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Show I MASSACliK IN liORNKO REBELS SWEEP DOWN UPON LITTLE COLONY. Men, Women and Children Ruthlessly Butchered by Bloodthirsty Savaje of British North Borneo. A special lo tho Portland Telegram from Victoria, R. C. says: "Missionary "Mission-ary pna-engers by tho liner Fmpros of India bring advices of an atncloas massacre on the weit coast of Ilrlt-lsh Ilrlt-lsh North llornco. On March 31 at 10 o'clock at night a band' of U rebel from the Interior, armed with guns, parangs, spears and binw-plne, swept down upon the lltl.c colony at Ka-wang Ka-wang railway station, midway between be-tween Jcsscltnn and lapai The band divided into two parts, one of a hundred hun-dred remnlnlng concealed as a reserve on the top of a hill, whllo the other fifty rushed down iiion the aettlement, aettle-ment, butrhered Iho Inmate of the Chinese shops, attacked the railway station, smashed the telephone aad killed the wife and child of Ibe station sta-tion master, the latter saving bis life by hiding In the bush. The band of murderers turned their attention to the coolies, most of them Chinese, killing and wounding thnm savagely right and left. The KngJisn railway driver waa tho next victim, a speedy and terrlhlo end coming to bin) and bla wife. Th carnage then became be-came general, males, female and In-nocont In-nocont babea being butchered In the lust for blood. The house and hut In the Knmpong were set Are to next In the brutal carver of the savage, nnd when nothing waa left but dead bodies and cruelly wounded people, ashes and desolation, the sanguinary wretches went their way. The survivors one native fireman, tho station master, with a few of the wounded cooiles ran down the line In tho direction of Jeaaelton for tholr Uvea, lly putting nil steam on the construction engine stationed there, the terrlhlo news was carried to Jes-selton, Jes-selton, putting all the Inhabitants of thnt place In panic The total number of killed waa 130. No record la available of the number of wounded. |
