The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-02-28

q short distance from the line of SOL
diers. About IL O'Clock / saw through
my field-gla-s a captain ON a white
horse II recognized both the man and
the horse approach a crowd of plum
derers about 200 strong who had been
driven from the city Up onto the hills
q quarter mile to tue south We made
a harangue to them. Then we turned
back with The soldiers, auA before
they reached the city, the whole crowd
had swarmed past them and entered
the streets. Then / knew the scenes
OF the day before We're to be repeated.
Taking my tield-glass, l. mounted
to the. college tower. Before long the
head of the crowd appeared coming
up Pasha street, which had been com-
pletely looted the day before. They
poured out of the street-a motley
crowd Of Turkish and Kurdish vii
layers and city roughs-to the number
OF 1900 or so, aud, turning 10 the right,
made rush for the Christian quarter.
That quarter has strong gate across
its entrance, and thirty 10 forty Chris
tians were gathered upon the house
tops commanding the approach to the
gate, armed with stones and two or
three guns, anu, with the advantage
Of their position on the fiat roofs, they
held the mob a. bay for three quarters
Of all hour, and finally drove them off
Meantime, Oh the north side of the
city l saw the same captain on the
white horse Here there We're, per
hap, 1000 pluuderer- heli in check nv
thirty to forty soldiers. Not long
after, the captain made his appear
ahce in that quarter. A part of the
mob made a break, and 200 or 800 OF
them rushed into a small Christian
quarter just under the seminary wall,
and in a very few minutes were seen
running off with their plumber. In
the case of both these attacks there
We're a plenty OF soldiers standing
about with loaded guns and fixed
bayonets, who made not the slightest
attempt to prevent the attack or to
scatter the mot, and the conclusion
was irresistible that the captain on
the white horse had planned the at
; tack in each case, or, at least, had sig
nified 10 the mob that it could work
its will. But his plans did not alto
gether work, for, while the plumber
was going ON upon the Lorth side, a
colonel appeared upon the scene, and
very soon The soldiers were firing over
the heads of the mob to frigbten them,
and they were flying pell nell out OF
the city. Mr.. Sanders, who came over
few minutes this morning (by Civ
ing the soldiers q presently, said the
colonel shot four of the mob with his
own hand, which would account for
the celebrity with which they departed.
| attempted to go to the hospital yes
terday Sunday morning, and again
this morning, hut was not allowed TO.
Mr. Sanders brought word that the
wounded of the north side attack yes
terday had been taken to the hospital ;
one died in the night aud others were
in bad way. DR. Hamilton and Miss
Trowbridge with Solomon, our sur
gical assistant, had cared for the N
Today the plunderers from outside
have been kept out OF the city, but
Villagers have been freely allowed TO
go out with their booty. How | wish
/ could get into the city to look after
the wounded. We have made appllca-
ton to the Cover or for permission to
go to the hospital but have received
no reply. Yesterday we were refused a
similar request, and as there is body
of eoldiers between here and there it
is impossible to go.
November oath. 1t seems at least a
month since | wrote the preceding
part of this letter. Tuesday morning
/ was allowed to go to the city to zee
the governor and the military COM
manner, in whose company | found
most of the notables of the Moslem
community. | appealed TO them for
safe conduct, for the wounded to be
brought 10 the hospital and for burial
of the dead Both of which requests
they scceded TO, and | had not been
back at the hospital more than half
hour when DR. Habit, with an escort
of soldiers, brought in some fifty or
sixty patents. We were sOOn at
work aud CHASTITY sight they were.
They had been wounded the Satur-
day before or had lain either exposed
to the weather, or crowded. ihto a
dirty stable all that time. Those who
had escaped the ministration of the
bative doctor were fortunate, for all
the woupds which he had touched
were in a terribly septic stale. The
WOuUuS were uOsily ny NJ iNco vi
swords, upon the heads, or the hands
and arms, RAISED To ward off the head
blows; very few of the poor fellows
had escaped without several, and
some had ten or dozen cuts. There
were a few bay onet and guDshot
wounds inflicted by the soldiers. In
the middle of the afternoon, just as
we began to think we were getting
through two more arrived, which
kept us busy till dark Among those
brought that day there were five frac-
tured skulls, two arms bad to be am
putated, and several other very Sc
we're cases. Three of these have since
died. Each day since, there have
been some new cases brought in till
the number of wounded that we have
treate at the hospital alone, now ex-
cetds $50 We have no means as yet
of knowing the number of The dead,
for while they readily promised, pro-
lection for the burial, that promise
was broken. Most of the Christian
dead were dragged to the outskirts of
the city with every imaginable in
dignity and either burned or east into
the old quarries that abound upon the
edge of the city, and left for the dogs
and vultures to eat. Some of them,
after being thrown into these pits,
were covered out of sight by casting
stones upon them The best estimate
obtainaole puts the number of the
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