Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
HARD FIGHT At TUEUM.
Loyal Troops Recapture Town
From Rebels.
KHARKOPP In REVOLT.
CITY rs HELD BY 10000 ARMED
REvoLUTIoNIsTs.
Revolted Regiments Captured at In
kalaieff-Dragoons Slaughtered
Details of the Battle.

A cablegram from ST. Petersburg last
night says: The town of Tukum. in Cour-
land. has been recaptured by government
troops. The town only surrendered through
a severe fight. which lasted for thirteen
hours. The insurrectionists had fortified the
town by throwing up intrenchments, before
which they dug pits. They also had in po
sition the machine guns recently captured
by them. The trenches were taken by storm,
both sides losing heavily.
According to the latest information the
Lithuanian insurrection has extended into
the province of vitebsk. across the borders
of Livon:a. At Kohunhusen the chief of po-
lice and his assistants were tried by revo-
lutionary tribunal and executed
The report that Kharkoff Is in the hands
of the revolutionists is confirmed The latest
information says that 10000 revolutionaries
are under arms. and that troops are being
concentrated for the purpose of recapturirg
the city. Two hundred and fifty men of the
Starobyelsk and Lebedfnsk regiments have
Joined the revolutionists, and their COM
rades have fatty refused to fire on them.
At NikolaieH the. revoited regiments have
been captured. Two hundred and fifty prls-
oners were sent to Otchallon fortress. The
capture Of the mutineers was effected by
Gen. Stupin, who, on the arrival of rein
tackled the barracks where the mutineers
had assembled. The latter soon 5 Irron-
dered
The Battle at Tukuln.
"A cablegram from Riga Livonla. dated
December 90 received last night, says: Ad-
ditional details of the revolt at Tukum,
Courland. have been received The revolt
began December L. when the revolutionary
municipality requested Capt. Won Mueller,
rI.ax
and forty dragons. to withdraw the mill
tary patrols from the streets because the in
habitants wished to establish a civilian
guard. The captain agreed to do this but
forgot to inform his soldiers, who upon re-
Stunning guard duty, were encountered by
armed agitators. The leader of the latter
shouted that they had received Won Muel-
ler's permission to carry arms, but the sol
dlers fired on the agitators and fight en-
sued in which fifteen persons were killed.
On December Is the soldiers buried their
comrsGes. but the people fired on the
funeral procession from the windows of
their houses. More dragons arrived and
another fight occurred. The soldiers finally
were compelled to retire with ten wounded
leaving Tukum in the hands of 5000 armed
revolutionaries. The same evening dis
guised Dragon succeeded in bringing a re-
port of the affair to the governor general.
who was asked to send reinforcements.
Meanwhile the revolutonares barred the
streets with entanglements.
Dragons Trapped in Burning House.
Next morning the revolutionaries set
fire to the building in which the officers and
forty dragons were housed. The officers
and men tried to escape. but were pre-
vented by the entanglements, and were !
fired on by the revolutionaries from the
windows of houses resulting in the kill
ing of Capt. Won Mueller and twenty-four
dragons and the wounding of an officer
and thirteen privates. Only three escaped.
The revolutionarfes then frightfully mutt
lated the bodies of the dead soldiers.
Next day five companies OF reinforce
mentS and three guns arrived, but the rev..
dictionaries compelled them to retire by a
fusillade from the windows.
General Charounchenko then ordered the
artillery to lombard the town. Many of
the inhabitants who had not learned of the
arrival of reinforcements, thought that ter
rorists were throwing bombs, and they fed
in panic in all directions. The troops sur
rounding the town fired the people,
killing, according to refugees, 400 of them.
The bloodshed lasted from 8 O'Clock in the
evening until o'clock in the morning,
ers of the revolutionaries, however, es-
capped Two-thirds of the inhabitants fed
the town.
Bloodshed at Talsen.
sanitary train started from Riga yes
terday for Tukum
Similar occurrences reported from
Goldingen, to which place reinforcements
sen.
1t is reported that there was bloodshed at
Tasen yesterday. Revolutionary peasants
entrenched themselves in their houses, from
the windows of which they fired on the
patrollng soldiers. 1t is estimated that
forty infantrymen and cavalrymen were
killed or wounded.
A rumor is in circulation here that the
insurgents In Couriand have seized Win
dau, Friedrichstadt. Pratzenburg. Hold
inQpr and other DiaceS and that OODulaT
tribunal at Kopenhouzak has executed sew
eral officials
MITAU. Courland. December 21.-Fiv-
cars of wounded soldiers have arrived here.
Some of the dragons who escaped report
that they encountered on their way here
band of revolutionaries, and that fight en-
sued. in which seven of the latter were
killed and eight wounded. The dragons
suffered no losses
Peasants Continue to Stay.
cablegram from Riga last night says:
Eight machine guns have reached here from
ST. Petersburg. Many gendarmts who are
coming In from various stations along the
railroad relate that they were disarmed by
revolutionaries.
Two squadrons of dragons have arrived
after a perilous night march through a hos
tile country, from Segewold, whence they
were forced to retire after their quarters
had been burned over their heads.
A train carrying gold for the branch of
the state bank arrived safely 1T was at
tackled by revolutionaries near Walck, but
the attack was repulsed by troops.
Peasants continue to devastate the estates
of the Baltic nobility and a total of fifty
estates are reported to have been burned
down
Peasants Pillaging Estates.
Baron Won Wolf was pulled out of his bed
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