Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-09-11
GUNBOAT IS SUNK
GERMAN GOVERNMENT GETS
SATISFACTION FROM Hal
TEN REBELS.
SENT TO BOTTOM BY PANIhtR
SURRENDER OF GUNsoAT Is DE"
MANDED BY GERMAN CON-
WANDER.
SENT TO BOTTOM BY PANTHER
VESSEL IS FIRED BY HER CREW
PANTHER THEN COMPLETES JOB
BY SENDING HER TO THE
BOTTOM.

Cape Haitien, Haiti, Sept. 9.-The
gunboat Crete-a-Pierrot, which was in
the service of the Firminist party,
has been sunk at the entrance OF the
harbor of Gonaives by the German
gunboat Panther. Details of the &C.
currence are lacking. The crew of the
Crete-a-Pierrot left her before she
went down.
Called Upon to Surrender.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sept. 9.-The
German gunbOat Panther arrived here
Sept. 5 and received instructions from
the German government to capture
the Firminist gunboat Crete-a-Pierrot.
She left Immediately for Gonaives,
the seat of the Firminist government.
The Panther found the Crete-a-Pierrot
in the harbor of Gonaives and the COM
mander of the German gunboat in
formed Admiral Killick, on the Crete
a-Pierrot, chat he must remove his
crew and surrender his vessel i'll five
minutes time. Admiral Killick asked
that this time be extended to fifteen
minutes. This request was granted on
the condition that the arms and am
munition on board the CTete-a-Pier-
rot should be abandoned when her
crew left her. The crew of the Crete
a-Pierrot left the vessel
Amid Great Disorder.
At the end of fifteen minutes the
Panther sent a small boat carrying an
officer and twenty sailors, who were to
take possession of the Firminist gun
boat. When the seamen had arrived
at APPOINT about thirty yards from the
Crete-a-Pierrott flames were seen to
break out on board of her. She had
been fired by her e before they
left her. The Panther then fred on
the Cretc-a-Pierrot until she was COM
pletely immersed. Thirty shots, all
told, were fired.
There is much feeling here against
the Firminists and their is con
sidered to be a bad one. Soldiers are
leaving here to attack St. Marc. Port
au-Prince is calm.
Held Up German Steamer.
The German gunboat Panther ar
rived at Port-au-Prince Sept. 5. 1t
was announced from Cape Haitien
Sept. 3 that the German steamer Mar
komannia. Capt, hansen, belonging to
the neutrality-suspicious. Packet com
pany, having on board arms and am
munition sent by the provisional gov
eminent to Cape Haitien, had been
stopped Sept. 2 by the Firminist gun
beat Crete-a-Pierrot at the entrance
to the harbor of Cape Haitien and that
an armed force SEM aboard the steam
er from the gunboat took possession
of the war munitions in spite of the
protestations of Capt. hansen and the
German consul.
An Act of Piracy.
The seizure of the Markomannia
has been characterized as an act of
piracy. But a dispatch from Berlin
to the Associated Press, dated Sept.
6, said German government circles did
not take a tragic view OF the seizure
Of the German vessel, but that salts
faction would be demanded. The for
eign press agrees with the view held
by the foreign representatives at Port
Rn-Princa, said the dispatch, that the
action of the Crete a-Pierrot was pi-
racy, but it was not then known
whether satisfaction would be de-
manded from Gen. Firmin or whether
the result of the revolution in Haiti
would be awaited.
Reports the Crew Drowned.
Paris, Sept. "a brief cablegram
has been received here from Cape Hal
tien, Haiti, dated Sept. 7, saying the
Firminist gunboat Crete-a-Pierrot had
been sunk by the German gunboat
Panther and that the crew of the
Crete-a-Pierrot had been drowned.
The dispatch adds that Gen. Jean
Juneau, commander of the Firminist
troops in the department of Artibon-
lite, has taken the town of Mirabalis.