The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-15

koca mountains. 1t appears, therefore,
that the whole 30 soldiers were froz-
en- to death, with the single exception
of Corporal Goto Fusataro.
Major Colonel Yamaguchi; three Cap
tains, Okitsu, Kuraishi; four Lieutenants,
Ito, Obashi, Shimizu and Nakano: Sur
geon Nagai, Major Suzuki; three Cadets,
twenty-three Sergeant-Majors on special
duty, Sergeant-Ma jors, Sergeants and
Corporals; and one hundred and fifty
seven soldiers presumed to have perisaed
In the snow, but their bodies have not
yet been recovered The searching party
has already put up telegraph lines so far
as IamoS1no-mura and built forty hutS
since the 18th, in order to push onward
in search for the dead, but has not yet
met with any great success. Major Mi
kami. Commander of the search party,
reported from the front: ITO our great
regret we expect to find Major Yama-
guchi and all under him buried in snow
in the ne!ghborhood of the place where
they camped on the 26th.'' The Regiment
here in conjunction with 800 local people
is establishing is communication posts.
each post being garrisoned with 40 men
1t expects to accomplish the object it has
in view by the 18th.
The Jill publishes several kilograms re-
ceived on Wednesday from its corre-
spondent whom 1t has dispatched to the
front; the gist of these telegrams is as
follows:
Up to $50 p. m. on the 18th only four
corpSes of the members of the missing
party were recovered, but the fate of the
rest was not Yet known then. Nine hun
dred men of the engineering and infantry
corps and GOO laborers are employed in
the search work. On the 25th the Aomori
regiment sent out sleigh party with a
supply of provisions in the direction OF
Sachihata but the party came back, be-
ing unable to proceed owing to the depth
~,
ty was for third time sent forth, and
they ascertained that the whole of the
missing party must have perished in the
snow. Tashiro mura is situated at the
foot of Yakoda mountain, and it is cold
even in summer there, while in the win
ter the roads are all buried in snow. 1t
has been ascertained that before reach
ing Tashiro-the objective point-the
members of the now missing party began
as early as the 23rd to fall dead one after
another owing to the effect of the wind
and snow, and by the 18th 209 officers and
men had perished from the same cause.
OF those found lying senseless in the
snow, Corporal Fusakichi Goto alone has
since been brought back to life.
According to statements of old men,
the heavy snowfall in the vicinity OF
Aomori since the 23rd inst. has been
The snow has drifted deep at present
in the city as to reach the caves of the
houses. The people are, therefore, tray |
ersing the streets in sleighs.
FURTHER DETAILS.
AS already reported, the Fifth Regi- !
rnent of Infantry, alarmed that none of !
the Second Battalion which had started /
on a marching practice through the snow |
had returned, organized a search party !
on the 26th inst. at a. m. The search !
party consisted of Mr.. Mikami Sadano- |
suke and Sergeant Hironaka and sixty |
soldiers. They left their own military |
barracks at $40 a. m. and arrived at Ia |
magno at 10 a. m, where Major Mikami I
hired a guide. Thence they began to
climb the mountain, but were greatly OBJ \
structed by the severe snowstorm pre-
vailing since the 24th. The search party
marched about four miles and gained
but to proceed any further
was found impracticable, owing to the
lon-commissioned officers and men suf-
fering from frostbites. They could not
reach Tashiro and We're obliged to return
to Tamogino.
Early in the morning of the 9th, the
search party again left for Tashiro. On
his day, however, the weather was
wice as inclement as on the day before.
The snow was eight to ten feet deep and
he thermometer indicated twenty de-
;rees below freezing point. The cold
vas ineXpressibly severe, but the search
party plucked up courage, and. vowing
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