERS FROM A TOWER HARLES McINTOSH, who was with Dr. Diffendorfer in Tientsin, did some | clever work as a sharpshooter from the tower of the woolen mills. The tower commanded a view of the entire situation for miles. In the lower part of the build- B R B B S R o S AR e S 2 a. m. on the 1Sth we saw st- | and I were the | | only twa outsiders who went along. A | midshipman not yet out of his teens was |in commana, 8 ‘more | | | bodies of headless Chinese. | slaughter and the students was | | struck nine REFUGEES HERE FROM TIENTSIN OLLOWING is a st of the refugees from Tientsin who ar- rived in San Francisco on the United States army transport yes- terday. Many left here last even- ing for their homes in various sec- tions of the United States, but there are a few who will stay at the hotels here for some time: Mrs. Ed B. Drew and four children. Mrs. Pyke and four chil- dren. Mrs. Lowry and three chil- dren. Mr. and Mrs. Hayner and three children. Miss Jomes, 0. C. Clifford. Dr. R. E. Diffendorfer. Mr. McIntosh. Rev. H. W. Houlding, wife and son. Mis. Effie Ragsdale. Master Earl Ragsdale. Mrs. Frank B. Davis. Mrs. Montelle. Miss Tillie Fahr. Dr. N. S Hopkins, wife and three children. Mrs. H. E. King and three children. Mr. and Mrs. H. Smith. J. N. Mussen. James E. Pamplin. Frederick J. Muller. Frank E. Dow. Mrs. 0. C. Clifford and in- fant. 4 44444444 P HE P4 E P44 44442ttt 4 4444444444444 4444400 i ing the position against the attacking party. They had loopholed the building by removin bricks and it was neces- sary that t should be kept posted on the movements of the enemy o as to be prepared for the charges. We had signaled to them from the tower,” said Mclntosh yesterday, ‘“and arranged to let them know exactly where the Chinese were. “I think we spent about fifteen days in that tower and did some execution. 1 was engineer in charge and thrée times we tried to run engines out of the be leaguered town, but each time we were driven back. Everywhere we saw the The Boxers had got in their deadly rk. They do not know what fear is and now that they are beginning to usa the Mauser rifles they prove to be foes of no mean call ber.” RUSSIANS ARE VERY BRUTAL T is a complicated situation in China at the pres time,” sald J. Fred Hayner, Methodist missionary to the land of the Yellow Dragon, at the Oecci- dental yesterday evening. “I came out on the last train from Tientsin and we all had a narrow escape. This trouble has been brewing for a long time, and there have been warnings of the outbreak, but they were not heeded. The result is probability of the mure der of all the foreigners in the country. “When the trouble developed at Tien- tsin I locked up my family in the cellar of my house and went forth to assist in keeping the Chinese at bay. We wers bombarded two weeks and my house was times by shells. However, we all escaped without injury, for which we thank the Lord. “There are so many features of the sit- | uvation down there that it is difficult to | fact, | some excessive barbarities. make any concise and comprehensive statement regarding it. Americans are the most popular people in China, both among the foreigners and the natives. praised for re- demand of the surrender of the Taku a fact that there were no shots fired at Admiral Seymour until the Taku forts were fired upon. The Rus- sians were responsible for the clash, and 3 2 join ers for the forts. It is excused t by declaring there w. n enormous Chinese army advancing and that there was no alternative but to fight. As a matter of there was no such information re- ceived, and the brutality of the minfons of the ‘Czar was astonishing in these days of supposed civilization. “When the commander and his staff in the forts of Taku found it necessary to surrender, they walked out and offered their swords. Instead of being treated as civilized beings they were shot down by the Russians like a lot of dogs, and no official prisoners were taken. When the town was captured, the Russians wera among the chief looters, and in their oper- ations In the outskirts they perpetrated To my knowl- edge, in one village, the women and chil- dren were driven into the river and then when there was no escape they were shot to death and their bodies allowed to float away. “There is no denying the fact that the Americans are the most prominent in the complications. 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