Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-06-27
BLOODY BATTLE.
mo Legal Troops Win After a
Very Fierce Battle.
DETAILS OF MEETING.

III Which Seventy Men Are Killed
and a Large Number Are Wound
ed.-The Mutiners Arose at a Civ
en- Signal, and Broke Into the Ar.
mory and Seized Rifles and Fired
Volley.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg.
I. Russia, says details Of the mutiny of
Sappers at Kiev show that 1t was
suppressed at midnight, June II, be-
tween the mutineers and the loyal
troops, in which about seventy men
were killed or wounded.
Kiev is one of the cities where rev.
} olutionary ideas have made the
greatest inroads on the army and
revolutionary military organization
Is very powerful, counting among It's
members dozens of officers.
The mutiny was planned to coin
eide with general political strike
as reply to the dissolution Of parli-
ment, involving the railroads. tele-
graphs and mails. In several of the
southern provinces arrangements for
the strike had been making for
months under the leadership of an
experienced organizer. Nj. Loskoti.
who was member OF the first par
lament.
The decision of the revolutionary
stan ut st. Petersburg to refrain from
demonstrations was disobeyed by the
hot-headed sappers. At midnight of
June II, 500 men, at a given signal,
left their beds, disarmed the sentries,
hurriedly dressed, obtained posses
sloh of their rifles. broke into the
armory, secured some loaded cartrid-
ges and then marched to the camp
square and fired volley in the air.
The officer on duty, Captain Aku-
Ion. ran out >and addressed the NUT
liners, advising them to dispense. He
then called out another battalion
drew the men and led a charge on
the ,mutiners, ordering them to sur
render. On their refusal to do So
Captain Akuloff ordered the troops
to fire and fell dead himself at the
first volley The fighting continued
for several minutes. Half a dozen
others were killed and about sixty
were wounded. Finally the mutt
neers, with no officers, no leaders and
dren and fifty were captured but one
hundred and nine-three eluded pur-
suit and hid in the city.
The mutiny at Kiev was arranged
by Shefch .Evko, a revolutionist of
good family, who entered the army
as a volunteer for the purpose of
undermining discipline and won over
many of his comrades but when he
raised the standard of revolt they
were frightened and the little band
of ring-leaders were overpowered
Three bombs were found In Shefch
Ecko's tent. All the mutiners will
be tried by courtmartial.
The workmen employed In a big
factory at Kiev struck after the NUT
my, but they have not yet been join
ed by the employees of other factor
les.
General Sukhminoff, the comman-
der of Kfev, Is taking the moderate
energetic measures to arrest the lead
ers of the movement. Hundreds of
houses have been searched and %
citizens have been arrested. among
them being officials of the railways
and telegraph service and the editors
OF a newspaper.
Numerous other arrests were made
in Kiev. and number of bombs were
The city Is In the hands OF the mil
itary,
The Novo Vremaya in an article on
the mutiny at Kiev attributes the
sedition of the army by the corrup-
tion of soldiers In the Japanese pris-
ons, second, to the presence of Jews
In the army; and third, to the len
iency hitherto shown by the military
authorities. The paper claims. how
ever, that the propaganda has made
but slight progress
Trouble has also broken out
among the troops of the Third infan-
try division. stationed at Kaluga.
General Orloff, who suppressed the
insurrection in the Baltic provinces
left st, Petersburg hurriedly to- take
charge of the garrison at Kaluga.
No information is available as to
the nature of the troubles. strict
censorship on all incoming press dis
patches having been instituted since
the dissolution of the parliament.
The dispatches of the Associated
Press from Kiev, detailing the mum
( ity there, was turned over to the cen
sor and held up from IL to IA hours
before they were delivered.
The workmen of Moscow are be
coming restless and the commandan
of that city has brought twenty twc
companies of infantry into the place
Several big meetings of workmen il
the Moscow suburbs have been brok
en- up.
| Wholesale arrests continue In st
Petersburg. The preparation of the
registration lists for the election O
members of the new parliament have
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