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

On Saturday morning, NOvembt
18TH, without he slightest warning, q
great shouting and firing of guns
came to US irom the city, telling that
the work of blood and plumber had
begun.
My first thought was for the hos
pital and girls seminary, so | sprang
upon my horse aud hurried over there.
/ met and passed good many armed
Kurds who live in the suburbs just
about the hospital and girls school.
Upon nearing the city the confused
sound that had reached us at the col
-. lege became resolved into its elements,
the hoarse cries of fighting men, the
screams Of women and children, and,
most hideous of all, the lu lulu of the
Kur iish and Turkish women cheering
Oh the men to the attack | found
the hospital and seminary yet I'M
attacked. DIR. Hamilton and Miss
Trowbridge preferred to remain at
their post of duty than to join the
ladies at the seminary. Upon my re-
turn TO the seminary, which is sep
aratei from the hospital yard by a
narrow street, / found Brother San
ders there aud shortly our nearest
neighbor, Hale Hassem Agha, came
in and said that at the outbreak,
which occurred at the Bazaar, he ha1
FASTENED at the top of his speed to pro
tect tfe hospital aud girls school.
As | had saved his brothers life by a
desperate surgical operation some
years ago, and always had been on
friendly terms, | felt we could trust
him to do his best. But when, a few
minutes later, some 200 soldiers in
uniform, with fixed bsyOnets, fled
out of the street below and marched
into the open space beyond the semi
nary, | felt great relief. for that
meant that the government Intended
to protect the Americans at least.
From the upper veranda of the sem :
mary we could plainly see the crowd
of plunderers breaking into Christian
houses and carrying off household
goods We could See the brave de-
tense made by the Christians from
the hoqsetops with stones and hre
arms when they had them, aud still
the horrid lulu. lu of the Kurdish
women rent the air, mingled with the
screams of the conquered, wounded
and dying, the hoarse cries OF the men
and the dropping reports of the fire
arms. An attack was made upon the
hospital gate, but Haja Hsssem held
the assailants in check until the so>,
diers arrived and drove them off
Clouds Of smoke from a fire in the
lower part of the city added to the
terror of the women servants at the
hospital, some of whom lived in that
peighborhood but the girls at the
seminary behaved very well indeed.
About noon, seeing there was no
immediate danger of an attack upon
the seminary or no -pital, [ left Brother
Sanuers there and returned to the
college. Here found thirty to forty
refugees, mostly stone cutters, who
had been out on the hills at work, ard
a few women and children. Not long
after noon the disturbance in the part
of the city near us had mostly ceased,
although the occasional sound of guns
aud the smoke of burning houses from
the central part of the city showed
that the fiendIsh work still went on,
and a continual passing of villagers
with bundles of pluuder 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
barricadr one of the buildings on the
campus for a rendezvous. We set
watch and retired, but there was not
much sleep. Nothing occurred during
the night, and 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 q baIf-hearted sort of way, allowing
them to congregate in large numbers