Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1900 — HORRIBLE STORIES [ARTICLE]

HORRIBLE STORIES

Told by Natives Who Have Escaped from Pekin. Belated advices from Pekin, via CheFoo, to Shanghai, say a messenger who attempted to leave Pekin was captured, according to deserting Chinese officers, and a message addressed to "Any foreign commander,” urging instant aid for foreigners, was found. It was undated hut evidently sent out about July 25. These deserting officers left Pekin July 15. The streets were then jammed with anarchistic Chinamen, whose fighting among themselves literally reddened the gutters with blood. They say there are I<>,ooo troops in Pekin and 8,000 at Tungtsun, and they hold all the streets within a mile of the legations and had burned and abandoned the Ohenffien gate. Viceroy Liu Kun Yi and Director Sheng both officially declare the ministers are held ns hostages and that if the allies advance, they will be killed. Stories of horrible barbarities continue to come in. Two French nuns at New Chwang were burned alive. Dr. Ting, who graduated from an American college, received 2.000 lashes but refused to renounce Christianity. In several instances native Christians were skinned alive.