Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-02-03
REPUBLIC, A MONTH
Rise A FALL OF A K0RTHE eau
CASIAN GOVERNMENT.
Russian Soldiers and Entire PopuIa-
ton of Several Cities Constituted
an Assembly and Revolutionary
Army, Which Was Put Out of Bust
ness by a Torpedo Boat Destroyer

St. Petersburg, Jan. pa letter
from Pyatigorsk, in Caucasia, de-
scribes the rise and fall of the north
Caucasian republic, which had short
and thrilling history of month. AT
ter the revolt of the reserve battalion
garrisoning Pyatigorsk, the soldiers
were joined by the entire population
of that and four neighboring cities
A constituent assembly was summon
ed and a Revolutionary army" form
ed consisting of the mutinous soldiers,
who were led by renegade Cossack
officer and several bands of the fight
ing branch of the revolutionary Or
CARNATIONS and other irregulars.
This "army" carried on a successful
campaign against the troops guarding
the railroad stations, who were driven
back for some 40 miles along the line
) with considerable loss.
/ The revolutionists conceived plans
t of marching to Rostoff-on-Don, 25C
| miles away, and even talked of con
tinuing on to Kharkoff to join hands
4 with the supposed revolutionary army
}. there They we're to stop on the way
d and attack the important arsenal
e Georgievisk, where there are larg'
a stores of rifles, cannon and machin'
g guns.
h The army was attacked by tire
companies of Cossacks, whom it dc
feated with heavy loss, most OF tn
survivors being killed during thei
- fight across the thin ice of a stream
= Later the army encountered
= column of infantry a battery of arti
:, lery and seven companies of Cossack
- This column was too strong to be r
:, sisted, and the revolutionists after
= hasty council of war fed. The #
20 public" then came to an end.
p The Vistka in the government
that name a band largely compose
of schoolboys and schoolgirls, seize
the water works, which they held 4
49, Is hours against whole battalion
W infantry. The troops were attacked
~. rthe rear by two companies of revol
- tionists, who we're finally driven to
40 fortified house. This house was ca
tured Among the killed was t
colonel commanding the troops.
The newspapers publish INTEREST,"
accounts received by mail of the q
~, orders in the smaller cities of the
ia a. terror during the period of armed
III volt. many of which passed unnotic
- at the time, owing to the interrupt
av of telegraphic communication. In
'si number of instances the revOlutioni
NC were defeated and driven out of
town or forced to surrender.
al At Sotsi, on the Black sea, 80 c
US sacks of the garrison who attempt
VI to dispense a gathering in the mar
ms place were routed by the revoluti
Ae' lists and forced to fee to their
racks outside the town, where Il
'eu were regularly besieged. The ms
ing gents brought up an old cannon fr
am the port and bombarded the barra
III for two days with such effect that
Cossacks were forced to surrender.
e'n The triumph of the revolution
sh' was short lived, however, for
vi pedo boat destroyer arrived from
MS toum and the population at the
jas threat of a bombardment FASTENED
liberate the prisoners and to deli
lsil I'D their arms, as well as the flu
avs of the city treasury, which had b
usi- taken to the mountains.
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