The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-08-13
A TEDIOUS FIGHT
ARMIES AT PORT ARTHUR
FIGHT FIERCELY AND .
s BOTH SUFFER BIG.
LOSSES.
The City Bombarded by the Entire
> Japanese Fleet-Firing is at
Such Long Range as toJBs
of Little Effect on
=. Fleets-Death of
Senator Vest.

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Senator Vest.
London, Aug. 10.-The Chefoo cor
respondent of the London Daily
Telegraph, one of that newspapers
most reliable men, under date of
Aug 9, states that two messengers
have arrived there from Port Ar
thur, who bring an accohnt of the
most desperate fighting of the war,
which is said to have begun last
Sunday and continued for three
days. t.
According to the correspondent.
the Japanese, following their cap
ture Of Wolf Hill, Immediately be.
gan to prepare for an assault upon
the chain of forts which line the
limits of the town. Brigade after
brigade moved out, until finally
three divisions of Japanese troops
, occupied,a position Stretched entire
ly across the country beyond Port
! Arthur. So far as could be seen
from the town, the attacking forces
were SO disposed that they were en-
J abled to attack in four divisions, the
/ two central of which were much the
strongest numerically, After the
japanese had disposed of their for
ces, they beean.a cannoHading, the
strength of which was very much
greater than any which the garri-
son had previously experienced.
For four hours the enormous siege
guns poured hundreds of pounds of
metal into the Russian Notifications
and many of the garrisons were kill
ed or wounded before nightfall
caused the enemy to cease its ef.
forts.
At dawn the next day the Japan.
ese, massed on the extreme right Of
the fortress. moved forward, and
the Russian guns opened on them.
Little dauntsd for a time, they
made a desperate effort to capture
the smaller of the forts, but the ri
fe and artillery fire of the Russian:
were so deadly that the attacking
party was forced TO retreat before
more than half of the distance hae
been covered. :
Shortly afterward the entire Jap
anese feet, which had taken @up-t
position behind the peninsula, be
gan 8 leng-range ~bombardment o
the town. Pursuant to orders, th.
Russian Heet sailed out to distrae
the Japanese warships, and a nava
conflict at long range was immedi
ately precipitated. The warahip'
fired on each other nLtil nightfaIl
and there were casualties on botf
sides, how great is still unknown
Soon after darkness had put an enc
to the conflict, the Japanese at
: tempted a night attack all aloni
the line, which would have proved
successful had it not been for tn
vigilance of the Russian sentries o
the extreme left. who, while closely
scrutinizing the Japanese positions
discovered evidences that move
ment of some character was bein,
planned
The word was quickly given, ant
the fortifcations were manned b.
all of the men who could be spared
When the Japanese moved forward
expecting to completely surprise I
sleeping garrison, they were greeted
with fire that flesh and bloot
could not withstand, and had f
retreat.
Sweet Springs, Mo-, Aug. o.
After lingering for weeks betweel
life and death, ex-senator Georg
Vest passed peacefully away today
He had been SO near death for th
past two or three days that the en-,
came without a struggle.l He wa
conscious until about 2 oflock Sun
day morning, when he sank into
state Of coma from which he neve
aroused. He lost the power c
speech Saturday morning, but fo
several days before that he talke
very impsrfectly, and during th
7 Hast 36 hours of his life his breath
ling was barely perceptible. Tt
flutter of bis pulse was all lhs
showed that life still remained.
AT the bedside when the en-
came were his wife, DIR. Jarvis, th
, family physician, Senator Vest
!, son, alexander; his daughter, Mr.
Z George P. Jackson, and her hCs
s band, and Mrs. Thompson, nice
of Mrs; Vest.
The remains we're taken to S