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New York, JAN. 3, 1898.


The cloud has burst in the West, and all il
wild and ominous


The steamboat Caroline, at Schlosser, on thu
american side, filled with vsiters whom curiosi.
ty had tempted to visit Navy Island, was at
tackled in the night of December 29th by 100 to
$50 armed men in five boats, who approached
the steamer with muffled oars, unsuspecting any
attack, and all On board asleep, it is said. The
attacking force gave three cheers for 'Victoria,
which alarmed the people, when scuffle and
a fight ensued, the British, however, succeed
ing in obtaining complete mastery of the boat
Twenty-Five lives were lost somehow or other
and as the people on shore rushed to the rescue
they were fired upon, and one man was killed
whose body was taken to Buffalo. The steamboat
after the capture, was set on fire, towed into the
stream, and the dead and wounded aOent ouer NJ
agara Falls.


All this has created in western New York
particularly the frightful end of the scene, fury
it is almost impossible to restrain. The military
are called out. Buffalo is full of armed men


SATURDAY, 5 P. M.-The Buffalo Advertiser
announces in postscript, that the British force.
(some of the regular Army, / presume,) wer,
actually landing on Grand Island.