Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1900 — DID NOT KILL HIS WOUNDED. [ARTICLE]

DID NOT KILL HIS WOUNDED.

Statement that Seymour Had Done So Evidently a Fabrication. There is nothing in the extensive report of Admiral Seymour received in San Francisco by the American Marti to prove the sensational story that was circulated the earlier part of this month to the effect that Admiral Seymour, who commanded the Pekin relief expedition, killed his wounded to save them from the Chinese. Commander S. W. Very, U. S. N., who’ returned from the Orient on the steamer and others who were at Hong Kong whan Admiral Seymour returned from' TienTsin did not hear the story, and the admiral’s report, which is an elaboration of the cablegram published on the 30th of June, makes not the slightest mention of the affair, but, on the contrary, goes into particulars of the bravery of the allies in guarding the wounded, who were placed in flntboats and towed down the yver by details of soldiers and marines while the main body of the troops fought the Chinese off with rifles nnd Maxims. The Chinese minister in 'Washington received a dispatch Tuesday morning from Sheng, the director of railroads and telegraphs at Shanghai, stating that the foreign ministers are to be sent from Pekin to Tien-Tsln under escort; nl-n that the imperial government hns not only been protecting them, but has supplied them with food.