On June 20th wrote you something of the heginuingy of the Boter movement in andi of Ue attack on the pexceian community of Trienkuch'ivo, 1 further heact-sickening details fave come ty hand finn day today. Tue chapel was built in the country two or three miles from " villa". There were forty ul seventy-live probationers, large number of ens of them riving in the immediate and others in several surrounding villages. The preacher, bachelor of about sixty, ma: wed and resp.cted, lived in 'a room adjoining the chapel.' Rev. W. E. Manly, the missionary in chare, had sent the Sunday with them two days before the attack, ministering to a full house. The avssilauts, with faces blackened asa dis-guis~, approached from thres sides at once, avd the sleepers, awakened by the bloodcurdling Boxer yell, found then already completely surrounded. Springing from their beds in wild terror they' ruched forth, ome of them to a violent death, The preacher was killed before he had tte out of the chapel done, Head, and feet were cut off, ant the disembowelled sat mauled most ily.
The clnpel and its furniture were set fire, but only partially burned and the homes of vighty-nia+ people, with all their con: contr, completely consumed. Tire survivors fled in all directions, homeless and pen. niles. The officials have provided mone; for temporary necessities, but it is ditticnlt, find shelter, since even friends and rela. tives, Wirongh fear of the Boxrs, often retake to reo ive them. Cynsidorable num-lides of conver's from other vilbyges have Hed from their bomas, rd ins one eases looting and Uiraiug Rave vecucrod. The [Boxers have boon warching the rowley, sarking especially to euch and behead the loading Che stions of each place, Tie vile lage newest the place to hie! the Boxers Thate mos the same fate as Vionku the same they been spen and a messenger sent to the alaran The © mverty are not the aly suf vers. Cowds of nonsl ave been p wring is city, abandon.
al bat what was most valuable and dbo most easily rentered.
For the last few days the Boxers have be n increasing in mumber daily, while the soldiers have been hur Chéagtu in several detach telegraph wires wore out, but have been repaired. The few soldiers have not only been unable to afford protection to refugees, have had to execeise caution lost they.
cut off. The Boxers want the two figners ers and thr-aten the life ut the A defeat at this juncture int nsify the danger, and might result in the day or two ago to arrive fr marched, he Bosers, intending to take up their qu tasinatanple. But while their Land they off their guard, they ly found themselves surrounded and fiercely attacked. Being soldiers who Tiad seen fighting, they fought their way out, killing and wounding several, and losing only one killed and one wounded, being compelled to retreat in the direction from which they had come,
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