The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
yLADIyOSTOK RIOT
AMERICAN MERCHANT TELLS OF
 TERRIBLE NIGHT.
Henry Bush With Graphic Detail Re- IateM HorribIe Happenings Caus~
 cd By Russian $0Idfery In s.4 A. TroubIed City

1 Victoria. B. C., Dec. 23.--Henry Bush. of Clarkson and Company Nladivostok, Port Arthur and Harbin, who arrived from v1adiyostok last night by the steamer Tartar. was an eyewitness or the revolt among the Russian soldiers there, and gave a graphic story.
 The trouble began at a Chinese ba- zaar where, following a dispute. mob of soldiers rushed the stalls, graDoing everything they could lay their handS on. Many Russians went to steamer which was discharging oil and saturat- ed the bazaar with it. They then fir' ed the place and 1t burned quickly, many wounded Chinese being then in cinerated. From the bazaar the sold | iers went to the big store of kuntz ana | 4lbers, a German firm, driving out the staff who fled for their lives The commander. Katzoff. ordered ous inc troops who were in barracks put instead of preventing the revoitins soldiers from footing, they fired at me upper windows while the looters were busy below MT. Bush gays they woui1 not fire on the revolting soldiers, al- though they were quick enough to bring down their rifles 10 Kill Chtnese' The Kuntz and Albsrs store was big one. full of general merchandise and the loss must have been over million dollars. for the mob brought
  and burned the place. By this time
 the streets were filled with screaming.
 mad Russians and Chinese. The sticks
 and stones were flying and bullets
 whistlinR everywhere. chinese corpses
 were scattered about the streets and
 many Russians were killed.
 MT. Bush did not realize his danger
 until then. Some Chinese rushed at
 hino with chouts of there's another
 one" and he fled. Of the remainder of
 the tragedy he cannot speak from. ob-
 seryation, bat he learned froom good
 authorities, when Kunt5 and Albers
 was burning. refugees were crowded
 into Sampans and all the mercnaht
 steamers and transports were leaving inc harbor. That night, November 13,
 men paid from two to fifty roubles to he allowed to sleep in H Sampan in the harbor. Place after place was burned until before the riots ended over 2OO stores had been destroyed.
 Bodies were scattered about the streets, over 500 Russians and more than 2,00O Chinese being killed The bodies lay unburied for three days, when they were gathered up wholesale and carted away for burial Com mander Katzoff fled to Satanka, two miles away on the first day and the troops she did not take part i'll the rioting did not prevent 1t. Proclama- ton after proclamation was tele- graphed by the fugitive commander, but not until he promised that the troops would be sent 10 Russia as quick as they could be transported did the rioting discontinue.
 Returning to Vladivostok MT. Bush came across body after body, sometimes scattered. sometimes in groups. The city presented a sad appearance, being practically ruined. He estimates the los at $20,000,O00 and says years will be required to put the place as it was.
 MT. Bush says the army throughout is dissatisfied and he believes a great revolt will take place before long.