The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 2, 1900, Page 1

" VOLUME LXXXVI II—XNO. 124. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, OCTOBER o s 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. STORY OF SIEGE OF LEGATIONS AT PEKING BY THE BOXER HORDES, TOLD BY REFUGEES n the Chinese Gov f protection and on ried. together with the ropean colanles, to that which the le- they re- the long olumn on the morning August 15. r the Rev C. H ®enn, a who was one of the Coptic, was the compouad of hen a shout trom ing past attracted onary, was run old that easter: Germans ware of the cliy. > the walle early on ng had apprised the relief ‘was near at hand, had expected its arrival quite that O T AR R e > - = * Sk P . He asked what the martter | | in the nat LONDON, Oct. 2.—*The 2S5 When the Guns of the Allies | ttering Down Pzking's Walls. 1 under his direction. siegers ling to the Rev, Mr. Fenn 25 at no time in grave dan- ger of massac th h ‘he bears a scalp nd caused by a shell splinter, which for a pith helmet he wore might have him his Every one within the legation’s walls took a hand at guarding the defenses, notably W.J. F.Squiresof Sir 1a’s staff, who made a r himself by his courage ce during the long bom- the garrison e wo end sel bardment. It appears that the Boxers were in pos- se dealings with the Christians long be- fore the actual trouble began, &nd the Rev. Mr. Fenn declares that translations of imperial edicts published in Peking show beyond the shadow of a doubt that the impertal troops. were in direct collu- slon ‘with the Boxer hordes. Professor C. H. Olliver, chief instructor e University of Peking,. was the Coptic. Mr. OHiver a passenger i resolutely refused to discuss the situation, ———— ion of the numes of all those who had | tains were saeri- for the barricade against_the: be- | ustro-Hungarian Foreign Office, corresponden* of the Morning Post, “has received a circular note which France has addr: ssed to the powers, in which she agrees as to the necessi'y of ob:ai~inz satisfac on for the anati-foreign attack, but suggests that the ‘Ministers' in- Peking should mmediately cegin negotiations on the o:her questions at issue:: “The r.ote also proposes the permanent prohibition of the import of arms and ammunition inio China, the razing of the fortifications between Peking and the sea and the maintenance of legation guards.”- : ’MMMWQiQ!Q#WNW’*Q*Q*W*MN troops of Great Britaln and an American claiming that would imperil: his official tng. SUSPENSE WAS TERRIBLE. Miss Cecil Payen Tells of the Hard- ships of the Legationers. Tis 1 Paye suspense bom- position by so do ng the what was going Of she = “I was ¥ by < fere the men of us would go through. Mr. Conger was- here ¢ among the s any ‘of ‘them in in San Francisco id - will ‘then go to the "oodwards. efused to say anvthing ces, g fatigue; ard volunteered-the | had had no starch- GRAPHIC - PICTURE OF SIEGE. Rev. C. H. Fenn Describes the Siege | and Final Relief, The most. ¢ hic ‘account-of the siege is that given by the Rev. C. H. Fenn “After we had taken up our quarters In the British legation,” he said, ‘“‘all com- munication With the outstde world prac- tically: ceased. We were confident, how- éver, that the arrival of the rellef column would soon prt an cnd to our troubles and %0 none felt the situation very keenly until hope began' to die out, and things got down to a life and death strugg'e with all the chences in favor of the latter. “I recefved my scalp woundt while asstst- ing to erect the barricade placed round the British legation. I undoubtedly owe { my life to the pith helmet which I wore d which broke the force of the concus- sion.” Questionad ‘as to the origin of the re- ports of Conger’s murder and of:the mas- sacre of the fegationers, Mr. Fenn declar- ed them to have been manufactured by | the Chinese ‘to_delay the allies’ advance to Peking. “You have no idea,”” he said, "of the Aupliclty and cunning 0f. these Chinese, D et L R A = S S S P PSR S Ll S e et St ot ot ) FRANCE WOULD RAZE THE CHINESE FORTIFICATIONS ” says thz Vienna. . A A AR AT AT Ak A D isit to the Congers, and Mrs. Wood- Miss Wondward and - myself had inds to leave na for the | hen the trouble broke out t v one at first an- the sieze was among the t it was dangerous for us but { { — Chinese Imperial Troops Joined Fanatics in Their Attacks on the British Compound With the Intention of Exterminating the Foreigners, but Fled Before Relief Force. | +* | i | 1 | | f ). IN T ON THE STEAMSHIP l"Yl"'l'll‘. ATION THE BRITISH L F ON 1 AT | HOISTED THE THE AG i CO NGER AND SIR CLAUDE f LABORED LIKE TROJANS ‘Miss Cecil Payen Says British Minister Was |'Before the trouble commenced at all the | Boxers had black lists prepared which contained an accurate list of all the Christian adherents. In Peking.” Mr. Fenn gives the following account of the raising of the siege on the 15th: “I was taking photographs in the garden of the British legation when I. recelved the first Intimation of thé entry of the rellef column into the city. On August 13 we were to have met the Chinese Min- isters, including Prince Tuan, to confer with them regarding a truce. On August 11 the approach of the reliet column nad been noised about and it was thought that the Chinese were weakening on account of their advance. At the time set for the conference, however, the Ministers failed to materialize; instead came a message stating that the foreigners evidently did not wish peace as their soldiers had killed twenty-six Chinese. Just after this mes- sags had been received, at about 1i.a. m., the sound of heavy ecannonading was heard toward the southeast. Every one of the besieged garrison felt: that . this heralded the approach of the long-expect- er relief column and hope ran high.. At 10 -o'clock that ' night the Chinese began a flerce fusillade which lasted for some hours. Unlike the firing on former occasiens this attack was very determined and served to strengthen our belief that the near approach -of the relief column was nerving the Chinese for a last effort. As You may imagine, none of us got much sleep that night and at about 2 o'ciock in. the morning of the 1l4th'the rattle -and bang of field and Gatling guns from the direction of the Tung-Pein and Tse-Hwa gates brought joy to all within the lega- tion walls. - Fiercer and fiercer grew the bonibardment, and it was during a lull in the afternoon that I went out to take my photographs. It was then that the meesenger ran through proclaiming the entry of the rellef column, the advance guard of which was afterward found to be composed of the yellow-skinned Hindu 1 marine column. It had been a long wait— sixty days—but the relief was such that | all our sufferings were forgotten in the | general rejofcing. | “The Chinese,” concluded Mr.’ Fenn, | ““must be taught a severe lesson. Any | vecillation now means a repetition sooner | or later of the late horrors. They must | be crushed utterly, and thoroughly beaten | into submission. HAD ALL BUT GIVEN UP HOPE, | Rev. F. M. Chapin Says the Priva- | tions Were Not Unbearable. The Rev. F. M. Chapin, a Methodist | missionary, was ancther of those who, with his wife and family, were confined within- the legation walls throughout the | slege, ““They were dark days,' he said, refer- ring to that time, ‘‘and we had all but giveri up hope when. the glad news of the entry of the: rellef column reached us. Our privations, while severe, were not so bad-as they might have been. About four days: before the siage was raised a mar- | Ket ‘for fresh vegetables was opened near the. British legatlo BLAMES THE MISSIONARIES. | C. S, Coy Says Sufferings of the Be- | sieged Were Exaggerated. C. §.-Coy, a commercial traveler in the | employ of the Field Mercantile Compsnyi of San_ Francisco, who has spent many | years in China, and who was a Coptic passenger, does not think that the hard- | ships endured by the legationers were as | great as they are represented to be. He | claims ‘that to his knowledge no mule or horse flesh was eaten by any REuropean | within Peking, although it was fed to the | converts.. Mr. Coy places the blame for the trouble at the door of the missionar- fes, who he says were warned two years ago of what would occur if they Insisted on keeping up the work of reform. ““While I was at Hongkong at the time of the siege,” he said, “vet I do not be- lieve the suffering to have been so great LIFE OF REV. C. H. FENN SAVED BY A PITH HELMET Struck by a Fragment of a Shell From a Boxer Gun While Helping Erect Barricade Around the British Legation at Peking: o have been. My firm nty ‘of provisions into the | city before the siége began, and as for !sr:l\ml privation, 1 heard one lady say on the ‘voyage over that most w: what worried her the fact that the watér was of !zn inferior quality for washing."” POXERS SHOULD BE CRUSHED Rev. ‘J. H. Ingram Favors the Con- tinuation of the Allies’ Campaign. br. J. H. am, who, with his wife and family, was among vesterday’s ar- advocated the continuation of the w campaign against the Boxers. “These Boxers well armed and | equipped troops,” "he said. - “They are armed with the latest make of arms and have an utter rec s of death. To merely subdue a nd then leave them is worse t They time | should be’taught a thorough lesson—one that will make them remember that to tamper with Europeans ot good.” To Reopen Missionaries. BOSTON, Oect. 1.—The Americ: of Commissjoners for Foreign received a message from tr pin, one of ‘its missionaries m Peking losing the plans of ‘missionar It reopen the Bridgeman Sct Peking either in that éity The North China College il Min s there opened in Peking. glven assurance care the use pounds which Boxers and hence ar lough and sixteen are p epared to rema Sheng Saves Missionaries. PARIS, Oct. 1.—The Frenc General at Sh Sent Che Li t ation of Sheng egraphs engt safe and military preca and and fons to aries, and that Ning-Tien-Lung was safe. MAKE THE Kind to Refugees and That the Ameri- J, Pierpont Morgan May Name the can Minister Helped Erect Barrciades. SELECTION Successor to Collis P. Hunti ngton. Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1990, by the Herald Publishing Company. LONDON, ' Oct. . 1.—Since it was an- nounced that the new president of the | Southern Pacific Railroad would be an Eastern railroad man not identified with the management of the Huntington prop- erty, there seems to have been a change in the Southern Pacific situation. Messrs. Spever gained .control of the road through heavy loa which they made to the'late Collis Huntington when he. was sorely pressed for ready money in the panic of 188, and it seemel very probable that the New York bankers would name the new president. They had it in their power to place at the head of the company & man who would carry out their ideas in managing the road. But at no time did the Huntington in- terests relinquish their right to return to Messrs. Speyer the funds which were advanced by them to the builder of the road, and it is now not improbable that certain outside interests will ‘come for- ward to support the Huntington inter- ests and make it possible for them to get the property out of the grasp of Messrs. Speyer. J. Plerpont Morgan is at the head of a syndicate that proposes to redeem the Huntington loans and thus gain control of the great rallroad. The members of the committee which has been named to choose - the successor to' the late Collis P. Huntington as president, are: Charles H. Tweed, D. O. Mills and James Speyer. | Mr. Tweed, of course, is a Huntington man. Mr. Mills is director of ‘the Van- derbilt road and certainly not opposed to Morgan taking . the place of Messrs. Speyer. James Speyer, when he was in Europe this summer, met Mr. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, in Hamburg, and asked him if he could have James McCrea, first vice president of the Pennsylvania Company, to place | at the head of the Southern Pacific. No agreement was made, but it was then understood that Mr. McCrea would prob- ably succeed Mr. Huntington. if the new president was named by Messrs. Speyer. ) It was expected that James Speyer wou | name the new president at the meetin | of the directors which was held s | Mr. Huntington's aeath, but | of 2 committee to consider the qu | of the prestdency w. taken to | that other interests might take charge | the company, and now it is not at all out | of the range of possibilities that J pont Morgan will come to the rescue of | the Huntington interests and name tha ’new president —_— | WEDDED FAR FROM HOME. | John Stone of Alameda and Lena Marley United. Special Dispatch to The Call GREENWICH, Conn., Oct urday there arrived in town John of Alameda, Cal., and Miss Lena of Los Angeles. They went to J Burrg' office and arranged for a marriags ceremony. Thereupon they secured a marriage license from Town Clerk James R. Mead. The groom gave his age as 11, nativity New York'City, and said he was a son of Israel and Harrlet A. Stone, and | had been divorced. The bride's age was | stven as 24 nativity St. Louis. and she | sald she was a daughter of Thomas M | Marley. Immediately after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Stone left town, maintain- ing the greatest secrecy as is the usual | custom in such ca: | QUIET REIGNS IN PERU. f Excitement Over Action of Belaunde | Somewhat Subsides. LIMA, Peru, Oct. 1.—There has been no rioting to-day as the result of the scandal 'ngard!ng the purchase of arm Belg!- um and the alleged use by former Minis- ter of Finance Belaunde of Government | money for his transactions, but in all the rincipal thoroughfares excited groups ave discussed the situation. President Romana has appointed Anidal Villagas Minister of Finance and Colonel Porto as Minister of War.- During the ab- sence of Porto Jose R. Lapunte will dis- charge the dutles of the of