The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 30, 1898, Page 3

ries, oles fons; who inue ome ace el | EER TS ARR ARE RRA RN EE A A BATTLE OF SABINE PASS commanders and army engineers |THE BLACK HOLE OF MANILA #24 sprang to his feet. He b’as- uw P —— yas the Most Remarkable in - History--42 Men Defeated : a Fleet of 22 Vessels. ‘The story of the battle of Sabine reads like a dream. It would er do to tell it to any people but By the side of it Balaklava mes eommonp!ace, and the hero gp of Napeleon’s old guard is : matter of moonshine an asia play- ee People are not eager to credit mir- acles unless they are scented with the dust of ages. Sabine Paes is go affair of yesterday; consequently, the chronicler of events would hard Jy expect the world to credit the most brilliant story that history has to tell, were it not that every fact is gastained by brave, honorable and trotbful participants on both sides. (One hesitates to atk posterity to Delieve that forty two men in a little mud fort, with an armament of six 4 pounders, defeated a fleet of 24 vessels, carrying & land army of 4,000 men, en 1 that after capturing 2 jron clade, with all the crews and officers, they drove the whole armada tosea. Nevertheless, all of this happensd at Sabine Pass, on the west of Texas, on the 20th of Sep tember, 1864 It is not difficult to write the facts for it 18 @ plain, straightforward story, well authenticated by the re rt of General Franklin, who com manded the land forces, and by papers in the confederate archives now in the war office at Washington. Everything connected with the affair iseo incredivle that few historians | it they will find models to inspire|subterranen vault has long ben the have dared to treat it in an impartial epirit. General Banks, whom the confed- sworn that no Spanish army sball|the Spanish power, and there the erates had saluted in the Red river| yer know the color of their knap-|Spanish officers and people of Ma country as “late Quartermaster to Stonewall Jackeon,” conceiyed the idea of capturing Houston, Texas, and, fearing to attack Galveston, he| of the Wildernees, of Sabine Pass|of God's pure air or a draught of sent a fleet of 24 vessels, carrying &| ef the victorious red field of San|water that was not salt, and then, land army of 4,000 men, with orders| Jacinto, and of the blood-stained laughing in the sunshine, the people to “pulveriza the ant hills and dis-| wails of the Alamo, and if they are| would drive away from the smother- mount the popguas at Sabine Pass.”| the gons of their fathers, they will|ing wretches whom they had seen The fleet was ordered to hold and | gigim vietory or six feet of Cuban|through the trap door. fortify the place, while General Franklin disembarked and marched across the country and reduced Houston to submission. The plan was no lesa brilliant on paper than in the council of war. This fleet, composed of ships of the line, armored gunboats and trans- ports, spread far out over the Gulf of Mexico, and was certainly an ob- ject of terror when it appeared in the cfling beyond the bars of the Sabine, but the 42 Irishmen were there to hold the fort or die by the side of their guns. On the morning of the 20th of Sep- tember four irovelads cleared their decks for action almost within mus ket shot of Fort Grigsby, which was the only fortification of any kind that defended the pass. The little garrison stood by the guns for two long hours, while shot and shell was rained on the mud walls, and the big guns of the fleet sent shrieking balls inside of the works. There was never quite such a hell on earth asin that little port, but not a man asked the boy com- mander to lower the flag. A brave woman at the hotel sent the braye fellows a gallon of whis- ky, and told them that if they did not open fire pretty soon she would come to them and man one of the guns herself. The first shot frem the fort was well simed. The ball passed through the steam boilers of ove of the gunboats, and the escaping hot steam and scalding water forced the crew to jump into the sea. Lieuten- ant Dowling sprang upon the para- pet and ordered the whole battery to be trained upon the nearest iron- clad. The first volley disabled her and she struck her colors. The other two gunboats hastened to get| many of them are new harvesting the | brother was taken away. out of her line of fire. The big fleet after pouring shot and sheil into the fort for mere than an hour finally drifted to sea with one sbip dis-| farmers of Jasper county on account | abled and the deeks of all slippery] of the rust and the bug will certain-| with blood. For days and weeks afterwards considered the plac impregnable. While the big fleet was sai away Lieutenant Dowl ng was won- dering how on earth he would ever o find men enough to receive and guard his priconers, for he well knew that they outnumbered his} whole force at least three to ore Fortunately Captain Odlam ar-} rived on tbe field with 200 recruits, | and these men helped to make a! showing, enabling the boy and his| 42 men to go out and their flag on the two big ironclads and bring ashore 150 prisoners. The Captain of one of the vessel was a brave old tar, tion for heroic actioa rose rior to his prejudice, and he at demanded to be led befor who was in command astounded toees a beard! f the old sea dog looked srouid -» |] the hensy combed mud the old, smooth bored then said: “Young man, do you kn wat | you have done? After sustaining the | most terrible artillery fire that ever shrieked through the air since Nel | son bombarded Oopenkagen for two hours, you have killed and wounded three times the number of your own captured two vessels, with their armemants, crews and officers, and from your own mud fort, with alot of popguns, you have driven a fice fleet of 22 ships gunboats, carrying a land army of 4,000 men cffto sea in the dark. You ought to bs ashamed of your- elf, sir.” Every Texan on the road to Cuba is familiar with the story of Dick Dowling and his 42 Irishmen, and in whose adumira-} fareu ce} | a | men, splendid war aud them in battle. The First Texas has already sacks. No people have greater ex- amples before them than the Texans. They only have to think soil. Brazos. Are you lacking in strength and en- ergy? Are you nervous, despondent, irrltable constipated and generally run down in health? If se, your torpid, and a few doses of Herbine will cure you. Herbine has no equal as a health re- storer. H L Tucker- Pando Enroute to Santiago. Off Santiago de Cuba, via Mole St. Nicolas, Hayti, June 22 —Gen Calixto Garcia, of the Cuban army on his visit to Admiral Sampson on board the flagship New York on | Sunday, brought tothe Admiral the important news that the Spanish Garcia's command are said to be | distributed as to cut off Gen. Pando’s approach At any rate Pando will have to fight every inch of his way, and the American troops are likely to be landed and attack the Spanish troops at Santiago before Pando and his forces are there lee IFC. C,C. fa Chinch Bugs and Black Rust. Web City, Mo., June 22 —From an agricultural standpoint, the most damaging thing experienced in this, Jasper county, for many years is the many millions of the chinch bug now present and the presence of what is known as the black rust. These two plagues era playing sad havoc with the wheat crop, and fields that two weeks ago looked yery flattering are to-day abandoned as not worth the cutting. Farmers are on every hand lamenting the present condition of things, and wheat crop in the hope that some- thing may be saved from ths bug andthe rust. Yetthe loss to the ly be many thousands of dollars. It your child has thin, pale cheeks, the tide threw dead bodies upen the} yncertaia appetite and anrestiul sleep, sands of the shore. Bhe fleet returned to New Orleans |p, and the officers reported the loss of ithas worms, and curing with strong medicines ealy makes conditions worse irritating its delicate stomach. White’s Cream Vermifuge is mild but certain in its c¢itect, is a superier iwo gunboats and stated that Sabine | tonic as well asa positive worm destroy- Rass was so well forified that Bavaljcr. H L Tucker. lat its base by the salt sea, with ove} “A clatter of feet, The insurgent troops under Gen. | Educate Your Bowels With Cas} carets. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever ruggists refund money | @DD: bemed, railing at heaven and hell. ef ; Again and again he eprang for the g In Which the Spaniards Would tbe staticg in the ceiling g i “Come’ he cried: ‘e v1 1/Z Have Smothered Dewey's nian Se me up. I can break the grating Brave Men. me N: “Three o sprang to his assist ance A fourth re climbed on our shoulders. Then Han Kai sprang AN AIRLESS DUNGEON INTO WHICH Hie barely reached the bars B’ack Ho'e of Manila, which is leep | Han Kai, growling and m under the walls of a fertcess lapped at bis victim like an angry dc soldiers aud narrow barred wiadow, the Out which air ani light and sea water | came their swords, aud in snirstant| eome, a broad heavy door that shuts | Han Kai was bleeding from an aw- mercilees!y upon the prizoaers and {ful wound across tke throat, but | one trap docr above, through which} Han Kai hung on biting and 5 a few siray beams of light may enter} ing like a beast and over the grating of which pace = “Finally one of the sildiers knelt | the Spaniard a Spanich sentry. | down and deove his sword straight ee a through | came running to gratin ne that they snarl-| it or more I waited for They cams so sud- Jenly that I barely had time to fling The entrance to the dungeon is |down behind Han Kai's collarbone wivasif dowased haut oa : u selic o pau a de Db through a long tuanel, the outer|aod into bis chest. It was the]. wines ? — A = : . }across my face opening to which is coyered with stroke that Spanish matadors use inj) (4, ¢ : : a = ne Tco bad, said one; ‘we would beautiful tropical vines, and the in- | killing a ball. Slowly Han Kai's é had fun hanging them ner closed by the iron door. head lotled back and slowly his) sie, awbile men with Af > men cim3 wi Dark, wet, airless, thie terrible |buge muscles grew limp, and then j stretchers ani began the dead. When my tura camsa Spanish doctor felt my heart. “Why, said be, ‘this man is alive” There was astonisbment and regret ‘Take him to the hos down came his body on the stone to carry away floor witha crasb, the dead lieuten- ant staring down at him with borri- ble bursting eyes from the grating above. place of incarceration and slow death of thosa who rebelled against Tue Sea Rises To Tue Gratine =n — ‘About 10 o'clock tde moon shot “I slipped away from the bospita', a shaft of light into tke dungeon | the only man,I believe, who ever ea- bathing it in a sortof blue light,|toreq the Black Hole vf Manile, and like that ofan inferno. The floor escaped to tell ef it.” was coyered with a tangled mass of : thee men Hands clenched ia stony rigor.| YOUNG HOBSON'S MOTHER Breasts heaving deep and convulsive- WRITES ABOUT HER HERO. ly, faces ghastly in the moonlight, lips drawn back twitching spasmod- ically, and teeth gleaming. “Above we could hear the steady tread of the sentry, and beneath the at hungry lapping of the sea. The] New York, June 23.—Io answer tide was raising, and we thought the | to congratulations from a friend in ones and twos, we, who bad been | cold sea water would refresh us this city, the mother of the hero of captured, bloody and weary and sick,| “Soon through the grating we| Santiago, Lieutenant Hobson, sent and we at once crouched down on! could reach the underrunning waves |the following letter of acknowledz the floor near the grating. There | with our hands. We lapped up the ment: was no room to lie down, but more| water in our palms and throwed it| og | oyer the prostrate and half sense’ess | Dear 3 “Finally a body of us pressed near| tangle of men. | lations}re ached me a few days ago- the narrow entrance sothe Spaniards! “Ip their delirium somo of the/I fully appreciate and agree with you could not crowd the last half d hor: tic tribute to my nilla were wont to goto witness io heartlessoess the agony of the wretches who asked only for a whif The story as told by one who with 168 othere, was confined there for rebellion, has just been made pubic: Brack House's Horror “Into this death hole they forced through the small solid doors by It!Needed no Santiago to Tell Her of His Grand Worth—His Love of the Folks Home. ore, Ala, 11th of June Your letter of congratu “Gree »hemies entbusia ur u | men moan troops under Gen. Pando, second in Jin. They closed the door a| ‘The Spa ET Pie Mie Ee shing ee ee Gen. Blanco.) bang and went laughing away shrill ve 6 not.’ |his dar nz achieve I realize he were marching ina large body to| «a, few moments afterwards there) “Another voice wo ‘Don't | was guided and ed by our re enforcs the Spaniards at Santiago | came a rattling and clinkivg at the|say that. Iama Christian. Christ kind Heavealy Father. The appree grating in the ceiling. It wasrais |was good. Godis good. He will tioa of the country, his state and & and the body of aman was flung|take care of us. Glory be to God)’| native town is most gratifying to us | down headlong among us. Then “Up came the water, inch by incb,|all. It is but natural that mj came another and another, until the filling the grating with a low, half|er pride should be pleas 2d at tb entire half dozen had been thrown|human sob. It ran snakelike into | recognition of my bo} by the nation through the trap door to the stone the room. Breathing Such znition is | door. | possible while waves flushed into the j very happy, but it bas told us noth | “We panted like dogs and tore | hole. jing new of his grand worth A | our clothes off in the effort to keep | He | from falling dead with the smother-| 7) Spaniards had put us there to bas been a mighty strength mg eae |guffocate. The breathing spells be- | to me for years | “We muat have been asource of|iween the rua of the wayes grew|the many demands of « large house great enjoyment tothe Spanish offi- |further apart. The sea was now | hold, it has always been his pleasure cers. All the afternoon they came coming in with a long weeping ery— \to share his salary with us in couples and threes to gaze at us|, geath song. ery way be bas been a help aad com through the grating. They laughed | sme of the dead mea lay with jfort. Inthe three years he talked and asked us how we felt./ti,ir faces under water. Others studying abroad there never failed We swayed and crushed together 2) drowning tossed their bands, weak | to come from him the most loving | gasping silence. land helpless. Others leaned against iletters, and his resources were ever | “Han Kaiand his brother held|¢y. wall with the water lapping |at our comman i, The gent'est, the center of the dungeon. Han! about their shoulders. | noblest nature, with every attraction Kai was a giant in statue, with a) “It crept up and up to my shou'- lof person and character, be claims dash of Chinese in his blood. They) gor, and I began to fzel the heavy | the udmiration of every | were both desperate men. knows him To us, nearest and | “At4 o'clock in the afternoon | iation. | dearest to him, it took no Santiago | there came a squad of soldiery tothe) «gummoning a!l my strength I to proclaim him a hero He has to the door of the dungeon. Inthe | rawied up to the slanting floor|been to usfor so long the truest jspece ofa few seconds Han Kai's | through the water toward the little | hero—as noble eon and idolized | | brother. im-j| and its rulers. seemed | nobler eon no mother ever had tower of THE SEAS DEATH CRY Never forgetting In ev was ore who | depression that comes before asphix door. paleo nous “I reached th2 passed. Two men,} little door, top- ——— |the floor. A thia cool stream of pure | air assailed rtd sees Spas those ¢o0 whom he is ‘first best. from an infinitesical crack under} the door- «J fell into a doze. | “When I awoke the small grating . in the ceiling was growing ph with | that will be heaped upon wy boy. the dawn. pr “Fifty-four men hed been smoth-|* * @ ered to death or drowned. The Feet Gasnep By Knives. | “At 6 o'clock there came another | rattle at the door, another delicious draught of air, and Han Kai's broth- er was thrust in among us—eyeless. His feet had been gashed on the soles as a baker gashes a pie. “We gazed at him stupidly, but Han Kai loeked ap, gave a great cry | hope to see you. Affectionately yours. Sam C. Hopeox.” The plaudits of the world lare his, and while history will record crushed into the stagnant and airless | pled over against it with my face to | the daring deed of his heroism, the gentler, sweeter, nobler beauty of bis nature can be known only to Our own state ia preparing now to esent him with a jeweled sword See cccaciciaadiciciacaciaiag POLITICAL PRISONERS ARE s fingers. He lifted acd tug -\ : CROWDED. swore. Looking up with 4 Y \ c ; ae 5 ee training eyes from the bottom, I \ ares tet : PT Gi the face of the Spanish Lieu l . J) ; S opieg Over the grat nz A e v evicié. Tacs. duck etnttae| “WOka ash ace Bk Kal Sy The Great Chicago MerchantTailors, fate of gel Americana who| grasped t ating with one hand a t ave w ¢ $s tr by ¥ Uoaghtid Mkailla) Mae would Haya) and: wilh RSS ES k “ONLY THE BEST" been far worse thin wos that of the| 5p se hair, baulog b é rs aid-r Montej> bad they | face ars Then suddenly Re iS into the Lasts of the Spanieh | be let go the grating, threw his left} } : Le) for ull plana iat | airy }arm around the man’s neck and ba-| t S destruction, ey f war.|gauto choke him with his right i } BORN ou in the mos: ter :b'e prison bele that | hand \ \ b could be coze ived by a race that “The Spauisrd’s eyes started from | u \ \ : t hag spe .t ¢ sin devising the | bis bead; face grew purple; be] & = | BORN oe 0 ireencat 0 tartare writhed like a snake ia his efforts to] J vay. —~ Hundreds of Samples ar he Latest Styles to & They were to be theust into the| get away, aud high above eiv Po 8 CALL ON N American Clothing House, Palace Hotel Corner. RENOMINATION FOR BLAND Missoart District Named Congressional Candidates To-Day Democrats ta Eiguth Jefferson City, June 23 —Richard P. Bland, who represents the eighth Missouri the free silver advocate, district in coagress nomioated democratic convention assembled hers Congressman Bland has been renominated by the democrats of hie district without intermission sioce 1872. He was beaten once at the polls, bat neyer in convention. Poplar Bluff, Mo , June 23 —Con- gressman W. D. Vandiver of Cape Girardeau, has been renomisated by was today re- by acclamation by the the democratic congressional con- vention of the fourteenth district. Moberly, Mo, June 23.—The democratic convention cf the second congressional district bas nomivated Judge W. W. Rucker for congress. Resolutions were adopted indorsing the Chicago platform. | Boating Party Drewned. 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