The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-17
FIGHTING AROUND MUKDEN.
Most Desperate Engagement of the
Entire War Thus Far.

General Oku's Headquarters. Satur-
day, March II, via Yinkow, March 10
From information received from Rus
sian prisoners and residents of Muk-
den, it is estimated that General Ku-
ropatkin's forces at the beginning of
the Battle of Mukden consisted of over
4S0, 900 men. His loss in killed and
wounded before March 10 is estimated
at 10000. Nearly all his wounded were
removed north before the railway was
cut. Less than 1000 remain in the Rus
sian hospitals at Mukden. Three hun
dred Japanese were found in these Rus
sian hospitals also. Reports as to the
number OF prisoners captured are yet
incomplete but it is thought that they
viii reach into the thousands Over
1000 were captured in Mukden. includ-
ing the wounded. The Russians set
fire to stores and the railway station,
but they were only partially destroyed.
The Japanese saved large quantities
of flour, bean cake and other sup
plies.
Many buildings in the Russian set
Element were burned. the Chinese hay
ing fired them when the Russian re-
treat began. supposedly for the pur-
pose of robbery. Many outrageS were
committed in the Chinese city during
the retreat, according to the stories
told. 1t is said that CosSacks murdered
two Italian merchants because they
refused to give them money. The Jap
RACES.
The work of clearing the Second
army's battlefield west of the railway
began in earnest today. The bodies of
the Russians are being buried and
those of the japanese dead are being
cremated-
The battlefield. especially in the vi
cinity of Likampu, five miles west of
the railway. presents a terrible sight
Fully 1000 bodies are still lying on
the field. This locality was the scene
of the fiercest fight of the Left armies.
A division Of Japanese attacked Lii
kampu and a small village to the south
and drove the Russians out, infiicting
much suffering and serious loss. The
Russians. on being reinforced, counter
attacked the village, in turn driving out
the Japanese and inflictinS enormous
losses. The Thirty-third regiment,
south of the village, was practically an
initiated, receiving in front and on the
flank an artillery fire before the infan-
try attack.
The japanese were greatly outnum-
bered when the attack began and their
dead were piled in heaps behind the
low mud walls of the village. The
Russian dead were scattered over the
field. almost carpeting it. There were
also evidences of desperate hand-tO-
hand fighting near the village. The
bodies of the japanese and Russians
bodies show many wounds, indicating
that the men were fighting to the last.
though wounded. LikampU was the
scene of a fierce street and house-t to-
house struggle. Every street, lane and
compound wall shows its heap of dead.
Many buildings were burned. cremating
the wounded who crawled into them for
shelter To seek cover for the adVanc-
ing troops was impossible on account
of the frozen ground, and both the
Japanese and Russian charges were
made across the open fields.
The fighting at this point was prob
ably the most deadly and desperate of
the entire war thus far The Chinese
were not allowed on the field because
it was feared that they would rob the
dead. Hundreds of japanese soldiers
are engaged in clearing the field, bury
ing and burning the dead. Most Of the
Japanese wounded have been removed
to the hospitals in Mukden.