The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-26

VIVID description OF the hTst attack |
on the Russian feet at Port Arthur
and the remarkable dashes into the
inner barber by the Japanese tor
pedo boats is given in letter to the
Tacoma News from Allen Fair
weather, of Tacoma, purser of the
steamship Pleiades, which had ar
rived at Port Arthur with a cargo
fof -four few days before the attack
was made. He says:
"We arrived at Port Arthur Feb.
7. The Russian fleet, consisting of
IA battle ships aud cruisers, were
al1lying outside the mouth of the
] lharbor. We got birth just inside
I of the low spit which forms one side
of the entrance.
.Monday night about II o'clock
we heard heavy firing, which con-
tinpsd until about IL 80 q. M. Every
one thought the forts were engaged
in some kind of night target prac-
itice, but in the morning, when we
saw two Of the largest and. best Of
the Russian warships aground on
ths new spit, we knew that some
thing more than practice had been
going on. It developed that a feet
i Of Japanese torpedo boats had come
along quite close inshore, flying the
Russian flag and giving the Russian
signal. They had passed right un-
der the forts, along the spit side OF
the harbor, aud had passed by the
patrol boats at the entrance, giviog
the countersigD.
i They passed through the email
entrance to the harbor proper, turn
, ed around and passed cut, going up
TO the other coast until directly be-
hind the largest and best of the war
ships lying outside, when they turn
ed and fred torpedoes into three of
them.
The remarkable part of it was
the dash of the torpedo boats
3 through the 100-yards wide mouth
'ar tsbe barber and there turning a.
f round inside.
"The Russians fired shot at the
torpedo boats, but apparently did
, no BARN. They then attempted to
get their warships into the harbor,
but two of the worst disabled ran
aground on the spit and we're then
in a sinking condition.
THE next morning the Japanese
feet moved in to within firing dis
tance and fired shells for As. min
, utes. The Pleiades was behind the
spit, but in direct line, and the
shells fell all around .us. Our deck
r was covered with pieces.
/ Later the Russians got their
9 grounded warships off the spit and
inside the harbor, where they now
lie on the bottom, practically sub.
merged. By working hard they
: succeeded in bringing iu five
g funneled cruiser. which San k in the
q harbor the next day.
"We had great>diffculty in get
: ting away. We we're obliged to take
r 800 Chinese women away with u.s.
e North Yakima, Wash, March
22.-The body of Jack Gingle, wht
Y was killed at Foothili, Spokane'Co.
e by oficars Sunday mornir 6 in {
= hand to hand fight, was brought tt
6 this place this morning and will b.
& buried in the potter's field tomor
u row. Several people viewed th'
il body as it lay in the morgue o
d Flint & Shaw.
:. George Pyburn, Charles Mabre,
and Flavey Cuary recognized to-
= dead man as the one who held then
e up in Shardlow's saloon one Ugh
n in January, 1901. and robbed, then
a of $500. Other parties also recog
u nized him. He is one of the rob
d bers who held up the saloon in tn
a Arlington Hotel, Arline ton, Or.
r and robbed it of $500.
= His brother, Jim Gingle, who i
s in Jail here charged with being con
y nected with the robberies in whicI
his brother was implicated, wa
s. taken TO see his dead brother to
lie day. He appeared stolid and un
10 affected at the coffin, but when tax
N en- back to Jail broke down an
T. wept. He will have a preliminar
1t hearing on Thursday afternoon.
it Cured Consumption.
n Mr.. B. Evans, Clearwater. Kan, write
q ''My husband lay sick for three month
. The doctors said he had quick consuml
Eo ton. We procured bottle of b. Hard
Horehound Syrup, and it cured hin
r. That was six years ago and since then "
~ have always kept bottle in the hous
- We cannot do without it. For cougl
Oh and colds it has no equal 25c, soc an
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