The Red Cloud chief., 1906-08-03
AUI|NY At SVEABORGFORT
.ARTiLLERYMEN TURN GUNS ON
LOYAL iNFANTRYMEN.
wARsHlPs lombard FORTRESS

Civilian Revolutionaries Seize Marine
Barracks on Skatudden lsland-Lat.
est Report Indicates That Mutineers
Are Still in Possession.
HelsingfOrs, Aug. 1.-Sveaborg is
sntirely in the hands Of the mutineers,
Nho now have in their possession
every kind of armament. Horrible
Genes occurred during last night,
when the fierce fighting was contin-
Ded. The heaviest artillery was used
during the conflict. Several officers
acre killed or wounded. The wound
ed were transported to Helsingfors.
Colonel Nataroff was b%ayoneted. He
begged for transportation to the hos
pital, promising forgiveness in ex-
change. Instead he was stoned and
thrown into the water with a stone
tied around his neck.
Helsingfors, Aug. IA gigantic
military conspiracy. aiming at the
simultaneous capture of Russia's
three great sea fortresses, Cronstadt.
Se%bastopol and Sveaborg, arranged
by the revolutionary military league,
was prematurely sprung here by an
attempt to arrest members of a com.
pany OF sappers who had mutinied on
account of the death of one OF their
comrades, alleged to have been due
TO Ill treatment. The entire garrison
rof the fortress at Sveaborg famed
oout instantly in revolt. All the artil.
aerymen and sappers garrisoning the
place were involved. Only four com
panies OF infantrymen remained loyal.
The mutineers seized forty machine
guns and practically all the quick
sirers and light artillery In the for.
tress, but even with this aid they
were unable to hold the main fort
against the loyal infantry. The fight.
Ing continued all night long.
a detachment of civilian revolu.
rsonaries seized the marine barracks
o N Skatudden island, hoisted the red
nag and we're joined by all the ma
rines. Nine cruisers. torpedo boats
and destroyers lying in the harbor
opened fire on tie barracks. This fire
Sdo duS"tItu lTblH lUe InlTu-StOry
windows Of the barracks with machine
guns and rifles. The torpedo boats
and ~destroyers, which were lying
closer to the shore, were subjected to
such a hot fire from the barracks
that their crews were driven below
decks. They finally steamed out and
Joined in the bombardment with the
%Tuisers. This sea attack was in CO.
operation with attacks by Cossacks
and infantry from the land side. FL
1lally h firing ceased and the au-
rhorities announced that the barracks
had been captured.
The Cossacks cleared the square in
front of the palace facing Sveaborg
and then drove the public from the
entire water front for the purpose of
preventing the sending of assistance
from the city to S~veaborg.
The exact situation at Syeaborg is
not known. Rumors are in circula-
zion that the entire fortress has now
Sallen into the hands Of the insur.
gents. but they lack confirmation. It
is believed that this cessation of fight.
ing is only a prelude to the renewal
of the battle between the m~utineers
and the government troops.
An authoritative estimate of the
EIlied and wounded cannot be OH
tanned, but the casualty list on both
sides must be heavy, for the fighting
was waged with desperation.
Various rumors are heard regard.
Ing the fate of the officers who were
at ~SveaborS and in the S~katudden
barracks, According to one rumor,
almost all he officers, and according
10 another, almost all the junior Off.
GERS sided with the mutineers.
The marines at %Skatudden are said
30 have convened an elective court
martial, which condemned several of.
nrerS to instant p%NecutiOD