New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-22
The FIGHTING AT TUkU NJ
-Four Hundred Refugees Slain When
Totcn Vas Bombarded.

Riga, Livonis, Dee 2O.-Refugee Ia9d owners
are arriving here. 1t is reported that there was
another case Of bloodslled at Talsen yesterday.
Revolutionary peasants intrenched themselves
in their houses, from the windows of which they
fired the patrolling soldiers. 1t is estimated
that forty infantrymen and cavairymen were
killed or wounded.
Additional details of the revolt at Tukun
Courland. have been received The revolt be-
gan December II, when the revolutionary mu-
nicipaltty requested Captain Mueller, who
was stationed there with fifty infantry and
forty dragons, to withdraw the military patrols
from the streets. because the inhabitants wished
to establish a civilian guard. The captain
agreed to do this. but forgot to inform his sol
diers, who. upon resuming guard duty, were
encountered by armed agltators. The leader OF
the latter shouted that they had received Won
Mueller's permission to carry arms. but the SOL
diers fired on the agitators and a fight ens9ed
in which fifteen persons were killed.
On December Is the soldiers buried their
comrades. but the people fired on the funeral
procession from the windows of their houses.
More dragons arrived and another fight
Cured The soldiers finally were compelled to
retire, with ten wounded. leaving Tukum in the
hands of 5000 armed revolutionaries. The
same evening a disguised dragon succeeded in
bringing q report of the affair to the Governor
Meanwhile the revolutionaries barred the
streets with entanglements.
Next morning the revoIutonaries set fire to
the building in which the officers and forty
dragons were housed. The officers and men
tried to escape, but We're prevented by the en-
tanglements, and were fired on by the revolu-
tionaries from the windows of houses, resulting
in the killing of Captain Won Mueller and twenty
four dragons and the wounding of an officer
and thirteen prtvates. Only three escaped. The
revolutionaries then frightfuly mutated the
bodies of the dead soldiers.
Next day five companies of achievements.
with three guns, arrived. but the revolutionaries
compelled them to retire by fusillade from the
windows.
General Chorounchenko then ordered the ar
tillery to lombard the town Many of the in
habitants who had not learned of the arrival of
achievements thought that terreriets were
throwing bombs and they fed in panic in all d.
rectiens. The troops surrounding the town
fired on the people. killing. according to refu-
gees, four hundred of them The bloodshed
lasted from 8 o'clock in the evening until
o'clock in the morning, when the townsnen sur
rendered. The leaders of the revolutionaries,
however, escaped Two-thirds OF the inhabi-
tants fed the town.
4 sanitary train started from Riga yesterday
for Tukum.
Similar occurrences are reported from Goldin-
gen and Talsen, to which places achievements
have been sent No details of these disturb
ances yet available.
Meanwhile peasants continue to devastate the
estates of the Baltic nobility and total of fifty
estates are reported to have been burned down.
Baron Won Wolf pulled out of his bed by
peasants but succeeded in escaping.
He reached Riga without clothing. and is now
dangerously Ill. Baroness Won Wolf. who was
the we'll known Italian actress Alice Barri. ar
rived here in a sledge. The Baroness has cared
fer. fed. clothed and taught hundred peasant
children in their castle at Stomersee. The
peasants burned this castle and robbed 1t Of
valuables, which they are selling at ridiculous
prices. For instance. four horses were offered
for $40
The post and telegraph service has not yet
been re-established, and the posteffice is filled
with unopened mail bags.