The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-15
CORPS
OF FROZEN
SOLDIERS
Continued from page IL


| across non-commiss:oned officer stand
ing in the snow, and who with raised,
I hands and winking eyes pointed behind
him, family crying out with his swollen
tongue, Captain Kaminari' The mem
bers OF the search party We're thereupon
! inspired with much hope and Immediate
I ly ran up to the non-commissioned OFF,
/ Ger, who was frozen almost as hard as
/ wood, wrapped him up in blankets. and
! took other measures for his immediate
relief. The search party then proceeded
\ fifty metres farther and soon found an
| officer. without gloves or his cap, lying
! on his back Surgeon Murakamf fmme-
diateiy tried hypoderruic injection but
! the sharp point of the syringe would not
enter into the hardened flesh of frozen
officer But placing some hope in a little
warmth which was still 10 be felt at his
! chest, the surgeon applied artificial
| breathing for about one hour and half
The search party wrapped up these two
| officers in blankets and drawing them
! along by means of japanese girldes, re-
| turned to Tamogino on the 18th The
| frozen officer died at last. The whole of
the search party suffered from FROST
bites, and it required ten men to draw
| back the two frozen officers. All the
men OF the search party looked more
dead than alive when they arrived at
Tamogino. and were relieved from duty
by Lieutenant Koga, who had been dis
patched to the place. The officer who
was found lying frozen proved to be
Captain kaminari and the non-commis-
! stoned officer. Corporal Goto.
On the goth at p. m. the search party
succeeded in finding nineteen corpses ly-
ing thousand metres up from the place
where Captain Kamihari was found and
also at the precipitous ascent adjoining
the place. Coming to the conclusion that
that place or Whereabouts was the scene
of the tragedy, the Fiftieth Regiment or
n
any further, but to make a thorough
search today, the 31st. A later telegram
received by vernacular papers reports
that the search party found thirty-sx
corpses including that of Lieutenant Ma
kano on the afternoon of the S0th
His Majesty the Emperor is graciously
concerned with the Aomori horror and Il
is reported that Imperial orders We're
conveyed to the authorities to the effect
that they should speedily submit to his
Majesty the name-list of the unfortunate
military men. 1t has further transpired
that the Imperial aide-de-camp will be
dispatched to Aomori in order to make
direct Investigations and condole with the
bereaved families of the sufferers.
SUCCESSFUL USE OF ST. BIER
NARD.
A correspondent of the Jill reports
from Aomori under date of the list inst.
at AS p. m. that the two survivors, SUI
soldier Abe, who were found alive in a
charcoal she'd were subsequently put IL
sleGges and brought back at midnight to
the hospital of the Fifth Regiment. They
are in great state of nervous disorder,
but not so much so as to fall into in
sanity. Their lower limbs up to the knee
joints had been completely frozen as hard
as stone and their straw sandals ana
other Wrappings would not come off. A
knife was used to remove them, but its
cutting edge broke and was to no pur-
pose. They were then cut off by means
of sorne other Instruments. The lower
limbs OF the two soldiers require ampu-
tation below the knee joints. but their
hands are expected to be saved AS they
are in state of nervousness as already
mentioned, they are ordered to avoid
as far as possible. They biV-
ouacked in the snow during the 23rd ult.
and the 24th, and on the morning of the
25th they were walking aimlessly when
they came out to the place where a char
coal shed stood. They had food from the
thereafter, and they ate snow only. The
snow had drifted very deep about the
charcoal shed and ten corpses were found
some seven feet under it,
When the two coolies, respectively
named Akimura Kyujiro and Sel<i Kwan-
il, Were conveying back the two soldiers
they deserted four black objects here and
there the side of a mountain lying
beyond two ravineS in the vicinity OF
Otaki, where the search party had pre-
viously passed on its way toward Ia
shire. The four black objects appeared
10 resemble human heads. This was i'm
nediately reported to Surgeon Taketani
IF the search party. BY way of test
he objects were addressed and it seemed
that they made an answer. Then the
men of the search party removed their
Dwn headgear and called out to them
4 in hn for nf hni1 "
he sound "woon" was distinctly heard,
md thus the four black objects We're as
to be men. Thereupon the
search party hurried to the spot and
'ound four men. One of them was actu-
lily moving to and fro. This man proved
o be Captain Kuraishi and the rest to
De Lieutenant Ito and two non-commis-
stoned officers. y report of this discov-
Try was Immediately forwarded by Sur
geon Taketani of the Fifth Regiment,
who brought many men and rescued the
our.
According to statements of the two
coolies who first deserted the four sur
-ivors, they and their comrades were di-
'ided into two parties. Surgeon Taketanl
ma Leutenant-Colonel Tsukawa, Com
nander of the Fifth Regiment gave or
lers to the party in which the two cool
Is had been included to go and rescue
he four survivors. The two coolies then
tarted at the head of the party. As
hey approached the place of their aim
hey saw the survivors were sitting at
he bottom OF a ravine made by four
teep walls of rock, which it seemed al
most impossible to descend. They tore
IF their clothes and, using them as I
eighS, slid down the ravine. There they +
ound Captain Kuraishi, who was in eX- ,
client health and could move about free
v. They were very glad to find him in ,
hat condition and proceeded to bring ,
lin first out of the ravine. But Cap ,
ain Kuraishi stopped them, saying that ,
hey should go farther down the ravine :
s Major Colonel Yamaguchi was there.
n the meantime, many men followed up !
he two coolies, and the latter proceeded
arther down the ravine as they were or {
Tered. ;
The place was protected by precipitous
lifts from the wind. Nor was there :
much snow to be seen there In the CEN
er Of the open space Major Colonel Va ,
naguchi, the commander of the Second ,
Battalion, was found. sitting cross-legged !
With three survivors around him. I'm :
lot Of