The evening world. Newspaper, July 21, 1900, Page 2

< » » ’ a ‘ K WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1900. GALLANT LISCUM FELL CRYING 10 HIS MEN: ‘ “DON'T RETREAT, BOYS; KEEP ON FIRING!” | -+-— i First Details of Slaughter of Ninth Regiment Told in Special IS ENVOY CONGER SAFE IN Cable Despatch to The Evening World—Out of 426 Men 96 Officers and Men Were Killed or Wounded. | THE BiG TUN TUNNEL IN PEKING? | ‘Strange Information Received | by Dr. Ellis, of Washington, How Col. Liscum died at, Tientsin, gallantly leading on his Arouses State Department—Sybterranean Passage from soldiers of the Ninth Regiment, i is told FOR THE FIRST TIME British Embassy to Imperial Palace a Hiding Place. . in an exclusive despatch from The Evening World’s correspondent - nd in China, Frederick Palmer. Ra, Minister Com, ler morning. He led two battalions into battle, numbering in all 426 men, 7.70002 ' Gen, Leonard ‘Vood, who is a brother-| tie somes "I tol ‘and out of these the losses were 96 officers and men, nearly ome- oir 92 J. 80 ie ate ate en 344 eee sources, ts still a mystery, it de md hat account for the #l-;any Jony of Christian 4 world te mourning! fe r rep ic fate, since m= | gomery h 0 | pathy, and wireless tele hy munteate with the outside would but] Peking showing Conger and family to} seems to have been a fallur - regi | betray their place of hiding to the Box- have been safe up to 6 o'clock yesterday | proper time will my } rmation are genuine and fittonal news and for his source) “No. sir. There is too much of the ™m about me to be a Spiritual. fo 1 take much a in men- ye Chinese Im Col Montgomery,” vat | way not yet prepared to| sive my source of Information, but that | g; cation from Min ved through Chi- euplained 1) vas @ well- } Veatien that eioaebans are Pale Keoush( nd upon it as being abso-| : rter of the force. known fact In army circles abemad that | trom Peking in a still more mysterious lutely trustworthy, 1 empect another cnvel orivacde wat aier} Ua | the Bettiah Embosry at Peking ts con: | nee message and will take pains to Inform! the reswint at. anew aniati ; P | named yt th il Palace A De. i C. Wille, © reputette physician he authorities and the public, | have! enous ete means of an underground passage, an¢ sad (ree messages thus far a The Ninth, through some blunder, marched into a cul de sac wii s.c2s2e ets | ott oy ing ioe MALS Bevan an te he i iy ae Aticn among those familiar with tho| formation from Peking concerning the! i tne: you are abl sect word |‘ em t at this f grave uncertainty | Kationers through secret sources | from Poking when telegraphic communi . cdl . eotler to disclose. atech cation ts supposed to be cut off? and were swept by a withering fire from the thousands of Chinese ‘:: ‘." | shen ro It is belleved that the taking refuge| When Dr. Ellis sent word to the Ex-| ‘That will all be explained in time,” of the Americans and European offietals| ecutive Mansion Wednesday that Con-| he repited further, ry in the British FE at the time of| ger was altve ang safe but little at-| “All thet I cam say now ts that my ranean p mminent danger was with a full know!-| tention was given to the communica-| informant is an American lady residing | \sctlo; of ’ ” . edge of the fact of the underground pas-| tion. When word came yesterday from|tn Pekt y uh ny it | desired the Am: . p “Don't retreat, b _— fell. tm Peking. You may call ber a wy Hf Seat the Ameria ats Conger direct Dr. Ellis wae asked by] you want Peking. but that sh i on retrea ’ loys, Sal ISCU' as \4 e eep on Showld such he trwe, it to erqued by! the Mreoutive Mansion authorities tor “Are You @ Spiritualist?’ was asked vs rr soos t the "toreignere at all nagarde, firing. Get at them if you can.” Then he died and was buried a. | x= imi b aumento | at Tongku with all the honors due to a soldier hero. BRITISH ADVISER EARL LI A ae rent HOW THE HEROES OF THE NINTH FOUGHT! | RUSHING TO CHINA. SEIZED tag tae bitterest of enemies. (Copyright, 1900, by the Press Publishing Company, Calpers, Boo York World.) MAY PROVE FALSE. (Special Cable Despatch to The Evening World.) Sir Walter Hillier, Shown the Conger Cable, Re- But keen observers of affairs in the BY FREDERICK PALMER. nnd D as Shee Mews, 209 Cunt ie OF TRANSPORT eee eect CHEFOO, July 19, via Shanghai, July 2.—The attack on the native city) Probable Campaign n-Faing Peting, AY BRITISH cite eee wea, | bersons . ae New York in. Septemmer 6) 1 iven a reception fitting . . . ? | every where. of Tientsin on July 13 resulted in the narrowest escape from what seemed up to} 4, waier ster, KC MG, recently appointed poltient adviser to! midnight would be a terrible disaster for the allies. itr Archibald Geutlen, Commander ti-Chiet of the Byttieh foresa iB China, |* ef mit to bp the reheat mas ip the an . . arrived this morning on the steamship Lucania. He {s on his way to join! | Orfent The Russians swinging north and the other allies south, at daybreak the Russians were to take the | his chiet and witt not waste an hour on his journey. Me started at ones for| SHANGHAI, Friday, July 20 (de- setae a te ‘ wealthlest, If not th ; Vancouver, where a steamer will take him to Japan. He will join Sir Alfred layed).¢The British cruiser Bona- | [,"¢ ‘ oP ie " ‘ he world IB forts near the native city wall and the other allies the city itself. sine veuturd? Inft Woo Sung arty tale| ti Pega! at eu Gen. Fuku e commander, promised that the Japanese engineers after three hours’ shell fire Sir Walter Hillier ts about fifty years old, tall, with the sunburned ap- morning, it ls reported, to seize the | fon to tails of Tror) al! guns would cross the br intge over the moat before the wall and, blowing up the great south gate, make © | pearance of the Englishman who has spent many years {n the Orient. He is Au Ping with Li Hung Chang on|” Breach for the infar to enter a = ace ee rani hah. Piel di very democratic In manner, wore a brown tweed suit, Alpine hat and carried board, by 4 curacy whie as amaz ove > en 0 wae jutant, was ne \panese losses Were severe, , " DEPENDED ON JAPS. ds Seis tis ie oe re at we Mit |The Tepanees were most gallant In | 2 hi OB TuREage & Gladstone bag. ir Walter told bis mlasion in detail| A trlumphel arch erected in 14 m this depended Vz The bi ar ng h fleld 4 th hit in the le He the fight. But for the Americans |'® The Evening World on bis arrival Hung Chang's honor has been or-| r Mes, Febuabina nad not sco + me Dine shirts of the Amerinnn | SNS sae tee scarier |stopping the flank fre the Japanese sigan dered by the Council to be removed. | Sia 'Sirtene ber Tie | x troops them distinct’ marks crawled back through the ditch with | jogs would have been much heavier.} Mictated by Sir Walter Willier, hartiy think tt would be possible for! + sai CIVIL WAR WADE HIM. eee ro bwesty-fou ® nae where khaki uniforms of the the water to bis neck to report the! The French, Japanese, American |. ¢, M. G, te @ reporter of The] them to use it, even if the book was in| The eyes of the entire world are fo-| Bot scouted the grounil over which ghee allies could not be geen. Col. , situation to Col. Dorward. land British entered the city at 2 | rvemt Vaety posneaion, geased: today on Li Heng Chango} (Th? . : eharge on the bridge had to be jim Guiding bis men, walked up| At 1 o'clock Gen, Fukushine re- Ss ee ea ie Mireine of July 14 mia apsctntid paliinas aa Rese bsg American Legation was) ahas ane ts tk ast eee | wire “made. sod down the line, not even ducking ported in writing to Dorward that nee to go with the Commeander-in-Obiet, be- | meuci m very ualinety the Chinese | iiss this Aatatio @ith intent The Chinese destroyed the bridge “ ” ® 04 thought of securing the code-book, and orem ‘ ’ 5° his head while the bullets fell the Japs were in the city. OLD GLORY” HALF-MASTED, | cause, as 1 understood tt, 1 know the|\: was provably destroyed with the /Me® Dut never as to-day, and flooded the land around it The round I could see the loopholes bleging fhe American flag at half-mast|°!%'Ty thoroughly and speak the Chi- putiting | The Christian nations look to him to allies’ shel! fire in nowise subdued bullets and lydite sheila, No ip-| was hoisted over the south gate, The /"*@ languauge. Moat of my thirty years) «The gespatches also show that 42,00 | *8¥¢ China from herself. ' the Chinese rifle fire from the looz A GALLANT CHARGE. fantry could charge im the face of walla were strewn with the corpses | of diplomatic experience have been! men are between Tlentain and Taku, | Thre * hati else to look te, and it | } holed wali, which was thirty feet py this fire from 2 vek to 5. of Chinese soldiers killed by the shell | spent In the Orient, ‘The appointment Jan that Secretary Hay hae sent orders | 67°" bed = ee oe gane directed on \ bigh with 9 most trenty feet The Americans charged Into the Though acting conjointly, neither Are which caused thelr flight was a sudden one. I had only a few that they be hurried to the relief of |"! ini Chane tg the 1 ie am fin fire with cushes. The ground Dorward nor Fukushina knew each | None apparently waa hit by bul- | hors to make ready for the journey. Peking. 1 cannot tell now whether or| _'4 : w & me muh aa te depth around it wer which they charged was marshy Other's whereabouts, lets. the damage being done by lyd-| “I was sixteen years in Peking A#/not this force will be euMciont. It] OS > Visewore tas has tale etary the British lega-| might have been some yeare ago, but ached to the Chinese dip-| An outer wall of mud made it im Under cover of the darkness the dite shells Ortent and lined with ditches, been “the Blamarck of C “HAY FEVER ond men of the Ninth crept back from There ts a terrible row over the Mhinese have surprised ant punsied possible for the inta may tt ; a i ; aeons the & ceate tal. Liscum’s In-Jiheir dangerous position bearing Durning of the town. Several for- | matte service for some years beside TL never expected they moult muna | and “the Grand O14 Man of Asa pee eemsng 00 the i jon to rush the houses from] thetr wou They oxecuted this | eign * are reported lox Jespatehes kindly sent to ™#*/ the stand they have at Tientain | He is seventy-seven years old, but vic- the Chinese fre, They Jost fifty mem) wiioh the flank fire was coming and] movement with a loss of one man Jat Q tine by The Evening World. nly the fret thing to be done| °%2% and 19 full posession of his mentat AS l H MA im tom minutes, then rushed back get a position for flanking the| killed. The casualties were 91 men LOOTED THE TOWN. | informing me of the anfety of Mintster rout the rebels around Tien. |”°**r* from the mud wail which they had} y..)) and five officers out of 426 The tired soldiers femained on the {Conger in Poking, Is the most hopeCut] tgin completely. That will be the base} STARTED FOR PEKING. relteved—eured, +7 ‘The marines lost thirty, Including | wails’ The natives Went looting | ews that has come from there It) oe operations. The diMeulty now ts one ta before’ begia- a , soe At 12.90 the line had fust reached | Capt, Davis, who was «hot through through the Chinese town. The] ooks (o me as if they were authentfe. | 5¢ transport. The Peiho River Is only _'! Hung Chang has left Canton for « Gen. ward, Bi H | the ghore of the cana thirty }the heart while siking {0 Col. | bank and the arsenal were heavy aut.| “! news COMINE) navign ' ‘king. This is why his progress is "9 ) Preven tuaranteed those who come in i wander, hastened forward with §| yards parated them from the | Meade on the night of July 14 ferers. | from I.tke all Astatics, | t mportant event In the world at!, time t fr treatment rooma. 3 . | yard c nfo OF hag , ad f S Gandien Onen ii i im cord ot om Special attention pald t» treatment by maf =. SMentary iwatead of an intemeal] houses when the colorbearer fell It was decided to withdraw, when) An advance movement on Peking | '!* ‘4 ie at Samay We: Seeatls, from Beer came wader vepervision of cer eves: skirmle! news ca’ hat the Chinese were | is not contemplated soon t er ” he ked by the Emperor nencree THE COLORS. evacuating T verican wounded crowd the! ' neit advantage In thle bo a aunts it obeme ¢ id epee robin d a ; refused. | write for examination blank and testt- ANGLO-SAXON BRIGADE. but all are doing well The think they could Dave gone t0/ Phen i may te 5 ° nen Be elled to goby an Im-| montale The An arin l | eum picked up the coon RUSSIANS CHECKED. flage of the allled arml@ are leach lengths in thetr deception as bed ” Peking, but 1 may be too Inte to save ear é ‘ | EUTHYMEN CHEMICAL COMPANY, he American marine and the . a . . . — code the miniaters.” “hinese Government ts sincere Treatment Mont 0 , The Russians were not s0 success { y er atment Mooms, 510 Fifth Ave, Welsh Frsileess together under com le: stood t looking around apparent: | ru! ag hoped during the day. and the a tag juried At Tone! ———— Li has been charged with the task of| NEW YoRK mand of Waller were # extreme |!¥ for a ford | total lone of the allies was 700 ‘ FREDERICK PALMER 1 have received an order to Bookmiller, First Lieuts. Law- beset goon Ti hy pad yp Bigg ————_______——— + Netter a > en againet foreigners, - left. Then the British w snd etter get down or they it} ——— measures fave deen | ton and Schoeffe! wounded, Ninth In | howager Empress are sald to regard him oprogmes of tee fantry officers, and Second Lieut.| as the only man who can possibly bring 4 there i*| Jolly, Marine Corps, sick; now aboard! Peace out of o the French advanced w Jap. | ¥ ed Major Regan te atone arma ty LOOTING OF TIENTS, nver Bate in the mud we The next Instant @ sharpshooter Solace. Pe ut gp ed an wn VIRGT-CLAMS Pine Action DorWard's plan for the Americans | bullet went through the brave Colo- |soratere of All Nattone Except the | ded favorably | “Expect about thirty wounded men.|compiacence by the powers. Thay fear’ weston, Ay, "ommew to support the Japanese was not | nels abdomen kinase ia te le ae A hina Will then send all to Yokohama Hos- ; made clear to Col. Liscum, of the | Y he sald as be foil, | A in All Directions. fe . bar ee | Ae ie ey Feking. Sul pital.” Ninth United States Infantry you ean,” the! TIENTMIN. Ju tia Cheton, "Tl cole ot the | eee ate of le-er : 2 lean " . ebelg Who ate unter Derward lay e blame for nit retreat boys, keep on fire |. . a wee Phased "RANGE DE DEMANDS. re Tal ithe ‘penimenh, oe paiatanae Blunder and sacrifice of life on Lis- |tae “ 7 og a h watered, yi] piher foreign minitlshet from Sandy Hook Hopped Heum, but Dorward’s chiet of stat! seman was hit immediately after bs coe irtonly they are aa + Had sound Over Const Lner-Excitement was heard to sy when Liscum | ward sacked . 1 carried i Up Mie on Board. 4 tnels The stand- ie tie tend navwrare: | A DAY OF TORTURE. ee tive cota Ia worth canta In] tean te venkbes CHINESE quit TIBNTSIN, ee tae ae Seen aes the Counetl of AM day long r allies’ line lay am nee = ob ini eeglteanes oko tee gg that Oe ee Cae te be tad under any cover the men could find, | mney were carries off tw the pillagers |elgo Affaire read a telegram from th ler yl crepe oy ; i} vighonteateges running out of ammunition , © leaders ig F ri at « hina asking hn tat | Canes Seoeeeee Soe 5 oe eo ee Ot ee je gate in as open order as The Jul: n't . hadeBl sores pee d Prancs Gite ‘ths tee pi ty City and te Setghborhood the Bandy Hook Proving Grounds struck uly sun Was beating down ae nd every Shama cas Manon . ers Mave Rece Evacuated. the water between his vessel and the Were immediately vader fre, {0% them and they had nothing to ee ee eae ae ay ne ty Putnam toe von ct Prineo]| LONDON, July 21.—The Admiralty] *hore , caw them pase over the | ‘tink but the salty marsh water lactase oh eek Ge Sue li sae sesaived: the belle ‘The slestip cnant® cheat coe hundred leading to a field which! Meanwhile the wounded came | the only ones to make concerted moves| The reply given by M this aft id ~ wing) ana ats os Lae fee pov Sto be a cul de sac. struggling and crawling through the | , robber Thethat + telegram Seas Dey meer: ay hig wd ; eee gate in the mud wall. There was no ve Cnee “Tientain and neighborhod! eutire- Mio sab whe: combined 6 ys the steamer at what was considered « ly evacuated by Chinese.” very narrow eacape WASHINGTO... July 21.—The "* gerrrnsers were very indignant. em Navy Department has received the following cablegram from Admira| There are thousands of 5 the Corps and respec : = © ellen, Remey, dated Taku, July 20: resort booklets and anlon o. marines under * r ne Britieh| First That effiesctaus pos a aS abs. freetom of <4 between Peking and TERRIBLE FIRE. [ser They were wont anywhere two battalions of Amer-| without men to carry the litters, 426 men, could ex- The doctors were hit by the sharp they were subjected, | shooters while trying to attend the fire from the loopholes | wounded of the Ninth For summer resort information consult The to 8 fleree fire trom the| They could not attempt to carry oH aghn a *Tientsin quiet. Latest report, Rus | hand at The World's Vacation ‘orid’s Vacation Bureau. Applications oie line of fortified off the wounded from the bloody a Regiment pb ro sadas enna yd | sian aan & legations Peking) reau pd free paren poten p+ Pert geal y © told, on, tt pe ‘sal’ carting tla id by abe om ot thi be accompanied flank. . parte out. Reliability tions by mail for printed matter with stamps to cover postage. All services Ba rifles probably} Major Regan, Capt. Rookmuller|t,!he British warships ment. | uncertain. must be accompanied with stamps to the Bureau free 10 World readers. Call or' * BB Aer" ans Capt Noyes wore all hit twice, says the property selsed viicially will eodies of Woa ne tee ath | “ae aa, Si, Mer sore postass, wf, wow or weies,