THOUSANDS RESCUED
Some Good Work Done by the Allied Powers.
A dispatch describing the rescue of hundreds of Western missionaries and thousands of Chinese refugees during the Boxer Rebellion, brought to safety aboard a steamer with a secret destination.
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Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Page 1
1 min readChe Foo, July 9.
New York, July 13.—A dispatch to the Journal and Advertiser from Che Foo, July 9, says:
Great joy reigns in Che Foo, inspired by the safe arrival of every white missionary and every native preacher in the Tien Tsin district hitherto unaccounted for.
The steamer Shin Fing, of Chinese registry, but officered by Americans and English, brought in the refugees to the number of more than 200. They report that more than 15,000 refugees to Tien Tsin and Taku have been rescued from certain death by the allied forces of the powers.
The missionaries who arrived by the Shin Fing are: Perkins, Crawford, Lewis, Blalock, Crawford, Hudson, Dawes, Tedder, Partch, Burnham, Fitch, Faries, Parker, Hayes, Porter, Moon, Lowe, Thompson, Luce, Irwin, Mateer, Hartwell, Print, Steven, Dutton, Owen, Neal and Cooper.
Every missionary in Shan Tung province and every native preacher in the Methodist Tien Tsin district is now accounted for.
The steamer sailed from an obscure coastwise port with her destination secret. The Rev. P. D. Berger, one of the refugees, made a gallant rescue of foreign miners near his station at Tsin Tao, [...] miles southwest of Che Foo. Mrs. Berger and Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Neal are among the refugees arriving on the Shin Fing.
At Feng-Tszi three Chinese converts were killed.
Mrs. Crosetti of Wei Hein brought on with her party Davies and Johnson. Fleming also escaped.
Watts and Fenton made a gallant ride to Taku to bring the news of the critical conditions in the outlying Shan Tung villages. They swam the Pei Ho river twice and were fired on by the natives at every village they passed.
Hopkins, Partch, Luce and Ewing left for Japan by today's steamer. The Rev. Cornwall of Che Foo has greatly distinguished himself by making three trips into the interior to rescue missionaries.
The English mission at Cheng Chow has been looted and burned.
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