The San Francisco call., 1898-07-21

the Sheriff. At that time all I could see of the Chinese was his head through a hole In the powder magazine. MT. Prin- gle said, to the best of my recollectiol. There is twenty tons of black powder In the magazine My father said that If there were that amount there 1t would be useless to attempt to take him out by force. I talked with my father and we agreed that we should have to wait until the Chinaman came out. or until he was starved out: The owner of the workS came up and passed into the fence. Some soldiers were there, and Captain Baldwin, on my advice. did not permit them to go in, as we saw the open door barricaded with scores of kegs of powder. MT. Pit man asked the Chinaman to come out and the reply was, I come out in couple of days, but not before A Chinese boss came to the works and had conversa- tion with the man in the magazine and offered him a S10 bill.
 "I then asked MT. Putnam what would be the result If the Chinese fired the pow der, and he said it might blow off the roof, but he did not think 1t would kill anybody on the outside. We then with drew some distance, hoping that the Chinaman would come out as the boss had advised him to do. He did not come out, and darkness settled down and we remained little distance off until 10 o'clock. At that time 1 went out of the yard and went to some boys who were there making a noise and they went away. We wanted to keep everything quiet, so that the Chinaman would think we haQ all gone nome. l renamed there till about 10 o'clock with Constable Koch. At that time my brother Ed and MT. Lerri arrived and a little later my broth CT Charles, George Woodsum and Fred Sherrott. MT. Cameron was also there. I explained to the newcomers what we had done. Charles said: Ed, if this is as dangerous as you say it Is, 1t will not be a very dangerous job to lose this Chinaman' and I said, Don't lose him in any event. said to Charlie and George that they were married and they should not take any risk, and Charlie said he guessed he could go anywhere that could. We then exchanged rifles. l told Koch, who had elected to stay, that he was to see that no one attempted to take the Chinaman, but wait till he came out.
 "In the evening about ' o'clock Chung asked for a drink and 1t was taken to him by Chinaman. l refused to allow it to be doped MT. Putnam drew the water from a faucet and a Chinaman took 1t to tfie magazine. Chung did not swallow a drop, but merely took 1t in his mouth and spat 1t out; After placing the men as best I could l bade goodnight to my brother and went home"
 Fred Sherrott. route owner of The Gall wh1 S went out al the the, inyita.on insse % 9a took up the thread of the narrative where 1t was left off by Al White.
 coffee at house across the street" said he. After that I heard the Ehinaman say to Charlie White, Well, I surrender Charlie White @ said s Al All m Tlgnt, we 5a went is not badly hurt and will recover All light said the Chinaman, I come out
 HEd White and crept around the fence to the railroad track ready to catch the Chinaman if he should get past Charlie White As we were going along the ex- plosion occurred and l was carried along with the force and thrown to the ground. 1 have since been to the scene and find that I was about 200 feet from the maga- zine at the time of the explosion. Just before the explosion 1 saw Lerrf near the door of the magazine. and he might have pushed it, but he could not have budged 1t because of the powder cans stored there"