Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-02-03
REPUBLIC, A MONTH.
RISE A FALL OF A KORTHE 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. ga 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 AZ
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
ca, consisting OF the mutinous soldiers,
who were 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
tinuing on to Kharkoff to join hands
with the supposed revolutionary army
there. They were to stop on the way
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
flight 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 "re-
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-
who were finally driven to
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 dis
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 revolutionists
were defeated and driven out of the
town or forced to surrender.
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
sts 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
he port and bombarded the barracks
or two days with such effect that the
Cossacks were forced to surrender.
The triumph of the revolutionists
vas short lived, however, for a tor
,edo boat destroyer arrived from Ba-
cum and the population at the first
hreat of a bombardment fastened to
lberate the prisoners and to deliver
p their arms, as well as the funds
# the city treasury, which had been
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