The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-04-21
Torpedo Boat Destroyers Execute
Good Work
ONE LOSS FOLLOWS ANOTHER
The Russians Seem to Be Still
Getting Worsted In the Eastern
Struggle-The Latest News.

St. Petersburg, BY Cable.-Rear Ad-
miral Prince Ouktomsky wired from
Port Arthur Thursday that the Bez-
strieshini. one of the Russian torpedo
boat destroyers. sent out during the
night to reconnoitre, became separated
from the rest OF the fleet. owing to the
bad weather prevailing. was surround
ed by Japanese torpedo boat destroyers
and was sunk in the fight. Five men
were saved. Admiral Ouktomsky adds:
Il have taken command provision
ally of the fleet since the disaster to
the Petropavlovsk:"
During some manoeuvering Of the
battleship squadron a small mine was
exploded under her. the Pobieda. She
was able to regain port by herself. No
one on board her was killed or wound
ed"
The Pcbieda is battleship OF 1854
tons displacement and OF 14,5OO horse
power. She is 401A feet long. has 711s
feet beam and draws 26 feet OF wa
ter and is heavily armored with steel.
She was completed in 1901. has COM
Dlement Of 1872 men. her estimated
speed is IS knots. The steel armor OF
the battleship varies in thickness from
4 to 9h inches along her belt. Inc
armament OF the Pobieda consists or
four 1O-inch guns. eleven 6-inch guns.
sixteen 3-inch guns ten 1.S-inch guns
and seventeen 1.4-inch guns. She mas
six torpedo tubes.
Russia Again Plunged In Grief.
The official bulletin conveying the
intelligence of the loss of another tor
pedo boat destroyer and the accidental
crippling of another battleship was al
most as severe blow as the loss of
the Petropavlovsk yesterday and
plunged the whole town anew into
grief. The Russian word in the text
Of the official dispatch describing the
accident to the Pobeida means either
mine" or torpedo" but the qualify
ing verb indicates something moving
toward the ship. This dispatch puts
an end to the idea prevailing here
that there had been an engagement
following the disaster to the Petro-
pavlovsk.
Forty-five officers and men perished
on hoard the torpedo boat destroyer
Bezstrashini.
Newspaper Man Goes Down.
Up to the present hour not a single
news dispatch has come from Port Ar
thur, although several newspaper cor
RESPONDENTS arethere. Vassili Verestch-
agin. the Russian painter, was Vice
Admiral Makaroff's guest on the
Petropavlovsk. 1t is reported that ne
was lost with the ship.
Nicholas T. Kravtchenko. the we'll
known Russian literary man, who was
acting as correspondent for the Asso-
ciated Press at Port Arthur, 1t is be-
lieved. went down with the Petrop-
avlovsk. kilograms to him remain un-
answered.
Inc FctEOpoNio'SN -
Che Foo, BY Cable.-It has been
learned from Japanese sources here
that the attack on the Russian Port
Arthur fleet Wednesday morning was
planned and put into effect in the fol-
lowing manner:
At daylight the Japanese torpedo
boats made a demonstration before the
port and at the same time laid mines
across the water entrance to the har-
bor. They then retired and joined the
main squadron. The squadron then
advanced and as it drew near the Rus
sian ships were seen coming out. The
battleship Petropavlovsk struck one OF
the mines laid by the japanese torpedo
boats and was destroyed.