Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24
PLEVNA HERO GONE.
Foundering of Turkish Frigate With
500 Souls-Osman Pasha's MOurnful
End-Drowning of the Great Com
mander Aboard of a Rotten Hulk-Sac-
rifice of a Half Thousand Persons
-Osman's Romantic Career.

LONDON, Sept. 19.-Advices from Hio-
90 state that the Turkish man-of-war
ErtZogoroul has foundered at sea and
that 500 of her crew were drowned.
The progress of the Ertzogoroul since
she left Constantinople for the East
many months ago has been a most I'M
dignifed and ludicrous one. Leaving
Turkey short of money, it was under
stood that supplies were to be sent for
her use to the ports at which she was to
call, with the result that her sojourn in
these countries was indefinitely pro-
longed as the officers at home were not
able to keep their promises.
In this way she has lost some of her
crew, and her officers were many times
on the verge of rebellion induced by
starvation, while the governors
of the cities visited refused
to remit harbor dues and grant
other privileges that were of right due
her as Turkish an-of-war on the
ground that she was not sailing in that
character. There was not powder
enough on board to enable her crew to
fire the regulation salutes.
After many adventures only worthy
of an opera-bouffe navy, the Ertzogoroul
finally arrived in Japanese waters, and
it was on her return voyage that the
disaster occurred.
Among the passengers on the Ertzo-
goroul were Osman Pasha, the famed
Turkish commander, and Ali Pasha
ENJOYS from the Sultan to the Emperor
of Japan. Both were drowned
Osman Pasha commanded the Turk
ish forces at Plevna, and was born in
1880. When his name first became
prominent, in 1877, by the successful
defense of Plevna made by him, his
identity was in doubt. 1t was stated
that he was Marshal Bazaine, the de-
fender of Metz; then that he was a
Prussian renegade, and finally some
American papers stated that he was an
American soldier of fortune by the
were all denied at the time by the
Turkish minister to the United States.
According TO his statement Osman was
a Turk by race, by birth and by educa-
ton
Osman received his early education
under his brother, Hussein Effendi, for
many years professor of Arabic in the
preparatory school of Constantinople.
He afterward entered the military
academy and completed his studies in
1853, just in time to take part in the
Crimean War. He was appointed on
the staff and sent to Shumla From that
time little was known of him till the
Cretan instruction, during which he
was promoted to ColOnelcy for his
bravery. At the outbreak Of the Ser
Wan war he was chief of staff Of the
Fourth Turkish Army Corps, and
was at once assigned to the COM
mand of the Widin division, with
which he captured Sachitar After the
conclusion of peace he was raised to the
rank Of Muhsir field marshall 1t is
also stated that at all times, and under
every circumstance, he succeeded in
obtaining the esteem and approval of
his superiors, and that he was we'll
known for GOODNESS and military capac-
tiles. Osman had been on an official
visit to Japan, having been intrusted
with a special mission from the Sultan
to the Mikado.
The ErtZogoroul was wooden frigate-
built cruiser of 2,344 tons displacement.
She mounted forty-one guns of small
caliber, and was built in 1868.