| Show MASSACRE a IN BORNEO MUM REBELS SWEEP DOWN UPON LITTLE COLONY men women and children Ruth lealy butchered by bloodthirsty savage of f british north borneo A special to the portland telegram from victoria B C saya says AtIs mission sion arr passengers pae toy by the liner Lin press ot of india bring advices of at an atrocious massacre on the west coast of brit eh ish north borneo on march 31 at 10 at night a band cf of 1 rebels front from the interior armed with guns parings pa spears and blow pipes swept down upon the little colony at ka wang railway station midway be bt tween Jes hesselton selton and capar the band divided into two parts one ot of a hundred concealed as a reserve on the top of a hill while white the other acty rushed down don upon the settlement bu bushered but shered the inmates of tho the chinese shops attacked the railway station smashed naBbed ei the telephone bou and tilled oiled the wife and child ot of the ata aw ion jort roaster master tha latter saving saying his life lifa by tiding titling in the bush tho band ot of murderers turned their attention to the to coolies olles most ot of them chinese lining lilling and wounding them savagely Bava gely right and left the english railway driver was the next victim a speedy ind terrible end coming to him and hie his wife th carnage then became general males females and in la nobert babes being butchered in the list for blood the houses and hula huts in the kampong were set fire to next lit lu the brutal career of the savages und nd when nothing was left but dead bodies and cruelly wounded people ashes and desolation tho the sanguinary wretches went vent their way the survivors one native fireman the station master with a few of the wounded comiles ran down the line in the direction of hesselton Jes solton selton for their by putting all on the construction elgiva stationed there the terrible news vas was carried to jes gotten putting all the inhabitant of that place in panic the total number of killed was no record la ts available ot of the number of wounded |
