The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-04-22
RUSSIAN SHIP
GOES TO BOTTOM
Greatest Horror Of the Oriental
War Takes Place Of
Port Arthur.
BATTLESHIP STRIKES MINE
Vice Admiral MakaroH Drowned
With His Flagship, the
Petropavlovsk.
BATTLESHiP STRIKES MINE
CARRIED a CREW OF 700
Grand Duke Cyril, Between Whom and
The Throne Stands Only One Life,
Was on Battleship and Saved
by a Miracle.

by a Miracle.
st. Petersburg, April 13.-While go
Ing out to meet the Japanese fleet off
Port Arthur, the battleship Petropav-
lovsk struck a mine in the outer road
stead, heeled over, turned turtle, and
nj Practically the whole Of her
crew were lost. Only four officers were
saved, among them being Grand Duke
Cyril,
The Petropavlovsk was flying the
flag of Vice Admiral Makaroff.
The result of the naval battle, which
according to the most reliable %authori-
ties was in progress according to last
reports, has not been received.
Another account says twenty men es-
capped from the disaster to the Petro-
pavlovsk.
The Grand Duke Cyril, between
whom and the throne there is only a
single life, was saved from death by a
miracle. His brother. the Grand Duke
Boris, witnessed the catastrophe
through d marine glass.
According to the very highest au-
thority the latest advlces received at
the Winter Palace here are to the eff
feet that the naval battle is still pro-
crossing OH POrC arthur.
1t Is estimated that from 600 to ZOO
men persisted when the P~etropavloVsk
sank.
The Japanese fleet off Port Arthur,
including torpedo boats and torpedo
boat ~destroyers. totals forty. Vice Ad-
miral Makarof had ordered his whole
squadron out Of the harbor to meet the
attack.
According to the Associated Press IN
formant, while he was preparing to
draw up his line of battle in the outer
roadstead the Petropavlovsk struck a
mine on her s%tarboard side, amidships,
and Immediately began to heel.
Before the crew could flood the port
compartments of the vessel in order to
keep her on an ever keel she turned
turtle and sank in a few minutes, car
rying down almost the entire crew.
Captain N. %Jakovloff. Grand Duke
Cyril and two other officers We're saved
because they we're standing on the up
per bridge.
The frightful loss of life among off,
GERS and men was due to the fact that
they were at their stations ready for
action. Grand Duke Cyrlls injuries
were slight.
It is learned today that the Russian
Cossacks who annihilated fifty Japan
ese at Samiland island, in the Yalu
river April 8, numbered thirty-seven
men.
The Petropavlovsk turned turtle In q
manner similar to the British battle
ship Victoria. which was rammed by
the Camperdown in 1898, and to an in
cident in the Chino-Japanese war,
when a Chinese Warship turned turtle
many of the crew remaining alive for
several days and hammering desperate
ly on the upturned hull.
When the news of the Grand Duke
Cyrils miraculous escape reached his
parents here a TIE Deum service was
held at the Vladimir palace.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press is Informed this afternoon that
Grand Duke Boris was going to ac-
company his brother to Mukden. After
the receipt of definite news Of Vice Ad-
miral Makaroff's death, the military
censor committee called an eXtraordi-
nary session to pass upon official dis
patches, which will probably be given
out soon.
A requiem mass for the repose of the
souls of Vice Admiral Makarofr and
the other officers and crew of the Pc
tr%opavlovsk has already been an
nounced to take place in the admiralty
church tomorrow.
The following official dispatch has
been received here from Rear Admiral
Grigorovitch, c"ommandant at Port
Arthur.
The P~etropavlosvk struck a mine
which blew her up, and she turned
turtle. Our squadron was under Gold
en- Hill n the japanese was approach
ing. Vice Admiral Makaroff is evident
ly lost. Grand Duke Cyril was saved,
though severely injured, as were five
officers n thirty-tWo men, all more
or less injured.
HI enemy's fleet has disappeared
n Rea Admiral Prince Ouktomsky
has sSumed of the fleet.
A QiSDatch from NicnrOV Alpxipff tO
the car, says:
According to reports from the com
mandant at Port Arthur, the battle
ships and cruisers went out to meet
the enemy, but in consequence Of the
enemy receiving reinforcements, max
ing his total strength thirty vessels,
our squadron returned to the road
stead, whereupon the Petropavlovsk
touched the mine. The whole squadron
then ~re-entered port. The japanese are
now off Cape Liao-Shan.''
Wei-Hai-Wei, April 1S.-The action
fought off Port Arthur appears to have
consisted, according to reports re-
ceived here of an unsuccessful attempt
made by four Japanese cruisers and
one battleship to intercept a large Rus
sian cruiser coming from tile east. The
Russian cruiser Askold and a battle
ship Of the Pobieda type went to the
assistance Of the Russian cruiser. The
forts at Port Arthur did not participate
in the action. The firing was cortinu-
Gus, but of short duration.
ST. Petersburg, April BIT is Off
cially announced that Vice Admiral
Makaroff was drowned at the time of
the sinking of the battleship Petropav-
lovsk.
The First Reports.
st. Petersburg, April 13.-Grand Duke
Vladimir, uncle of the czar, received a
telegram today announcing that his
son, Grand Duke Cyril. had been
wounded at Port Arthur.
A semi-official telegram received here