The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20
OUTBREAK COST
SEVERAL LIVES
Mutiny of Sappers at Nev Sup
pressed After Bloody Battle
With Loyal Troops.
CITY UNDER MILITARY RULE
WHOLESALE ARRESTS IN ST.
PETERSBURG.

ST. Petersburg. June 19-Details of the
mutiny of sappers at Kiev show that it
was suppressed only after a bloody en-
sagement at midnight June Il, between
the mutineers and loyal troops, in which
about seventy-five men were killed or
wounded
Kiev Is one of the cities where revolu-
tionary ideas have made the greatest
inroads upon the army and the military
revolutionary organization IS very pow
erful- In several of the southern prov
inces arrangements for the strike had
been making for months under the Lead
ership of an experienced organizer. NJ
LoslJit, who was a member of the first
parliament.
The decision of the railway staff at st.
Petersburg TO refrain from demOnstr5-
tions was disobeyed by the hOt-headed
sappers At midnight of June Il, five
hundred men at q given signal LETT their
beds. disarmed the sentries- hurrledly
dressed. obtained possession of their rifles
broke into the armOrY. secured some load
ed cartridges and then marched to the
camp square and fired vOlley in the
air.
Officer Fell AT His Post
The officer on duty. Captain AkulOtf
ran out and addressed them, first advis-
ing them to disperse He then called out
/ another battalion. drew the men up ana
ordered the mutineerS to surrender Upon
their refusal to do so, Captain Akuloft or
dered the troops to fire, and tell dead
( himself at the first voiley.
The fighting continued for several min
/ utes HaIf a dozen others were killed,
and about sixty were wounded. FINALLY
the mutineers, who had no officers, nc
/ leaders and no plans. WaVcTed and lieu
I Two hundred and fifty were captured, but
I 100 cluded pursuit and hid in the city.
Drumhead Court Martial.
The mutiny at Kiev was arranged by
/ Shefchenl<o. revolutionist of good fam
J ily, who entered the army as 4 volunteer
for the purpose of undermining discipline,
hand won over many of his comrades. but
when he raised the standard Of revolt
/ they were frightened. and the little band
! of ringleaders was oVerpOwered. All the
mutineeTs will be tried by court MARTA l.
! The men employed In big factory at
[ 1<iev struck after the mutiny. but they
have not yet been Joined by the en-
ployes of other factories.
! General SukhomlinOff. the commander
of Kiev is taking the most energetic
measures to arrest the leaders of the
movement. Hundreds of houses have been
[ searched. and ninety-three citizens have
been arrested, among them an editor IF
! a newspaper
| The numerous arrests were made in
/ Kiev and a number Of bombs were found
but order is low restored
Under Military Rule.
The city is in the hands of the mill
The NoVoe NTemya I'm an article this
morning upon the mUtiny at KieV attTib-
utes the sedition IL the army first to the
corruption of the soldiers in the japanese
prisons; second, TO the presence of Jews
i'm the army. and third. to the lenincy
hitherto shown by the military authorities
The paper claims, however. that the
propaganda has made but slight progress
/ Trouble has also broken out among the
! troops of the third infantry division sta
toned at Kaluga. General Orloff. who
suppressed the instruction in the Baltic
provinces, left st. Petersburg last night
to take charge of the garrison at Kaluga
No information is available as TO thu
nature of the trouble, a strict censor
ship is kept on all press dispatches since
1.-The dissolution of parliament The dis
patches of the Associated Press. from
xiev, detailing the mutiny there, were
turned over to the censor and held from
twelve to twenty-four hours before they
were delivered.
The worl0nen of Moscow are becominE
restless and the commandant of that city
has brought twenty-five companies d
infantry to the place to Overawe the men
Several big meetings of worSmen in tn,
Moscow suburbs have been broken up.
Wholesale arrests continue in St. Pc
tersburg.
The preparation of the registratiO list.
for the election of members of the new
parliament has already begun.