St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 7, 1900

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Reg ular Edition. Sule MARKET KEPORTS. MAN ALL DRUGGISTS. THE SHIRT WAIST Or any other specimen of the male pany may he obtained through ?.-D. WANTS ——-+ ee ~ VOL. 52, “NO. 351. oT. LOUIS THE ONLY ST. LOUIS PO TEN PAGES. T-DISPAT EVENING PAPER WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. Regular Editio. ‘ Sule MARKET REPORTS. ——— a re eee - ~ TUESDAY EVENING—ST. LOUIS AUGUST 7, ~ 1900. PRICE} in es, Geen ae One Cent. Outside St. Louis, Two Cents. THE SERVANT GIRL PROBLEM | Is solved by advertising for domestic help through P.-D. WANTS. ALL DRUGGISTS. ———ae in ———— COUNTRY THROUGH WHICH THE GALLANT AMERICANS ARE FIGHTING CHINESE. The illustration is from photograph and shows the character of the plain neir Tien Tsin cceupied by the Chinese. ivi yaa Hy ” SSP: aes ah a3 Hie iy? TRENCHE NEW MORMON OR SALT LAK a AND TAKEN BY GALLANT Ae “i s > Na lat — >. g n:s hiss t’ (2 hy Uv me fry Wee, es bi ae: abies cgatys onan weit 2. FF i ps SA a * BRIDGE OVER A STREAM NEAR PEITSANG. A STATE OF WAR DOES NOT YET EXISTI. —o%e The Battle of Peitsang and Killing and Wounding of 1200 American and European Soldiers Has Not Changed the Special to the Post-Dispaich. WASHINGTON, Aug. retreat lost neither a man nor a horse. 1858 the outfit fought and subdued the Spokane Indians. Fight vears later it pitted against the Indians in Oregon | Northern California gent was sent to Alaska. and it of the regiment that between the vears 1866 and 1889 it had garrisoned every post from Sitka, Alaska, to Mojave, Ariz. The Ninth fought under Cook during the Kig Horn and Yellowstone was in the hottest of the fighting at buttes, Tongue river and Rosebud. In Sep- tember of the year in which Custer met his fate, the Ninth regiment was cut for a long time from its supply base, and | officers and men lived for weeks on mule |} meat with an occasional bit as a delicacy The regiment is credited with having | given the fatal blow which broke the back of the: Sioux uprising. Sitting Bull had barely put the white feather in his hatr before the fighting Ninth was ordered to Chicago to help quell the riots of I77. The. aided tn restoring order, and performed guard duty for some time, being then or dered back to the Western prairies. There was no rest for the indefatigable Ninth It had no sooner reached the buffalo coun- try again than a part of it was ordered ganization saw other severe fighting at San into the saddle as mounted infantry and Antonio, Churubusco, and Molino del Rey, sent in pursuit of the Cheyennes, who, like After the capture af the City of Mexico a red whirlwind, were raiding and devas- there was but litt!e rest for this battle- tating the country along the line of a war- tried command. Jt was literally Jumped to path which led from the Indian Terrttory northern California a* d to Oregon, where it to the Red Cloud agency in Dakota it entered upon Indian campaigning of a try- was in the heat of the summer. and for ing kind. thirty-six consecutive hours the pursuing in the year 1556 a small contingent of the troopers were without one drop of water regiment, 15) men all told, were surrounded The men, at the very first symptom of suf- Indians near Fort Walla Walla fering on the part of the horses, gave to the animals that which nature craved for themselves. Sinee that Cheyenne uprising the Ninth has fought the Utes, the Cheyennes once more, and finally the Apaches. The com- mand wlll meet no more savage foe in China than they fought vears ago in the nm Savages } sun-baked Arizona deserta, , =| and Learned of commanded the regi- ment in the hot fighting with the SGritish troops around Niagara Falls. In the course of time Colonel Learned was succeeded by Col. Truman B. Ransom, ‘‘a fire-eater and a gentleman, by the Lord Harry,” as touch- ing him went the paraphrase of a more cele- brated description. Col. Ransom was killed while leading his men in that charge which gallantry has but few peers—the at- tacking and the storming of the citadel at (Chapultepec. The Ninth lost many a gal- lant soul in that day, and, as the result of its figating, Mal. Gen. Piliow, afterward of ( ontensens fame, named sixteen officers and eleven enlisted men for conspicuous braverv—a list that In length is without a paralie where a single regiment and a sin- igagement are rned The old or- er first fell to Colonel Simon Massachusetts, who for Conce that their ammunition, bar- ring three rounds per man, was exhausted. The regulars cut their way through the Savages, and began a retreat that Is one of the most famous in army history. The little band with ita slender supply of pow- der and ball held off the su Such eminent statesmen as Senators Teller Was | At one time a contin- | was said expeditions It | Slim forces, oft ' , and Yang Tsun os crossing of Pei Ho of horesefiesh | city Fy : | FREDERICK PALMER. Post-Dispatch War Correspondent Wao Cabled First Definite News of the Battle of AME Peitsang. RICANS. Frederick Palmer, Correspondent Famous War of the Post- Dispatch, Cables First Def- inite News of the Vic- tory of the Allies at Peitsang. Se FOUR BODIES OF AMERICANS FOUGHT WITH GREAT GALLANTRY Gen. Chaffee Cables of the Preparations for the Engagement and Plan of the First Battle of the march to Pekin, THE MINISTERS WERE SAFE ON JULY 28 Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch. (Copyright, CHE FOO, Aug. 10m). ) ‘The Chinese works at Pietsang have been captured by the allies and the first battle on the way to Pekin Wold. The foreign troops are now fighting. trenches. There was fierce A strong force of Americans Ninth and Fourteenth Regiments marines, The attack cupied a strong position. works and loop-holed houses, The allies advanced in the seven hours in possession of the Chinese It consisted of the Reilly’s battery and participated, of Infantry, They won a great victory. was made at daylight Sunday. The Chinese oe- They had deep trenches, heavy breast- face of destructive fire. lor (‘hinese made a most stubborn resistance. Then the foreign troops stormed the position and the Chinese were swept out of the trenches. The were very heavy. Americans fought gallantly. The losses of the allies FREDERICK PALMER, Special War Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. _. _—_ PREPARING TO ATTACK CHINESE POSITION. a> A. _ = Gen. Chaffee Cables Aug. Decided to Open the WASHINGTON cablegram from Gen. “Che Aug. 7.—The wai Chattee: Aug. 7, Tien Foo, day. Chinese tntrenched cast and west ed by flooded ground practically unassat | forces, about 10,000 strong, attacked Chi Russian, road. Siath Ministers sa and battery. Conemaugh arryed and awaiting mounts sin, ge @ through Pe able. Japanese, nese French, about 4000 strong, Chinese position apparently strong Yang fe on ZEth of 3 That a Conference of Commanders sattle on Sunday. department has received the following Conterence today decided battle Sun- itsang. Rest of Chinese protect- Knglish and American right, west of river in flank. Other between river and rail- Army reported 30,000 between Pebang objective. Our force 2000 (at Tien Tsin) for guard of July. CHAFFEE.” opposite side Tsun Cavalry left eed ADVANCING IN TWO COLUMNS. The dispatch of Gen. Chaffee, written be- battle of Sunday, received at the confirms the di« navy tment nre fore the patches depat dispatches attack on the (*haffee's yesterday, and also the received today concerning the Chinese at Peltsang Ce! patch, dated Friday, was not Che Foo until today. an tnexplicable The most interesting feature of the patch is regarding the positions of the (“tl- nese army, and the fact that the advance upon Pekin is made by two columns one on each side of the Pel River. rhe international force, as given by Gen Chaffee, would aggregate about 4.09 men, while the other dispatches say 16,0, but this difference can easily be accounted for. as more men might have been availabie when the movement began than whép the dis- sent from | delays dis- con fer: nee was held on the 34 tnst. This cupposed to have been bee commanders present ae if rence i« 'weerenk t hve at Tien Tein it in evide nt that the foreign commanders ‘derestimate the task which be fore them, as the em ge a thorough reeonnotssance o position had been made was fore the advance of the Intere- national foree from Tten Tain the manders were in possession of full mation relative to the Chinese Thie is one of the most welcome features of the dispatch aa it proves cone that the International column 414 not blunder upen an intrenehed position of the enemy . According to the ee ae the town of Pett#ang co h the river, but the main of the left side where the aa American f ing ‘oe Cc several details, inj. FS BME Risen “il sain oh Leen aii sae iOS NE Alt Kdlte ntin eatne. ~ thie etn Mle aise el ae ee a wwe Bie ced or wy” 4 Cee aia ok PS ice tat) GET AR AMAS-o Scar dece — Pr ee