Show PRIEST PRIST SLICED AND A BURNED Terrible Cruelties on Missionaries S Are Reported Vancouver B C Nov 15 1 the sanction and with wih the approval of the United States minister and the officers i commanding the American Amerian in Pekin George R Tewksbury has ha been ben II prosecuting inquiries dictating terms I and arranging Indemnities In the vil villages villages 1 lages around Tung Chow report says his investigation brought io tO 0 light cruelties of the most hellish and barbarous description as a practiced I the native converts convert in that neigh neighborhood neighS i S by bv the Boxers Some of the Christians Christans and all al their relatives and connections shared in whatever what ver pun punishment punishment punIshment was meted out to one Some were buried alive others burned bure at the th stake and an still sti others were ere first sat saturated st saturated with kerosene and ad then set st on onfre fire fre A Belgian Roman Catholic priest had strips of flesh fesh cut out of his limbs and which the was holes then filled ignited Jed with wih kerosene kerone Almost AIm ost as horrifying ing a description also brought by the steamer Empress of China today is given by Rev Re C Co J j Tinder of the Swedish Protestant mule mis mission slon sion of the murder of Rev Re G McCon MeCon McConnell nell nel Mrs McConnell McConnel their baby boy boythe boythe boythe the Misses E Buron ana anc S A King Rev John Young and Mrs Young and anda a native servant servant At Tsin the I little party fleeing feeing for their lives were I overtaken by b twenty soldiers and a amob amob amob mob of coolies cooles The soldiers hacked I Ithe the missionaries to pieces with wih their swords the women being forced forc to look lok at the murder and mutilation of the themen men and the baby The bodies boie were thrown on the road and were still sti in I th dust seven days after the murder m |