St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-22

waving cloths and hats as a warning to
the junks. The people on the latter
must have argued that the steamer was
in the hands of their friends, for they
fred their jingalS, and waved their
cloths IN reply.
| held for the junk, headed to the
southeast. and she at once lowered her
sail to wait for the steamer to come up.
When within quarter of mile of her,
rang the bell for the engineer to go
ahead at full speed. and the steamer
started off like a wild locomotive. We
were almost upon the junk before the
people OWNED our object, and they had
only time to utter one lOng-drawn shot
OF terror. held the steamer for her
broadSide, and she divided that junk
like the two halves of an apple falling
away from knife. / expected great
shock, but there was none. 1t was no
more than if we had run down a yawl.
l believe she held at least fifty men.
A great cry went up as we passed,
and when l headed the steamer around,
not more than half dozen of the poor
wretches were in sight, and those were
clinging to fragments of the wreck and
l.
formation of how we had succeeded,
and told him | proposed to serve the
other junk the same way. The natives
aboard the steamer seemed helpless and
| terrOr-Stricken at first. but when they
realized my plan they moved TO prevent
il. They ran down and opened the fur
mace doors to lower the steam, and a
gang of six or eight attacked the wheel
house. \ second party made an attack
on the engineers room at the same
! moment.
THE SECOND JUNK.
seeing the fate of the, first had gone
afloat. and was standing due north with
all sails set. The wind was light, how
ever, and we could run five feet to her
| one. We had large reserve of steam
and, after l had her nose pointed for
| the Junk, gave the gang outside
| little attention. They were banging at
| the door and the shutters with the cap
| stan bars and | wounded two of them
before they would deSist. The engl-
neer. also using a revolver, killed one
| and wounded two. The fellows then
| drew off, beaten at every turn and dis
| guSted with the job. and now was close
up with the Junk. She also held about
| fifty desperate-looking fellows. Aware
/ of my intentions. about twenty of them,
who were armed with musketS. gath
cred aft and peppered away at the
pilot house. but the few bullets which
hit it fell harmless. When the bow of
the steamer was within cable
length of the stem of the junk
every native began to howl and wall,
and most of them threw themselves
PROSTATE on the decks. White cloths
were held up in token of surrender, but
in / fhn hQll the n
gineer to pull her wide open. He did
so, and we seemed to lift out of the wa
| ter and be flung at the doomed craft like
| a missile. The steamer struck her
! square in the stern, crashed into her for
| ten or twelve feet, and then the junk
! fell apart and became heap of wreck
age, which was cast aside from either
bow. | ran on for quarter of mile
| and then turned. Not a living man was
| to be seen in this last disaster. ran
over to the other heap of wIeckage and
saw two men still hanging on, but the
sharks pulled them under just as rang
to stop our way. The steam was eX-
hausted anyhow. and the time had come
for move against
THE PIRATES ON BOARD.
Believing they were badly frightened,
[ reloaded the revOlverS and stepped
| hand. The only man in sight was the
leader of the band, who stood on the
bows looking up at me. As / stepped
out he said:
Don't shoot me! We meant you no
harm. We have thrown away our
weapons"
went down to find them covering in
the pasSagewayS, every mans pluck
completely gone. The captain and
second mate were iii the armory. l let
them out, and then freed the engineer.
The four of US were the only White men
lett alive. We collected the prisoners
in the mess-room, held a short con-
sutatiOn and then proceeded to act.
While | remained among them to
check any new ambition. the captain
took his station at the forward port
gangWay. The engineer then led the
pirates out to the captain enc by one,
and the latter put bullet through each
mans head and pitched him forward
into the sea, 1t was retributiOn with a
vengeance, and certain writers, who
were thousand miles from the scene
and underwent none of its perils, have
termed it 1.-The massacre of the prison.
ers" | went out with the last one.
Like all others who had preceded him,
he went humbly to his death. not even
uttering protest. When he had been
disposed of we turned to and prepared
the bodies of our dead for burial, cleaned
the decks, and, by two of us acting as
stOkerS, we worked the steamer up to
Kiu-Siu.
For a few weeks the natives kept won
derfully quiet about the adventure, but
it then leaked out that about 100 lives
had been lost in the attempt to capture
US. Had they got possession OF the
steamer it was their intention to run
her up to the head of the Yellow sea
and make use of her in their piratical
excursions from the coast of FOrmoSa.
As none of them understood how to
navigate 1.-The wingless devil" as they
called her. it is likely that she would
have been blown up within an hour or
two after they got charge. She was in
the trade and on the same line for the
next five years. and every native craft
would turn tail at the sight of her five
miles away,