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PAGE TVTO. ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1904. FIGHT WAS DESPERATE Japs and Russians Displayed Grea Bravery at the Battle of Simoucheng. FIELD COVtRED WITH DEAD Soldiers Came Together in Hand to-liaml Couttict aim Terrible Loss of Life Is Imported As the Result- lJao Tang, Aug. 8. A correspondent of the Associated Press, who was wit the Third battery throughout the flght tng at Simoucheng July SI, says t large battery In the early morning battle forced, two of the Russian center com panics to retire but the heavy artil lery Are of the Russians, together with a tevriflc cross-fire from the Irkutsk and Yenisei batteries, prevented the nemy from pturing the vacated po ition. The Japanese with several columns gain tried to force the Russian center at 10 o'clock but the Russian bat teries drove them back In confusion. At noon the Kosloff battalion at tacked the Japanese positions in the kills on the Russian left under cover f a heavy fire from the Third and Fifth batteries. The Japanese met the attack with shrapnel but the Russian artillery temporarily silenced the, Jap anese fire and enabled the Kosloff bat talion to carry the position. The Jap anese commander-in-chiefs flag ap peared on the left, but the Japanese were driven back by the fierce fire of the Third battery and the Savltskl battery, the commander of which re ceived a message of thanks for his ervices. In the meantime the Kosloff battal ion lost 50 per cent of Its men and called for reinforcements which were aent from the Irkutsk and Yenisei bat talions, who fought their way to the aupport of their comrades over a road which the soldiers say was literally paved with Japanese corpses. The Fifth battery then became an object f interest A battery of heavy caliber Japanese guns was brought up from the rear and sustained'an unequal ac tion for. some time but lost two-thirds f its men and was forced to retire with six of its guns shot to pieces. TheBe were left on the position use less. The Russian managed to disa ble four other Japanese guns in the course of the day. The Voronezh bat talion was th'rown against the Jap anese position in the afternoon and got within a 20-yard range, under a fierce fire and then took the bayonet and carried the Japanese position, but lost half its men and was surrounded and forced to retire. Later in the aft irnoon the remnants of the same bat talion ambushed and almost wiped out a whole Japanese battalion. The Japanese made a final attempt to break through the Russian lines at 1 o'clock in the evening but were re pulsed and the Russians held all their positions until nightfall, when they re tired on Haicheng. The Red Cross agents worked brave ly all day under fire. MISTAKEN FOR A DEER. Portland Minister Shoots Young Man While Hunting. Surrounded by the choking smoke of a raging forest fire, excited from the fact that he had Just shot his first deer, lost from the trail and wander ing about in the blinding smoke In a vain attempt to regain it, Wesley Pyle, a 19-year-old youth recently from Iowa, was shot down in the mountains near Cow Creek, Or., Friday afternoon by a gun in the hands of the Rev. S. E. Meminger, pastor of the Mount Ta- Bor M. E. church of Portland. Pyle was brought to Portland yesterday morning and was taken to the Good Samaritan hospital, where he is rest ing easily with good hances of com plete recovery. The shooting is said to have been accidental and occurred while the Rev. Mr. Meminger and the three other men in his party were hunting deer. The weapon was a rifle f 30-30 bore. Forest fires have been raging in the mountains in southern Oregon for some time, and the atmosphere is heavy with the smoke, rendering objects in distinct at any distance greater than 7B yards. Mr. Meminger and three other men were on a vacation trip in this part of the country and spent a great ieal of their time hunting deer. Fri day afternoon, while in the brush, Mr. Meminger saw an object moving at a distance of 100 yards away, and think ing it was a deer, fired. The next moment he was horrified to hear a scream and a cry for help, and the nnrtv immediately became aware of " the fact that what they thought was a deer was a human being. They ran quickly in the direction of the cries and ' found Pyle on the ground. A hasty examination showed that the bullet had passed through his right shoulder, inflicting a wound that Is very painful, though not serious, un less complications set in. Pyle was carried to the camp and the wound dressed ss well as those in the party could dress it Pyie's father, who was also in the woods, was communicated with, and it was decided to bring the boy to Portland, where he could be taken to a hospital and properly treated. Accordingly, camp was broken and the party jour neyed to the railway and took the train for Portland. As soon as the train ar rived Pyle was removed to the hospi tal and his wound properly dressed. Though every effort was made to keep the affair a secret, it became pub lic yesterday afternoon. Mr. Meminger was unwilling to talk at length on the subject. It was purely an accident," he said. "The young man Is recently from Iowa. He was in the mountains with his father, and the boy knew nothing of woodcraft and hunting. His mother is visiting relatives on Puget sound. It is because of her that an effort was made to keep the story from the news papers. We thought that she might read it and become unduly alarmed. Just before the accident occurred the boy had killed his first deer. He was naturally excited, and we think that he wandered from the trail to get the animal and became confused because the smoke from the forest fires, which is very dense in the woods. We reached his side within a minute after the shooting and did all we could to properly care for him." Mr. Meminger declares that he did not think the boy was a deer, but that he did shoot at a deer and the boy was within range. Others of the party, however, have a different opinion, and think that Mr. Meminger say the boy moving through the brush and took him for quarry. Mr. Meminger made the remarkable statement that "the boy was not where he had ought to have been when he was shot." He stated that the boy was green to wood craft and undoubtedly confused over the shooting of his first deer and by the dense smoke that hung about the oods. Pyle came to Oregon a short time ago with the intention of making the state his home. His father and mother also journeyed across the continent from Iowa with the same intention. The boy and his father went into southern Oregon to look over the coun try and Incidentally have a little sport that was exceedingly novel to a youth ho had seen no mountains before in his life. It was the Intention of young Pyle to come to Portland in the autumn and get a position. He has an uncle living in Portland. Would Not Miss His First Chinos. (From the Louisville Courier-Journal.) They had been talking about Eng llshmen of title who took up useful work. Somebody mentioned Lord Rons, who Is a good practical engineer, find then somebody else told this story: Lord Ross having once unknown to the employes entered the engine room of a large manufactory, the engineer's attention was attracted by his odd be havior. Well, what's up nowT he growled at the peer "what are you shaking your head and pulling out your watch for? What have you got to find fault with, anyhow?" Oh!" replied Lord Ross, "It Is nil the same to me. I have got no fault to find. 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