Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-06-03
TWO REACHED
VLADIVOSTOK

Nladlvostok, May 31.-Two ships
alone of Vice Admiral Rojestvepsky
powerful flotilla, the swift cruiser AL
MAJ and the torpedo boat destroyer
Grozny, lie at anchor here today in the
curving harbor of Golden Horn, they
having separated from the fleet in the
early stage of the battle which began
in the Korean straits Saturday, and
headed, in obedience to orders, with
full speed to Vladivostok. No other
vessel of the Baltic fleet has yet arriv-
ed, and the signal stations at Askold
and Rimsky korsakoff islands reported
none in sight. Officers of the Almaz
and Grozry say that both fleets had al
ready sustained terrible losses when the
Almaz and Grozny broke the hostile
line.
OF the japanese battleships two had
gone down before their eyes and two
cruisers, their sterns high cat Of the
water, seemed ready to plunge bow
Foremost to the bottomofft he sea.
The Russian fleet, they say, Y as even
in sadder plight. Rojestvensky
flagship, the Kniaz Souvaroff, and her
sister ship, the Borodino, sid the cruz
sers Osliabia and Oral were utterly de-
stroyed, and when the fog closed down
and hid the scene of battle from sight
northward of the speeding shi ps third
great Russian bAttieship, the Alexan-
der Ill, seemed in sore distress, but
limping northward, putting up a val
liant fight against throngs of torpedo
boats and still continuing her attacks
on the cruisers of the island empire. =
Torpedo boats were also clining round
the other ships Of the feet like angered
wasps, seperate f1otillas darting in
again and again to launch their weap-
Ons.
The Almaz, which arrived at her an
chorage here Monday evening, bears
scars of battle. Her mizzenmast is
shot away and one of her smok estacks
is pierced by cannon soht. But the
Gronzny, though engaged for several
hours in Il running fight at short range
with long Japanese destroyer, shows
no signs of the fray. After her COM
mander, Captain Andriffski, had been
wounded and an officer and three men
had been killed the Grozny succeeded
in sinking her opponent with luckily
placed shot, and reached Vladivostok
without further adventure.
For the past two days Vladiostok
has been buzzing with rumor and ex-
element.
The fact that battle between the
rival fleets was imminent, if Rojestven
sky was not already at hand grips with
Togo was made known through tele-
grams from Europe, and when it was
learned Monday morning that Rus
sian cruiser had been sighted off Ask
old island, headed for the harbor, the
city was filled with the widest reports
of every nature.
The inhabitants clustered in the
streets. thronged the water sides, or
climbed the frowning hills overlooking
the harbor. Finally graceful cruiser
with two snowy white stacks shot in
view. Excitement beyond undescription
seized the th1onging spectators, who
with frantic huzzahs tossed high their
caps. Citizens embraced each other
and danced jubilantly on the pier,
while the crews of the ships in the har
Dor joined in the wild cheering.
In a moment the officers in the har-
bor and the military officers in the har
boz and the from the fortress were
swarming on board the Almaz to learn
news of the fighting.
The tale was short. According to
the officers of the Almaz the fleet un-
der Rojestvensky met the japanese in
the strait of Korea, near Tsu island
and the opposing fleets Immediately
closed in.