The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-18
GERMANS
FIRE On
HAYTIENS
kaiser's Ship Sinks
a West Indian
Cruiser.
GRIT OF THE
NEGRO ADMIRAL
lie Blew Up One of His Magazines
Rather Than Surrender.
I Lost His Life.

'PORT-AU-PRINCE. September s.
Secretary of the Navy. Washington:
German gunboat panther sunk Crete
a-Pierrot at Gonaives. Crew escaped.
The Panther returned to Port -au-
Prince. (Signed M'LEAN.'
BERLIN, September S-The Marine
Ministry has given out the official re-
port of the sinking of the Firminist
gunboat Crete-a-Pierrot: Captain
Eckermann of the Panther had received
orders to capture the piratical gunboat
Crete-a-Pierrot The Panther went
there from Port-au-Prin to Gonaives,
where it completely surprised the Crete
a-Pierrot.
THE German commandant sent tho
following ultimatum: Strike your
colors within fifteen minutes and dis
embark from your ship without under
taking any defensive measures what
ever; otherwise an immediate attack
will follow
THE Panther had already cleared for
action The Crete-a-Perrot hauled
down her flag within the allotted time
and the crew disembarked. The Pan
ther then attempted to take the Crete
a-Pierrot in tow, but an explosion Of
her aft powder magazine soon ensued,
which was evidently effected by the
Crete-a-Pierrot's crew. The explosion
destroyed her stern and set the vessel
on fire, rendering taking her in tow i'm
possible, especially as further explo-
sions followed AS this was regarded
as hostile act, and as the guns afore
were still in condition, the Panther's
Captain caused the boats forward
magazine to be exploded through a
cannonade After this was effected the
Crete-a-Pierrot broke up and sank. The
Admiral was on board with the rebels.
"Gonaives is in the hands of the reb-
els"
PORT Az PRINCE, September g.
Rumors are in circulation here that Ad-
miral Killick, a doctor and two sailors
were killed on board the Crete-a-Pier-
rot when she was sunk by the German
gunboat Panther, but the news lacks
confirmation. The Haytian steamer
Mancol left here this evening for Cape
Haytien loaded with rifles, cannon and
ammunition, sent by the Provisional
Government TO General Nord, the Hay
tian Minister of War.
BERLIN, September 9-The attitude
of the American press regarding the
sinking of the Haytlan Tebel gunboat
Crete-a-Pierrot by the German gunboat
Panther gives great satisfaction here.
GCNAIVES (HaytD, September TO-
An investigation into the sinking Of the
F'irminist gunboat Crete-aPierrot at
the entrance of this harbOr Saturday
shows that Admiral Kiilick, her COM
rnander, personally fired the aft maga-
zine of that vessel when the German
gunboat Panther attempted to capture
her, and that he went down with his
ship. The Panther, which had pre-
viously attempted to board the Crete
a-Pierrot, the latter being moored to
the shore, reversed her engines when
the magazine exploded. and one hour
| afterward fired thirty shots from her
guns at the Crete-a-Pierrot in order to
finish the work of sinking her. The
Panther then left Gonaives.
1t is claimed here that the rifles and
machine guns of the Crete-a-Pierrot
have been saved.
The body Of Admiral Killick was re-
! covered Saturday afternoon and was
buried the same evening. The surgeon
of the Crete-a-Pierrot, who was asleep
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