Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1904-04-23
RUSSIAN SHIP
GOES TO BOTTOM
Greatest Horror Of the Oriental
War Takes Place OH
Port Arthur.
RATTLESHIP STRIKES MINE
Vice Admiral MakaroH Drowned
With His Flagship, the
Petropavlovsk.
RATTLEsHIP STRIKES MINI
CARRIED A CREW OF 700
Grand Duke Cyril, Between Whom and
the Throne Stands Only One Life,
Was on BattIeship and Saved
by a Miracle.

st. Petersburg, April 13.-While 60
Ing out to meet the Japanese fleet on
Port Arthur, the battleship Petropav-
loysk struck q mine IN the outer road
stead, heeled over, turned turtle, n
sank. 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 va twenty men es-
capped from the disaster TO the Petro-
p~avlovsk.
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 a marine glass.
According TO the very highest au-
thority the latest advices received at
the Winter Palace here are to the ef-
feet that the naval battle is still pro-
crossing off Port Arthur.
II is estimated that from 600 10 fOO
Illtll pei A9IiS' ~ ~
sank.
The Japanese fleet of Port Arthur,
including torpedo boats and torpedo
boat d~estroyers, 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 I'm the outer
roadstead the Petropavlovsk struck a
mine ON her starboard 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 even keel she turned
turtle and sank I'm a few minutes, car
rying down almost the entire crew.
CAPTAIN n. Jakovloff, Grand Duke
Cyril and two other officers were saved
because they we're standing on the up
per bridge.
The frightful loss Of life among Off
GERS and men was u to the fact that
they were at their stations ready for
action. Grand Duke Cyrils injuries
were slight.
1t is learned today that the Russian
Cossacks who annihilated fifty Japan
csc at Samiland island. in tire Yalu
river April 8, numbered thirty-seven
men.
The Petropavlovsk turned turtle In a
manner similar to the British battle
ship Victoria, which was rammed by
the Camperdown I'm 1898, and to an in
cident i'm the Chino-Japanese war,
when n 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 &C
company his brother to Mukden. After
the receipt Of definite news Of Vice Adj
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 Makaroff and
the other officers and crew of the Pc
tropavlovsk has already been an
nounced to take place I'm the admiralty
church tomorrow.
The following official dispatch has
been received here from Rear Admiral
Grigorovitch, commandment at Port
Arthur.
The Petropavlosvk struck a mine
which blew her up, n she turned
turtle. Our squadron was under Gold
Ell Hill and the Japanese was approach
ing. Vice Admiral Makaroff is evident
~ lost. Grand Duke Cyril was saved,
though severely injured, as were five
officers and thirty-two men, all more
or less injured.
The enemy's fleet has disappeared
and Rear Admiral Prince O~uktomsky
has assumed command of the fleet.
A dispatch from Viceroy Alexieff 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 achievements, maxi
ing his total strength thirty vessels,
our squadron returned to the road
stead, whereupon the Pctropavlovsk
touched the mine. The whole squadron
then re-entered port. The japanese are
now off Cape Liao-Shan."
Wei-Hai-Wei, April 13.--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 the 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 continu-
Gus, but of short duration.
st. Petersburg, April 13.-It 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 1S.-Grand Duke
Vladimir, uncle OF the car, received a
telegram today announcing hat his
son, Grand Duke Cyril, had been
wounded at Port Arthur.
A semi-oficial telegram received here
says the first class battleship Petrop-