Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1900 — TIEN-TSIN IN HORRIBLE STATE [ARTICLE]

TIEN-TSIN IN HORRIBLE STATE

Native City Ruined and Many Bodies Lying Unburied. Tien-Twin advices via Shanghai say that the native city presents an appalling spectacle of war and desolation. Scarcely a dozen houses are intact on the side facing the settlements. Inside the city damage is terrific. Many of the-buildings nearest the wall were literally blown to pieces. Among the residences charred corpses are every where. Dogs and pigs are feeding on them. The allies are busy removing the dead. Owing to their great number, many have not yet been buried. The Chinese, it is said, have lost altogether about 11,000 since the trouble started. Most of them have been killed by Boxers and soldiers. The streets throughout the city are strewn with nil kinds of arfieles, and dozens of Chinese are digging in the ruins for money hnd other valuables. Most of the houses which are intact or little damaged display the flags of one or the other of the allied forces, the Japanese and French tings predominating.