The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 16, 1904, Page 1

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NIGHT EDITION VIVID STORY OF THE BATTLE OF CHEMULPO TOLD BY BISHOP MOORE, AN EYE-WITNESS RUSSIA CONTINUES TO BOAST ABOUT WHAT SHE IS GOING TO DO ———— He Saw the Russian Crusiers Plunge into the Jaws of Death, and Tells of the Harrowing Scene W (By Scripps News Ass'n) CINCINNA >, March 1@—-One of the moat graphic acocunts yet Teceived engagement at Chemulpo on Februar st letter from Bishop Moore, ot Methodist church, who was es | morning e says We left ' ary on a Russian ner, which the harbor of At that hour a Japanese s aight and n eur ship had t sus mn that { the Japanese warships A jawn the x hase of amoke was seen far to t ard, which grew a word was soon pass. roan enn wait, we wer ading toward the harbor the harbor anchored and 2000 tr * and a number boats with miles, where they line of ba plan was evidently first to stop all aver Variag and Meanwhile ¢ tifted all Rus Blans to leav act Att 1 that in fit- teen m pecua. 1 we felt sorry for the b sand crews who were thus “ Wantanly Into the jaws of d For thirty. £ yes, for © titty min » che earth and sea trembled under the awful thunder of ¢ sab they be forth their n- dealing missiles, The Russia. , & desperate effort to break through the € Japanese d escape, and for a time they were In the © of t im ted to @ raking cross fire from both sides Seeing escape was in va round and steam Sure of their stead, completely and scorning surrender, the ships swung » the b th fags Cytng. 1 back rber ey, the Japanese fleet resumed Its station In the road- har’ ct king the only chan led Variag, evi- rt The Korttse seemed at We saw from where we were at anchor the four-fu to Gently badly wounded. and lasting he that time entirely uninjured. We rv 4 fm @ boat, and as we ap- proached the Korttse, we could see no & n her, although ‘the ve Were painting her broadsides, ae if to conceal them. We saw one officer on deck, with his head swathed in bandages, and asked him how the ship had fared. He replied that there was no chance of saving the ships and that they would probably be blown up. Then we approached the Variag and #. order I have never witnessed. She wee evidently sinking at that moment, and the officers were using every effort to save the wounded before the ship went down. ‘ I had seen the cruiser Variag Just after she was completed at the ship- yards, Then she was neat. trim and beautiful—as splendid o fighting ma- chine as I had ever seen, and what @ contrast to the riddied old hulk 1 now gazed at, slowly dipping her battered prow into the waves! She was mortally wounded amidships, with « huge rent in her upper works, Two of her funnels were riddied like selves, and her bridge was a mans of twisted and shattered iron, and gaping holes yawned here and there in her protected belt. A Meutenant, who had stood on the bridge watching t been torn to pleces and his right arm was found still holding the signal flag. Bo from other smaller warships in the harbor began to remove the wounded. Over « hundred of them were found more dead than alive, some of them dying in the life boats. There was pathetic tenderness in the veneration with which men aboard the Variag handed down the ¢zar's portrait, when it was known ship was doomed. ‘The life boats from the United States cruiser Vicksburg were among the first to reach the side of the helpless ship. With us, in our boat, was the first officer of the steamer Sungart, on which we had come. He toid wus that all was lost and soon afterward we cowld seo men hurrying be- low, as if to scuttle the ship. We turned back toward the Koritse, and we saw her officers and crew hastening to leave her, When we were with- in « few yards of her, her last two boats were pot off and stood for the shore. It was then twenty minutes to four o'clock, and we recalled the words of the captain for us to bend to the oi as the Koritse waa about to be . At the harbor the land rises abruptly and the point & revolving light about @ yards away. We b to the summit of the promontory. The hands 4 o'clock. At that moment there was « terr the Koritse and almost simulta sly another one forward. Two malig nant columns of smoke and debris leaped, writhing and twisting upward, as though they were two monsters in mortal combat. Their black bodies pulled apart for a moment, and the sinking sun, tearful with a film of haze, shone through the smoke and fire, and then disappeare And listening, we could hear, through the rain of falling fragments of the ruined ship, the majestic chant of the Russian national hymn come @tately and grand from the deck of a French ship, which had been offered we asylum for the wounded and dying Russians. At once it was a new cath of allegiance to the czar and @ requiem for the lost ship. Now & fierce fire was raging in the bunkers of the Variag. more and more as she listed to port. She had outlived the setting sun, but at 6 o'clock, with a great shudder, the huge leviathan turned on her side and Oia. If such things as this occur in only a st gee when War has been formally declared? & scene of confusion and dis- urmounted by d and climbed watch showed it was m in the stern of © of hostility, what shall we 300 WERE KILLED CHEBFOO, March 16.—The clonest estimate that can be made of catualties during the recent Port Arthur engagement umber of killed and wounde at over 300. It in known that 20 men were killed in one fort by the explosion of a shel Comparatively no damage was done to the Japanese fleet and the ships would have escaped unscathed but for the daring sortie of the Russian cruiser Novik. The Port Arthur forts made but feeble re- sponse to the raking fire from the Japanese fleet eS NO MORE TROOPS FOR PORT ARTHUR VCHWANG, March 16.— eneral Kuropatkin has telegraphed t he must hold Port Arthur with the present commander-in-chief says he is form first line of defense hich Followed A JAPANESE FIELD SIGNAL (From a photograph taken @urt ng the r. Vatted States by the Newspaper En terprise A. aS with 300,000 im There will be a sec ing favorably Kuropatkin very slowly and det 280,000 men on the Yalu, and an ways will concentrate near Antung ese will endeavor J also at the same mo to guard the r days they have been 1 over the prosp the scene of action means that an endless amount cut b 1 of ng smok i that the s now with the army the headquarters at Ping Y slled and it is taken ing a battlett: northward movement, wh actually in progress, is matter of a short time. General de of Field an immediate pondents was aders of the Japanese com Baron Hasega shal Oy with his armék squadror force of 36 guns, a regime gineers, 12 companies of h ress artilier ff over to his way of thinking The ad the entire chafed under the which they have been SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1904 publishes These did enterprise of the wa A. at the front, In the fir these plotures are made the ote of ther In existence commissioners of the N the mont bi bid ir sale becaum reveal secrets of the Japanese preparations for might property take military tngtics of the Japanese which able value to those wh: Information concernt the tures convir such as both M smuggle the United State officers of the ship. The readers of The Star exclusive flustrative war sius suggest, clation.) OFFICERS OF THE GENERA L STAFF WATCHING FIELD MANEUVERS OF MIKADO'S ARMY. From photograph taken during the r clusive publication in the United 8 tates by the Newspaper Enterprise Association. pletures Hlustrative epondents representing the photographs from are exceedingly Hilant coups that any achieved In securing one of there In the second place, the Jap respondents se @Overnment has strictly for of inestim the ely In the third piace the bidden the shipment of these ©, and it was only @ stroke mented by the keenest tnatt re. Brill « ¢ treanurer abe OFFICIAL JOURNAL SAYS THAT JAPAN WILL BE WIPED OFF THE MAP AFTER AWHILE BY THE INVINCIBLE RUSSIAN ARMY ANO'NAVY te of wideawak 1 Colver are, da Japanes® liner safely tucked Gway in the Inside pocket of one of are getting (By Beripps News Ass'n) PETERSBURG ably writter te at preser bearing upor | ot Japan and Russia in th | i] land armament by annon, but | This is, however, compensated for Russian forts and the yajor of the Russian #a ore, and the of the Japane base of supplies. the final issue of a nav the Japanese squadron will make its appearance in the tern waters under the rr TORTURED , TODEATH HORRIBLE ATROCITIES WER@ INFLICTED ON MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN BY THE H ERREROS CORPS WATCHIN G AN ACTION. ent guard maneuvers, and secured for exclusive publication (ty Scripps News Ass'n.) agony. BERLIN, March 16 | , Letters from reros in German Africa have Getatls of the unprintable indignitte whites by the Hundreds of the whi tured by the natives and turing bondage till th and flayed till death relieve t grand maneuvers of the Japanese army and secured for ex- nd Une of 200,000 men to guard the lines of communication and prevent any possible action on part of the Chinese to bh Many junks and small steamers bave succeeded in running blockade with supplies for Port Arthur and there is no senger train is running north daily intends to go to work with one large army of not other of 150,00 He expecta the Japa from Chemulpo, flank from > the Japanem The wounded are progress # among the troops. One pa attack with the main the other from Rilja. READY TO ADVANCE TOWARD THE YALU t of pe will have to b and any chance at ramel 4 1 belief her le p awa was chief a during the and he ts expected to quickly and effectively against jan fortifications which mand the 'p His the Yalu regi ts of infantry, nt ance will be supp ~~” THEY WILL BE BURIED WITH FULL HONORS RUSSIANS SHOW GREAT FORTITUDE mt fall in on the Russian JAPS WILL BE MAGNANIMOUS | TO THE RUSSIAN WOUNDED)| THEY MADE THE DIFFICULT M ARCHES ACROSS THE FROZEN coming to this place a member of the WHO DIE ABOARD THEIR TRACTS WITHOUT COMPLAINT mander of the torpedo-boat destroy-| everything. th: pgp ao yly pe Re ries presaging the tion by the led evacua- reguchteni, | which wos afterwards abandoned as| she sank, in an offict clared that he tried his best to rescue | bef the Japanese fleet has been » for several days north fronmr P. steady fire of was fot abiited de | they ould plainty pat Jubilant oon getting to| } churia. VOL. 6. NO. at An article appears this morn government author to set apart a number of war- | t as ewcorta and as guards for the 1 war will be eet, for it is only a question iiiiant of Russian admirals, who Their Umbs were chopped off in some cases, Others had their ¢ 4 out, their tongues were c off, and their bodies cut open and the vital organs removed. Women were hanged from trees head downward and beaten to death. | | Children were tossed up in the air} and spitted on spears and carried about while the maddened natives danced in fiendish glee. Parents) were often compelled to watch the their! mutilation of their children THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS miles fi their destination to the Russians by signals. They will then be taken into 25 CENTS PER MONTH ¢ national flag at @ distance of fi and communicate dar ree smiar tx. Ruse *f lity for the safe~ ign ships which approach, miles of the coast withougt fred precautions. CAUGHT A SPY RUSSIAN CAPTAIN HAD DAMe AGING DOCUMENTS (By Berippe s Agen PETERSSURG, March 16.— Captain Ivkov, of the Imperial guard, who was suspected of being @ Spy. was searched and alleged in- criminating documents were found on his person. He was court-mare tialed on the spot. The official ane nouncement of the affair was “Exe cluded from service.” DUCKED THE CORPORAL MILITARY SCHOOL OF NORTH YAKIMA HAS A REAL HAZING EPISODE (Special to The Star.) NORTH YAKIMA, March 16—Thé hazing of Spruce Cox by throwing hing | Into an frrigation cana! Monday after= It is reported here that Adm Makaroff is preparing to make an the Ja eet, though other rumors have it that the first Russian aggression will be on land. From Fen Huan Cheng reports one | teen mem| |awailting the action of the board of education, which meets tonight. No criticiam of Mra. Stair, the prin«/ cipal who suspended them, is made by/| the boys. ‘The boys now declare If taken back} on im still the absorbing topic of nversation. It threatens to disrupt+ mfittary organization. The sevens re who were suspended are, » schoo! they will not drill with th Cox boy unless he removes the strip that he is not entitled to. The cad corps is governed by military rucem, and every officer wears the stripes of{ jhix office. ng Cox was prior to ‘ontinentals of Zillah and was a cor- that organization. He was ed with the insignia of office, @ week ago the stripes were y removed from his coat. got new ones. When he ap ring them Monday, it was like jaunting a red fiag to a bull. It ie prebable that the board will repri- mand the h ogize to their victim rs and make them « come to the effect that the Russian soldiers are showing admirable fortitude in the difficult marches| This order NOW | endeavoring to rencue compelled him He declares, omprens of India | abandon his tank overboard and swam destroyers that Arthur ber Of the four | board of the Japanese army were near the | the daring youth, but he escaped un- | hurt. Many of the crew had or entrance The prince is @ colonel in an infantr [RUSSIAN WAS A REAL HERO ted in the capture | Port Arthur Port Arthur by the Japanene eet eae was badly damaged by on board of Japariese hospital ships or on board warships shall with full nav THEY ARE GOING HOME TO FIGHT VANCOUVER mn consists of NEWCHWANG, of heroism on the avairy, an artillery avy fort ammunition and sup destroyer was saved by a) midshipman | ¢ g from his post to the th division of the anese army, commanded by General Inouye, steering wheel | seaward for a distance of three m waged passage n the piloted the Japanese destroyers toward which it was rapidly drifting. | The electric steering gear had been | disabled and bullets whistled past across the frozen tracts of Man-| n d and the remainder lost their heads, But for the prompt action of the middy the destroyer would inev- itably have shared the fate of the Stereguachtcht COAST IS MINED BERLIN, March 16.—Th ssian | ambassador here has communicated to the German foreign of formal announcing th: Mak 8 laid a complete system of s marine mines all around the coast of {the peninsula upon which Port Ar thur is situated, The mines extend Ships sailing under neutral flags, th note continues, must henceforth hoist | morning in the Dra near Mountain View. The fath early and kir away to his work BURNED TO yom THEIR FATHER LEFT THEM AT HOME ALONE AND SAW FIRE TOO LATE BELLINGHAM, March 16—The two little daughters of Bert Drake, aged 8 ad 7, were burned to death Monday e farm house, Fr rose nen went led the fire, t Across the field he saw the house yurning, and ran as fast as he could, but when he reached the pl pe the was & mass of flames and he was too late to save the lives of the little girls, ‘Their bodies were burned to @ crisp.