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Show SUPPRESSIXG CHOLERA XEWS. Strict Censorship Exercised by Russian Authorities to Hold Back ws. , St. Petersburg, . Aug. 2. Letters received re-ceived here from Ashkend, a town of Asiatic Russia in Syrdara, report that the news in regard to serious riots in that place on July 6, in connection with the cholera epidemic, has been suppressed by the government. gov-ernment. The strictest censorship is being exercised. From these letters it is learned that the natives believing that the doctors were poisoning patients who were suffering from cholera, became greatly excited and determined to put an end to the murderous practices which they imagined were being employed In the cases of unfortunates stricken with the terrible disease. The wildest rumors were current of cruelties inflicted in-flicted by the medical men in causing the immediate death of patients, and these stories had the effect of rousing the fury of the people to the highest pitch. Five thousand Sarts suddenly invaded Russian quarters, wrecked the residence of the deputy governor, who fled on the approach ap-proach of the howling mob. His flight was discovered, however, and he was pursued and overtaken in the street by the infuriated crowd who mercilessly vented their fury on the helpless official. He was maltreated in a terrible manner. His plea for mercy was in vain and, after being trampled upon, was assaulted with a shower of stones until life had been beaten out. The authorities having become aware of the state of affairs in the town, took immediate imme-diate steps to suppress orders and protect other officials. A body of troops hurried to the scene arriving ar-riving at the place where the defiant Sarts were assembled. The trooris opened fire killing several of them. The Sarts, armed with pistols and daggers, held their ground and made a desperate resistance to the soldiers. sol-diers. The two forces closed in on each other and a furious hand to hand fight resulted, re-sulted, the maddened Sarts, when their pistols had been emptied, slashing furiously about with their daggers and doing much execution with these weapons. Drilled and better armed soldiers were unable to overcome over-come their opponents, and additional troops had to be seut to their assistance. They were reinforced by a body of Cossacks and finally the r ot was quelled and the mob dispersed. The Sarts,. not disheartened, collected around the mosques, and taking those edifices edi-fices defied the authorities to do battle with them. A large number of soldiers were dispatched dis-patched to the scene and attempted to dislodge dis-lodge them from their strongholds. The Starts made a sturdy resistance to every effort of the soldiers to drive them from the buildings, and fired from the loopholes with telling effect upon the invaders. The troops at last concentrated their forces, making a grand assault triumphantly carried the mosques, and a scene of carnage ensued. The righting inside of the structures was of a desperate aud sanguinary character. Although Al-though the Sarts found they could not cope with their military opponents, no quarter was asked for nor was any given, aud they fell by scores before the weapons of the soldiers. The character of the struggle mav be imagined im-agined when it is known that sixty Sarts were killed and hundreds of them wounded. The soldiers, too, suffered heavily, the Russian Rus-sian loss be ng fifteen killed and many wounded. Many arrests have been made of persons concerned in the disorders. It is feared that there may be more trouble, and precautions are being taken accordingly. accord-ingly. St. Petersburg, Aug. 2. Cholera has made its appearance in the prison at Tom-ska, Tom-ska, the capital of the government of that najne, in West Siberia. Already ten cases vftndjergb.-deHths hare. been reported by prison authorities. . |