Show ESCAPES FROM BOXERS HOW foreigners IN MANY CASES EVADED DEATH new york july 7 A dispatch to the journal and advertiser from che foo says bad news has been received from the methodist mission at tsung hua the place was attacked by a band of chinese and the settlement bioren up the methodist native girl converts were carried away into captivity by the boxers after their preacher had been slain other converts who ead incurred the hatred of the boxers fled without lottering ottering ott ering any resistance si this prevented a wholesale butchery as the settlement ot converts was greatly outnumbered pei ta ho it is reported is the property of foreigners and native converts to christianity Is destroyed pao ting fo Is safe A report come from apparently reliable sources that chu wang is burned the american commander of the chinese merchant vessel baechi had an exciting experience while protecting a party of missionaries near teng chow fu the baechi bad been hiding under tho shore ready to bring the missionaries to safety A russian gunboat loomed up on the horizon and seeing be chinese ship prepared to attack and capture it the captain hoisted the american flag and the russians sailed away indian troops lancers and infantry sent from singapore most of them fierce mathans from the hill districts on the afghanistan border are pressing to the relief of the besieged the most dreadful rumors continue to come rom within the city of peking there are so many stories afloat that Is hopeless to try to trace any of them to their source without any degree ot de the report of ten reiterated Is that people have been killed foreigners have been your correspondent considers the reports to be very doubtful that Is it what he chinese mean to convey is that all abe foreigners in peking have been slain these reports may refer solely to the killing of von ketteler the refugees from teng chau fu have arrived here all the refugees got in safely but ono man named wells who refused to leave the station and his fate is unknown communication muni cation v ith tien tsin is interrupted |