The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-15

in the city and had guns and knives
stored away in different places and
they had it all fixed for a general at
tack; but they got the worst of it and
got it bad, just as they have got every
thing that they ever started. They
We're mOWn down and | was told by
one of the Minnesota police that went
over the ground next day early, that it
looked like a regular slaughter pen.
And they drove the nigGers out Of
town and into rice swamp and then
they We're surrounded by two compan-
les of MinnesOtas and two of the Twen-
ty-third United States and they got all
Of them. Those that We're not killed
were taken prisoners and hustled off to
the walled city for safe keeping. There
were not many of the Americans
WOunded--fiVe or six, and two killed;
and it is a wonder that they do not get
more of us than they do, for they stay
i'm their buildings and shoot out and
you cannot see them. The only way
We get them when a fire starts is to
fire volleys into their shacks and they
cannot stand a heavy fire, for they had
the biggest part of their game taken
out of them on Sunday. Feb. ). They
have not ever stood fire since like they
did on that day.
NATIVE TREACHERY.
Some of our men on guard a few
days ago saw two natives Eoing along
the street and suspected that some-
thing looked wrong about them, when
they followed them up and, on exam
ining what they had, it was discovered
that they had coal oil and waste and
We're prepared to do some business;
but they We're hustled off to the walled
city and will remain there They are
watched very closely here those that
are in the city. and if one makes a
crooked move or is out after hours,
down goes his apple cart. And we are
very careful. There is stronger guard
around town than there was before
and a natives life is not worth a cent,
for as a rule a patrol will shoot first
and then call halt afterwards. They
are not termed as friends by our boys
any more, as they were just before the
outbreak, for then every soldier here
had some native or other for friend
| and could bum cigarettes or cigars off
him and they would run errands for
you and do many little things and we
called them Amigos, which in Spanish
is friend" But now the only good
niger is the dead one and the more
| dead the better the country is,
1t was only a few nights ago when
the fire was in the TOndO district that
native ran up to the hose that the
English volunteer fire department was
using on one Of the fires and cut it
with a knife, and then dropped the
knife and ran, figuring on getting back
to the crowd and getting away when
soldier saw him and did not want
| to make any more noise than was nee
essary, so did not fire but struck him
on the back of the neck and broke it
| for him. And they shot and killed more
| than twenty of them that had tried
| to do that same trick. The poor fools,
it seems as if they never will take a
tumble TO themselves, running against
| the worst of it the way that they
are doing every day, for they have not
won anything on any of their moves
| yet, but nearly all of them get killed.
| But they are meaner than skunks in
their ways, since this outbreak, They
| fired on the hospital men and wagons
on Sunday, Feb. 8, for which four or
nNe were captured ana put 10 uedln
next day. A few days later band OF
them appeared at an opening in front
Of the Nebraska regiment with a white
| flag, and a squad started out to meet
| them, when they commenced to fire
on the squad, And then the company
opened fire on the devils and got near
| ly all of them. But they got a few of
our men and there is more American
blood split on this island at present
| than we can ever get revenge for, IL