The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1905-07-15
FEAR APPROACH
OF REBEL SHIP
Odessa Officials and Citizens
ir Panic Over Possible
Bombardment
PLOT
Butehery at Odessa Was Part Of Plan
by the Government TO Intlmldate the
ReVolutionIsts and Crush Insurree-
tlon.

Odessa, July Sit is reported that
the Kniaz Potemkln is approaching
this port. Both officials and populace
are panic stricken with fear that the
threatened bombardment OF the city
Will begin in few hours.
This terror is shared by the neigh
boring towns along the coast. where
the pirate warship may put in for coal
and provisions IL IS said the muffin
GERS requisitioned cattle from German
colonists near her, obtaining much
needed supplies under threat TO at.
tack their village.
All the torpedo boats stationed here
have put 10 sea with volunteer crews
and are engaged in an effort TO stalk
the Kniaz Potemkln in obedience TO
the admiraltys orders that the battle
ship be sunk on sight.
The renegade ships hours are declar-
ed here to be numbered, Regret is OK.
pressed at the destruction OF such a
splendid and powerful vessel and at
the loss OF life, but this IS thought
20 be preferable 20 the continued dis
honor OF her presence In the Black
sea commanded by mutineers
Several torpedo boats are reported
to be OF Odessa There are other
signs OF activity in the feet.
Crew May Escape.
The admiralty claims 10 be without
Information OF the Kniaz Potemkin's
whereabouts, but St. Petersburg OF
ficials are inclined TO believe that II
the mutineers have supplies enough
they will not 80 TO n bulgarian or
Turkish port but will head for pou or
Batoum, where the revolutlonists
might give them succor and where
they could escape 10 the mountains OF
the Caucasus.
Hitherto II has been n partially
penetrable veil which has hidden the
CHASTITY tragedy OF the nights OF June
n and 2S. At last II has been lifted,
and the mind recoils from the truth.
The authorities are unimpeachable
For many months past about $50
specially chosen agents have appeared
from tho third section OF police under
variety OF DISCUSSES. chiefly OF arti-
sans. They lived and labored in In
Innate association with the working
people in the Industrial suburbs OF
Pepssyp and Molayanka, and fire.
quented all the secret hnunts OF the
social democratic reyolutionists.
These agents knew every secret and
every movement OF the revolutionary
propaganda. Their role was played
with consummate success.
Police Brought on Massacre.
The arrival OF the mutinous battle
ship Kniaz Potemkln was expected
and gave these emIssarles plausible
ground for the statement that the
whole fleet had mutInied and would
join the naval rebels and protect the
reyolutlonists ashore. II should be
noted that none OF the local police.
but third section secret agents. were
the organizers and engineers OF the
whole plot
AS already stated, the pillage,
wreckage and arson commenced early
in the evening, but there was abso-
lutely no attempt To arrest the devas-
tation until long after shutdown. Dur.
Ing the interval every possible avenue
OF escape was closed by the military
machine and guns were placed at
every point OF vantage.
No fewer than 1000 people were
done to death during the awful ten
hours OF that night OF massacre. The
killed outnumbered the wounded
threefold. This is not surprising, the
- Iat
stricted.
Monster Funeral Pyre.
Two hundred persons threw them.
selves into the harbor. from which
their bodies were recovered by boats
and hooks. A thousand corpses were
east into the glowing heaps OF ruins
at dawn, when the fire had been only
partially extinguished. The huge con
flagration was made to serve as
monster crematorium.
Four.nfths Of the dead were thus
got rid OF. Their ashes mingle with
the ruins Their bones were hurried.
ly packed into several hundred COT.
fms and carried TO the common grave
yard, but only the military and police
witnessed the rough interment and
the grim unloading Of the covered
carts, tho nature OF whose burdens
was not suspected by the people.
This secret butchery, engineered by
the police. Il is said was designed in
ST. Petersburg as n frightfully ef-
fectlve method OF crushing the insur.
roction In south Russia.
Comparative order ls Restored.
Comparative order has been re.
stored here and work is being re
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