almost complete tie-up
of Wire communication
Sunday's Storm Was The
Worst in Many
Years,
V
GREAT
DE
LAY
OF
TRAFFIC
The Storm Swept up the Atlfmtic
Coast, Gaining ijn Intensity a. it
Reached the North Telegraph a
Telephone Wires
and Operations o
ies Was 'Greatly
Were Blown Dowi
the Wire Compan
Restricted Train
Broken. Trolley
Ittm and Great
Scheilules Were
Lines Unable to
I.amage Was Done Shipping Along
the Coast The
Reported Loss ot
Great The Asso
Life is Not Very
ciated Pre Succeeded in Bridging
the Path Cut by
the Storm.
New York, November 14. The storm
which swept up tie Atlantic Coast
from the Gulf of 'Mexico yesterday and
last night, developing into a gale as it
moved northward, resulted in the most
complete tie up of wire communication
that the Eastern States' have experienc
ed since 1S88, disarranged train sched
ules, paralyzed trolley lines and piled
several wrecks alor g the coast. Rain
and snow accompanied the storm, add
ing to the destructiveness of the gale.
Telephone and telegraph poles, borne
down by the weigt.t of snow and ice
encrusted v wires, gave way before ths
sweep of the wind, and whole states
were cut oft.
iBoth the telegraph companies and
the telephone companies with long dis
tance wires today reported their fields
of operations restricted to the territory
bounded on the wept by Philadelphia,
on the east by 'Boston and on the north
toy Newburgh, -N. Y. 'The big broker
age concerns in Wall street, many of
whom under normal conditions operate
thousands of miles cf wire, today found
themselves helpless. The ..exchanges
were no more fortv nate and the only
quotations received from Chicago and
New Orleans were :he market reports
of the Associated Ptess. These quota,
tions brought over t ie Associated Press
were the only figures obtained in New
York city from 'the cotton and grain
centersvpf the south and west.
'By art elaborate system of relays and
use of both telephone and telegraph
wires, the Associated Press succeeded
in bridging the path between East and
West cut by the storm and reached all
points west, north and east, "with the
exception of a small region in the vi
cinity of Albany. There the damage
from the snow and wind seemed beyond
immediate repair and with the excep
tion of trains there was no communi
cation with that region during the day.
The general breaking down of wires
was almost entirely' responsible for
the trouble on the railroads. The move
ments -of trains could not be' reported
and delays extending into hours irv
many cases, were re ported.
New York, Novenber 14. .That the
effects of yesterday's storm were far
rrore reaching than in any similar dis
turbance since the great blizzard of
1S8S became eviden : today when the
disarrangement of wire communication
continued almost as complete as at any
time during the height of the storm.
Up to 10 o'clock many points were com,
pletely isolated, wtile whole sections
were reached only by most" circuitous
routes. To the west, the only points
having direct communication with New
York were Philadelphia and Baltimore.
The Associated Press,, however, had
succeeded in reaching the ' west and
incidentally many eastern points, by
means of a telephone wire between
Baltimore and Chicago. The news re
port carried over
the
regular wires
between New York and Balitmore when
it reached the latter city was transfers
ed a distance of ten blocks to the tele
phone office by cabs, was then for
warded by telegrapli to Chicago over a
long distance telephone wire and from
Chicago was telegraphed back to
.Washington, and other cities which
could not be reached over the regular
routes.
The same plan was followed in many
other cases." For instance, the 'Asso
ciated press regular New York state
circuit, a net work! of -wires connect
ing, all the principal cities of the stato
was practically out of ' service for a
time. Newberg to j the north marked
the end of the circuit, points , beyond
being completely put off.' Finally,
.however, a temporary circuit was set
rid
V
f up by forming a connecting link be
tween Cleveland and Buffalo. From
Buffalo the report was relayed down
the state as far as Utica. At that point
however, wire paralysis again was en
countered, leaving Amsterdam, Schen
ectady, Albany and Troy completely
cut off from the outside world. The
only report, received fromr t mt section
of the state today, came by train from
Albany. 'Four inches of wet snow had
broken down telephone, telegraph, elec
trie light and tire alram wires in Al
bany, and vicinity and badly hamper
ed street car and train service.
While the effect of the Storm was
not so severe in New England some
points in that section felt the full force
of the gale. Wires were down in all
parts of Maine. Some points on Cape
Cod could not be reached by wire early
in the day, and Pittsfield, in the Berk
shires, was cut off entirely from both
'New York and IBoston.
Wire service to many points in east
ern Canada, which was swept by the
'storm, also was disabled.
Operations jn Wall street were cur
tailed today by reason of yesterday's
storm. At the opening of the stock
market the stock exchange branch of
the Western Union Telegraph Company
had only a few direct wires working.
These were to Philadelphia, on the
south and lHartford and 'Boston on the
east. Western and southwestern wires
were still down, as were all Wires south
oi (Baltimore. All messages were ac
cepted subject to delay. At no time
since 18SS has the Wall street business
or the telegraph companies been so
badly crippled. !
The private wires of almost every
stock exchange commission were ou:
of commission. One prominent firm had
communication with 'Rostoi, though
with 'Some difficulty.
On the cotton exchange, bu siness was
virtually at a standstill." Al: telegraph
wire communication was bit off and
across the quotation board oi the trad
ing floor was written "No vires." In
the "first half hour of the cotton mar
ket less than a half dozen s transactions
were made. At the produce exchange
a similar state of affairs was reported
and business there Was stagnant. One
packing house reported indirect com
munication with Pittsburg and Chica
go, but all other financial -vires wert
still out of commission.
A small army of linemen were sent
out directly after day break and it is
expected that all the damage ,vvill bG
repaired by tomorrow. The- telephone
service was not seriously interrupted
by the storm but there was no commu
nication over the telephones to such
points as Philadelphia, Boston and Al
bany. Two trusties and keeper em
ployed on Riders Island, during the
storm started in a small boat from
the island to 138th street i:o get the
night keepers. After considerable
work they managed to get on tinto the
river, where the wind seemed to in
crease and the three men were unable
to reach the main land the boat being
swept down the river to South Brother
Island, where it wfajs beached.
The whereabouts of the men was
unknown until today, and it was fear
ed that they had been drowned as they
had been compelled to remain on the
island all night. j
Two keepers who tried Ho go from
Harts Island to City Island, in a launch
at about the same time, were compelled,
to put on life preservers and abandon
their boat, which was swept to White
Stone a distance?of about teri miles.
'Boston, Mass., 'November; 14. The
fierce southern storm which jstarted off
the "Florida coast on Saturday night
had its center off Cape Race, New
'Foundland. The storm in th provinces
particularly along the peninsula of
Nova Scotia was attended With terrific
gales and an unusually low aarometo.
Telegraphic and telephonic communi
cation with the provinces is interrupted.
Tonight there is no wire communica
tion east or north of Waterville, Me.,
and all telegraphic connectiojn between
iBoston and Vermont is suspended.
'Few marine disasters have been re
ported. So far as known tohightonly
two vessels were wrecked and no lives
were lost.
At Pennelleville, Me., a whale eighty
feet long was blown ashore. Unable
to get back into deep "water the great
creature lay helpless on the peach, and
a bullet from a hunter's rifle ended its
life.
Norfolk Va., November
14. No
from the
the dam-
word has yet been received
Virginia Carolina coast of
age done by the storm.
The wind
reached at velocity of sixty -jtwo miles
an hour at Cape Henry and was ne
cessarily much greater In! Its? force
around Hat t eras.
Th tjiree masted schooner Myra
W. Spear, from Georgetown;. S. C, to
New London, Conn., with lumber
which stranded last week on the Car
olina coast, thirty mile? north of Cape
Hatteras. is supposed to have gone all
to pieces during yesterdiy'? gale
though nr. report of any kind has yet
been received from the vessel. The
Merritt and Chapman Wr4ckinsr tug
Coley, CaptainTcoker, made a second
Ftart late Saturday for the sene or
the wreck of the Spear, hut Capta!n
Tooker, seeing r the approach of
storm, anchored between Cape Henry
anu -urntucK, x. c, Saturday mgnt
and hurried into port yesterday as
quickly as he could get back.
The schooner DeMorey Gray, with
coal, was in distress off Ocean View
yesterday with her jibboom damaged
and leaking. The Coley on its way
went to the schooner's assistance.
The Gray is in command of Captain
Walton, brother of Captain Robert
Walton, of the schooner Wilson and
Hunting, who recently lost his life
when the latter vessel was sunk off
Barnegat by the Culgoa.
Captain Walton was informed of
his brother's death when he reached
this port.
Telegrams for the north from Nor
folk up to tonights have been sent by
wire to Richmond and from there on
ward by train.
ATTEMPT TO LYNCH NEGRO.
Students of Alabama Polytechnic In
stitute Tried to Resent An Injury to
a Fellow Cadet.
iMontgomery, Ala., November 14. An
attempt to lynch a negro by a number
of the students of the Alabama Poly
techinic institute was thwarted only by
the forethought of iPresident Thach of
that institution, according to specials
from Auburn, Ala. A report to the
effect that a negro Arthur 'Bares, por
ter at the ""depot had f atally stabbed
Claude M. 'Howard, was the cause of
the trouble..
About midnight last n'ght, a number
of the cadets wTent to the calaboose,
firing a fusilade at the building and
then broke it open with the intention,
it is alleged, of killing the negro, but
were disappointed on finding th negro
missing. President Thach fearing .rou
ible, had had the negro removed 10
Opelika.
The trouble is said to have started
by the negro cursing Howard because
the student asked for a match. How
ard is said to have struck the negro
Mvim b swixun, wxiertrupon uie negro
struck at Howard with a knife, cutting
him behind the ear." Young Howard la
not seriously injured.
Howard is the son of ex-Congressman
Howard, author of the book "If
Christ Came to Congress," which creat
ed a sensation when published.
'No further trouble is anticipated.
TO FORM NEW TRUNK IJNE.
Option on the Cincinnati, Hamilton
! and Dayton, if Accepted and Merged.
With the Erie and the Pere Mar
quette Would Form a 5.000 Mile
System.
New York, Nov. 14. It was said here
today, unofficially but on what was
considered good authority, that J. P.
Morgan and Company, and H. B. Hol-
lins and Company have an option! on a
majority of the stock of the Cincinnati
Hamilton, and Dayton railroad. Rep
resentatives of these two firms are said
to have started on a tour of inspection
of the (property.
The syndicate now in control of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, and
responsible for the Pere Marquette
merger is composed chiefly of Eugene
Zimmerman, of Cincinnati; F. H.
Prince, of Boston; and the United
States Mortgage and Trust Company.
Under the option held by Morgan and
Holliiis, this syndicate has given up its.
rights to negotiate a sale, and until the
option has expired, H. B. Holltns and
Company will be the only medium
through which control can be passed.
A merger of the Erie, Cincinnati.
Hamilton and Dayton and Pere Mar
quette such as is proposed would form
a new trunk line system of five thous
and miles between New York, Chicago
and St. Louis-
STATE CAN COLLECT TAX.
Decision of U. Supreme Court irt
Case of Georgia Against the I;. and
X. and the A. C. Hi.
Washington, , iNovember 14. (The de
cision of the United States court of ap
peals for the fifth circuit, in the case
of the state of Georgia against the
Louisville and Nashville railroad and
the Atlantic Coast Line today was re
versed by the Supreme court of th
United States, 'Justice Holmes deliv
ering the opinion. The case originates
in the state's effort to collect taxes on
stock of the Western railway of Ala
bama held in (Georgia, notwithstanding
the railroad is an Alabama corporation.
The Court of lAppeals held against thi3
right. Justice Holmes said in his opin
ion that under the constitution and
laws of Georgia the comptroller gen
era r of the state was bound to collect
the tax. The defendant companies ap
pear in the case because the Alabama
road is controlled by them under leas;.
NEW YORK HORSE SHOW.
Attendance of the Smart Set Makes
the Event a Very Fashionable One.
New York, Nov. 14. While the horse
show proper opened this morning it
was reserved to the evening exhibition
to bring out the long array of smart
people who go to make this affair a
great event in New York . fashions bio
life. The great concourse was a mass
of light. From every conceivable point
of vantage hung incandescent lamps,
while the boxes and gallerires wer-
decorated with a profusion of orange
a nd black, the colors of the national
hors show association.
Miss Emma S. Ross, of Beechfieids,
Cheshire, England, has 24 entries in the
show, and is one of the most enthus
iastic exhibitors. When she drove a
handsome pair of roadsters about the
ring she was applauded.
Throughout the entire evening the.
promenade and arena was "crowded.
Also much interest was shown 4 n the
many horses exhibited in all classes.
FEDERATION OF IABOR.
Delegates from Many States and Rep
resentatives from Other Countries
Present at the 2-1 tli Conventiori.
San Francisco, Nov. 14 The Ameri
can' Federation of Labor met today in
Lyric Hall in its 24th annual conven
tion. Delegates from every part of the
United States and representatives from
Porto Rico, England and Oanadai were
present. The hall was decorated with
national colors, delegates being seated
in sections acocrding to the states they
represented.
The morning session was taken up
with the delivery of and. reply to
speeches of welcome and the reading
and acceptance of the report of the
committee ' on credentials.
The afternoon session was opened
with .the reading by Samuel Gompers
of his annual address.
Secretary Frank Morrison then read
his annual report.
The reading of this report was fol
lowed by that of Treasurer John B.
Lemmon.
The visitors' gallery during the day's
session was was crowded, many of the
spectators (being women
Tonight a mass meeting was held at
the Alhambra theatre and it was ad
dressed by W. D. Mahon, of Detroit,
president of the Amalgamated Associa
tion of Street Railway Employees and
other who discussed cooperation and
trade unionism.
DR. RAINSFORD THREATENED.
Young Woman Approached the Well
Known" Rector and. Threatened to
Kill Him,
New York, November 14. According
to stories printed today, Rev. Dr.
William ,S. Rainsford, rector of St.
George's Episcopal church and one of
the best known clergymen in this city,
was threatened by a woman while in
his church, on Sunday. Published ac
counts say that the woman rushed into
the rector's study armed with a revol
ver and after some conversation,
threatened to kill him.
Dr. 'Rainsford's secretary informed
Associated Press tonight that on Sun
day morning several people went for
ward to greet th erector. Among them
was a woman. He says there was
some conversation, that the ''woman
asked several questions, among them
one as to what had been done with he
money, which led Dr. Rainsford to be
lieve that she was irresponsible, and
ihe referred her to the sexton.
'Miss 'Mary iByron was taken into cus
tody by detectives at noon today and
later arraigned in court. Sexton
Chapman identified her as the woman
who appeared in church yesterday.
Miss 'Byron was sent to CBellevue , for
examination.
READY FOR THE A. & M. GAME.
Pigskin Warriors of the University
. Confident of Victory on Wednes
day. Special to The Messenger.)
Chapel Hill, N. C, November 14.
Excitement over the approaching game
of football with the Agricultural and
Mechanical college continues very high.
North Carolina will have a light prac
tice tomorrow afternoon to make ready
for the contest the following day.
Carpenter, Jhe local right half back,
the best football player in the south,
will not be in the game, owing to some
technicality by which he was disquali
fied. With this exception, Carolina
will line up, practically the same as
she did against Georgetown Universi
ty. Trenchard'of Princeton, and Thorn
son, of Georgetown, will be the offi
cials of the game. The game will be
called at 2:20 p. m. Wednesday and it
is believed that at least three thousand
people will be here to see Carolina give
the Agricultural and .'Mechanical a dose,
of the same medicine that Virginia
served to ber several weeks ago.
IRRIGATION CONGRESS.
Large Number of American and Mex
ican Delegates Will Attend 12th
Session.
El Paso, Texas, November 14. In a
hall, the decorations of which are the
national colors of the United States
and Mexkio, the twelfth Irrigation Con
gress will - be called to order at 10
o'clock Tuesday morning. A band sent
&.S a srecia.i f.nmrliment to th conven
tion by President 'Diaz wilKrender the",
music. Secretary of Agriculture Rob
erto Oayol, of IMex'co, is here as the
president's personal representative, and
fifty other Mexican delegates also are
present, making the meeting of inter-,
national irnportanc?. The first day wjil
be devoted to addresses of welcome an !
responses, appointment of committees, j
reading of telegrams, letters and rou-'
tine matter. j
Most of the officers of the congress
are here and many distinguished visi - j
tors are expected to be present. The
engineers of the United States reclant- j
ation survey have opened, their session. 1
They are discussing various enterprises
new under survey or construction in
the arid west and will join the irriga
tion congress in its sessions later.
Newspaper Editor Expelled from Ven
ezuela. "Washington, Nov- 14. A. F- Jauret".
an editor, has been ordered expellel
from Venezuela by President Castro.
The news came to the state. department
1n a cablegram from its legation at
Caracus No details are given but it"
is stated that M. Jaurett has always
defended American Interests In his pa
per and. has taken the side of the as
phalt company in its recent trouble.'-It
is thought here that he is an American
citizen. ' ' - . .
OLD VETERAN ON t TRIAL.
Pitiable Sight as Kingsley Plead Be
fore the Jury for His Own Life.
INorfolk, ! Va., November ! 14.Freder
ick G. Kingsley, an Inmate of the
Hampton Soldiers Home, seventy-two
3"ears old, 'presented a pitiable appear
ance this afternoon as she plead valiant
ly for hisife in his trial for murdering
Captain A. - C. Paul, in the United
States court. The old man was '"too
weak to climb into the witness box and
begged to be allowed to take a seat
at the foot of the pedestal, upon which
stands the witness chair.
Already a nervous wreck apparently,
Kingsley lost camplete control of him
self. He arose from his chair during
the recital in his own behalf. He stag
gered before the jury to go on with his
story, the .better to illustrate how he
was set upon first by his victim, and
afterwards how he reached for his own
knife and killed the other: man when
he thought he was going to be mur
dered himself.
Although no one saw Paul strike
Kingsley, two witnesses heard a crash
and afterward a broken shaving mug
was found on the floor, j Dr. !Rakei
testified that Kingsley had a deep gash
on the top of his head.
Kingsley was a member of Dan Em
mett's famous original minstrel com
pany and he served in the civil wav
from 1861 to the surrender of Lee at
lAppomattox. , , .
The 'trial was continued" till tomor
row !
FRANCE AND THE HOLY SEA.
3fild Allusion to the Concordat Made
by Pope Pius During the Second
Consistory, Held Yesterday.
Rome, Nov. 14. The second consis
tory of thejpontificate'of Pope Pius X,
at which the postulation of the pallium
for three archbishops occurred and ten
American bishops were proclaimed,
took place this morning. The ceremony
was shadowed by the death in the apos
tolic palace of Cardinal Mocenni, while
the function was in progress,
i etaoin shrdlu iiii
In the secret consistory the pope de
livered an allocution recalling the ori
gin of the concordat and reasons which
inducel Pope Pius VII to conclude it
with Napoleon, especially referring to
the provisions made for the appoint
ment of bishops, the judgmnt of The
ministry of public worship, j which was
regulated by " what was practicallj; a
contract and finally the free exercise of
Catholic worship. He added that the
so-oalled "organic articles',' added in
1802 by Napoleon, had never been rec
ognized by : the Holy See either as law
or as being a part of the concordat
Therefore the pontiff deplored the fact
that the present government of the
French republic had under various pre
texts charged the Holy See with not
having observed the concordat, adding
that the church had never in the case
of any country infringed an agreement
made.- The j Pope concluded with saying
that the French government had brok
en the fundamental conditions of the
concordat, a proceeding which was not
only in violation f the ccrdateta dn
only in vioiatoni of the concordat, but
which was also opposed to divine and
natural law. The pope complained of
the impossibility, due to the existing
state of affairs, of appointing! bishops
to the vacant sees in France, but ex
pressed the hope that an understand
ing would be reached. j
The majority of the 'Cardinals present
considered the allusion rather mild and
remarked that the pope omitted the
had consulted z I
part regarding whih he previously had
consulted several of the cardinals, in
which he was to have appealed to the
people of France and to have urged
them to use their rights as I citizens to
prevent the government from persecut
ing their religion. j
TWO MYSTERIOUS DEATHS.
Fireman and Coal-Passer for Greens
boro Electric Company Found Dead
at Their Posts of Duty Several
Persons Shocked by LiviS Wires.
.(Special to The Observer.)
Greensboro, . Nov. 14. A severe snow
storm visited Greensboro today and the
flakes fell thick and fast and uninter
rujptedly from 10 until 3 o'clock. The
housetops were covered and the snow
would probably have blanketed Ui3
ground but for the rain which had been
coming down since yesterday after
noon. :
Grant Gwynn, fireman, ! and Jim
York, local passers, tor the Greensboro
Electric company, met death under tha
most peculiar circumstances in the
boiler room of the company last night.
Both men were colored About 11
o'clock the engineer observed that the
steam began going down, and when he
went into the boiler room he was hor
rified to see the bodies of the two dead
men lying prostrate, one of them acros
a wheel barrow and the other ons the
floor th officials of the company were
hastily summoned and the county cor
oner was soon on the scene.! The latter
gave it as his opinion that the men had
been killed by an electric shock, though
just how cannot be conjectured, tf or
there were no electric wires near the
wheelbarrow. The men were not
mangled nor burned In any way. Gen
eral Manager R. II. G'amewell, of the
electric company, says he has never
heard of an accident just like this one.
Just about the same time these men
were killed two other negroes were
burned by coming in contact with a.
sagging wire on King street half way
male away-. The coroner thinks tthat
-there was possibly some connection be
tween - the i two accidents. Mr. Gao.
Phoenix, residing on Lyndon ' street,
also received a ipalnful electric shocx
last night about the,same hour. He had
been in the bath room "at his house
and reached up to turn out the incan
descent electric light, when he was so
badly shocked that he was unconscious
for some time -
FIGHT TO EWD
Russians Will In no Case
Suspend Military
Activity.
COUNT CASSINI
Makes an Emphatic Statement Con
cerning the Position of Russia Ho
Says tltat No Interference; Will be
Admitted and Where the Country's
Prestige is at Stake All Other Con
siderations Must be Put Aside It Is
Believed that Active Hostilities Will-'
Soon Begin Again at the Theatre oI
War.
vvasmngLon, uvoyemuer jl?. nueja
will pursue the war in the Far east t
the bitter nd that is until Russia ha
conquered." , .
These are the opening words of an
TTT 1 A . fl H d t h"f m m nt O
emphatic statement mad at the Rus
sian embassy to'day by Count owtsinl,
the Russian ambassador.
The statement continues:
"I deem it my duty to reiterate whaft
I have so often said, that Russia will
not suspend in any case her military,
operations in the Far Bast. All rum
ors and reports regarding the possible
success of the direct overtures for
peace, Which Japan is said to haw
made to Russia, "and regarding th
mediation of the powers, are, in ray
opinion, started for the purpose of
convincing the public that the end of
the war is close at hand. In this way
it is hoped that the public may be led
to believe that Japanese loans offer at
tractive investments. ,
'Russia can no more admit of inter
ference than Oreat Britain could in the
States in her war with Spain. Where t
the prestige, of a country is at stake, .
all other considerations are and must
he put aside. Some, people may think
that financial difficulties will influencb
Russia to nd hostilities. Such an
opinion is based on the false assump
tion of Russia's financial resources.
There is no doubt whatever that Rus
sia whose annual income exceeds one
milliard of dollars cannot he influenced
in her attitude toward, the outcome off
the war by the amount of war expen
ditures. Is it not altogether out of
the question that Russia who did not
expect war, should in the moment when
she has mobilized her army and is
sending corps after corps in fighting
readiness to the Far. East, suddenly -
call a halt on hostilities, particularly
after she has for nearly a year, with
out any difficulty or recourse to extra-,
ordinary measures, been able to carry
the extra expenses?"
JAfFS DISFDAYIN'G-iGREAT ACTIVI-
ty. .
Mukden, iNuVember 14.-2:60 a. m.
Since yesterday signs of a serious en
gagement taking place within the next
few days have been inciieasing. The
Japanese, are displaying great activity
eastward. y
TO IFIOHT TOR MUKDEN.
St. Fetersburg, November 14. 'The
latest indications from the front point
to an early resumption of military op
erations on a large scale. JField Mar
shal Oyama has received heavy rein
forcements from !New Chwang and evi
dently is about ready to wage hattle
for the possession of Mukden. 'The
Japanese are showing particular actlv-
ity on their flank, as if they were con
templating a turning movement from
that ' direction. General Kuropatkin
has fortified,' his positions 4 along the
Shakhe river, and as he seemingly, is
prepared to accept a battle he doubt
less has made his dispositions to block
a flanking operation. According to ths
opinion of themllitary authorities here
his left flank is secure. '
THE SIEGE OP-f PORT ARTHUR;
Headquarters Japanese army before
jfort Artnur, .November 4, via Fusan.
November 14. By a general attack
on the , eastern fortified ridge on Oc
tober 30, the Japanese gained the
moats of the principal forts assailed.
These were wider, deeper and stronger
than had ben supposd, and were de
fended by caponierles or galleries
running north of the Keekwan forts.
The galleries were captured after des,
perate fighting under grounds
The Russians still hold parts of the
moats but the , Japanese are engaged
in "sapping to dislodge them; after
which the capture of the forts should'
tee easy.
JAPS REPULSE - A RUSSIAN AT
TACK. Gneral Kuroki's headquarters, No
vember 1 4 , via Pusan . A squadron
of Russian cavalrj' yesterday after
noon attacked the Japanese in the
neighborhood of Littlatun. The Rusw
slang were so severely repulsed that
at dusk they were, still gathering up
their dead and -wounded.. There ha
-been no other change at the front.