Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-10
STRAIN TOO MUCH
FOR COUNT WITTE
RUSSIA'S NEW PREMIER HAS
NERVOUS PR0STRATlON
Shipping on Fire at orienbaum and
Sailors Are Bombardina Co.'S
saeks-st. Petersburg In
State of Excitement

shops, had set fire to the market and
to several groups of houses.
About 200 sailors were still holding
out at midnight, and although these
are expected to surrender today the
authorities became so alarmed that the
Paul regiment of the guard was dis
patched to Cronstadt at / o'clock this
morning.
The governor of Cronstadt tele-
graphed the general staff at midnight
that the mutiny had been crushed that
there was no likelihood Of any renewal
of the revolt today; that the reports TO
the effect that members of the guard
had Joined the mutineers were false
and that there was no truth in the re-
port that the mutineers had seized the
arsenal and the forts. The governor in
his telegram said that many of the
mutinous sailors tried to escape in
boats to the mainland, hut that they
were captured and were being brought
back to Cronstadt. He gave no esu-
mate of the casualties.
Casualties Placed at 200
The correspondent of the Associated
Press. who is on the ground, however
saws that the officers estimate the
casualties at 200. which is certainly
very conservative, in view of the re
ports brought by refugees VINO hed the
town to the mainland.
At this critical juncture there is no
attempt made i'm government circles to
minimize the success of the mutiny,
and It is admitted that if battalion
of artillery ioined the sailors in open
revolt the mutinous feeling must have
heen contagious. 1t is admitted that
when the Cossacks and guards STOOD
the severe test of shooting on their TEL
lows in another branch of the service
there is fear that the mutiny VIII nave
a had effect on the morals of the troops
which has already been badly shaken by
the revolutionary propaganda.
AS soon as the news of the mutny
was received the seventh and elsll-
teenth equipages of sailors OF tilS
guard were locked in their barracks
and the barracks surrounded by COS
sacks In. ,.a.ra
The sailors were furious with rage
and shouted from the windows thal
they were ready to join their mutlhous
comrades -,..,,
During the rioting today machlne
guns were employed against the nlu-
tinous sailors who had been joined Dy
a battalion of artillerymen from Ihe
fortress and which raised the totai
number of mutineers to 5000. Ihe
sailors say their chief grievances are
Door food and clothing and an lhsutll-
cient amount of liberty from barracks.
Rouehs Joined in the pillage but the
workmen did not participate In II.
Many of the worllmen and the ciVlllah
population have already fled or are
irving to flee from the city and DOCKS
are piled high with baggage and house
hold effects.
The fires are still glowing in the
market and another group of buildings.
The ores and houses are boarded up
and troops are patrolling the streets.
Searchlights from warships and tor
pedo boats in the harbor are flashing
across the waters in order to aid
launches in their search for Individual
mutineers who are irving to escape to
the mainland by boa. Though ma
jority of the mutineers have surrend-
cred. several hundred are still holding
out in the eastern section of the town.
They have thrown up embankments
but are surrounded and Maxim guns
are posted at all the streets leading to
their strongohlds. 1t is expected that
the remainder of the mutineers will
submit tomorrow.