Show RUSSIANS SAVE LIVES Mrs Denby Tells of Horrors in City of Tien Tsin Indianapolis Ind Aug 20Thc following fol-lowing letter was received last night from Mrs Charles Dcnby Jr dated Tien Tsln July 20th On the night of June 15th enormous fires In the native na-tive city were started and the Boxers began their attack on the settlement so we were all arouscd at 4 clOek and everyone who lived In the extra concession con-cession went either to friends on the Victorls road or to the town halt As it happened Mrs Von Han elcn had asked us to come to her In case of I alarm so we escaped to the town hall There were perhaps one hundred people who remained their own homes All I the rest were huddled together In Gordon Gor-don hal for ten days The Chinese troops were everywhere every-where Two days before the alarm 1700 I Russian troops arrived They saved our lives Had It not been for them all of us would have been slaughtered On that Monday they fought 6000 Chinese Chi-nese foreign drilled troops for twelve hours At one time they thought they could not hold them at bay but In the evening the Russians still maintained main-tained their positions How the Russians Rus-sians fought and suffered cannot describe their courage For three days they lay in the open exposed to a terrible ter-rible fire without being able to fight back Thc Chlnee were behind trenches so thc Russians could not afford to waste ammunition All these days we were watching and waiting reinforcements We could not believe the Admirals would bombard the forts and plunge UB Into war and then leave us with only a few hundred troops Such however was the case No one knows where the fault lay There hasbeen I dreadful days q fighting But when the second additional addi-tional troops werp dispatched from Taku after the arrival of Jim Watts tho brave Russian rider they were able with such a reinforcement to work their way through Thus they all arrived on Sunday morning and we were saved |