Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-10-29
AWFUL BLOODSHED,
fi'" Hundred Lives Sacrificed Tn A..
Fight Between French Troop,
and Senegalese.
MINISTER PHELPS AND rur
TARIFF BILL.
Attorney-General Miller on the En-.
fOreement of the New
Lottery Law.
ELECTION TROUBLES BREAK OUT
IN SWITZERLAND.
Alarming Uprising Of Peasants in
Southern Russia.-Summary
Of kilograms.
MINISTER PHELPS AND rur
TARIFF BILL.
ELECTION TROUBLES BREAK OUT
IN SWITZERLAND.
Telegraph TO ;ae NEWS
INTO THE JAWS OF DEATH
Desperate Fighting Between
French Troops and seaev.l..


French Troops and senexaIe,e.
LONDON, Oct. IS. - News has
reached here OF a fight between
French troops aud natives in Sene.
gal. For weeks after the capture
oy the French of Oussebogon. the
principal fortified city of his empire,
King Ahmadou courageousIy
resolved to fight the Europeans TO
the last His Toucouleur soldiers
have just displayed, in their efforts
70 capture the small fortified post or
block house of KOniakary, the
bravery which they showed when
defending Oussebogon when be-
sieged by the French under Colonel
Archinard. The town was taken
by storm, but almost entirely burned
oy its black defenders, who refused
to surrender, and all Of them perish
ed during the fight or In the fire
which followed their defeat.
All this courage, however, was of
no avail, and the French continued
to advance still further In the in
terror of the country, but their
march being suspended during the
worst Period Of the rainy season, All
madou resolved to make a supreme
effort to capture the advanced post
of honiakary. 1t has been seized by
Colonel Archinard last June and
mad been left under guard of Lieu
tenant Valentin, supported by a
sub-lieutenant commanding Forty
Senegalese fusileers, nine Of whom
were sick, a navy doctor, two Euro
pean non-cOmmissioned officers and
four artillery men, with two small
cannon.
THREE HUNDRED AUNILIARIEs
were also in the place, but they
could hardly be relied upon. The
sta Ia, " or small blockhouse in the
middle Of the village, had been pre-
pared, however, for defense. Pro-
visions were stored inside and all
the surrounding huts had been
burned down in order to give free
play TO the artillery.
King, or rather Emperor Alma
iOG established his camp on August
10th at Kolome, two miles distant
rom Koniakary. He remained
there during the attack, leaving
the command OF the army to his
brother Bassierou. On September
Sth the defenders of Koniakary saw
the besiegers advancing in deep
columns, many Of them carrying
ladders to be used in the attack.
The black soldiers, though deci-
mated by the artillery fire, rushed
IN the blockhouse at the first sound
# the "'tabala" or war drum. They
hurried the ladders to within fifty
yards Of the walls, despite the ire
mendsus fire from the besieged
men. With wild cries many Of
them succeeded in planting their
tanners at the foot Of the wall, but
the well directed Ere Of the cannon
and musketry caused them to falter,
then scatter and hiie in the bush.
The fight had bel un at 6 am. At
9 O'Clock a heavy rain fell and the
roucouleurs took advantage Of 1t to
pick up their dead and wounded,
but, though they carried away many
Of them, corpses could be seen Alter
ward lying all around the block
house, twenty-three being counted
in a single heap, and It is estimated
that the loss of the assailants reached
500 men at least. The French had
Ouly two fusileers slightly wounded.
By / l am. the whole army of All
madou had disappeared.