The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-30
WOrkmen and Soldiers
 Are Fighting.
WARSHIP FIRES ON TOWN
Sensational Accounts of Terri-
 ble Carnage.
Troops Employ Machine Guns Against the Mob and Wagon Loads of Dead are Hauled from Scene
 of Conflict.

London, June 3o.-The correspondent at Odessa of The Daily Telegraph, in a dispatch filed at II: :29 o'clock Thurs day night. says that the Kniaz Potem- kine is firing on the town. and that Ad- miral Kruger's squadron is not in sight
 St. Petersburg. June 29.-shortly af- ter noon an untimed dispatch was re- ceived here reporting that complete anarchy reigned at Odessa. The inhab- itants are panic-strucken, and are hud- dled together in their houses. The streets are filled with frenzied work men fighting the troops.
 The warehouses, quays and some Of the shipping in the harbor are in flames. The correspondent of the Associated Press who forwarded this dispatch, had to make his way to the telegraph office through dense smoke which covered the city. He heard volleys every few min utes. In the darkness the mob was beginning the work of pillage and plum der. indicating that the dispatch was filed last night, but was delayed by the authorities.
 The correspondent added that blue jackets with machine guns had been landed from the battleship -Sniaz Po- temkine, which is in the hands of the mutineers and then fought with the strikers behind barricades against the troops Hundreds were killed and the hospitals are crowded with wounded. There were rumors. the correspondent also said, that some of the soldiers had joined the mutinous sailors In hghtlng against the troops. but he was unable to confirm this report.
 The correspondent said nothing about the arrival at odessa of the warships commanded by Admiral Kruger, but a dispatch from Sebastopol says the bat tleship Georgi Pobisdonozts and the cruiser Griden have started for odessa.
 state of siege has been declared In the city. The confagration Is sweep ing along the harbor front. the sailors and strikers refusing to permit at- tenpts to extinguish the flames. Three uniniured ships of the Pan- Russian .s l-an1pan31 have been destroyed The ufficers of the port administration say that stores of the Pan- Russian, kisn- kin and Russian Company and many private establishments and great number of woodyards have been burn ed and the fire is now consuming long lines of railroad cars containing car goes unloaded from foreign shlps. Many ships succeeded In leaving the harbor.
 .ihe Battleship's Survivors.
 The surviving officers of the batele- shin Kniaz Potemkine number eleven Instead of eight A number of them were sent ashore today by the mutl- neers. They confirm the details of the mutiny cabied to the Associateo rress e yesterday. The body of Omiltchuk to- day was again taken on board the Kniaz Potemkine, from which dele gation Of the crew, headed by the chaplain, visited the commander or the Odessa military district and asked nirn to accord a military funeral to the dead sailor The newspapers have sus-
 business kinds is at a dead standstiH.
 semblance of order was restored this evening, but the situation IS stlh most critical.
 The central railway station was de- stroved by fire this evening, many nersons being injured and taken 10 hospitals. The populace Is still in vengeful mood and unless the situa- fion Is handled with the utmost care anything yet may happen
 Thus far the only incident reported besides the burning of the central railway station is the explosion Of honb in a private house by which several persons were injured; but 1t IS ,ronossible to get precise information or permission to visit the actual scenes of conflict. Sensational accounts which cannot be definitely confirmed. are cur rent regarding Wednesday nlghts rioting, Tn these accounts it Is stated that no fewer than a thousand persons were killed The troops faced a posi- lion of complete anarchy, thousands of desperate incendiaries trying to set fire to every building. They were com pelled to adopt the sternest measures and employed machine guns against the mob
 It is alleged that at 8 o'clock this morning a large body of rioters tried to enter the central part of the town by way of PoHsh Hill and that ter rife fusilade was kept up by both sides with rifles and revolvers. It Is also alleged that hundreds were killed and that when a great mob tried to ascend the steps near the church of St. Nich- olas to reach the Boulevard St. Eich- olas Cossacks and other troops fired repeated volleys into the crowd with terrible results. wagon loads of dead being carried away. Many lives, 1t is said, were lost in the endeavors of the military to stop incendiarism.
 A Great COnhaEration.
 The confiagration extended for over a mile and thousands of tons of railway sleepers and all the trestles supporting the elevated railroad surrounding the port, together with all the contiguous buildings were consumed. the troops in the meantime firing volleys to compel the rioters to deslst. It is stated that three officers of policemen. ten police men. three Cossacks and ten infantry soldiers were killed in these encount- CTS.
 The funeral of Omiltchuk. which has just been held, became an imposing demonstration, which fortunately was without disorder. A procession of many thousand persons followed the body along Preobrajensky Street to the Irili- .. tary cemetery. The coffin which was covered with a St. Andrew flag. and on which there were numerous wreaths was carried by eight sailors. The pro- cession was headed by priests. Neither police nor troops were stationed along the route to the cemetery. owing to wise decision by the authorities and by which the possibility of a collision was averted In the most unruly section of the city the populace treat the proc iamation warning people to keep in doors after o'clock with great derision and contempt and freely announce their intention to burn all public buildings in the course of the night.
 Cossacks guard all approaches to the town and troops patrol the streets and