The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 30, 1899, Page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, "IIURSDAY MARCH 30, 1899. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SAMOANS UNDER MATAAFA ATTACK THE FOREIGNERS OO0 O —+-H-4- 5 -5, L e e e S o G e o o g W ARRIORS ENTRENCHED IN STREETS OF APIA B R e S SRS S0 G-+ POV P B O R S D Y @+ o0t e oy ) GERMAN CONSUL’S B INDISCRETION HAS | NOW LED TO WAR Natives Besiege - Apia, and the| British and American War- | ships Bombard Villages. +- B e e SRCE SR RCER SO S & Copyrighted, 1899, by the Associated | the town he had made his head-| ¢ Press. o 2 : = ey i | quarters, and went into the in-| 3¢ PIA, Samoan Islands. | terior. @ March 23 (via \mkl:md Herr Rose, the German Con- N. Z., March 29)—T 1¢Jaul at Apia, issued a proclamation troubles growing out of the elec-| supplementing the one he had tion of a King of Samoa lme‘ issued several weeks before, up- taken a more serious turn and r sulted in the bombardment of na- | ment. As a result of this the| several shore villiges were soon tive villages along the sljore by Mataafans assembled in large|in flames. the United States cruiser Phila- | force and hemmed in the town.| A defective shell from the Phil- delphia, Admiral Kautz' com-|The British cruiser Royalist |adelphia exploded near the| manding, and the British cruisers| brought the Malietoa prisoners | American consulate, and the Porpoise and Royalist. The | from the islands to which they | marines . outside narrowly es- M»m\:ur«imcm has continued . in-| had been transferred by the pro- | caped. A fragment struck the| termit ly. for eight dz Sev- | visional government. | leg of Private Rudge, shattering eral \'1313;:, ave beén ]mmg] The Americans then fortified | it so badly as to necessitate am- and there have been a number of | Mulinuu, where 22,000 Malie- | putation. The rebels—| = Another fragment traversed to | casualties among the American |toans took refuge. and British sailors and marines. | the adherents of Mataafa—harr | the German consulate, smashing | caded the ‘roads within the muni- | the crockery.: The Germans and seized the British |then went on-board the German s = | cruiser Falke. »ossible to estimate s killed or Asyet it is im the number of na ive cipality injured houses. An- ultimatum was sent| As Mataafa and his chiefs, con-| to them ordering them to evacu-| During the night the rebels| stituting the provisional govern- | ate, anc threatening them, in the | made a hot attack on the town, | ment, continued to violate the | event of refusal; with-a bombard-| killing three British sailors. A ment, to commence at 1 o'clock | on the afternoon of March 15. | by a’sentry of his ‘own’ party, This warning was ignored, and | another was shot in the foot, and the rebels commenced -an attack | an American sentry was killed at Berlin treaty after the arrival of| the Philadelphia, Admiral Kautz summoned the v and the senior naval officers to a rious consuls conference on board the Philadel- |in the direction of the United | his post. phia, when the whole situation | States and B ritish consulates| The bombardment continuing, was canvassed. The upshot was | about half an hour before the the inhabitants of the town took refuge on board the Royalist, greatly crowding the vessel. The Porpoise has shelled the villages east and west of Apia and | time fixed for the bombardment. a resolution to dismiss the pro- The Philadelphia, Porpoise and visional government, and : Ad- miral Kautz ued a proclama-| Royalist opened fire .. upon the | tion calling upon Mataafa and his | distant villages. There was great | chiefs to return to their homes. | difficulty in locating the enemy, captured many boats. Mataafa evacuated Mulinuu, | the forest, but| The Americans and British are | fighting splendidly together, but e oo s e@| P . b B . | there is a bitter feeling against the Germans. Two men, a British and a Ger- man subject, have been arrested as spies. The bombardment of the jun- gle was for a time very hot. The British cruiser Tauranga, which it is understood was in- tending to annex the Tonga Islands (a section of the Friendly Islands in the Pacific), was inter- cepted at Suva, capital of the owing to dense @+ 5o so e D i S e ) M E oot i Il t"“ I i | Government. —_———— | WASHINGTON HOPES THE KAISER WILL SUBMIT WASHINGTON, March . 29.—The news from Samoa that the United States cruiser Philadelphia and Continued on Third Page. D e e e L SIS S SR SR Sk o I o TR Y B e O e e o Sl o e e on o o s o ° * NATIVE TROOPS ON STREET. e- | holding the provisional govern-|@+6+6-46+9646904+6+0+0-+-0+0+0 4> 3ritish marine was shot in the leg | Fiji Islands, by order of the home | the | ROWENA LEE SINKS IN THE MISSISSIPP] All Aboard the Steamer Per- | ish Except the Captain and One Mate. SIXTY PEOPLE LOST An Explosion Splits the Vessel in| Twain and Stunned Passengers Disappear in the River. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. NEW MADRID, Mo., March 290.—The steamer Rowena Lee of the Lee Line of Mississippi boats sunk in seventy feet of water at Tyler, Mo., twenty- five miles below here, between 3 and 4 o’clock this afternoon. She is said to have broken in . two and gone down with all on board except the captain, Geo. Carvell, and one mate, John Crasty, who escaped. Sixty people are: believed to have been drowned. Aotooooom‘mo«otow DO4O40 404040 +04040 The following is only a partial list of | the complete those who perished, as passenger list and names of the crew. R e e o s el >oenle s e s S outside of the officers, is not yet. ob- tainable. THE DEAD. BANKS, ED, pilot of Lee. BOOKER, L., fi k on Lee. CALI , ALBERT, engineer.* FLANNIGAN, PATRICK, second mate. HIGHT, WILLIAM (colored), bar- | keeper. HUMPHREY, S. C., general agent for Chicago Mill and Lumber Company | of Cairo. FARRIS, AL, of Hickman, senger. KELLY, M. T., LEWIS, H. agent for Lee line. LEWIS, SAMUEL, third cletk. LOGOMARSINO, D. barkeeper. Ky.. pas- mail clerk on Lee. traveling - freight | MITCHELL, AUGLU US, second clerk. SMITH, “SID,” pilot. STULL, FRANK, engineer. TODD, GEORGE W., steward. Most of the Rowena Lee’s crew lived | in Memphis. The names of her sengers cannot be learned. The was the property of the Lees at Mem- phis. The Rowena Lee was laden with rail- road fron for Memphis, with some pack- ages of way freight. She passed this point shortly before noon. She had fin- ished discharging and taking on cargo at Tyler, and had cast off her lines, when a terrific explosion occurreq, which to those on the bank who were watching her seemed to cause her to break in two amidships. The brcken ends of the craft were forced upward until each stood momentarily on end and then disappeared under water. The pas- upper works were thrown up with such | force that they were literally broken into kindling wood and the air was filled with wreckage of the pilot-house | i and cabin, with the light cabin fur ture and with luckless human beings who constituted her crew and passen- gers. mates escaped is regarded as miracu- lous by those who saw the boat de- stroyed. The current at Tyler though dazed, the eye-witnesses acted as promptly as they could in the mat- ter of manning skiffs and getting out to the wreckage. They succeeded in saving no lives except those noted, and they prcbably would not have been saved had they not providentially been caught .in and kept afloat by a large section of the cabin. Both were un- conscious, and since being revived can give no ccherent account of the occur- rence. Not another body was seen by the would-be rescuers, and the theory is that all were rendered unconscious by the concussion, and, being unable to help themselves in any way, sank im- mediately they struck the water. Neither Captain Carvell nor Mate Crasty has any theory regarding the cause of the catastrophe. They are not inclined to believe the boilers ' burst, is swift, and, Continued on Third Page. ‘m(Y column, with the Third Ar-| | unteers on the right, | there were one killed and five [ped in flight by the Filipinos. BASE AN {in the Nebraska Regiment one ; | no resistance at Big; AMERICANS BEGIN THE ADVANCE UPON AGUINALDO’S CAPITAL MANILA, March 30—10 a. m.—The American forces began the advance from Giguinto at day- break this morning. While crossing a bridge about half a mile from that place they were attacked by the insurgents, who were gathered in force. They gave desperate battle. The engagement lasted fully two_hours. The Americans’ loss is unofficially reported as ten killed and thirty wounded. They were cross- ing the bridge in two columns of fours, the Pennsylvania Regiment in advance, closely followed by the XKansas Volunteers. When half way over the insurgents, who were concealed in the brush, opened a galling fire. The men never wavered and maintained their steady advance. A Colt rapid fire gun was hurried to the scene and the jungle was literally raked. gent loss in killed alone is upwards of 100. The insurgents finally retreated upon Malolos in great disorder. It is thought they are on the way to the mountains. At least three thousand were engaged in this morning’s skirmish. Evidences on every hand are that the ‘Americans will find Malolos deserted. The army is now resting and will advance upon Malolos this afternoon. The Utah Battery was also engaged in this morning’s brush and had one killed. The Pennsyl- vanians suffered heavily. Special Cable to The Call and the New York gents' faith in Aguinaldo is destroyed. | Manila, has written to ‘his brother, L Herald, Copyrighted, 189, by James Gor- | { gyinaldo, with his family, is said to be | L. Williams of this city, concerning | preparing to flee from Malolos. Gen- | Statements made by Agoncillo to the ANILA, \Lmh 29.—At 6| | eral MacArthur is making ready an ar- | effect that Consuls Williams and Wild- o'clock this morning a fl\_‘my,r.)d railroad car for further opera- | Man had promised Aguinaldo and his | tions, friends that the United States would The as | grant absolute independence to the 4 | Philippines ands ivere The insur- rebels burned the village: soon as the | tillery and the Montana and Kan- | they retreated in bad order tov ! n ‘\l.xln]o\ The enemy also tore up sec- | taken from Spain. Consul Williams de- | sas Volunteers on the left of the | | tions of the railrcad in many places | Bies this explicitly. "He write: | railroad ‘and the Pennsylvania, {and attempted to burn the bridge at| ‘II il ‘\g;“"lfi”" e "““l“’ suck Bigaa, but the fire was extinguished | & Promise to any Filipino. On the con- South Dakotaand Nebraska VOl- | owing' to the timely arrival of the | trary, when Aguinaldo’s leaders applied to me at Hongkong to be allowed to re. started for | Americans. The rebels had not finished their trenches along the line of to-day Jocave across two miles of OPCN | march, showing they were not prepared turn with me to Manila one of the pro- visions of the conditions under which E agreed to give them such aid as I was fields. | fer-our advance. It is believed here, g F oty - |however, that there will be a hard fight | able to give was that they were to be he insurgents began to fire subject at all times to the naval and ¢ £ 5 }h‘ fore Malolos is taken. immediately, and continued until| The Minnesota regiments reinforced | military authority of the United States. B Tk R the division to-day, marching from the | This was agreed to before I allowed the “"‘”I’-”‘it‘“h‘?‘l the river at| ier works during the night to Ma- | them to accompany me April 27, 1895, | Bocave. The American troops|nila and going to the front by train. | to Mirs Bay, where the fleet awaited er wavered. The Filipinos fired volleys yesterday | MY coming.” ‘Admiral Dewey knows all Tk | about the conditions which I imposed -‘m’\_ & . | evening for the purpose of drawing The Nebraska Regiment swung | the American fire and discovering the fl"ti t};nwhhn\fu:lml me on my foresight in fr Sk e locality of our positions. Two men ot | and thoughtfulne in from the extreme left and | oL O o B Regiment and ome| This agrees with reports sent by Con- sul Willlams to the te Department doubled up the insurgent left at |man belomzing to the Dakota Regiment | : he ere w *d. The icans re. | from time to time and made public | the river. The insurgents ran, :!‘X‘\'i;n-d“:lx«:l"d. D s e e e Yiiatenes o after some rails had been re-| The country between Marilao and | Washinston. 2 moved from the railroad. *l‘“;"}‘(“ Prf;‘;]"l‘:gdfil“;“}‘;:érg;:uglfl;‘ FILIPINO COMMISSIONER - . ) S O a Wounded insurgents reported |heaps, and the remains of trees and | ARRIVES AT MADRID fences torn by shrapnel are to be seen .verywhere. - The general appearance | of the region is as if it had been swept ] | by a cyclone. The roads are strewn with the furniture and clothing drop- The only : - |persons remaining behind are a_few EE padndec Aged ones too firm to escape. ey |JOHN -SHERMAN FREE The Kansas Reg1mcnt lost onelmmp beside the ruins of their former | FROM PNEUMONIA officer and fifteen privates were |homes and beg passers-by for any kind | | of The majority of them wounded. Inthe Montana Regi- lare living on the generosity of our sol- | The Ex-Secretary of State Reaches ment five men were wounded aml“’"’r“ who give them'portions of their | His Home in an Enfeebled rations. The dogs of the Filipinos Condition. cower in the bushes, still terrified and | WASHINGTON, M man was killed and ten wounded. | barking, while hundreds of pigs are | to be seen busily searching for food. that the enemy had retreated to Malolos. In the Pennsylvania Regiment MADRID, March A Filipino com- missioner to negotiate for the rel e of the Spanish prisoners in the Philip- | pines arrived here to-d: this He sidence in city. reached The American advance was| Bodies of dead Filipinos are stranded 7 o'clock from Old Point Comfort. wonderfully rapid, considering |in the shallows of the river or are rest- | g the night he had rested fairly E |ing in the jungle, where they crawled | nd was feeling no worse for the that the enemy destroyed the|to die or were left in the wake of the | o e [NTeEms e in a efully ze in waiting. The paf to Mr. Sherman's tatgroom d to a carriz driven directly on K »treating army. These bodies > ferth a horrible odor, but there is no time at present to bury them. The inhabitants who fled from Mari- lac left in such a panic that on tables our soldie found spread money and bridges as they fled. There was | hurriedly wa ty home The troops advanced quickly, | in contracted lines, to the town |m(|. nt was xt'l placed trained “in | the advance | pectedly the insurgents concealed | of Giguinto. The Pennsylvania |valuables and in the rooms were trunks SR ST Ieidoe o | Containing other property of value. Regiment crossed the bridge as|ppis was the case in most of the houses guard, and unex- |deserted. They were not molested by our scldiers, but the Chinese who slip |in between the armies are looting when nyrses and Dr. W. of this eity. Mr. Sherm quietly and dof could expect. F ondition is ly enfeebled. W there hs ed change in h attending doing a 1 are gratified at the s condition the phy- W | and one Colt rapid-fire also came | boat | |in the woods opened a heavy fire. |they can and have taken possession of | ed and they : al houses, over which they raised | fory manncr in which he bore the voyage Then the Kansas Regiment and | hinese flags, Some of which were torn | t‘&x’?‘ém:«‘r};u}‘ traces of pneumonia- are one battalion of the South Da-|down. disappeared. An old woman was fqund hidden in a | kota Regiment rushed over the nguse yesterday, just dead, apparently| GRAY APPOINTED from fright and hunser. A CIRCUIT JUDGE bridge under fire. I Two of the Utah Battery guns CONSUL WILLIAMS ; | The Ex-Senator of Maryland Has MADE NO' PROMISE Held Many, Important Public | | Trusts. | WASHINGTON. N The insurgents had | into action. mn(le trenches across’ the rail- | ROCHESTER, N. Y rch 29 Seniator | road. Our loss was several killed | F- Williams, United £ [ georsatara; been’ ap- pointed by ited States | and more than twenty wounded w:. 2@ 0000006000 Circuit Judge for the rict. s term at the close | before the insurgents were driven TROOPS KILLED - in that | re wiis off. Our troops are now en- camped two and a half miles from Malolos. ppoint ppointment of Thomas. F. Peh S WASHINGTON, March 29.— General Otis to-day cabled the which met the treaty REBELS LOSING FAITH IN following additional casualties & | of beace w oo mem: anadian ber of (h- nited High Joint Cr\mml KILLED AND EATEN BY CONGO NATIVES Awful Fate of Lieutenant Bell, | Officer With the Belgian | Troops to Adjutant General Corbin: KILLED. Third Artillery, Battery G— Private J. J. V\'hllnt’} Private Charles Johnson. WOUNDED. Tenth Pennsylvania, Company —Private Christopher Filbert, hand, severe, accidental. AGUINALDO'S PRETENSIONS The Family of the Dictator Get- ting - Ready to Flee Before the Americans. an —The army’s ad- That tie captain and one of the | MANILA; March | vance to-day had covered mere than Third Artillery, Battery G— LONDON, March 30.—The Liverpool cor- two miles before any resistance was First Sergeant John C. O'Con- respondent of the Daily Mail telegraphs offered. Insurgents have been found nor, , slight. l{hal)l}lvv\;s husrb;c-n re 'o;[ ;llh-rg l(.r‘ the 3 their throats cut in the trenches CTURE | terrible -rnc o .iutenant Bell. a British ::-;:h Gt tea o mAleateithat £ INJURBD. | officer with the Belgian troops in the Con- g S et Sy e { Twentleth Kansas, Company go Free State, He svas captured r,,-[(m, hey were punis si iy i | natives In a fierce fight and was after- Sahr. T In now belleved ‘the insup | @ D-Trivate I Foss: foot, slight. @ | 774 killea and eaten. ."... ASHINGTON, March 29.—The following advices ‘h'om Manila were received by the War Department to-night: MANILA, March 30.—Adjutant General, Washington: MacArthur advanced at 6 o’clock yesterday morning from Marilao. Passed rapidly to Bocave. At 11:45 he took up his advance for Bigaa, and at 3:15 in the afternoon for Gigumto, three and a half miles fron: Malolos, reaching that point at & P. M. The casualtiecs for the day were about 7Q, and there was fierce fighting in the afternoon. The troops made the crossing of the river at Giguinto by working the artillery over the railroad bridge by hand and: swimming the mulcs against fierce resistance. The railroad to the extreme front is nearly repaired, and will resupply the troops to-day. OTIS.