 However, intervention on part of the European diplomats in the city managed to persuade the men to give, assigning safe passage to the survivors to France.Despite the level of violence the incident had wrought, the takeover was reported positively in the European press, praising the men for their courage and the objectives they attempted to accomplish.The years between 1894 and 1896 ended, with estimates of the dead ranging from 80,000 to 300,000.