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Show 111 111 I MASSACRE IN BORNEO I REBELS SWEEP DOWN UPON I LITTLE COLONY. . I B Men, Women and Children Ruthlessly "t Bu Butchered by Bloodthirsty Savages J Bfc f British North Borneo. B A special to the Portland Telegram B from Victoria, B. C, says: "Mission- B ary passengers by the liner Empress B of India bring advices of an atrocious B massacre on the west coast ot Brit- B Ish North Borneo. On March 31 at 10 B o'clock at night a band of 150 rebels B from the Interior, armed with guns, B parangs, spears and blow-pipes, swept B down upon the little colony at Ka- B wang railway station, midway be- I tween Jessclton and Papar. The band I divided Into two parts, one of a hun- I dred remaining concealed as a reserve on the top of a hill, while the other I fifty rushed down upon the settle- I ment, butchered the inmatoa of the- I Chinese shops, attacked the railway I station, smashed the telephone and I killed the wife and child of the sta- I tion. master, the latter saving his life I by hiding In tho bush. I The band of murderers turned their I attention to the coolies, moat of them I Chinese, killing and wounding them I savagely right and loft. The English I railway driver was the next victim, a I speedy and terrible ond coming to him V and his wife. Th carnage thon be- -' came general, males, females and innocent in-nocent babes being butchered In the lust for blood. The houses and huts la the Kampong were set flro to next In the brutal career ot the savages, and when nothing was left but dead bodies and cruelly wounded people, ashes and desolation, the sanguinary wretches went their way. The survivors one native fireman, the station master, with a few of the wounded coolies ran down the Itae la the direction of Jessclton for their lives. By putting all steam oa the construction engine stationed there, the terrible news was carried to Jes-selton, Jes-selton, putting all the Inhabitants of that place in panic. The total number ot killed was 110. No record Is available of the number of wounded. |