The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-08-03

ted railway which ran alongside tho
quays and took the place of the old
fashioned method of loading the
ships with grain was an object of Pc
culiar dislike TO the laborers who had
been displaced
When the Kniaz Potemkine was
"a coming into the harbor it was
It known what was the purpose of
&C battleship. Some believed she
IS about to take part in quelling
&c strike and the excited populace
shed down the cliffs to the piers
The ships pinnace came to the shore
bringing ghastly burden, the body
of seaman which his comrades in
sisted on burying in the chief ceme-
terry Of the city. He had been killed
by an ofacer at the first sign of the
mutiny on board the ship. His COM
rades thereupon made themselves
masters OF the ship and ran up the
red flag. On hearing this the lower
orders OF the city gave themselves up
to riot and set fire to the railway
and custom house. The industrial
suburbs. with $4,000 unemployed,
were in fernent and the military
authorities took drastic measures to
Quell the outbreak in the city. Bat
teries OF heavy artillery were placed
along the Clin Boulevard, and the
city gardens in the center OF Odessa
were turned into a military camp.
There was constant firing in the
streets, and when Admiral Kruger's
squadron arrived from Sebastopol af-
ter two days delay 1t was quite un-
CERTAIN whether all the ships would
not follow the example OF the Kniaz
Potemkine and the Georgi Pobiedos-
setz. The Admiral feared to test the
loyalty OF the crews. and the Kniaz
Potemkine was allowed to depart.
The damage done by the revolution
ary incendiarism was estimated at
$35, 200. consisting Of the eleva-
ted railway, factories, pack houses,
magazines. private buildings, etc.
The human slaughter, wreckage
and confiagration was frightful. No
fewer than 1900 persons were killed
and 5000 wounded in one night in
the battle between the troops and the
workmen. Cossacks, infantry and ma
chine guns being allowed to fire at
will. The mutiny of the Kniaz Po-
temkine eliminated when CAPTAIN
Golikoff and all the officers of the
ship except five, mostly engineers,
were killed.
Members of the crew have stated
that revolutionary ideas and projects
had been fermenting throughout the
personnel of the Black Sea fleet since
the beginning of last year. When the
Kniaz Potemkine left Sebastopol the
crew implicitly believed that all the
other ships would join in the revolt.
The incident OF bad food accentuated
the dissatisfaction of the men and
precipitated the dramatic event OF
the mutiny. The sailors refused the
soup and meat as bad and sent a
delegation to Captain Golikom. He
ordered the marines to keep back the
malcontents, but when ordered to
fire they refused.
The second in command, Guiliar-
ovsky, then killed Omelchuk with a
rifle shot and this sealed the fate of
the officers. The doctor, Smirnoff,
shot himself in his cabin. The sail
ors made one Of their number, Matu-
schenko, their leader and after
burying their comrade at Odessa and
a weeks indecision compelled the
officers to navigate the ship to Kus-
tendji, Roumanian port, where they
surrendered 1t on condition that they
themselves should be allowed to de-
part freely from the frontier.