Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-11-10

rrencn and Russian uniforms we're %
similar that the former we're shooting
down their svn men. as the brush was
80 thick that ve Got scattered
Seeing the hopele=sasss Of the st
tempt 10 reach the town. Captain Bur
ridge sounded retreat ssd the troops
hurried TO the boats, vhieh we're taken
ans the vessels boarded. Many Who
we're faf II toe rear had 70 swim to the
ships.
a" The loss in the laai force was nearly
fifty, while a nsmber we're killed on the
q aeship. which v.s also badiy riddled
with shst. The French brig, which had
gone between the shors battery and the
President to take II ;he fire xhiIe the
later ssunR roand, rad half her crew
OF three hundred swept f.om her decks
BY deadly IRE. This closed the opera
tons TOR the dav, VhicE had lasted about
fous ,urs, and the vessels we're again
drawn al out Of range.
The folioviag day Vas consomsd in
burying Admiral Price, tue VIrago
steaminR } the rive. With a number of
omcsrs on board to discover a suit 4bie
pisce TO oOnsisn biz remains. A pretty,
s-cluded spot undrr some spreading trees
vas selected, and ne Was gwen q SOL
dier's burial.
while up the river a camp WAS dis
covered where a 'arg3 numbsr from the
town sere livi n. rney would not q ,ht
against the Enxlisn, and nad been pro-
visianed and sent there out Of the way.
All those who wanted to we're taken
aboard and Distributed among the Eng
lisn vessels Among them, 'DQtcny'
smith. now at Plumper Pass.
ia aboas three days the ships hav-
ing been repaired. another attack VAS
made on the ether side of the haroor.
the tvo batteries being taken and their
guns pitched from the cliff into the sea.
the vess-ls again hauled of, and sew
eral more days we're used in repairing,
the ViraRo having received some pretty
bad shots.
Another attack was made. this time
on the two ships in the harbor and the
mud battery; but the vessels, after do
ing considerable damage. had to haui
OF, the water in the harbor being Low
and the tide drifting the sailing vessels
towards the shore. A couple OF days
later still another attack was made and
the ships in the hsrbor badly riddled.
In the meantime, Commander Car
Bolly took boats crew and made for
the Russi an range target IN the harbor,
shot falling around him like hail from
the batteries and vessels; bat his boat re-
msined unscathed and, ,he successfully
returned to the President with the tar
get without losing q man.
"A cosple of days after the last at
tack two sails we're sighted, one Q
schooner and the other q chip. TIE
virago started after the schooner, which
she captured, and the sailing vessels
made after the ship. The President
came up with her drst, and placed a
couple Of shots across her bOas. The
ship dashed her colors and surrendered.
She was named the kamschatkan, and
vas armed With fourteen guns.
THE schooner was stripped and
barned, and the feet made for Esqni-
malt with the ship in tow. 1t was In
tended to leave the wounded at Es-
quinalt and return TO Petropaulovski,
but the only habitation found was the
Hudson Bay fort at Victoria, and sail
vas made for Valparaiso, where the
wounded we're landed.
IA San Francisco the prize wss
manned and taken to England and sold.
1t was at San Francisco that the reports
got out that Admiral Price had suicided
after the result of the attack on Petro-
pauloiski and circulated in the Ameri-
can papers. The aeet then sailed for
Valparaiso.
admiral Bruce came out next year,
and teek charge of the Pacific feet,
which had now been increased by
couple of steam war ships. We left
Valparaiso about the same time as the
previous year, and sailed for Pstropsu-
loiski, this Tins prepared to give that
port Q hot attack. We arrived there
but ouly found five men at the town
and they claimed to be Americans; but
French officer discovered that one of
them Vas Russian offi,er be had pre-
viously met at Valparaiso; the latter
made good bis escape. The other four
claimed to DO Americans and had the
Stars and Stripes hoating, 30 they were
not molesfed.
admiral Bruoe landed number Of
troops, and fenced of the burying
grounds of the English and RussiaH
troops. and then sarned the barracks
aud forts and destroyed sne defsnoes-
E-auimalt was then sailed for, after
which 5outh ABerica-
"l returned hems in March. 1857, and
vent into another vessel. and Was for
three years in toe Wess Indies, and Was
on the vessel that laid the frst Atlantic
cable. After that | went TO Eastero
Canada. and in 1862 left Montreal for
the Cariboo mines, going via st. Paul
aud Winnipeg. walking across the
plains of the North vest to the headws-
ers of the Frss-r River.
Here ve made canoe OF OF hide,
and ssrri-d GOO u,ies down the river TO
the Qaesueils forks, where ws wintered.
[ vas travelling from the 9Th Of May 70
the lss Of 0stobsr. and WALKED aosut
100 miles. ! afterwards came down
hare xheIa haYr been ever alnce"