Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-10
Three Thousand Sailors and Battalion Of
Artillsrists Nutiny.
UPRISING IS 0UELLEO BY coSSACKs
Machine Cans Turned Upon Rioters and
Many Are Killed.
MARKET HOUSE DESTROYED BY FIRE
Liquor Shops Are Plundersd and Many
Other Buildings Burned.
GREAT ALARM At ST. PETERSBURG
Report Spread There that Entire
Garrison Had RevOlted aud
that the City Was
Destroyed.
MARKET HOUSE DESTROYED BY FIRE
GREAT ALARM AT ST. PETERSBURG

81. PETERSBURG, Nov 1O.-This city
was I'm furore of excitement all OF yester-
daN and late into the night over the news
Of the mutiny at Cronstadt. Every one OF
the exaggerated reports Of the AFFAIR re-
oeived credence In many quarters and hair
the inhabitants Of the capital believed tha'
the mutiny was successful that the troops
sent from here had Joined in the revolt
that the entire garrison of St Petersburg
would follow suit today and that the town
of Cronstadt had been burned to the ground,
together with the surrounding forts. The
place was represented as being in the
hands OF 5000 sailors who had murdered
their officers, seized the arsenal and bonn
barded the imperial palace at Peterhoi'
across the bay. Butchery was said TO have
prevailed In the streets all during the day,
and the rumors even went to the extent oil
saying that Father John of Cronstadt had
left the bed on which he was supposed TO be
lying TO lead the mutineers.
cossacIss aueu Mutiny.
Many OF these sensational reports We're
OF course entirely false. but sufficient de-
tails have been received to prove that about
1900 sailors and a battalion Of artillerists
from one OF the forts INDUCED in mutiny
which was only put down by about 1000
Cossacks and troops of the Imperial Guard
hastily dispatched from ST. Petersburg and
from the garrisons at Peterhof Before the
arrival of the troops the sailors, many OF
whom were drunk on liquor plundered from
the spirit shops, had set fire to the market
and to several groups of houses. About CO
sailors were still holding out at midnight,
and although these are expected to sur
render today the authorities became so
alarmed that the Paul regiment of the
guard was dispatched TO Cronstadt at
O'Clock this morning. The governor OF
Cronstadt telegraphed the general stan at
midnight that the mutiny had been crushed,
that there was no likelihood OF a renewal Of
the revolt today. that reports 10 the erect
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 arsenal and the forts. The gov
ernor n his telegram, said that many OF
tine Tnutinous sailors tried to escape In
boats 10 the mainland, but that they were
captured and were being brought back to
Cronstadt He gave no estimate of the
casualties
Mutineers Number Three thousand.
CRoNsTADT, Nov. .-Midnight-During
the rioting Wednesday night machine guns
were employed against the mutinous sailors
who had been Joined by battalion of ar
tillerymen from the fortress, and has raised
the total number Of mutineers to 5000. 1t is
di1lcult to ascertain the number Of casual
ties, but officers place the figures at 800.
Many wounded persons are in the ships.
The sailors say their chief grievances are
poor food and clothing and insufficient
amount of liberty from barracks,
Roughs Joined In the pilage, but the
workmen did not participate I'm II. Many oi
the workmen and the civilian population
have either fed or are trying to flee the
city. and the docks are piled high witt
baggage and household effects.
At this hour the city is full OF reinforce
ments from St. Petersburg and others still
arc arriving. order has been restored and
there was no renewal of the trouble during
the evening
The fires are still glowing in the marke
and another group OF buildings. The stores
and houses are boarded up aud troops arr
patrolling tho streets.
Riots I'm the south.
ODESSA. Nov. s.-Autheutic accounts re
ceived here from various points in Bessara
ha show that the auti-Jewish outbreak
there followed the same lines as at Odessa
varying only in the number OF victims.
At Kishinef the disturbances were pre-
coded by inhammatory speeches, gendarme
and city offcals near the governors hous
asserting that the Jews had attempted L
take the life of the local bishop and In
tended TO loot the treasury. The mob thu
lnCited started the bloody work Carryin
ikons and portraits Of the emperor N
mob proceeded 90 Alexandrovskia, Push
inskia and Gostinskia streets, devastatin
and pilaging unhindered. Attempts al self
defense were quelled by the troops Ninet
per cent OF the killed and wounded wer
victims OF bayonets and rife bullets.
The looting was accompanied by atroc
ties similar 10 those witnessed at Odess
and continued for two days.
They stopped as soon as the governor r,
ceived an order from ST. Petersburg. SeN
enty Jews were killed and 100 were wounde'
Order Is now restored,
mob at Ismai Bessaraba burned aliy
eleven Jews who had hidden in a hay ricl
The town OF Kalarasch, Bessarabia, wa
entirely devastated and burned. Fifty-nir
Jews were killed or perished in the iamS
and 900 fed TO nelghboring villages, whei
the peasants beat a number OF them
death with oudgels and burned three jew
after drenehing them with petroleum.
strikers Wreck a Train.
WARSAW, Russian Poland. Nov. a
freight train on the Warsaw Brest lin
managed By soldiers of the railroad ba
talon was derailed by strikers toda
near Novo Minsk. The conductor WI
killed and several soldiers were injured.