The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 30, 1899, Page 21

D VE TARS DRISON | IBLRIAN BY e @]Eé@@p@ GeorGE MAT THEWS | DD OO DO S CREW OF THE WILLIE ¥cGOWN Captain. F. McGREGOR. First Mate, T. MONTGOMERY. Second Mats, B. SMITH. Crew. Ed Larkin, W. Arthur, B. Ames, C. Johnson, W. B. Martin, M. Xenson, J. Kelly, George Kelly, A. Peterson, H. Foshson, Walter Pebbler, B. Peb- bler, — Schotey, George Matthews. J. Dear, T. ) Canile, E. George, J. ffi Aleart, T. Goldon, J. { Dunfun, Pete Holladay, 0 B. Healy, — Coney, A. 0 ‘White and For La Vere. /) DO T T AT AT OO D OO 0o @ THE FIotrT IN THE DUNGEON 111 we would be taken to an and day, and would grouj 1t they would would come down o c incidentally kick and cuff ; of us poor devils that v have e expia ainst the Russian 8 o'clock the next morning d there right alongside of as ugly a looking R could wish ce that it was terror tried to pping Rui d passed where SR e " corner, his A ‘ De r in had been 5 d not spoken s T however, sighted our e r“ ’h:f n“f'x | the o Tt was probably i r the special " ST s iwk-eyed guard, anyway, tho : nd spot we two men the captain of ths and starvati seemed to fear the most. Weil, 2 “aboard ship and brute of a trusty leaned for- + B Shon h i 3 i . ssed the capta At . irons with the rest of the cresw. ! ssed the captain, and with I 5 we were in Vladivo: v chuckle deliberat apped the 1 a hen aw + ut th tled through the forr ing man on the face. For an in- e, the hell on earth into 1 that man v e first one in; so of our yrmous offense de quiet—just a sec- seemed etime. It was e had felt that blow on he look on Captain Mc- hurt him, see any differ- o sty the Czar.”” We were ond—but it sentanced foltwenty &8 thoughieven his own fac vears nt in that pla 2 oL, s we shot them and .. Geath—the Saghalien Prison, where OTeE e o ;lff:j‘;"\f‘e:"f““ 1 1 ULer WAV WAS (oo’ were at once taken. shall never forg pe.ac 0808 in; it meant death. He leaped to his feot and was on that man like a wildcat. The weight of his body landed falr and —but you bet The sicken! never shall f f the knout horrors of that hole I ill bear the ma nd will take to my gr d more than Y o T Srjl st S full on the big Rus s chest and his . ) them, so we neve righttul physical aflments contracted g5 gripped his throat like a vise. The . 1 t ; we worked siimy dungeon of Saghallen. Iwent ;.- n,p fell like an ox, striking his head hearty sallor lad—strong and able ke I nd then skin 1 % O SLOnE AN AUl wlh ul force on the stone floor. s em away in the schoon- PRYS 1 mentally. I came out a 7, % ;rce, antmal-like cry went up from r \e time of imprisonment I ¥ g T e out, and still e when telensed from the crowd, and then came the clear ring- for we salled ing voice of the mate, shouting: confinement 1 tipped the “Avast there and at the devils!” \d at them we went, hammer and vears—each one of which fetime—we were kept in a tongs. out fifty feet square far be- Oh, that was a royal fight! Tt was well 4 worth the suffering it brought us all, for we drubbed those trusties within an inch ves st rough the in the I felt the world was i’ 1} ke t e - s jiihe north- low the surface. In fact, this hole h: T oniden been hollowed out so deep into the aowals e of the rocky island of Saghalien that the Of their iR floor of our room was under tide level At the fi ell the guards had been re- Mich- Haticarh 1 the water had to be pumped out inforced, so we didn’t last long, but were paratory I the casy once a week from a corner mad: deeper soon clubbed into submission. r and set- T end Y5V gor that purpose. The captain of the prison came down husiness of the TeALy D, o years we were kept in this hell- and gave us a talk in very bad English, s kind, the AL W;’; hole and saw the light of day but three but straight eno to the point. He said ows, and I was a5 mes In all that period. The only break he didn’t mind our half killing the Rus- nd skinning sea’ \‘,, ,’»,, in the horrible monotony was when we sian convicts so much, but he must main- 1 to do as we were taken into an upper room to be tain discipline, so he ordered us all out for od like dogs and thrown into the general flogging. t box.” The sweat box is the most Captain McGregor had nearly killed his hly ingenious torture device ever man. The fellow’'s face was so battered ented this side of purgato It is a that his own mother would not have nd 1 were still ept black as midnight, and all known him. He never came near our at work and haq around are steam pipes 1 a smail jet place again. He had learned his lesson. - v 7 P mtil it was all around Of e 1g steam. They flog an offender Well, we caught it heavy that day. They - & 3 a rush the hoat until the bicod streams down his back took the captain first, strapped him down = 5 % pull for the schoomer. and then threw him into this place. The and flogged him before our eyes until the e ff the island about ra salty perspiration gets into the cuts. Tne blood streamed from his poor seamed THE FLOGGING OF 3 on the fsland over mile and a half. Well, the fog settled in enervating, fetid air stifies and weakens back, and he fainted away. Then they TAPTAIN MSGREGOR S = them by thousands, so fast that we lost track of the ship the victim and the intense darkness is revived him and repeated the brutal came to he was out of his head and raved through torrible stages of delirlum and ~We would have rushed at the guards - and bad to turn about and spend the mnaddening. whipping. for three days. bodily suffering. The dreadful scenes of and taken the risk of death at their hands | men-of-war are to my night ob the island. Mighty glad we were . How we ever lived and kept our minds The rest of us got our share, but not After that we had no more trouble wita those days are better passed without de if there had been the barest possible hope SZen Up golid in the to get back, too, for we had no compass Auring those terrible years is to me a such a cruel dose. They put the captain the trustles, but the bad food and foul scription. They were too frightful tobear beyond. But there was none. An atiack first stroke by me in Russtan e pper Island. Fourth, a heavy fog at you couldn’t see of your face Ed came up your hand Larkir on the it, but t em on the 1ble- happe ring was a v about. ery slow certain harbor of tok, elght days’ run nor provisions, and the fog had become Our food consisted of black fn the sweatbox and Kept him there for air began to tell and the most horrible Tepetition. of that kind meant simply torture and from 1A the captain, “and 80 dense that we nearly missed the fsl- I fitty-two hours. He was brought back diseases broke out among us. We be- Two of the crew died in our arms- 3 of co me of those seals fall dead and, as well as being unable to locate the geal meat; never any vegetabies. When to us uncomscious, and when he flnally came weaker and weaker and all went deaths of most fearful anguish. Continued on page Tweaty-twe, i