The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 4, 1899, Page 1

VOLUME ) The PRICE FIVE CENTS, BOERS MASS FOR THE DECISIVE STRUGGLE Determined to Prevent the Passage of Tugela River by Their Foes. British Troops Must Construct a Pontoon Bridge Under Fire Before the Crossing of the Stream Can Be Effected. Bpecial Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyright, 1899, by James Gordon Bennett. ONDON, Dec. 4—There is still a lull in war news. This morning one interesting item is to the effect that the Boers had a very bad time at Kimberley on Tuesday. One of their laagers was captured by Bechuanana land police. Kimberley is now in searchlight communication with the relief force at Modder River. From Natal we hear that on railway between Frere and Colenso. the river. Tuesday the enemy was located at Chievely Station, on the The general body of Boers fell back on Colenso and crossed It would seem that the great assed in st railway bridge was scientifically destroved. The Boers are Kloof, on the north of the Tegula River, which they evidently intend to defend at all costs, so that it will become necessary to construct a pontoon bridge for the passage of the British troops. This operation, unless the enemy be first dislodged by supe- rior artillery, will haye to be performed under fire and in the midst of considerable difficulties. It now seems probable that General Clery is working around the enemy’s flank by way of n, in which case the Boers may be placed in a very awkward position. Two more batteries f artillery and two more battalions of infantry have reached Durban. General Clery must now With General White's 0300 this ngth along Groblers have at least 23,000 men, counting in the Natal Volunteers. makes a total of 32,500 British troops in Natal. On the western frontier of the Free State General Methuen has got across Modder River and is sure of assistance from the beleaguered town wherever and whenever he chooses to have a final battle. General Gatacre has been reinforced, but has not as yet moved further forward. Gen- eral French has reconnoitered along the railway from Naauwpoort to Rosmead, but without incident. The Boers have fallen back from Molteno. The transport Lismore, with artillery on board, has been wrecked. All the men are safe, but the horses, and, it is feared, the guns, may be lost. Two thousand rebel Dutch farmers have joined the Boers in the northeast of Cape Colony. is said that young men generally are flocking to the enemy, while their fathers hold on to their rms. To-day the first of the militia battalions called up for garrison duty will be embodied and the close of the week twenty-four battalions will be at their various posts, to be followed by ventv-two others—in all 40,000 officers and men. > every allowance for the officers and men who have fallen in battle and for ¢ at Pretoria, the British army in South Africa, including all auxiliaries. will com- rength accords verv accuratelv with the estimate of experienced German >ffi- of men necessary to insure British victory. the commander will be Major Generai|serted camp fires of the enemy. L » Thomas Kelly-Kenny, Inspector general | The wreck of the armored traln, still - s ry forces and recruiting, with | visible, showed that a Boer shell had : eral Knox and Major General | broken an axle, which had obviously - adier commanders. Gen- | caused the accident to one car that la has had no South Afri- | on its side. The other car was uprighted, but both were completely riddled by the r A a dispatch from Pitters my's bullets and artille lay, ) mber 28, tae r by ore the in . the hands Boers were then attem urning move- Soldiers.” ' s from Steinsbur strict n Boer force fs now gradus s frica ws 1 1 of Storkstrom ir with 1€ near Chievely Station. . rshi rebels, by way of Maraisburg and — ais of 1 kastad, against General Gatacre's BR[T'SH TROOPSI‘"P ISMORE GOES ASHORE LONDON, Dec. 4—The War Office pub- lishes the following dispatch from Cape dated yesterday: The transport Ismore is ashore on the s In St. Helena Bay. The troops have BOERS CONCENTRATE AT TUGELA RIVER Nov. The Natal lishes the following dispatch wn, mpcliing | DURBAN Mercury Natal, 2 pu 4 : recidyl ribpeed el 1y landed, but the horses are still on v -| “The Boers have reconcentrated at their | P°a7d- H. M. S. Dorls and Niobe, with R & <4 [0 ; the transport Columbian, have gone (o ¢ fon near Colenso, back of hor anilstinee ; R . amid everything po ts Colonel Kokowich reports under date t e - el RIDLAA0; DRve "r’w\ Brit-| of Thursday, November 20, that the . D : - - the hgeia ’~'r’ ® Te- Bechy police ptured the Boer laagoer r wanton destruction of Property | wesy of Kimberley on Tt Gile who was wou looters are confirmed b D y Ll r, w st - 5 5 er 28, Communication & at er River, w k the CAMP, Natal. Nov. 28.—The | with Kimberley has been .’ v wtr Col. nce made to-day by Generel | ¢rom Modder River.” The whole oles nd Lord Dundonald in com- TR DUEL OF ARTILLERY WAGED NEAR COLENSO Special Cable to The Call and%the New York Herald. Copyright, 155, by James Gordon Bennett LONDON, Dec. 4—The Daily Telegraph publishes this dispatch from its special correspondent: excellent opportunity for | ntry. On approaching found on every hand s of devastation that testified to the mghness of Boer looting. The Wil- | 1« farm and others had been ran- cked from end to end. In some cases contents of every room of the farm- ad been destroyed. The Boers ntly burned what they could " v ‘ y off. The property of the Bosars' FRERE, Nov, 26—The Earl of Dundon- the Sixth Instead of Lieate . was testified to by the corn | ald proceeded with the cavalry toward fleld Clarke | hu t were to be seen about the de-' Colenso this morning. When our men trebesresrsnede D S I e S e S N N AP P B i S {m | ana have T 5 THKEN BY HERMANDE Insurgents Enter the Vene- zuelan City After a Long Battle. | CAPTURE OF 1 SLOOP Overhauled by Trinidad Customs! Officers, Its Crew Offers Resist- | ance and Esoapes. e i | | Special Dispatch to The Call. | ARACAS. Venezuela, via Haytien | cable, Dec. 3.—After a fight lasting sixteen hours the city of Maracaibo. capital of the State of Zulia, is in the power of the Hernandist revolution- ary forces. PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Dec. 3.— | Trinidad revenue ol rs overhauled to- | day Venezuelan sioop. belleved to be a filibustering vessel, near the fsland of | Patos, in the Gulf of Parfa. There were | five men on beard the sloop, and when | called upon for the sAp's papers they had | none to show. Search was made by reve- | nue officers. who fodpd con d on the | sloop several rifles anl revolvers. all load- | ed, and a guantity ¢ cartridges. i Captain Pashley charge of the reve. nue officers, seized the sloop and arms | and ammunition and took the latter and | five Venezuelans ashore. The Venezuel- ans attacked the Britinsh boatman after | landing. aptain Fashley ran to the men's rescue. firing his Tevolver at the ' filibusters. The latfer returned the fire and serfously wounded Pashley. One of the boatmen was alsc shot, but his wound | is slight. The Venezvelans recaptured their sloop and arms and succeeded in escaping. @ooeieibeieisseie@ reached a point 300 yards away from the | enemy’s position the Boers fired at them with rifles and guns. Our field battery re- plied, but the enemy’s guns outranged | ours. The artillery duel continued for | several hours. No cusualties occurred cn our side. The reconnoissance. when completed, | showed that the Boegs were in force along iroblers Kloof River Hundreds of Boers, especially men be- longing to General Joubert's column, are many have lost thelr rifles and horses returned afoot. A few more Boer deserters came in to-day. They zay their men are tired of the war and are starving. More ls @re being brought | to the north of Tugela {h. Preparations are proceeding steadily for our advance on Ladysmith, 'TWELVE BOERS KILLED | IN THE BELMONT FIGHT! PRETORIA, 2, ques, Dec. 3 reported to Pre ov. 28, via Lourenzo Mar- ommandant Delarey has ident Kruger that the burghers, in spite of their determined de- | fense at Gras Pan on November 2, were completely surrounded by the British and were compelled to retire. The Boer commander on the Western | border reports that twelva burghers were killed and forty wounded in the fighting | at Belmont. | Commandant Dutmol (probably Dutoit) sends the following report to the Council of War from Kimberle “Early on Saturday the British made | a sortie, supported by cannon and max- | i Under cover of darkness they ad- vanced in the directfon of Bloemhof. Two | hundred burghers encountered them and | I brought up an additional 1%, Nine | burghers were killed and seventeen | wounded. The British left two on the ground, but an ambulance removed these."" | The Boer langer at Derderpoort was at- tacked last Saturday by a strong force of the Natal mounted police. Mr. Bar- nad, a member of the Volksraad, was | killed. o MODDER RIVER BATTLE i DESRIBED BY RALPH | [Spectal Cable to the New York Herald. Copy- | right, 1599, by James Gordon Bennett. Re- publication of this dispatch is prohibited. All rights reserved in the United States and Great Britain.) Dec. 4.—These advices from Continued on Sacond Page. sreberebea P T " Y, Ty jacal anicon FoRT WYLIE, ROAD To LADYSMTM. Seiedsd o TR BOSRY. Qetoieces ® e o e A S S ST S COLENSO AND THE TUGELA RIVER. Here the Boers are preparing to give battle to the British forces advancing to the relief of Ladysmith, C.OLE __ReAD T v?ismm TOWEENEN 3 PASS. L e e e i e = ] i B R S e SRCER S SRS SR S 4 | Their | way through the woods without a bite to CREWS O F TWO SHIPS FACE DEATH AT SEA Peruvian Bark Libertad Founders and the Schooner Hera Is Burned. |Seamen of the Former Vessel Reach Shore in a Small Boat When on the Verge of Insanity From Lack of Food and Water. O+ ed et eieboie @ 3t £ . & e B e e e R e e ) D R I o R e e e S B S g * ® * ® & ) % L 4 . 1 THE SEATTLE SCHOONER HERA. Qo0 teteietdsiesdebod +oed A A A S A E S e AR A aa ae o o e e e e e e e 2 ) ICTORTA. Deec. 3.~The steamer | SBuncay morning smeke was seen coming | ing schooner Eureka. which arrived off Queen City, which arrived from the west coast of Vancouver Island this afternoon, brought among her passengers two emaclated. ship- wrecked crews. There were Cap- tain V. Arenas and nine men of the Peru- | vian bark Libertad, 411 tons, which foun- dered on November 6, about sixty miles off Cape Cook to the northern extremity of Vancouver Island; ain J. L. War- ren, J. W. Shirk of Seattle, owner and supercargo, and his daughter Mabel. who is on the articles purser, and eight men of the Seattle schooner Hera, which was burned to the water's edge off the island coa: The men of the Libertad suffered most. The unfortunate cosmopolitan gathering, made up of Chileans, Peruvi- ans, Portuguese, Brazilians, Greeks and Italians, left the bark on the morning November 6. The vessel was then rapidly filling and it was feared that she would go down before they were free of her vortex. The Libertad left Pisagua on August 35, under charter of W. R. p of Francisco, with a cargo of nitrate for the Victoria Chemical W u'ke:.| All ‘“Fl;l ;\'.1! tember 27, when in tude :::‘:L.s::ngl'udb 120.18 she sprang a leak, and from that time until she aban- doned there never was less than a foot of water in her hold. The weather was very heavy, high southeast gales, with a heavy sea, being encountered constantly. On November 5 a hurricane blew from the southeast. Many sails were carried away and the water in the hold was incr to four feet. The crew were utterly hausted by constant pumping. On morning of the 6th the cl. .in plates on the port side were carrled away, and soon afterward the carpenter came rus forward and announced that the bark foundering. A glance into the hold showed the now terrified crew that the water was | rising rapidly and after gathering| a few clothes and tossing a bag of bread into the ship's boat they hurriedly | cut it from the davits, and scrambling | {nto it abandoned the sinking bark In the hurry to get away, so great thelr terror, they forgot to put fresh wa- ter in the boat. When they le. the vessel she was about sixty miles off Cape Cook, near which place the shipwrecked m:n landed after an awful struggle with the ocean, a heavy gale blowing from the southeast. They were two days In the open boat, during which time all they had to eat was a few pleces of sour bread. tongues were almost split with thirst and one man was almost driven to madness by drinking from the sea. When they ultimately got ashore after a hard struggle through the breakers caused by the heavy ground swells which always prevail or the island coast. they were without food, for what they had was !ost in the effort to get ashore. After landing they abandoned the boat and started out through the woods in search of settlers. They were three days climbing over the rocks, wading creeks and cutting thelr ing eat before assistance was found. They came upon three prospectors on the 1ith and the miners shared their provistons ! and clothes with them. Then the pros-| pectors started out with them in their boat for Quatsino, at which place the | steamer called and took: them on board. | The crew of the schooner Hera did not | suffer from the lack of food so much as | did the men of the Libertad, but they had | a closer escape from death. It was only by running at full speed under all the canvas they could carry In a storm, In which at another time they would have | run under closely reefed sails, that they | managed to reach the land in time to es- cape from the burning ship. The Hera salled from Seattle on Novem- ber 18, with a full cargo of general mer- chandise for Honolulu. She had on board 1800 barrels of lime, 750 bales of hay, considerable bottled beer, two carloads of | tin goods, one carload of canned goods, ten planos, wheat, etc. She was in charge of Captain Warren and carried L. W. Shirk, part owner; Miss from the lower hold. She had sprung a | leak and the lime had ignited, setting fire to the cargo. A heavy southeaster was lashing the seas mountains high and the vessel was under a close-furled mainsail. There was nothing but to run for it and trust to Providence, for none knew whether it would be two minutes or two 1 days before the flames would spring from y the hold. Captain Warren put the Hera |a total The storm has abated. The about and endeavored to get Into the | fleet of vessels that have been barbound straits. The heavy winds, however, here for ten days will sail to-morrow. ried the schooner up the island c | None knew the coast, but when off Cla qot they saw an opening and ran for it They were twenty-five hours in reaching | WEDS A DOCTOR rible suspense. It was just forty minutes after they had left the vessel a mile from Marriage That Recalls a Noted Will Contest. the Coquille River early last week, lay outside until Thursday, when she attempt- ed to sail In. The current was very strong and carried the vessel north of the bar, where she forced upon the beach just north of the north jetty. The cr reached shore safely. It is thought tkat %0 of general merchandise will pe but it Is feared the vessel will the shore that the flames shot out, and in | five minutes the vessel was a sheet of | fire, showing by what a narrow margin | they had escaped. | Miss Shirk, the owner's daughter, the sailors say, was a heroine. She was on deck the whole of the trying time, cheer- ing the crew. The vessel burned to the edge and sank In fourteen | homs of water. rescued saflors of the Hera are voring to find out the identity of a three-masted topmast schooner, lumber laden, which passed out on Sunday morn- ing and which they say ignored thei- sig- | The Special Dispatch to The Call. AURBURN, Dec Auburn and 4 Dr. « na Jack Barron of ge¢ Washington nals for assistance. The schooner was | Farmer of San F cisco were married about two and a half miles away, and |in Sacramento on October 3. The bride although they flew their jack union down, | is the putative {dow o the George a red blanket ir. the main rigging, and a | E. Barron, son of Millionaire Barron whe red table cloth in the forward rigging. no | died of consumption in San Francisco attention was paid whatever. The Hera was owned by the Laconner Trading Company of Seattle, for whom she was making her first trip. A report was also brought by the Queen some months ago. At that time there was some question as to whether she was a legal wife. The celebrated will contest in which she figured 1s still fresh In the minds of Calf= City that the lighthouse keeper at Cape | fornfans g Beale told_them a blg iron ship was | DF. and Mrs. Farmer are still at Au- ashore at Village Island, not far from | burn, but intend going to San Franeisco Cape Beale light | shortly. Mrs. Farmer owns a large fruit | ranch” here. deeded to her by George E. sc“ooum | Barron just before he dled Judge Hackney D.ad. WRECKED AT COQUILLE| Grose. arz, Dee 3 _Jydge A. H. Hackney of the Arizona Silver Belt, one Crew Is Saved, but It 1s Feared That | O the most widely known newspaper men in the Southwest, died last night. De- the Vessel Will Be a Total ceased was born in Mercer, Pa., in 1815, Lo resided in St. Louls twenty-five years and ss. on the frontier in New Mexico and Ari- EMPIRE CITY, Or., Dec. 3.~The coast- | zona since 1§ PHILIPPINES ARE OPEN TO CHINESE Secretary Hay Instructs General Otis to Admit All but Laborers. WASHINGTON. Dec. 3.—As a result of the protest made to Secretary Hay by Minister Wu Ting Fang. the representative of China in Washing ton. Secretary Root has sent instructions to General Otls to strictly observe the treaty provisions in force between the Washington and Peking Govern- ments. This means that Chinese. with the exception of laborers, will be ad- mitted to the Philippines in the future. In the Instructions cabled to General Otls he has been directed to notify every custom-house officer to be careful In acting upon applications for ad- mission and to strictly earry out the provistons of the treaty regulating Chi- nese Immigration into the United Stat Minister Wu has been informed that the regulations indorsed by General Otls are stmply temporary and for the purpose of preventing the Introdiec- tion of a further hostile element Into the Philippine sittation. When the Insurrection 1s at an cnd and peace and order are restored this Government will take under copsideration the question of the immigration of Chinesa Into the archipelago. Of course, legislation must be enacted to determine the status of the Chinese. particularly of laborers, but in view of the provisions of article 1 of the treaty regulating such immigration. no objection to any policy it may be determined upon can be made by the Chinese Government This article provided that “whenever In the opinion of thegiovernment of the United States the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States. or their residence therein affects or threatens to affect the Interests of that country, or to endanger the good order of sald country or any locality within Mabel Shirk, 1. A. McIntyre, Mate J. Bu- chanan, Second Officer D. Thompson, S. Griffin, J. M. Gray, M. O'Brien, F. Wilkes and G. Seabert. She salled out past Flat- tery on the 25th, and on the following the territory thereof, e Government of China agrees that the Government of the United States may regulate, Itmit, or suspend such coming or resi- dence, but may not absolutely prohibit it."” 4040 +04040404040404040404040+0 04040 4040404040404 04040004040+@ ’o 040404040404040404040¢ 04040404040 40404040404040+9