The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-10-21
FLOOD
Causes Trouble
for Troops.
Cars Forces Again
on Offensive.
|THEHOSPITALS
Can Hardly Care for
Wounded.
Fighting of Past Ten Days Is
the Bl0odieSt on
| Record.
THEHOSPITALS

Mukden, Oct 19.-It is reported
that the Russian army is advancing.
Rain is hindering everything. The
rivers are bankfull and the fords are
impossible. There are no bridges.
Supplies of all sorts are delayed.
Cossacks brought in captured guns
and Japanese wounded prisoners on
October II. Russian soldiers sur
rounded the prisoners and gave them
bread and. water and in other ways
tried to relieve their wants.
News has just been received that
the Japanese left flank has been
driven back with heavy loss.
Lode Tree Hill, won by the Rus
slams after a desperate struggle, was
the object of gallant but unsuccess-
full attempt at recapture by the jap
anese. In spite of the awful slaughter
with which they had been driven from
the hill, the Japanese returned to the
charge during the night Of October II.
recognizing that the hill was the key
to the position on the southwest front
Nine regiments participated, creeping
up through the night and delivering a
furious assault at dawn. But the hill
had been bought too dearly by the
Russians to relinquish it, and the Jap
anese were driven back with terrible
slaughter.
1t is reported that Gen. Mistchen-
kos Cossacks were engaged in a hot
fight on October IL towards the SOUTH
east. A Cossack horse battery silenc-
ed the japanese guns and drove back
several infantry battalions, but were
unable to capture the guns, which the
Japanese succeeded in carrying OF.
Shakhe station, or what is left of 1t,
has been recaptured by the Russians,
who will shortly reopen 1t for railway
| traffic with Mukden.
The battlefield of Lone Tree Hill
presents the most awful spectacle that
can be described. Russian and Japan
csc dead are mingled in heaps in mex
tricable confusion. The ground is
strewn with broken rifles that were
lost in hand to hand fighting. Every
thing seems to have been utilized as
weapons The Russian doctors are
working heroically on the slopes OF
the hill in the attempt TO save those
of the wounded who still survive, but
the Japanese keep up a sniping fire
and render the work of relief danger
GUS.
The fighting yesterday slackenet
considerably. owing 10 rain and the
Iimpassable condition of the roads
The fighting on October 16 was mos
Isevere. Fifty wounded were counted
in one hour passing point on ont
country roadway. Already the casu
alties reported are so great as to con
firm the declaration of the leader
that the present conflict weuld be the
bloodiest in history.
During the nine days of continuou
fighting the losses were never les
than 1000 per day. The hospitals ar
hardly able to handle the wounded
Nevertheless they have performe'
wonders
1t is reported that the Japanes
made a furious attempt to take
, wooded hill near Da Pass Monda,
night. The firing began at IL o'clocl
and continued with rifle and cannon
throughout the night This actioi
probably was part of an attempt b.
the Japanese, who were already il
possession of small hills in the plain
to rush the center along the foothill
at the Shakhe river.
An officer who has just returne
, from Gen. Mistchenko's division re
1 ports that a sanguinary fight ha
3 taken place at Laitkhezi, Is mile
: southeast OF Shakhe, to which for
q Gen. Mistchenko retired in order (
h preserve communication between tn
Russian center and eastern flank. Tn
Japanese made a determined effort {
cut the line of communication at thi
point and attacked under cover of
TERRIFIC cannonade. Out of one con
Ipany of Russian rifle brigade only 6
men were left Two companies tina
had expended their ammunition pric
to the last japanese attack lay in th
b trenches until the japanese were will
# in few PAGES Then the Russian
hurled a volley of stones, charged an
q broke the attacking line, compellin
=, the japanese to flee.
There was fighting yesterday o
% both sides of the great Mandarin roa'
London, Oct. ia dispatch frol
d Shanghai to the Morning Post says
It Is reported there that japanese shell
have sunk the Russian cruiser Baya
in the harbor of Port Arthur.