Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-17
TEN THOUSAND FOR EACH DAl
kuropatkin Forced by :hilv Gar ts
 Advance.
RUSSIAN PRISONERS TELL STORY

lUOOIAN fkiOUNEK0 HELL SlUNI Beaten Army of Russia Now Across shalxhe In Retreat, but Doggedly Resisting as They withdrav--Jap- nnese Had to Bury Thousands of Russian Dead as They Advanced.
 LONDON, Oct. 17.-Advices from To- kyo say that in the reports of the great battle which continue to arrive From the front the most striking fea- lure is the terrible record of the Rus sian dead. Before the severe fighting pn Oct. IA General Oku's army alone recovered and buried 1000, making the kotal number of Russians buried by the Japanese s,s50. Applying the usu- hl calculation and making reasonable Allowance for the lighting of the 14th Rnd 10th, the Russian losses will ex- ceed 10000.
 Fragmentary reports of Japanese Casualties are coming in. General Oku ip to and including Oct. IA lost $500 men. Estimates of the total Japanese Bosses are not possible, but they are es- iInated at about 10000.
 The latest advices from Tokyo are that the Russians left 4,500 dead in Front of. General Kuroki's army alone. rhe Russian losses there are estimated ht 10000 men.
 The Russian retreat and the Japa- hese pursuit south of Mukden continue. The Russian center has been driven has been taken by the Japanese left, which captured ten more guns. Gen. eral Kurokfs columns also reached a line on the Shakhe, though detach- ment of Russian artillery succeeded in holding position near Tai pass.
 Field Marshal Oyama estimates the Russian losses, killed and wounded, at more than 30,O00 men and the dead at 10000. Forty-fve hundred Russian dead, be reports, were left on the field aft er Fridays battle. Unofficial dispatches from Tokyo express the belief that General Kuropatkin will be unable to nake another stand south of the Hun. The fighting continues all along the kntire line, and the end is not near. < It seems to be impossible for the Rus ians to rally. and they probably will be pressed back across the Hun river.
 General Kuropatkin is. however, Fighting doggedly. so as to spare the Russian army from an utter rout.
 Field Marshal Oyama's triumphant roops have driven the Russians north b line extending along the Shakhe liver. They are vigorously pressing he pursuit with tEeir whole force.
 Advices from Tokyo dated early this morning increase the extent of the Rus ian slaughter in the desperate battles hafAhave ragged for the past week. The Reports of Generals Nodzu, Kuroki and Dku are incomplete, but everything in iicates that Field Marshal Oyama's stimate of the Russian loss at 10000 men will fall far below the actual mark.
 Mukden advices say that there was
 Hull in the battle, but fighting con inues on the right The Russian army b southwest of Mukden ten miles.
 All the wounded are being carried tc Harbin. It istunderstood that the cor respondents also have been ordered tc Harbfn, which indicates that the re reat will not even stop at Tai pass.
 All hopes of the world heralded ad kance to Port Arthur have been aban loned.
 General Kuropatkin personally took command of the Petrof regiment al hakhe. 1t was in the midst of an aw ul war of man and clements, the Pc roff regiment leading, that the Rus ians for the last time charged dogged y into Shakhe and took the town fl he face of the hottest Japanese bonn bardment.
 The Russians were finally driven out making five times that Shakhe had khanged hands in the course of ths battle. The Russians then retired tC
 new position north of Shakhe.
 There is great depression, but stolit enacity among the men. There ha' been great sacrifice of officers.
 The plain occupied by the retiring Russians is covered with bursting hrapneI The gunners shoyeled shells nte the brooches of the guns as stokers laoyeling coal into furnaces. Howitz brs are used by the eastern army.
 Two divisions have lost their chic taH officers. one of them being killed Ind many cemmandinS officers hay'