The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-10
SERIOUS MUTINY Cronstadt Set Aflrs by Three Thousand Sailors and a Battalion of
 Artillery.
PITCHED BATTLE IN CITY
TROOPS DESPATCHED FROM
 CAPITAL TO oUELLTRoUBIE.

CAPITAL TO oUELLFRoUBLE. Play Machine Guns on the Mutineers--
 Many Killed and Wounded--Fightinx
 Continued During the Day and Night
 At Midnight 200 sailors Were sdn
 Holding out-st. Petersburg So
 Alarmed That Further ReinfOrce-
 ments Were Sent at one O'clock Ezis
 Morning-o Troops in the Capital
 Locked in Barracks for Fear They
 Might Also Revolt.
 St. Petersburg. Nov. 1o-This city was in a furore of excitement all of yesterday and late into the night over the news of the mutiny at Cronstadt. Every one Of the exaggerated reports of the affair received credence in many quarters and half the inhabitants of the capital believed that the nlutiny was successful, that the troops sent from here had joined in the revolt, that the entire garrison of St. Peters burg would follow suit to-day and that the town of cronstadt had been burned to the ground, together with the sur rounding forts. The place was repre- sented as being in the hands of 8,0O0 sailors, who had murdered their off, cers, seized the arsenal and bonbarded the imperial palace at Peterhof across the bay. Butchery was said to have prevailed in the streets all during the day, and the rumorrS even went to the extent of saying that Father John of Cronstadt had left the bed on which he was supposed to be dying to lead the mutineers Many of these sensa- tional reports were, of course, entirely false, but sufficient details have been received to prove that about 5000 essf1zz ors and a battalion of artillery from one of the forts indulged in q nlutfnv which was put down by about 7000 Cossacls and troops of the Imperial Guard, hastily dispatched from st. Petersburg and from the garrisons near Peterhof, and that machine guns had to be employed. Before the arrival of the troops the sailors, many of whom were drunk on liquor plunder- ed from the spirit shops, had set fire to the markets and to several groups of houses.
 About 200 sailors are still holding out at midnight and although these are ex- pected to surrender to-day the aMthori- tiest became so alarmed that the Raul regiment of the guard was dispatched to Cronstadt at 1 o'clock this morning. The governor of Cronstadt telearanhed the general staff at midnight that the mutiny had been crushed, that there was no likelihood of any renewal of the revolt to-day; that reports to the ef- feet that members of the guard had Joined the mutineers was false, and that there was no truth in the reports that the mutineers had seized the ar senal and the forts. The governor in his telegram said that many of the mutinous sailors tried to escape in boats to the mainland, but that they were captured and were being brought back to Cronstadt. He gave no seti mate of the casualties, the correspone dent of The Associated Press, who is on the ground, however, says that the Of ficers estimate the casualties at 200. which is certainly very conservative in view of the reports brought by refu- gees who fled from the town to the mainland
 At this critical juncture there Is no attempt made in government circles to minimize the seriousness of the mutiny. and it is admitted that if a battalion of artfllerists joined the sailors in open revolt the mutinous spirit must have been contagious. It is also admitted that while the Cossaoks and the guards stood the severe test of shooting upon their fellows in another branch Of the service, there is a fear that the mutiny will have a bad effect upon morals of the troops. which already has been badly shaken by the revolutionary propaganda.
 As soon as the news of the mutiny was received here the seventeenth and eighteenth equipages of sailors of the guard were locked in their barracks and the barracks were surrounded by Cossacks. The sailors were furious with rage and shouted from the win- dows that they were ready to join their mutinous comrades