THE PLAĠUE.
Sanitary Board,
25th June, 1895. During the past 24 hours there has been no new case of plague reported. No death has gocurred among those under treatment at the Kennedytown Hospital.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRES8 and
THE OUTRAGES IN SZECHUEN.
[July 4, 1895,
ment. Not more than eight rebels are allowed
Mrs. Stevenson aud driving them off with ourses. in the settlement at one time. It is said that
These women with the children wandered about the Black Flags are building earthworks round A private letter from Chungking dated the the city wall till midnight, then went to the the forts, and preparing for an attacks by the 3rd instant convoys the following news We C.I.M. till the early morning when the mob Japanese. On the night of the 23rd inst. the have every reason to believe that all C. M. S. reached there. Of course we sent a messenger to are perfectly safe (at the capital at once, and now we are anxiously olloers of the Thales sighted half a dozen friends and houses Japanese men-of-war entering Makang Harbour, Chengtu), as yesterday I received a wire from awaiting developments. The Endicotts leave ** all well." Our fellow for down river early Monday morning; another and it was thought they would leave the same Mr. Jackson saying night for Tainanfoo. There was a heavy south-workers of the Canadian Methodist, American family leaves for the Saifu mountains the next west:swell on at the time.
Methodist Episcopal, China Inland, and Roman | day. But the doctor will remain here for the Catholic Missions have not fared so well. The present. And of course I remain with him. hospital and dwelling houses of the first mission We are making all preparations for a hurried were burnt down on the 28th ultimo, and on the following day those of the other missions shared a similar fate. A telegram to the British Consul here states that although the foreigners, some twenty odd persons, were concealed in the yamen there was still great danger, but later in Viceroy the day another telegram stated: acting, prospects better," which implies that the officials did not at first show too much activity. According to a native telegram, foreigners have ing killed a boy, their places were burnt down and looted, and then a mutilated corpse was discovered under the floor boards of one of the houses. This story was sent all along the line, and is hardly calculated to soothe matters. At Chungking things seem to be quiet; the Taotai desires to prevent any disturbances and has spies all over the city taking note of the conversation in the teashops. On the 1st instant the gate- keeper of Mr. Murray's house which adjoins the C. I. M. premises was warned to move because it was said rioters intended to commence with the latter place and then go on to the other missions. According to the latest news received on the 3rd instant through the Roman Catholics. the ladies and children of the other missions were on their way to Chungking by boat.
The following are the statistics of cases of plague from June 14th to noon this day :-
No. of cases reported
deaths......
treatment
18
11
2
The total number of deaths from plague since the 29th of April, the day on which the first cash was reported, is sixteen.
W. EDWARD Crow,
Assistant Sanitary Superintendent.
Sanitary Board,
Hongkong, 26th Jane, 1895. No new case of plague has been reported and no death has occurred during the past 24 hours. The following are the statistics of cases of plague from June 14th to noon this day
No of cases reported
donths
13.
11
2
" 70. cases under treatment The total number of deaths from plague since the 20th of April, the day on which the first
#reported, is sixteen.
W. E. CROW, Assist, Sanitary Superintendent.
Sanitary Board,
27th June, 1895. There are now no cases of plague under treat- ment in Kennedytown Lospital. The patient from 235, Queen's Road West died yesterday afternoon. The other case mentioned in the last daily return as being under treatment was not a case of plague.
A private letter written at Kiating on the 1st instant by a Chêngtu missionary giving ad- ditional details of the riots in Szechnen, and to some extent explaining the case which Chinese reports have represented as the cause of the outbreak. has been received in Shanghai, and courteously placed at our disposal:-
4
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The
departure, and we have a good strong rope, which we will use to let ourselves down over the wall it they make any fass in the night. The city. is full of students who are just going into their examinations, and when they come out they may make a fuss, and it is well to be prepared. Endicott takes most of the silver and all the deeds of the various properties with him to Chungking, and perhaps farther. I had what might have been a serious thing happen to me some time ago. I had operated on a woman in confinement. As a result of the care they get in their homes, she had a good deal of temperature and I went to see her twice a day for over a week, generally paying my own chair hire. She got almost well, and I did not see her for five or six days, when they sent for me and I found general pelvic peritonitis. I did all I could for her at the time, but she was vomiting everything and I saw she could not live. child, however, was thriving. That evening I saw her again and for the awful pain I gave her morphine injection. She died somewhere about seven or half-past, and at eleven o'clock at night they sent for me. I went, taking a couple of assistants, and as it was only about half-a-mile I walked. A very casual examination convinced me that she was dead, and as soon as I said so, the husband sprang and barred the door and would not let me out. I shook him up pretty lively and he opened the door, and I sent my second assistant on ahead with my grip, keeping the teacher with mo. No sooner did we get out of the courtyard on to the street than he was after We escaped the riot by about two hours and me, and begging me to give his wife some foreign a half in this way. We left the city at four medicine and care her. He called out two or three o'clock p.m. on the 28th. We could not have times and men came running out of all the houson- left the next day at all as it was the big Dragon round, putting on their clothes as they came. In feast, and at four o'clock of the 29th our com- a very few minutes I had a crowd of nearly pounds were burnt to the ground, that is, the fifty and this man began to catch hold of me in dwellings, schools, and chapel in one, and adjoin a way I did not like. I told him if he came ing was the hospital. From our place they went to the hospital next day I would talk to to the C. I. M., carrying off every stick in him, But he would not listen. He then caught the place. The compound where the ladies of hold of me by the collar of my flannel shirt in ☀ our W. M. S. lived was also rioted, the ladies way that was anything but gentle, but I made going over the wall into a neighbour's. Next no resistance. At last his hold loosened a little morning they began with the M. E. mission, and at the same time a man hit me from ber cleaning it out completely even to the walls and hind and ran sideways. I broke from the fellow- the leaves on the trees. The new house be- that held me and caught the other fellow finely ways, and it felt longing to our mission that Mr. Hartnall and knocked him end was living in was also looted and burned, good too. The crowd calling out "Strike the W. Edward Crow,
Mrs. Hartnull escaping to the C. I. M. foreigner!" "Kill the foreigner!" and get-
W. M. Assist. Sanitary Superintendeuf, after being driven with the
S. ting larger and larger every minute, determined ladies out of their house. The Catholics me to make a run for it, which I did, with A Chinese passenger suffering from plague
had five different stations, at one of which was a the whole pack after me like devils. I soon arrived from Canton by the steamer Fatshan on cathedral two hundred and seventy feet long, or saw that I could out-run them, and kept ahead of Sunday morning. The patient was transferred to the Kennedytown Hospital, and died there at rather the whole building in which the cathedral them, till I overtook my assistant with my grip, was was that length. All these different places and I made him travel I can tell you. He got 3.30 ■.m. on Bunday.
are utterly wiped out. All the foreigners are at the street gates open for me. And we soon gọt the yamên of one of the magistrates. The Fu to the hospital, that was shut of course, and it himself came and looked at the work of destruc- seemed like an eternity before the man opened tion going on, then got into his chair and had it. I hadn't time to shut it before they were at not gone forty yards before they were at it the gate and throwing themselves against it again, I don't know whether or not you know forced it open. Not a man would help. I caught that in Chêngta we have two Hsiens who the ringleader, and half dragged, half carried him manage the city's affairs, each in his own dis-into the hospital, then dropped him as I saw no triot which are quite distinct the one from the one was trying to shut the gate and people other. Well, a curious fact in connection with still coming in, though it
dead the American missionaries is, that they were night. I got them out all except taken to the magistrate on our side, out of their woman's husband, and 1 wanted to keep him, own district entirely, as if it were a well-planned but as I was trying to put up the bars he caught scheme between them that the foreigners should me by the knees and dragged me down and fedi be collected in one place. They may have been I lost my hat and walking stick I took with me, liberated by this time and on their way down and will never see them again, of course. After The Japanese Oficial Gazette says that the the river, for all we know but Hartnull says the getting the gate shut I went up to the house, Sasebo Prize Court gave on the 12th inst. judy- rumour there is that no foreigner will be allowed washed the blood out of my eyes, from a out head, ment in the case of 220 boxes of small arm am- to leave the city. We don't know whether to then went back and opened the gate and went munition, etc, which were seized by the Tsukuba believe this or not. But it does not seem out, but could not see anybody that looked like Kan from the lighter Pekin. of the Tug and reasonable to watch the city gates, when the man I wanted. Next day, of course, we look Lighter Co., Taku, when alongside the steamer they are all in one room at the yamen. Mrs. up the matter and brought it to the notice of Laksang on the 9th of April last, off Taku. Stevenson and Mrs. Kilborn with four children the officials, but they have done very little in The Court decided that the articles in question.crawled out on to the street through a hole in the matter. They held an inquest on the corpse, being contraband of war which a belligerent
and for a couple of days the whole section was state is entitled to seize outside the territory of
in an uproar, thousands of people going to nëntral states, without respect to the personage
her, if you cau believe our servants. On top of this affair came all kinds of extravagant rumours of the owner or the nationality of the vessel, they were proper prizes of war.
of what I had done to her-cutting her open, etc.
The following are the statistics from June 14th to noon this day :-
•
No. of cases reported.....
deaths
备
量
M "
12 12 cases under treatment..
None The total number of deaths since the 29th of April, the day on which the first case was reported, is seventeen.
The statistics of the Lappa Plague Hospital, Maoso, for the six days ended 28th June are as follows, the day being counted from 6 p.m. to 6 New casos. Deaths. Discharges.
June 23.
24.
28
Total...31
3
2
10
26
12
the big hospital gate that the mob was breaking in. And this so upset the rioters that it gave them a chance to escape. They tried several houses, as well as the fort near by, but were driven off each place, one of the soldiers kicking
was
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