Show MASSACRE S OF SCIENTISTS Bloody Work of Bushmen on the Solomon Islands FOUR MEN ARE KILLED Several Others Are Very Badly Wounded and May Die I Partially Defeated on the Mountain the Bnshiiieii Return to the Caiuii and Continue Their Bloody Work The Party Whleii Came From Austria Had Jut About Completed Com-pleted Their Tour of Research len Their Troubles Overtook Them SAN FRANCISCO Oct 22News of the massacre of part of an Austrian scientific party on the island of Guad alcanar in the Solomon group reached this city today by the steamer Monowal The party left Sydney to cruise about and visit the Solomon Islands in scientific scien-tific research in the Austrian manof war Albatross They had visited all the islands I except Guadalcanar or Bull Top mountain The party wanted to reach the summit and hired native guides They started for the summit on the 5th of August THE PARTY In the party were Baron Foullon Von Norbeck Lieutenant Budik Midshipman I Xorbeck Beufort 20 sailors another I midshipman the barons two servants I and two native guides After two days i march the midshipman and five sailors returned as they had become too fatigued fa-tigued to proceed further The day after they left the camp the baron Lieutenant Budik several sailors and two servants started up the mountain Several bushmen met on the way joined the expedition but as they were without with-out arms no particular attention was paid to them The baron was In the lead all the way and as he neared the top of the mountain a bushman who appeared to be a chief was seen by the party As he appeared two shots were fired lower down the mountain from fred direction of the camp The shots seemed to be a signal for the chief to attack the bajjans party Bushmen atack from 3 score of places at once rushed out and the baron wa struck on the neck with a tomahawk while a crowd of bushmen attacked the rest of the party with clubs The native who had cut down the baron was promptly shot by a sailor Lieutenant Budik also put his revolver to good use One sailor had to protect himself with a tomahawk toma-hawk he had wrested from a native The other sailors were wellarmed and the bushmen finally had to retreat to the wods many of them wounded The baron was the only one of the party badly hurt At first it was thought he would recover but he gradually grad-ually sank after he had walked back to the camp and died in three hours The tight when they returned to the camp was a bloody one Midshipman Dc Beufort had been cut to death and three sailors and one native guide had also been killed Six sailors and one guide had been wounded i KILLED AND WOUNDED The news was then sent to Captain Mauler of the Albatross and a relief party was sent and a safe return was made to the ship After the wounded men had been taken aboard the ship Captain Mauler sailed for Cooktown and thence the Albatross will go to Sydney i The killed and wounded are j Killed Henry Baron Fou lon Von Norbeck Midshipman Armand De Beufort Jacob Dokovlc seaman Gustav Chalanpka a native guide from Titerl Petty Officer Maras Severely wounded Petty Officer Kolomon Neupob Peter Curds Anton Covacevic Seaman Anton Lovris Seaman Frantz Sepcic |