 Complete the following phrase:  Sensationalist American newspapers initially reported, in screaming headlines, that Conger was undoubtedly dead, together with his staff consisting of H. G. Squires, William E. Bainbridge and Fleming D. Cheshire as well as all other foreigners in Beijing. Americans and other westerners retreated to the Beijing Legation Quarter, where they were under siege for fifty-five days see. 