The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-02-26

lower part of the city added TO the
terror of the women servants at the
hospital, some of whom liveI i'll that
neighborhoOd; but tue girls at the
seminary behaved very well indeed.
About noon, seeing there was no
immediate danger of an attack upon
the semi barS or hospital, cit Brother
Sanders there and returned TO the
college. Here / found thirty to forty
refugees, mostly stone cutters, VINO
had been out on the hills at work, aud
few women and children Not long
after noon the disturbance ia the part
of the city near Us had mostly ceased,
although the occasional sound of guns
and the smoke Of burning houses from
the central part of the city showed
that the fiendIsh work still went on,
and continual passing of villagers
with bundles of pIuOder on their
backs and some with donkey loads
and camel loads showed too plainly
that the looted area must have been
considerable Though not expecting
a right attack, We thought wise to
barIicade one OF the buildings on the
campus for rendezvous. We set a
watch and retired, but there was not
much sleep. Nothing occurred during
the night, and a cloudy morning
broke above the city.
At sunrise the villagers had already
begun to enter the city but, soon after
that, the soldiers began to stop them
in haIf-hearted sort OF way, allowing
them 70 congregate in large numbers
a short distance from the line of SOL
diers. About IL o'clock l saw through
my field-gIa-S a captain on a white
horse Il 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 the south. We made
q harangue to them. Then we turned
back with the soldiers, ann, before
they reached the city, the whole crowd
had swarmed past them and entered
the streets. Then 1 knew the scenes
of the day before were TO be repeated.
Taking my field-glass, 1 mounted
to the college tower. Before long the
head of the crowd appeared coming
up Pasba street, which had been COM
pletely looted the day before. They
poured out of the street-a motley
crowd of Turkish and Kurdish viii
Layers and city roughs-tO the humber
OF 1900 or so, and, turning TO the right,
made rush for the Christian quarter.
That quarter has a strong gate across
it's entrance, and thirty to forty Chris
tians were gathered upon the house
tops commanding the approach to the
gate, armed with stones and two or
three guns, and, with the advantage
of their position on the fiat roofs, they
held the mob at bay for three quarters
of an hour, and finally drove them off.
Meantime, on the north side of the
city / saw the same captain on the
white horse Here there were, per
haps, 1000 plundernrs held in check by
thirty to forty soldiers. Not long
after, the captain made his appear
aDce in that quarter. a part of the
mob made break, and 200 or 800 of
them rushed into a small Christian
quarter Just under the seminary wall,
and in q very few minutes were seen
running off with their plumber. In
the case of both these attacks there
were a plenty of soldiers standing
about with loaded guns and fixed
hayopets, who made not the slightest
attempt to prevent the attack or to
scatter the mob, 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 to the mob that it could work
it's will. But his plans did not alto
gether work, for, while the plumber
was going on upon the north side, a
colonel appeared upon the scene, and
very soon the soldiers were firing over
the beads of the mob to frig hten 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 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, but was not allowed to-
l. wT,H I'd he
wounded of the north side attack yes
terday had been taken to the hospital +;
one died in the night and others were
in q bad way. DR.. Hamilton and Miss
Trowbridge with Solomon, our sur
pical assistant, had cared for them.
Today the plunderers from outside
have been kept out of the city, but
villagers have been freely allowed to
90 out with their booty. How l wish
I could get into the city to look after
the wounded. We have made applica-
ton to the Governor for permission to
90 TO the hospital but have received
no replv, Yesterday we were refused a
similar request, and as there Is a body
of soldiers between here and there IL
is impossible to go.
November oath. It seems at least 8
month since I wrote the precedi ng
part of this letter. Tuesday morning
I was allowed to go to the city to see
the governor ana the military COM
mander, in whose company l found
most of the notables of the Moslem
community. / appealed 10 them Tor
safe conduct, for the wounded to be
brought to the hospital and for burial
of the dead. Both of which requests
they acceded to, and had not been
back at the hospital more than q nall
hOur when DIR Habit with an escort
of soldiers, brought in some fifty or
sixty patients. We were soon at
work and a CHASTITY sight they were.
They had been wounded the Satur-
day before or had lain either exposed
TO the weather, or crowded into a
dirty stable all that time. Those who
had escaped the ministration of the
native doctor were fortunate, for all
the wounds which he had touched
were in terribly septic state. The
wounds were mostly by knives or
s1uOr6S llnnn the headS. or the hands