The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 17, 1899, Page 1

() ye Tal VOLUME LXXXVI-NO. 170. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1899, AN ARMORED TRAIN WRECKED AND BRITISH TROOPS WORSTED nglish Loss About One Hundred and Lieut. Winston Churchill Is Among the Pris- oners EVIDENCE THAT i t it midnight ¢ ult usiy, pouring she ANILA Reports © have ~ 1 nr fro jen e e , General .\L‘llillklmrgcr from Zulu- / ‘.. 1 1 rom . General . land. ¢ If an attempt is being made upphsed 1o hi - § s s . her toward from the north to join hands with fasiher: towagd . Schalkburger the nature of the . Boer movements near Estcourt MR RA Ee acin s e a ae oo enl ] . ! . 2 a doy ‘or twe after . government are said | florts ta escape information here . . Col cREAGH * taining the &y G el me per- o i DiRECTOR OF FER: Scegetary = \NOB (LI SATION A v and medi. . \ 1480 GEN ; \ \ CoLVILLE * escaped comnG | . ot War | . sricADE [Ad i of War oF E 4 HOUSEHOLD) - . s civillan, and Cal- | . GUARDS ° xtéenth Infantry, . 1 by the Insur- * \MAJ GEN.WAUcHOPE . o \ 3° BRIGADE » BE SSVIE 90 b4 2%° DivisiOoN. . flour B Da ds of . * ar, 1200 new H{ . thou of M r : 3 Th of Liev ant Gilmore and o | seve s men were found wr ) | the walls of t} went of 8 * ® jor John A. Logan, )¢ s n Jacinto Saturday, . cmetery P . 0| o Pi try furnish ¥ * manded ¢ he pall-bearers were * . fantry. . . PER . WITH TELEGRAPH LINES - . . v & 3 rtmer 3 insurgents. have 1 | adopte rfecence 22 CAVALRY ¢ with t fines 1 . BE G DE, 4113 ‘aone: by copper w € ta the lir * . ugh . ¢ of jron @ B ot o tie:i0i0:0:0i0ieieieioisieieisieiotitioeiosedeieiesec@ foctively ¢ accom- r OND N v. IT|.‘ 5 "\ v st sensational report | can be understood. On the west- il Ady Manila ve- il riune steadf y pu SO ned currency in Durban, ern frontier a new stage of the ‘I“” Department “‘”“‘ cucs tish employment of o, 1 < _ 3 25 as es medico- u “ : oy 5 ; etermaritzburg and Lourenzo campaign is about to begin. Ma- | 1egal department ns, the as ation . g ¢ - 1 h ques that - Genera je fe r hz vasiste 27 RIS no ph Sives: i Macie Juc hat - General ' Joubert, | feking ’1, S Tesi lul» the I;ot-ls SO | galgo and Don Gregorio Singlan. An em- Sutest victorios successfully that General Cronje | ergency ward cting room has Le . 240 - ’" | also been established for the post-mor- Cr ocension the Eritish 15 now reported to be directing | tem examinati The department 1s to e2em to have walked into o de- | ¢ | his efforts against Kimberley. It Lo tho orders s preme trap th th reent the Boers who captured the | is now known that the relief| city of Manila 3 o the best ac- R < ; men from the armored movement toward Kimberley ? counts, 00 men cp: cither ¥/ OTIS’ REPCRT ON THE Oy the claim fifty Durban lIeofatey fifty is belicy that few escaped that the others are prison in the hands of the Boers ki wounded thess and ths It an or ms ing. Fusilicrs crs Many of the wounded brought back oa the ond tend were ocomotive r of the armored train. Captain Haldane of the Gordon Highland was attached to the Fusiliers, and other officers wer: with them. 1h: I st of casual- ties waited with great anxicty. In time of triub’e Licu~ tenant \Winstoy Churchili has proved himseid than galiantry is highiy praiscd on alt more a solder a corrcspondent sides. LONIDX 17.—This morni ¢ Natal is of considerablé 1mpo ¢e, owing to the restor I 1672 €2 the repx Estcourt and om borhood the inteiligence is'dis- tly reassuring. It is clear that Ladysmith holds its own and that General Hild anything but a-rer yard's advance . is noteé contin- gency. RENZO MARQUES, Ivemith was subjoctod to a very heavy bombardment all day Tuesday, and a i the cannon on the hills surrounding the town opened fire sim- | , the paper asscerts, could be distincily seen froim and his | NN FEES OV THE DV American Troops Continue the Pursuit of the Fili- pino Leader. TRYING T0 ESCAPET0 BAYAMBOC. Garrisons Surprised by the Advane- ing Forces Hake Only Feebls Resistance. Taken by the Boers. GENERAL JOUBERT STILL LIVES! Delagoa Bay, Nov. 16.—A lecal newspaper reports that Is frcm ail po 1its ol the compas Several buildings ¥ Bulwana il Spectal Dispateh t6 The Call, 1sed to give them up un~| commenced some time ago. The | lted - Joubert. | Ninth Lancers, Northumberland fight between the | Fusileers, Munster Fusileers and 1 from Esteourt and | part of the Lancashires, who tween Freere and | some time ago were concentrat- ley stations, was a lively |ing at De Aar Junction, were on | "he train was practically | Saturday last within fifty miles of Fifteen men were| Kimberley. It was this column PURSUIT COF AGUINALD WABHINGTON, > ve consu av’ v. 16.—General Otis cabled the War Department coneérning the situation of the American advance in pursuit of Aguinaldo: “MANILA, Nov. 16.—During thirty hours four and one-half inches of ral still raining north Lawton's telegraph line not bevond San Jose: last dispatch, evening of 14th, reported capture of many supplies, transportation north and east of ix side and | which fought an engagement on | San Nicholas, and our troops moving 5 5 from Humingam and Tayug west on r¢ missing | the 10th (Friday) which resulted | Urdaneta, where inusurgent force fs re- o s ~ o ported. Lawton has abundant suppli in the loss of Lieutenant Coionel | Fire: 5 e dvis Ll or prisoners, including Lieuten- ant i subsistence, forage and transportation at San Isidro and Cabarn Keith-Falconer. Winston Ch o ¢ tuan; but unable to : ’. ! X -Son’ 08 move it. MacArthur has railroad between Lady Churchill, who. displayed| The West Yorkshire Regiment | Bambam and Tarlac in :operation;- five SraspiE B ? _ s ¢ miles. Road south of Bambam being re- great bravery, encouraging the | has arrived at Estcourt, being the | constructed; removed rafls found morth Shic S T 5 1 : . 1 | of Tarlac. MacArthur sends “fc at- men and assisting the wounded. first of the reinforcements which | taions and n...‘.m.,. O conELaanE e walry forward vance from Aliga at north of East Tar- OTI8." This’ reconnoissance shows that \\{'1‘:"}"‘"“‘“"““” ctoria, five miles lac. are being rushed up from Dur- ban. erything indicates the eve of very important develop- ments in the region of the Or-! ange River and along the line of the Boers, either because the tired of hammering away at Ladysmith, or because it 4;;;::’[ of their settled policy, are creep- are TRANSPORT THOMAS CHEERED BY BRITONS ing south in the hope ‘of cutting| De - Aar Junction, Colesburg, | GIBRALTAR, Nov. . 16.—The - United st AT L8 J : UTEs | States transport Thomas; with the Forty- British: communications.-. They | Burghersdorp and Aliwal North, | oreres rapsport Thomas, wit G \bokeal +are at Chieveley, the first station bound for Manila, was roundly cheered In an official statement issued | by the War Office it is stated that | the arrangements for the relief of Ladysmith are completed and that the remaining troops will be | utilized. in accordance with the | original plan of campaign and| | that General Buller has left Cape | { Town and gone up the COUntry. | o cer away wn Festay, purccanemipted | There is practically no room | MUt #¢ her_dock for doubt that o i Bolivar Rebels Crushed. Peratidns on a COLON, Colombia, Nov. 16.—Panama is tranquil, but therfe is no telegraphic com- munication with the interior, Tebels have been crushed. to-day by the British channel squadron, whose bands played British and American airs as the transport passed. The Thomas returned the compliment. TRANSPORT MEADE SAILS WITH TROOPS NEW YORK, Nov. 16:~The transport Meade, with = the Farty-third United States Volunteer Infantry on board, salled out of Colenso. They are below Estcourt and not far from Wes- ton on the Mooi River: Probably the Boers with whom the armored train fought are part of Joubert's investing force, who have recently’ been at Pieters. The other force, who are report- | ed to have blown up the railway either ‘'over the Bushmans River | or the Mooi, appear to-belong to the long-expected division under Continued on Second Page. The Bflll\'l.rj THRILLING ENCOUNTER OF THE GAYHEAD WITH A WATERSPOUT All Hands Aboard the Old Whaling Bark Gave Themselves Up for Lost. ‘Wonderful Tales of Disasters and Deaths, Rescued Gold-Hunters and Coming Marriages Brought From the Arctic by the Whalers Who Arrived Yesterday. [ @ e-0-o-0e-0 R -] Jice L | @ TAE AELMTMAK 3 | OF THE. TOAN AND. ¢ : WINT Ao R ? B ? - h )¢ L3 5 /)// o 1 * é - 3 . 4 - 3 . 3 - *J i . $ * 3 - ) R4 ! - ¢ s : - ® . i - 4| $ 4 - 1] ® : - P! s 3 > ® ¢ * - - 3 - - * . - I - ‘ > : - ! - : * PY : ) - 3 - b > 3 . ¢ . i R S - { - & [P THE GAYAEADS ENCOUNTER 3 ! W ITH THE WA TERSPEUT. . { - P . ! - i * (-3 ? - . /{ A | TeEriueino (7 | AND TAE AME RICAI ; i sm.b\tkghsgin ~ =LA ALAS i - - . @eioioioivsisieiosieo sisivsieieisieisisisisie i e oiei e’ @ SIGHTS AND SCENES ON THE RETURNED WHALING FLEET. EW vessels have had a narrower es- to judge by their experi bunches, 1 et of them cape f struetion . by Juxurious sal come hom v were busy ’ the whaling kI e | times. ale and which reached port ves-| | vesterday s - Hundred For two a | were looking for relative that skilled n of women were see was done weethearts, It w men to escs that threat- in nearly ned them ail seemad | of the fle gone. The captain sent his wife and son | ht the oné below, lower top- John ar sajls and s and then th captured men sat down { The bark 1 rumb most critical moment the course. of the ' 5, FEAL MM and Captatn Cog | waterspout changed and it went careen- | R e 10 . W able sum to his profits by bringing down - Ing away past the stérn of the bark. For| two hours more the crew of the Gayheaa watched the spout; and then with and length b barrels withstand(ng about Nome. The “wind jammers” and steameérs were fifty-six gold hunters from Cape | the trip It disap- | ¥as far from monotonous, as the records: show | many boats capstzed and peared as rapidly as it had come up. whales; damages caused by heavy # evenly .represented among t Waterspouts . have been frequently | the events incidental to the capture of whales. | Among the former the bark ¥ g & heard of in other parts of the world, but | A'very large one caught in_Bering Sea | in with 3600 pounds of one. ever seen | September 22.in my weather, and it was this s probably the firs on the coast of California. ifornta with’ 1400 atter of great rolling of the v (ficulty to save him. Heavy | caused the cutting gea It seems to | have been part of an electrical SLOrm 1N |, carry away several times and twenty- bk pounds boré, 3% which the revenue cutter Bear and Sev | hours' hard work was necessary to get him in. | Darrels els sperm’ ofl, eral vessels of the whaling fléel. were | The gale Increased to such an extent that try. | &nd the irop with 1360 caught. | ing out could be done at times only. Ofl bags R;‘l_:n;‘l; ‘wn:l n{r;; ot .‘—‘r\v,fi' ‘:‘n.;h»’ il ‘) never had such-an experience in my ’ ant of o steamers the William Buy life before amd never want another, , from pounds bone and 300 barrels off: Captain Foley yesterday. “The spout put | the Howhead ‘11% pounds bone; the in ‘an appearance about noon on Novem- | - ab Thrasher 11500 pounds bone, 3% barrels ber 10. On one side of the ship there was | decks of ever. whale ofl and 1% pounds ivory. while the a wall as black as ink and it was raining } "";kfl o ol - Belvedere had the § o whales in torrents. ‘Thunder and lightning were ,‘".,'”‘ _a':m) two . x;fyuh.’,A-x is.a new vessel to this playing incessantly, and altogether 1t was | (ull outfit . having been purchased by Capta an awesome sight. sok ' In Norway nearly two years as : ot si o Juring her tw asons elght whales w Lurnin ) the other side of the ship |1 ‘ 0. wis like going from hight into day. OUn s | taken, g0 everybody aboard is L Satioe | the one e -hung ;n| ul--u‘ |.-.:l i'l‘l" !)i(l" ntinued until Octob \’v hen the gale w vl n r‘\i -\:l“n” ~'- k' 1: mn’l' "n: other. the sun. was -shining In a ¢ sky 4. The storm was tdered by o b for Norway to ta ymma and everything was smiling like a day in ave been extraordinary for the gres .'.x the Bowhe nied oy June. About 200 yards atiead of us an [locity attatned at ti the wind. iis wite and 1 ama C¢ the apex «d “by" ‘the sunshine and v 7 barrels of 6il from the | The two ladles have been with him ever darknes e waterspout. it was | that whish was fost since, > | ‘sucking its substance from that part of | Thick fogs and strong head winds made the | The Bowhead salled from Norway on the ocean on which the ‘surishine lay, and | o ll‘yr':;lxh (h»‘ F.-xk‘x-mr:d» l‘vuu the Pa- J."m‘\ ..ry ‘x. |-1.~P made her first . 4 gl shing s cific a hazardous undertaking, but it was xafely | a raltar. Fr. she e e e O ot sias] Ad0s. Witk e Toaw of aother boats toen awey | War OF 1oe MG o back: Looking down -into hollgw | by. the great waves. From thence to port the | Singapore, -and . the o Walnhe bt S hieh the water was dray ugual strong . northerly. and westerly winds | re.she arrived on May 13, {{)’(Iml“?\"l‘nk Sinto an AByss; gnd prevailed until five hundred miles off, when 8 | etght days later for the Arcti ok i simatt L A e g b B e siccession of _southeasters. made the voymge s la ; it seemed though we woul much longer than it would have been. bt “’"l"l'\ g aten and:the bone guifed befc spout reached us Captain Foley.Is enthusiastic in his praiea or | Wi Shipped to San Francisco “There wa little wind, but what | (no"{nitea Statea revenue marine officers, par. | e Bowhead did not winter in the A=e. there was came from the northwest. | tjcutarly thase of the ocutter Gra who ren. | €. but returne Yokohama, and from ometimes it would die out altogether and | Japan fered him essential services and.to whom he fis went to T Bennington would then eome - again- in: gusts that [under. great = obligations for courtesies ex- | ADd the Brutus were there. and Captain seemed fresh from a furnace. - We tacked | tended him by them and Mrs. ok and Miss Cook were pres- again and - again, but ~every . time we | .His son, a fine, manly lttle fellow, enjoyed | €nt at the ceremony of ralsing the Stars changed our course the waterspout . fol- | -this, his second voyage, very much, but m}and Stripes over the islands on February lowed suit. . We fired bombs at it and did [-spité of his knowledge of boats-and-‘a collec:| 1; 1389... From Guam the Bowh 1 went everything possible, but without -avail..|tion of modeéls of them he returns with satls- | to Yokohama. season smix the nd during | Then. T clewed up everything down to the | 1o his first: love, . the bieyele. | whales .were taken ]]:Rfl‘r topealls ana Jib, sent my. wife and | e atey® | that . she. expéridaced (he | someé very' heavy- w | son -down into ‘the cabin and then: pre- | truest hospitality In Honoluly ‘and *faraway | on. Octuber 27 the ste | pared for the worst. We. were in-a tight | Z g it e B e N T aprc'an @ run back through { | Box. but the waterspout worked past our | Phite of the former: place. Ang- ot s, oaear | tér. ~After that the -t | stern and taking a southeasterly direction | of the "Alaska Fur Company, his wife ang | ¥A% Uneventful. Mrs | disappeared behind the black wall. other friends of the latter. ‘She will go iy | Made their last vevage to the Arctic. This | have had some narrow escapes: In' MY | iea no more, but Intends to remain ashees i | WaS the voung rst visit to the | time, particulafly when the bark Sea|jook after her boy's education. She is & very, a she enjoyed it Ranger. went .on an uncharted rock, but.| bright, pleasant. Httle lady and greatly “re. [ thoroughly she ¢ not want to go back | I never had. a closer call than that ected by all on board the head. | there again, | waterspout gave me.” The bark Californfa came in with as fat - el R, The following interesting account of the. - e e -ame tn with A 0 crutse of the Gayhead was Turnisned The| WHALERS SUCCESSFUL. |fnd Jolly a‘cron as has ever made port | Call by one of the crew: s 5 t o they laughed to orn the story of starvation published by trresponsible s The men had no variety, but. there was plenty of bread, | Few, ashors, realizs -the many trials ana | TD® Fleet Returns Home After | hardships undergone by those who ‘g0 down a Good Season. to the sea In ships.” In these days of npqu transit ocean voyages ‘are regarded as mere | EIght whalers made port yesterday. Fre. baga telles and those who make them are prone ]| quently the -“blubber hunters” go out.in éanunu;i on Second Page