New-York tribune., 1904-08-15
THE NOVIK SIGHTED.
Russian Cruiser Sailing South-De-
stroaer Still at Shanghai.

Shanghai. Aug. 1.-THE forty-eight hours
srznted 10 the Russian destroyer Grozsvoi sx-
pir.d 81 . o'clock this afternoon At that hour
she hsd not disarmed. The Taotai Of Shanghai
hss repeated his demand that the vessel leave
port or disarm. The probabilities are that she
will disarm.
The wounded rnen from the Russian cruiser
Aslkold were taken 70 the Shanghai Municipal
Hospital to-day.
The hospital ship Mongolia, which left Fort
Arthur on August 10. with women and children
on board, has not been spoken.
The steamer Gaelic has sighted the Russian
cruiser Novik between Shanghai and Nagasak'
proceeding south
The local authorities are anxious, and shipping
Is disturbed.
It was surprising 10 and men the Askold
who knew French English and German. When
asked about the present losses they simply an
swered. ct is fate" and said they did not con-
sidsr It hard TO die for their country.
THE CASUALTIES on THE AsKoLD.
Twelve men and one officer were killed on
board the Askold. and about fifty men were
wounded. The badly wounded have been
taken TO hospitals, and the captain Of the cruiser
has told them 70 be ready TO sail In a weeks
time The Askold has nearly two hundred shell
holes in her and it is difficult TO understand
why her casualty list was not greater
The work OF repairing the cruiser is now go
ing on. The crash OF hammers and the noise
of men working on metal is audible all night
long. In Ten days time she can be sufficiently
patched up TO render her seaworthy, but full
repairs would take much longer.
Her hrst and third tunnels are riddled with
machine gun bullets and the base Of another
funnel has been almost entirely blown away
at the deck level by a big shell. The after fun
rel was cut ia two and telescoped itself, and
the remnants Of II are held UP now by guy ropes
only An S-inch armor piercing shell entered the
Askold forward on her stsrboard side, about
two feet above the waterline and lodged in a
coal bunker
DAMAGE FROM PINCH SHELLS
A l2-inch shell exploded in her starboard ham
mock netting amidshps. the fragments Kidding
and destroying four metallic lifeboats. An
other l2-inch shell entered stateroom on the
stsrboard quarter, cut it's way across the deck
ard exploded in the officers quarters on the
port side OF the vessel. destroying everything
within reach. The deckhouse on the super
structure under the forward bridge was riddled
by the fragments OF a shell which exploded in
she forward funnel. All the sesrchlights on the
cruiser are damaged beyond repair. The tor
pedo netting ~as cut up by q shell. and is prac-
ticslly useless.
VESSEL STRUCK BY TORPEDO
The bottom Of the Askold has several old and
new injuries. enc torpedo having made big
hole through her side into bunker which. luck
ily, was tatrly watertight. The cruisers steer
ing gear is supposed TO have been damaged. but
her engines and boilers are in fairly good con-
ostion.
The Russian torpedo boat destroyer Grozovoi
which also reached here on August u. has no
serious injury, but she is inexpressiby dirty
and in neglected condition She was towed
up The river to-day and took position
alongside the dismanued Russian gunboat
Mandjur