The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-07-10
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UPPER CAMP, KALALAU VALLEY,
July 9th, 1898
CAPTAIN c. w. ZIEGLER,
Captain Co. A Auxiliary, Honolulu,
Dear Sir:-It becomes my sorrow
full duty to inform you that we have
lost three of our men, namely, Ander-
son, McCabe and Husberg. The cir
cumstances under which they we're
killed are as follows:
Monday night it was arranged for
Larsen to go to Haena point in a
boat, Pratt to take the detail and
search the side valleys, to stay in
Camp Dole with the searching party
who had been out with me all day.
The Police force had gone up the
valley and found a camp. This pro
gramme was followed out on Tuesday
morning. Larsen returned from Ha-
ena at $3.50 A. M. About | P. M. Nc,
Cabe came into camp with note
from Pratt that he was hot on the
trail of a big party, he having found
poi, taro and eight beds on camp on
ridge. Within ten minutes | was
on the way up with every man from
camp, and just as we left we heard a
fusllade of shots from the valley
above. Just below the Police camp
| came on to Pratt, Johnson and
Evanson, they had been suddenly
fired on from ledge of rock on the
top of a ridge by at least three rifles.
but once. Evanson and Johnson roll
ed down the steep side hill where
the others got to, God only knows. |
pushed on up through the Police
camp TO look for Thoeny, Knoll and
Fitzsimmons, whom the others had
last seen at the place where the beds
were found. found them there all
right. They had heard nothing of
Anderson, and were of the opinion
that he was either dead or had gone
down the steep cliff. We were re-
lieved by the Police at nightfall, and
our party slept in the upper camp
except few who were at Camp Dole.
So ended July 4th, 1898.
On Wednesday, July 9th, sent
Wells (who has been my CorporaD
np with eight men to relieve the
Police and put up line of sentres
around the ridge. Larsen came up
with Reynolds and some natives who
were to look for Anderson's body.
When he got to Wells, they all
moved up the ridge and found An
derson dead, shot through the right
breast, just above the nipple. While
Larsen was coming down with the
body, firing was heard on the ridge.
was getting ready to go up, when
Larsen came in and said that Miller
had overtaken him with the news of
McCabe and Husberg being shot.
went up at once. McCabe was shot
in the same spot where Anderson
was shot, the left side of his head
being blown off as he lifted his head
to look over the ledge. He tumbled
back and fell twenty-five feet down
the slope Husberg was below the
advance party, and from all appear
ances he shot himself with his own
gun, as he swung his rifle into posi-
ton when the first shots were fired.
The ball entered his left throat and
came out in front Of his right ear.
| base my calculations from the fact
that he was seen with his gun in his
left hand just before that, and that
the shot ranged upwards and his
throat was all powder burned in a
spot three inches in diameter. From
where he was he could not see who
fired. Wells and Reynolds were
covering McCabe's advance to sc,
behind tree, and they did not ever
see the smoke. The shots came
from a fiat shelf, and Mckay, who
was along side of McCabe, says hi
saw four or five inches of rifle bar
rel between a cleft forward by two
stones, and he saw the flash. TIT
other five lepers had come into CAM
Dole late on July 4th, so that ever,
man, woman and child in the vale,
is now accounted for except Koolau
his wife and boy. They are the one
who are on this ledge and shelf. NJ
one in the party has seen Koolau s.
far as known, except perhaps Ander
son, and it is doubtful if he did. n
words at my command can expires
the awful wildness of the country
In the police detail there are two G
three old. Indian fighters, and the
say it beats anything they ever saw