The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-04

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Of War Exists in the City.
Odessa. June 29.-Hundreds of riot
ers were shot and many killed by
troops during last nights outbreak.
Martial Jaw has been proclaimed.
Fires are still burning at midnight
but there was a lull in the disorders
at that time. Practically the entire
harbor was Quilted by the fires started
by the mob last night. All the ware
houses. with large quantities of mer-
chandise. as we'll as -four or five Rus
sian steamers. were burned.
Probably 200 rioters were killed.
Several Cossacks were also slain.
The troops are rapidly restoring
order.
The losses arc estimated at many
millions CT roubles. The remnants OF
the wharves and warehouses set Oh
IRE last night are still burning today.
and the city is enVelCped in a thick
cloud of smoke.
Several EXPLOSIONS occirrod in the
port during the night and q fierce
conflict took place between troops and
rioters.
The dead are now reckoned in the
hundreds. The hospitals are over
fOWlng with Ounde persons, and
the medical aid available is quite in
adequate. The shops are closed and
business and traffic is suspended. The
streets arc occupied by trOots. Many
residents are leaving Odessa.
The body of Omiltchuk. the sailor
executed on board the Russian battle
snip knIaz POtemkine is still EXPOSED
or the quay where it was landed by
the eW of the kniaz Potemkir.4 yes
terday. The dead mans comrades,
who demand that :he remains shall
be accorded military honors. actively
fought on the side of the rioters
against the troops.
a Semblance of order has been re-
stored, but the situation is still most
critical.
The Central Railway station was de-
StrOyed by fire this evening, many per-
sens being injured and taken to hos
pitfalls. The pOpulace is still in a venge-
full mood, and unless the situation is
handled with the utmost care any
thing may yet happen.
Thus far the only incident reported
this evening besides the burning Of
the Central Railway station, is the eX-
plOsiOn of a bomb in a private house,
by which several persons were injured,
but it is impossible to get precise i'll
formation or permission to visit the
actual scenes of conflict.
Sensational accounts, which cannot
be definitely confirmed. are current re-
Garding Wednesday nights rioting. In
these accounts it is stated that no few
er than a thousand persons were kill
ed. The troops faced Il position of
az mn1Gtn onarchu thousands of doc
perate incendiaries trying to set fire to
every building. They were compelled
to adopt tie sternest measures and
employed machine guns against the
mob.
1t is alleged that at 3 o'clock this
morning Il large body of rioters tried
to enter the central part of the town
by way Of Polich Hill, and that a ter
rifle fuSilade a kept up by both
sides, with rifles and revOlvers. 1t is
also alleged hat hundreds were kill
ed, and that when the mob tried to as
cend the steps near the church Of ST.
Nicholas to reach the boulevard st.
Nicholas, COssacks and other troops
fired repeated vOlleyS into the crowd,
with terrible results, wagon loads Of
dead being carried away. Many lives,
it is said, were lost in the endeavors Of
the military to stop incendiarlSm The
cOnfia grafton extended for over a mile,
and thousands of tons of railway sleep
erS and all the t~restles supporting the
elevated railroad serving b port, TO-
gether with all the contiguous Dulld-
ings, were consumed, the troops IN the
meanwhile firing vOlleys TO compel the
rioters to desist. 1t is stated that three
officers of police, ten policemen, twenty
three COSSackS and ten infantry sol
diers were killed in these encounter
The funeral of Omiltchuk, which
has just been held, became an
imposing demonstration which was
fortunately without disorder. \ pro-
cession OF many thousands of persons
followed the body from the harboI
along PreObrajensky street to b mill
tary cemetery. The coffin. which was
covered with the st. Andrews flag, and
on which there We're numerous
wreaths, was carried by eight sailors
The procession was headed by priests.
Neither police nor troops were sta
toned along the route 10 the Gene
terry owing to Il wise decision by the
authorities, by which the possibility OF
Il collision was averted. In the most
unruly section of the city the pOpulace
treat the proclamation warning people
10 remain in doors after nine O'Clock
in the evening with the greatest de-
rision and contempt, and freely an
rounce their intention to burn all pub
lie buildings i'm the course of the night
Cossacks guard all the approaches &c
the town and troops patroi the streets