The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 17, 1900, Page 1

Feud Begun During Spanish War Causes Killing of Three Men and | Wounding of Four. | THE DEAD. ETHELBERT D. SCOTT, 33 years old, of Lexington, Ky. LUTHER W. DEMARREE, 30 years old, of Shelbyville. CHARLES JULIAN, 45 years old, of Franklin County. THE WOUNDED. B. B. Golden of Barboursville, mortally wounded in back. 0. D. Redpath of Chicago, leg fractured. Colonel David G. Colson of Middlesboro, arm shattered. Henry McEwen of Louisville, shot in foot. FEEFEPL 44444440 R R D e R COLONEL DAVID G. COLSON. ' RT. Jan 16.—A 1in every direction for physicians lndé . it ves | nurses to care for the wounded. rles H. Julian, who was shot in the | after rea g a room, w to loss of blood and the w vous system G .L ed to a room and made Colson was the ag- 1 has long been a promi- Kentucky politics. He Congress t the 3 District in lcy of the the Span- ant and troop In which An en. A n and Scott mp at Annis- t is.sald by Col- warm between n a meet- . which Seott 1 mus- ervice as a result of the Regiment i was a leut ain of a c h they gton against each then the parties until to-day, and it gen- een believed that blood would be Yy met, as both were under- ocking for each other. 10n was removed to the resi- of Chief Williams while the ssed his shattered arm, ken to jall until § o'c b owed bail. The 1 and an indictment will ably be returned against him to-mor- Coroner Meagher will also hold an -morrow morning. Colson to-night declined to talk. n nervoss state and appeared been weeping when a reporter He suffered a partial stroke of | alysis after he was shot by Scott at | )t met su He Is I3 have called The latter. c son it is said ston and had never fully recovered ¢ om his chair, fired at Scott it | returned the fire. The death seeks a shining mark was | became general, and by- ted in the tragedy. Colson was | ers are at variance as to the v ost widely known of those who | ured cure Somerset or engaged in it. Demarree was st g slightly in front of in it, but none of the others Scott were was a young lawyer of Colson, and your i said to have crouched behind h! nd a nephew of ex-Governor | S of ts from Colson's revol- W. O. Bradley, his mother being o sister | . Demarree fell dead, Of the ex-Governor. Julan was one of | plerced by three bullets. the wealthiest farmers of the county and | , Jden, who accompanied Scott, | WA® active in local politics, being a Demo- crat His famil | falling into the arms mes E. McCreary, ex- were among the best- | tucky. One brother, s a lawyer at Kansas Cit ther, Alexander, is a wealthy of Cincinnatl, and a cousin, . of this city, is now a Democratic nomination this district. Demarree, | to being assistant postmaster €. was a large real estate n is one of the best- e southeastern part | long been a leading | an of his section. Both were regarded as dead had figured in shooting | known people in - of the antag- “olson continued reated backward, jison emptied r revolver and to action shot severs ck and fe who was ntinued the ed over and lets fairly r 4 he hotel “ » : wild, piercing win- | s went home in the tragedy emselves In the 0-68) - . eme: her e . . In the | fr as known Tobited that. v o ee revoivers played he du \ be seen that aim vas for the most part accurate, Colson ue, but this detracts nothing B e kil ur Scott, because e had lodged in him. PTE T— Following is the record of the marks- men: Scott—Bullet in temple, one 1 two in lungs, two in back. Pt belman);o‘]l:wolln he;n. Julian—Bullet In calf of right leg. Captain Golden—Two bun’e‘u ln“-’p!na Colson—Bullet splintered_left wrist to elbow, bullets tore his cuffs and sleeves was that and »e only entered gasped he would not let me alone. were three of them shooting at me.” There | Meantime the wildest excitement pre- | 1o shreds. led in the hotel lobby where the kill- Nobody not in the line of fire was ing occurred and In the dining-room near | touched. 200 guests had been seat. | The death of Julian is the most remark- A o fusillade be able. He walked to-his room unalded X 8 the f #an. | His cousin, Judge Ira Jullan, examined Men fell over each er in, frantic ef- | the wound and congratulated him on his forts to get to places of safety, women | escape. The doctors were busy with fainted and it was several minutes before | 4ying and Julian waited. He Was hleedl":: the awful scope of the tragedy was fully | {3 death, however, and when the doctors known. The dead were left Iying in pools | recovery. Captain Golden was alive bt a of blood and messengers were dispatched late hour. | Colenso. | preser PAS heavy firing to the north yesterd the 1 ugela. Natal.” SAGE OF THE ay. D R e e o ] B R S B o R 2 Pereioitbetbesdbeieteded @ ONDON, Jan. 17.—The silence in Natal is broken this morning by the single item of news from Pleter- maritzburg that very heavy firing was heard on Monday in the direc- tion of the Tugela From this it is possible that hard fight- ing has begun and that the British- are not being allowed to cross without flerce opposition. On the other hand, it may be only a bombardment pre- liminary to the assault of Colenso, or merely a heavy artillery fire meant to cover the flank operations, which are now generally belleved to be going on in force | on the British left and to eastward at Potgleters Drift Reports emanating from Durban and Frere that General Warren has moved toward Weenen are now regarded as offi- cially inspired to distract attention from General Buller'’s move. 4 No information is allowed to pass as to the position of various columns which are now foreing a passage of the Tugela. One version places General Warren at According to another he is with General Buller north of Springfield. Natal telegrams which have arrived during the last few days are not likely to let anything pass which would dis- close General Buller's real intentions. But, while the public is in the dark, there is every reason for saying that the | War Office has not only received news from General Buller which it is keeping secret, but that the news has been of the most satisfactory nature. I am told on good authority that since gaturday morning the War Office has been In possession of news which it cannot give out until the aim of the combined move- ment of Generals Buller and Warren has been accomplished. What is patent to all'is a change in the demeanor of high officials of the War Office in the last few days. An air of suppressed exultation has replaced the worried, serious mood. A little straw which shows which way the wind is blow- ing is found in General Wolseley at a dinner. party on Monday evening. 1 am told that those thought that such levity was rather inappropriate, all the more so as the open talk is that General Wolseley should most certainly be called to book for the plan of campaign which caused so disastrous a beginning. This unusual good humor on the part of Lord Wolseley,/which was deseribed to me as being quite remarkable, might like- ly be caused by good news from the front. To back this supposition up there is the fact of perfect silence from Boer sources. From them, if not from General Buller, we would have had some indication ere this had there been any reverse for the British forces. Another straw showing the probability not only that the news has been received but that some of it is leaking out is a statement by the military correspondent in this morning’s Leader, who is known to be exceptionally lucky in obtaining in- side news, to the effect that on Monday morning General Warren's division was encamped between Springfield, where General Buller at that time had his head- quarters, and Bethany, being five miles the Tugela the extreme gayety of | 06+ R north of the former place, eral Buller had assuredly one, and it is | belleved two passages of the river in his hands. A careful study of the topographical | conditions show that the wisdom of such | & concentration on the extreme British left, and the plan would be to-turn to the | heights northwest of Colenso and thus | compel . their evacuation and then to at- | tack the Boers on the left between him | and General White. | There is considerable ground for belfev- | ing that the Boers around Ladysmith are | preparing for some such attack, although | they are not sure in which direction it will come. A late dispatch from the besieged town states that there are signs that the Boers® preparations- were made for the purpose of a retreat, the hills to the northwest being fortified, while few-big guns have | been posted to command a possible ap- | proach from the south. Undoubtedly the | burghers know the peril of being caught between two armies. to which they are exposed, and as they all along have been excellently served by thejr scouts the movements of General Buller are perhaps by no means mysterious to them. ‘Generals French and Gatacre have both been busy making reconnoissances, the former towayd Norvals Pont and the lat- | ter in the direction of Molteno and Stormberg, and they are waiting for re- inforcements before moving on the Boers. who have been shifting their positions in a manner which indicates a possible con- centration at Colesberg bridge, Norvals Pont, Bethulie bridge and Aliwal north for the defense of Orange River on simi- lar lines to those which prevailed at Mod- der River. The Morning Post's military critic says, assuming that General Buller has gone to the left with two divisions, leaving one before Chieveley, he probably moved with the first to Frere and Springfield and then;e to ‘ll’l«;t;.::ter- D“O%' For the sec- ond he wor 0ose another passage, as 20,000 men would take the best part of a day to make a passage at one point. L R S SRR O R SRR ] BOERS CONTESTING BULLERS TOGELA RIVER The Times publishes the following from Pietermaritzburg dated Tuecsday: 4444444444444 44444444444 4444444-4++ firing was heard yesterday in the dirzction of < pringficld.” | | | | i | [ | LONDON, Jan. 17.—The Exchange and Telegraph Company has received the following dispatch dated January 16 from Pietermaritzburg: *There is no news from the front, but heavy firing was heard to-day in the direction of Frere. It is probable that General Buller is engaging the enemy. rumor is current here that a portion of the British force is near Ladysmith.”” 3 A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Pietermaritzburg dated Tussday says: “There was very I belicve the Boers ars contes:ing General Euller’s passage of Howitzers are evidently busy, as the tiring Is described as the heaviest yet heard in ‘“Heavy artillery A division from Estcourt moving off when General Buller moved from Frere would be screened from the enemy's ob- servation. The movement continued would take it to a point west of Potgieters Drift as the next passage to the westward, ac- | cording to maps, Is that on the road to Bethany. It is possible that General Warren's - vision followed the road. In that case after croseing the river it would have a very long march. It is about thirty miles, or two days, to Dewdrop from Estcourt. By way of Bethany to Dewdrop it Is not | less than eighty miles, or ubout a week s march, so that if General Warren left Estcourt on Tuesday or Wednesday last he may to-day be within a day’s march of Dewdrop. Dewdrop is about ten miles from Pot- gleters Drift, and the Boer position whicn L e e ot 2n o B ol 2o ol S o o o o o o o -MMMO+QM+Q—%WMH—O—+M+. and that Gen- | confronts General Buller is about half- | way between the Drift and Dewdrop. If, therefore, while General Buller were at- tacking the Boers and General Warren came up along the road from Bethany he would strike from a point beyond the Boers’ flank, behind the center of their position. Thus two forces would be de- Iivering on the battlefield a concentric at- tack—a most effective form of attack— and the direction of General Warren's ad vance would, if he were successful, car; his troops right into Ladysmith. BRITISH FORT AT EASTWARD DEMOLISHED PRETORIA, Jan. 11.—As a result of the bombardment of Mafeking yesterday the British fort at Eastward was demolished and the British retired. One Boer was wounded. Advices from the head laager at Ladysmith report that the attack on that place January 6 was disastrous to the British, and that Ladysmith appears to be in sore straits. s BaL FAILURE.OF BOERS TO RUSH A HILL RENSBERG, Cape Colony (Monday), Jan. 15.—The Boers this morning attempt- ed to rush a hill held by a company of the Yorkshires and the New Zealanders, but they were repulsed at the point of the bayonet. The Boers had twenty-one men killed and about fifty wounded. The hill commands a tract of country east of the main position of the Boers, and they had determined to make an at- tempt to seize the helghts. They ad- vanced cautiously, directing their fire at a small wall held by the Yorkshires and compelling the latter to keep close under cover. When the Boers rushed the wall the Yorkshires fixed bayonets and charged. Just at that moment Captain Maddocks, with a small party of New Zealanders, came up and the combined I R O R G S g s i S 5L S S S o g D o o o PRICE FIVE CENTS. CONFLAGRATION SWEEPS DAWSON'S MAIN STREET Water System Fails at a Critical Time and Much Property. Is Destroyed. ACOMA, Jan. 16.—A report has reached this city that Dawson has once more suffered from a disastrous fire. The statement is made that property valued at fully half a million dollars was destroyed. The water system of the town is said to have failed completely at a critical time, the result being that the fire fighters found themselves almost powerless to stay the pro- | greds of the conflagration Many homes were burned and a large quantity of supples oyed, as the result of which much suffering has since been experienced in th At Skaguay on January 10 a dispatch was received from Daw: a fire was In progress, but was under control. The wires were w | no particulars could be obtained. The conf t on where many buildings were without chim own. y pro Yukon Daw Bab city, the equipment for fighting fire | equal to any emergency that might engines of the latest pattern, besides number of hand engines, some v The thickly bullt up business part and the residences and scattered hou After the river freezes ove ice near the Alaska Comm mile above the mouth of the Klon arise large »r more, of the tow e river the out 1arters of a two and a half to five feet thick, but holes from which the ater are | kept open. Steam can be got up and suction minutes’ | time. Several hundred feet of large hose ena on ‘the hillside. If the fire occurs any great distance from the engines can be moved on the ice to a point on the most good. Under the circumstances it | supply gave out. QO+ 49 04000090090 0040 90047 9340000003000 420 b eI edeieg DIARY OF SIEGE OF LADYSMITH. November 2—Ladysmith invested on three sides. Last telegraph message i sent | November 3—Bombardment begun. Heavy firing all around the line. November 4—General French escapes on last train south. British re- | connoissance on Colenso road, and fight at Groblies Kloof. November s, 6, 7—Cessation of fighting st “pigeon post” out to the south. Bombar tinued. 14—Sortie in force: inde November 9— nt con- ovember ve. November 30—Situation becoming very serious | . 1 December 5—Ladysmith reads searchlig messages from Frere camp, twenty-one miles away, and returns answers. December 7—Sir Archibald Huntér sortie in force to Lombards Kop; destroys t loses 126 men. | December 8—Boer gun on Surprise Hill ve nnoying. December 11—Colonel Metealie makes sortie against Su e Hill; hard | fight; loses 12 killed. 41 wounded, besi some prisoners. December 12—Enteric fever fatal in many cases. Food sufficient for two months: rations ple 15—Heavy firing at Colenso awakens lively hopes of Buller’ eoming, duly to be dashed to the ground later in the day, when the Boers began to jolli 25—Christmas entertainment to children in the town. Queen’s holiday greetings” received from Frere; stasm. December 26—General White resumes command af January 6—Boers’ assault on Caesars camp and V after a full day of hard fighting. B nent officers, with tc of 142 killed, missing. January 10—Bombardment vigorotr December December -+ ww»mwou»»o;moo» R e e man i- £ o wounded and B > B &> B > + > - - 2 - - + ® * & * > + - > + * > . + > * » * * » B * . > p 4 I3 * * * 1S QGoeieieiede B S Y 3 continued. $ i 1 rail vy e pes bridge is almost s have fallen in fords of Reit force leaped over the wall and chargec straight for the enemy, followed by a| comple | withering fire at close raage. | The Boers literally tumble other In their hurry to esc raj and t assable. 1 over each pe, but the t it will be necessary | persistent fire of the British inflicted a the ratls over e O e heavy loss. Modder River to Kimber- Desultory firing continued for some rs havi the ralls sepers in build tories still r Staters de est report | time, but the attack was an utter failure and the Boers retreated to the shelter of | the small kopjes at the base of the hill. REIGN OF TERROR - IN SWAZILAND LONDON, Jan. 17.—The Pietermaritz- burg correspondent of the Times, tele- graphing Tuesday, January 16, says: “The Delagoa Bay correspondent of the Natal Times asserts that six big Creusot guns and fifty tons of shells were landed from the French steamer Gironde about the middle of last month under the noses of two British warships and were dis- patched to Pretoria, causing much re- Jolcing at the ease with which contraband of war can run the bldekade. fortificatioris ch camp that the war. The NATAL DUTCHMEN AMONG THE KILLED LADYSMITH ‘Weenen, Jan. I Jan. 8 AT messenger to ntative of the the since The Swazl‘Queen mother, ated Press visited Satu bat- @eath of King Bunu, has killed all the this morning and saw chiefs who were ever in England and | pers of Boer dead The Cape Town and is now plotting with the weihe® auehs Boers. The situation may fairly be con- sidered grave, and it would be well to #end regiments of Goorkhas to Swaziland immediatel Refugees from Swaziland living in the Lebombo district recently brought news to Lourenzo Marquez that the Queen of Swaziland was dead. Her death, follow- ing so soon upon that of King Bunu, was looked upon with suspicion. According to | their story, however,not the Queen mother but Necoco, Bunu's brother, was acting as head of the Swazl nation, and he, in | conjunction with Tcuba, Umbandine's old prime minister, was carrying on a reign | of terror, killing off whole kraals all over the country. MAFEKING IS YET BRAVELY HOLDING OUT| LONDON, Jan. 17.—The correspondent of the Times at Lourenzo Marquez, tele- graphing Monday, January 15, says: “I am Informed on the best authority that six days ago Mafeking was holding out as pluckily as ever. There was then no likelihood of capitulation. The garrison had plenty of cattle and tinned meats. It is openly stated at Johannesburg that twenty field guns were recently smuggled through Delagoa Bay.” The Durban correspondent of the Stand- ard deals to-day with the numerous re ports that the Free Staters have tired of the war and will abandon the struggle as soon as the British cross the border. He mentions an extraordinary story with reference to a journey of President Kru- ger's son-in-law, Eloff, to Delagoa Bay n a German warship. According to this Eloft has been making arrangements for Kruger's escape through German Dama- raland in the event of the capture of Fre- toria. seemed to have a Boer was completely disemboweled, other had his head shot clean off a couple of others were killed by the same shell, evidently while eating thelr X eon, as hard-boiled eggs lay beside them. Natal Dutchmen were recognized among the dead. A number of Boer bodies and carcasses of horses have been washed down Intombi Spruit, which became a raging torrent during a heavy thunder- storm. The British while digging graves were fired on by the Boer artillery and | several of them were hit. Soft-nosed bul- lets and dumdum cartridges have been found on wounded prisoners. Volunteers carried the Boer dead off the hill and | handed the bodies over to thelr comrades at the bottom. Over ninety were thus carried off Wagon Hill alone. - AN INTERPELLATION. BERLIN, Jan. 16.—In the Reichstag to- day an interpellation signed by Herr Voel- ler, National Literal, and all the members of the Relchstag except the Liberal Dem ocrats and ind , was introduced. It was as follow “What steps has the Federal Govern- ment taken In regard to the seizure of German ships by agents of the British | Government?* SIS T ! ORDERED TO THE CAUCASUS. LONDON, Jan. 17.—The Times has i} following from Odessa: “The army cor| which has been quartered in the Ekate inoslav district has been ordered to the Caucasus to replace the Russian troops | sent to the Afghan frontler.” | TULARE AND KINGS WILL HAVE A FAIR EXCHANGE OF SHELLS {Feiioit e Shasth Shetghies ON THE MODDER RIVER| Displays. | Spectal Dispatch to The Call TULARE, Jan. 16.—The board of dls- MODDER RIVER, Tuesday, Jan. 16— - There was a brisk exchange of shells this | trict directors of the Agricuivural Soctety, morning, the Boers returning our fire for | COMmPrising Tuare gs counties, he frat ke I asveral dAys | met to-day at Visalla and decided to hold S . a district fair at Tulare this fi The The British Intrenchments are being | [egislature appropriated that continually strengthened and extended. | purpose.