Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-17
MIYAKOSTRUCK MINE.
Japanese Navy Loses Anoth-
 CT Vessel.
TWO DEAD, 1WEyTY-TWO HURT
Loss Occurred While Search Was Be- ing Made For Submerged Mines and Was Like Loss of Tor-
 pedO Boat

striking a submerged mine Eight cas- uaIties are reported.
 The Miyako was lost while assisting in the operations of clearing the Rus sian mines from Kerr bay, northeast of Talienwan bay, on which Port Dal- ny is situated.
 Admiral kataoka, commander of the third squadron, returned there Sunday with q detachment of his squadron, protecting two f1otillas of torpedo boats which had been detailed to complete sweeping the harbor by the removal of mines.
 Five mines were discovered and ex- ploded, and the work was being sus- pended for the day when the Miyako struck an undiscovered mine, which exploded with tremendous force under her stern on the port side and inflicted immense damage on the hull.
 The Miyako sank in twenty-two min utes
 Two sailors were killed, and twenty two men were wounded. The rest of the crew were rescued
 The news of the loss of the NIiyako has been sorrowfully received in To- kyo The dangerous character of the work in which the Mfyako was en- gagged is generally appreciated, but it was. thought that the loss of torpedo boat No. AS under similar circum- stances Thursday Hast would serve as a warning to those engaged in the work to exercise the greatest care.
 A Shanghai report says that. accord ing to reports from Port Arthur, the Japanese are vigorously besieging the fortress night and day by land and sea, that sixty Japanese warships and transports have been sighted in Black ney bay and that heavy firing has been heard, in Kinchow bay.
 A Newchwang report says the Rus sians have been surprised by the ap- pearance of the enemy at Kaichau, twenty miles south of Yinkow. They were expecting the Yalu army.
 Nine transports, assisted by the navy, landed 100 troops, and the re- mainder will land today. The number of the Japanese force is not known. The warships shelled the shore from early morning until o'clock.
 The Japanese are expected here to- morrow, and the Russians are rapidly eyacuating the town.
 At St. Petersburg the general staff has received the following dispatch from Lieutenant General Sakharoff, General Kuropatkin's chief of staff:
 '.I have been informed that Chinese bandits have appeared in villages six teen kflometers west of Liaoyang, and sent out detachments of rifiemen mounted and on foot and company of infantry. No bandits were found in, the villages, the inhabitants of which answered evasively. As the force was returning from the village of Shantaid- ga, twelve kilometers west of I4iao- yang, considerable numbers of ban dits were discovered at a spot where they had been concealed by the vil- Iagers. The rifiemen attacked the ban 'dits, who occupied the outskirts of the village, from which they were dis lodged. They left twenty dead and a number of rifles and many cartridges. Our loss was two soldiers killed and three wounded.
 ''The Japanese have occupied Koun- diansian.
 According to information received the enemy's advance from Fengwang- cheng toward Lfaoyang has been char acterized by indecision. It is supposed that the objective of the principal Jap anese forces is point beyond Hail cheng or Kaichau.
 Another important group of these forces is concentrating in the district northwest of Takushan.
 Several skirmishes have occurred with Chinese bandits, in which three Cossacks were killed and four are re- ported missing
 Owing to the Interruption of commu- nication with Port Arthur the Russian admiralty has no information of it's own either regarding the blowing up of the Japanese cruiser Miyako or the torpedoing and crippling of an armored Japanese cruiser in Talienwan bay by a naphtha launch in command of q young Russian naval officer. The ad- miralty officers read with interest the telegraphic account of the former and pointed out that by no chance could the two happenings be identical, since the Miyako was struck in daylight and
  the other event happened at night
 A Moscow dispatch says: 'Tn the an- cient capital of the empire Emperor Nicholas has received an enthusiastic welcome. His stay was brief, lasting only thirty-five minutes, because of his wish to hasten to Kharkoff to begin bidding farewell to the troops under orders for the far east, but it was suf- ficient to enable all classes of the pub- lie to show their loyalty to the throne in this trying time of war;
 Russians Plunder Korean Gold Mines
 LONDON. May 17.-A dispatch to the Central News from Tokyo says tele- grams from Seoul announce that sew eral hundred Russians recently attack ,ed and plundered the British gold mines at Eunsun. Korea. Many Brit ish and Japanese miners had their goods taken and several were impris- oned.
 A Trolley Line Trust. & NEW HAVEN Conn May 17-A