Pukow, they left devastated, and not content with looting: the houses and railway quarters in the town, they-also cleared the railroad sheds of every bit of rolling' stock that could be moved and to the best of our knowledge they have returned to Pengpu leaving the T. P. R. in the same stranded straits it has come to know so well over the past few years. the mutineers, who tramped over their grounds and caused them no little inconvenience, but, happly, personal harm.
Mr. Hearne in turn proved something of a godsend to many of the natives working for the railroad for they sought the shelter of his home and at one time there were over two score people inside his compound whilst their houses were looted outside.
The chief locomotive superintendent has his house just a short, distance from that of Mr. Hearne's, and there the men went and terrorized the resident and several womenfolk by threatening them wit death unless they produced $500, One of the youths of the household slipped away. in the darkness and called Mr. Hearne who responded, and found five soldiers all heavily armed helping themselves to everything in the place that they thought of any value, By sheer bluff the foreigner order-_ ed them out of the house and made them drop a lot of the stuff they had stolen. Then he took the inhabitants to his home,
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