Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-07-05
MUT|NEERS GIVE UP SHIPS
Raise White Flag When Black
Sea Fleet Reaches Odessa.
DO NOT FIRE A SHOT.
Kniaz Potemkine Surrenders After
Few Moments Under Fire
Odessa Is Quiet.

Washington, D. c., June Bottle
Kniaz Potemkine has surrendered The
mutineers gave up the battleship without
firing shot. Mr.. Heenan, the Ameri-
can consul at Odessa, notified the state
/ department by cable this afternoon that
the Black sea fleet reached Odessa at
noon today and fired On the mutineers.
The rebels made no reply. The firing
| continued and then the mutineers hoist
ed the white flag and surrendered. The
Kniaz potemkine and the rest Of the
feet were motionless on the horizon
when Mr.. Heenan filed his dispatch at
2:30 O'Clock.
the revolt at Cronstadt has been
crushed.
Libau, Russia, June 80 p. m.-The
mutlny Of bluejackets here has ended.
The sailors, after a parley with the COM
mander OF the troops, agreed to surren-
der their arms and return to duty upon
the promise Of better food
Berlin, June 3O-A dispatch to the
Tageblatt from Odessa, timed 90 p. H.,
today, says:
"Mobs estimated to number 10000
persons, attacked the patrols Of troops
in the streets yesterday and the fighting
continued Into the night. Several hun
drSd persons were killed or wounded.
The hospitals are crowded with wounded.
The petroleum reservoirs were set on
fire and exploded. All traffic in the
streets IS stopped.
The volunteer cruiser Saratoff was
burned
Washington, D. c.. June 3O-A dis
patch received at the state department
over night from Consul Henan at Odessa
says IL substance:
six officers of the Potemkin killed.
eight liberated remainder prisoners. The
fleet has not arrived at Odessa. Harbor
largely destroyed by fire. Fifty rioters
killed and many Russian steamers
burned
London. June 3O.-A dispatch from
Odessa to Lloyds, date today, says the
city is quiet.
ARTILLERY ARRIVES.
The Odessa correspondent of The
Daily Mail sends the following, timed
6:23 o'clock Thursday evening:
intermittent firing has been going on
all day long. Artillery has arrived and
is III hiding near the boulevard out Of
sight of the Kniaz Potemkin. The bat
tieship landed fifteen men to attend the
funeral of the sailor Omiltchuk and
threatened to lombard the town if any
of them were arrested.
KILL ~ OFFICERS.
3e mutineers liberated nine officers.
but killed twenty-five. The port is an
absolute ruin from Platowsky Mole to
the Russian Steamship company's docks.
People are only allowed in the proy-
unity of the harbor by the guards when
furnished with written permission from
the commanding general
A telegram from Sevastopol saws that
the kniaz POtemkin has only ammuni-
ton for immediate use.
NINE VESSELS BURNED.
Odessa, June 3O.-Up to the present
time nine ships have been burned
Part OF the city is in ashes, other parts
ere in flames. The fire brigade is heID-
less as the mobs Will not permit it to
approach tie conta grafton. The loss to
property is millions-tOO great to be ever
estimated at this time.
INCENDIARIES APPLY TORCH
Hundreds Of inccndiaries armed with
petroleum torches and hand grenades are
starting fires in every quarter of the city.
The incendlarles are armed, and scores
of policemen have been shot in trying to
stop their work Of destruction.
USE FULL CHARGES.
The Kniaz Potemkin, during the bonn
bardment last night, used full charges.
The first shell struck a house in Nyes-
jinskaya street and the second fell on a
brewery. In the walls OF both buildings
large holes six yards wide by three wards
high were torn. So far there has been
no more firing.
The governor ordered the gas lamps
eXtinguished and the electric currents
severed. so that the city is in total dark.