The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-03
The Death in Africa Of Prince Louis
Napoleon.

The following are the additional par
ticulars of the death of the Prince I'M
perial: The body of the Prince when
found lay on its back. There were
eighteen assegai stabs in it, two of them
piercing the body from the chest to the
back, two in the side, and one Destroy
ing the right eye. A locket with hair
medallions and reliquary were found
around his neck. The face wore
placid expression. He had evidently
Intellectually tried to mount his horse,
and the leather of the flap tearing he
ran along the path to where he was
found. Two troopers lay near the
body, both assegaied. The Prince was
very adventurous.
An official account says the Prince,
with Lieutenant Carey, of the Ninety
eighth Regiment, six men and one
friendly Zulu, left the camp at Kelitzi
Mountain, seven miles beyond Blood
River, on the LIST instant, for recon-
noissance. The party halted and un-
saddled when ten miles from camp.
just as the Prince gave the order to
remount q volley was fired from an
ambush in the long grass. Lieutenant
Carey and four of the troopers re
turned TO the camp and reported that
the Prince and two troopers were miss.
ing. From their statements there
could be no doubt that the Prince was
killed. A party of the Seventeenth
Lancers, with an ambulance, started on
the I'd instant to recover the body of
the Prince, which was found and brought
in on the same day.
A special dispatch says: cat day
break cavalry patrol, under General
Marshall, left to search for the Prince,
and went to the kraals, ten miles fur
ther on. The body was discovered
among the long grass, three hundred
yards from the kraal. There was no
bullet wound, but seventeen assegai
wounds were in front of the body. The
clothes had been taken, but round his
neck was the chain with a locket. A
stretcher on lances was formed, and
the body borne by General Marshall
and Officers Drury, Lowe and Stewart,
of the Seventeenth Lancers, to meet
the ambulance, by whichit was brought
hither with the escort. There was o
funeral parade in the afternoon"
Deep sorrow prevails throughout the
column. The Prince did not mount
after the attack. his horse being FESTIVE,
but ran afoot. The corpse will leave
with an escort for transportation home
ward.
Another special from South Africa
says the Price Imperial had been sent
forward by the Quartermaster-G General
to sketch the site for the next camp.
When the volley was fired, not a single
Zulu was to be seen. The party dis
persed and sought safety under cover.
The Prince was never seen alive again.
His horse joined Lieutenant Carey's
party on the road back to camp.
The London journals, while deeply
deploring the Princes death, regard it
as the end of Imperialism in France.
NEW York. June q.
The Courier Des Etats Usis says,
speaking of the death of the Prince I'm
perial: 1.-THE Bonaparte party may be
considered to have gone out of exist
ence. The Republicans, instead of re-
jOicing over the dramatic event which
relieves them of the presence of pre-
tender of no mean caliber, will rather
think of the fate of this young man,
who probably would have worthily
served the country if he had not been
the son of Napoleon III.
Prince Napoleon, who has become
the head of the line, is a Democrat in
politics, and is distasteful to the entire
Bonaparte following. He has two sons,
seventeen and fifteen respectively.
Party loyalty may fasten around the
name of one of these sons, but fOr a
time Imperial counsels must be dis
tracted, and the possibility of the re-
turn of the Empire now appears more
shadowy than ever.