Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-13
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OUTLAW J|k|R|.
Hunted from Place to Place He
With 10 Followers, Took
Refuge in Cave.
ESCAPE BECAME imp sslB LE
4 Declined to Surrender and Refused to.
Accept Safe Conduct for Women
And ChIIdrenAll Persisted. a

Accept Sulc5 tSoluuSlFAoE ~
And Children All Persisted.
Manila, July While detailed ace
Z counts Of the last fight Of iklri, the
famous Moro outlaw chieftain. Who
y vas killed and his band exterminated
i m pitched battle near Patian. on the.
II island OF Jolo, uly s f, have not Of been z
received several brief dispatches and
letter or two from American of
K Ulcers who fought against the outlaw
give a fairly comrlete story Of the The
fight.
Hunted from place to place by the
regulars and constabulary, who had
been in close pursuit for days, 4
Jikiri with seven followers, two Wo-3
men and one child, took refuge in a.
cave that pierced the side OF tho
81 crater of&an extinct volcano. The
narrow hole had two entrances, the
principal one opened on ledge OF
7 rock high up on, the steep slope. Here iis.
the outlaws gathered 70 MAKE 8llelra
last stand. g Il.
AS the soldiers came up the scouts
located the party and the troops
worked their way around the place
until 1t was entirely surrounded and
there was no chance for escape
REFUSED TO SURRENDER.
Capt. George L. Byran of the Sixth
cavalry, who commanded the attack
ing force, lien rdereds a white flag
displayed, and through his interpreter
called upon j ikiri 81 to surrender. The
outlaw refused and declined also to
accept safe conduct for the women
of his party, who remained with the
band and bore their share Of the
a fighting 3s 81 :dS5s
Capt. Byram ordered up the guns
and a terrific shell fire was opened on
the cave. This missiles broke above
and around the opening, but the ledge
protected those inside from the fire of
the guns and little damage was in-9
ilicted.s ,53 s35
Storming parties then work ed their
way up tile steep slope and, gaining
footing on the ledge, attempted to-
rush the larger entrance TO the cave
Tho fighting for a few minutes was
desperate, but the outlaws drove their
assaiiants ack by a savage SPEAR
charge. The soldiers We're not COM
Eflete lY@routed and, taking up their
posts at the ends Of the ledge. pour
ed aSterriblesrifle fire into the mouth
OF the {cave He; hi let's ri lancinE from
s the rock walls and throwing Sin overs
of sharp splinters of rock among the
besieged. 5it n "a III
Accounts Of the final encounter Diff
fer. One dispatch says that the rifle
fire forced tho laws out of I heEcaye:a
that the band rushed from the ems
trance to assault the besiegers, and
that all persisted on the narrow ledge
fighting with baronsE and krises against
The bayonets and bbed rifles Of the
soldiers This other version of tho
struggle describes alternatives as com
ing from the cave one5fbY one to face
the bullets 4,ofsgthe soldiers. Both ac-&
counts agree. however, that they died
fighting to the last.
JIkIRI's DEATH STRUGGLE.
Jikir; himself singled out Lieut.. Ar
thur II, Wilson of the Sixth cavalry.
Who commanded one section Of the at
lacking party. Daslling from the cave
the outlaw flung himself upon the
American before Wilson could Use his
pistol, With one hand gripping the
officers hair the bandit slashed at his
neck; with the heavy native knife he
carried, endeavoring to behead him.
Lieut.. Joseph a. Baels of the Sixth cav
airy saw his conradc s peril and dash
ed to his aid. AS y lSiri swung back the
knife to strike again, Baer shot him
dead, and Wilson dropped to the
ground. covered With blood flowing
from the gashess lii his throat. 1t is
feared that Wilson will be incapacitat-
ed for further service IN the army, as
the muscles and cords of his neck were
severed by the bandits knife.
Writing of the fight, American Off
GERS say that in the desperate hand-to-
4 hand encounter on the narrow ledge
some of the assailants may have been
wounded by their own fire. Ins their
anxiety to save each. her, they were
forced to shoot quickly. and high power
rifles at close range are doub1y dan
gerous as the bullets will plow through
several men. 3Ss's 5f1 r.
Hundreds of friendly Moros watched
the fight at close range. They perched
among the rocks where they could see
{ the ledge and not movement of the
comhatants4es ESCAPED their eyes. Many
of them believed that Jikiii bore
charmed skin, imrervious to knife and
bullet. They would not be convinced
that he was dead until they saw and
felt his body.
NEW LIST or CASUALTIES.
Washington july 81 2-An additional
list of casualties in connection with the
fight of the combined force of the
army and navy against ikiri, the Phil
ippine OUTLAW, and his followers. on the
island OF Patien, was today received
Philippine division. John Hauser, troop
A. Sixth regiment. Sixth y. s.. cavalry.
died from wounds received in action
July 10. "a 81
Additional names. of the woundedgfol-9
s low,
Edward Faras CHER troop A. Sixth reg
ime1lt us cavalry
John MARITIME, Frank i. Perdue, Wiz
liam a. Miller, Richard Landsraf.
troop B, Sixth regiment, u S. cavalry.
William b. Frawley. Grover G. Steele.
Fred Mayse. troop G, Sixth regiment,
u. s. cavalry.
James AZ Mclaughlin. troop Is, Sixth
regiment u. s. cavalry. 3iSs 4
Louis NIcCielland, George r.. Van
Fleet. ohm c. Scott, Anatole Gzarnecki,
Alexander Literbatsky troop z, Second
cavalry. II VI,
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