Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-02-03
REPUBLIC, A MONTH
RISE A FALL OF A k0RTHE eau.
CASIAN GOVERNMENT.
ton of Several Cities Constituted
an Assembly and Revolutionary
Army, Which Was Put Out of Bust
ness by 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 a short
and thrilling history of a month. AT
ter the revolt of the reserve battalion
garsisoning 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 we're led by a 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
of marching to Rostoff-on-Don, $50
miles away. and even talked of con-
tinuing on to Kharkoff to join hands
with the supposed revolutionary army
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and attack the important arsenal at
Georgievisk, where there are large
stores of rifles. cannon and machine
guns.
The army was attacked by three
companies of Cossacks, whom it de-
feated with heavy loss, most of the
survivors being killed during their
fight across the thin ice of a stream.
Later the army" encountered a
column of infantry, a battery of artil-
lery and seven companies of Cossacks.
This column was too strong to be re-
sisted. and the revolutionists after a
hasty council of war fed. The ere
public" then came to an end
The Vistka in the government of
that name, a band largely composed
of schoolboys and schoolgirls. seized
the water works. which they held for
Is hours against a whole battalion of
infantry. The troops were attacked in
the rear by two companies of revolu-
tionists. who were finally driven to a
fortified house. This house was cap
tured. Among the killed was the
colonel commanding the troops.
The newspapers publish interesting
accounts received by mail of the die
orders in the smaller cities of the in
terror during the period of armed re-
volt, many of which passed unnoticed
at the time, owing to the interruption
of telegraphic communication. In a
number of instances the revolutionfsts
were defeated and driven out of the
town or forced to surrender.
l At Sotsi. on the Black sea. so Cos
sacks of the garrison who attempted
to dispense a gathering in the market
place were routed by the revolution
lists and forced to fee to their bar
racks outside the town, where they
were regularly besieged. The insur-
gents brought up an old cannon from
the port and bombarded the barracks
for two days with such effect that the
Cossacks were forced to surrender.
The triumph Of the revolutionists
was short lived, however. for a tor
pedo boat destroyer arrived from Ba-
toum and the population at the first
threat of a bombardment fastened to
liberate the prisoners and to deliver
up their arms, as well as the funds
of the city treasury, which had been
taken to the mountains.