Show MUTINY ON c THE MM 10 VA Sailors Rose at Midnight Killed Some of the Officials and Took the Vessel EXPECTED HELP AT REVAL INSTEAD OF WHICH THEY WERE OVERPOWERED I St Petersburg Aug 3 The accounts re received received received here otho mutiny on the armored cruiser on Aug 1 shows that the sailors rs expected to obtain the support of the garrison of the fortress at Reval A student agitator probably one of the emissaries sent from St Pe Pc Petersburg Petersburg was stowed away on board When the crew midnight Wednesday the cruiser was was anchored twenty miles down the coast Evidently her commander Captain had been warned for he arrested and sent ashore a sailor named who was regarded as the ringleader Watch Officer Killed Two hours afterward afterward the sailors rose roseand roseand roseand and killed Captain the officer officer officer on watch When he saw the muti mutineers mutineers seers approaching made a rush forthe for the carbine rack but the sailors had jammed the breech blocks of the carbines and Captain was shot The firing aroused the officers be below below below low who ran up on deck and taking in inthe Inthe Inthe the situation Crowded crowded Into a launch moored alongside the and started for the shore The mutineers manned a cutter and put off In pursuit of ot the launch Three of officers were killed by a shell from front the cruiser and others were wounded Escape of Survivors I Irhe The rhe mutineers in the cutter were rapid rapidly rapidly ly overhauling the launch when on reaching shallow water the surviving of officers officers leers jumped Into the bay and made for forthe forthe forthe the shore An Air attempt was made m de by the fugitive officers to drag along with them one of their wounded comrades but he was eventually abandoned and drowned Eight officers escaped into the woods Later the mutineers hove up the anchor and headed the cruiser for Revel Her consort a torpedo boat followed under fire from the but was not hit as she succeeded in keeping out of range Mutineers Arrested On arriving at Revel some of the mu mutineers mutineers put in a boat for the fortress In order to request the artillerymen to join them but the authorities had in the meantime been apprised of what had hap happened happened happened and the mutineers were arrested as they landed This being seen from the cruiser in hi main portion of the crew who in the meantime seem to have remained neutral suddenly turned on the mutineers overpowered them replaced the red flag at the masthead ad with a white flag and sent word ashore that the mutineers were confined below decks whereupon the gov governor governor go general sent off soldiers In boats and the mutineers were taken ashore About sailors were arrested but a number of students found among the crew were also made prisoners The Pam yat at was the cruiser on which Em Emperor Emperor Emperor Nicholas s the heir to the throne made a voyage to the far east in 1893 |