Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1900 — TORTURED BY FIENDS. [ARTICLE]

TORTURED BY FIENDS.

Horrible " nfferinsts of Women Missionaries nt Hands of Boxers. Further details of the brutal treatment of the members of the American inland missionaries who lied from Hankow have been ascertained. Miss Rice was beaten, knocked down and a heavy cart drawn repeatedly over her body, after which slip was clubbed to death. Miss Huston, also of the American mission, bad her skull fractured by a blow which exposed part of her brain; after suffering this horrible injury she was starved and tor Hired for twenty days. Her injured brain uioi'tificd and she died in awful agony. Mrs. Cooper of tiie British inland mission was divested of her clothing, tied to a stake and left under the blistering sun and at the mercy of tiie flies. After several days of agony and starvation death came to her relief.