Logan Republican | 1904-06-25 | Page 2 | Thousand Lives Lost

THOUSAND LIVES LOST. Vladivostok Squadron Sunk Two Japanese Transports. All doubts as to tho sinking of tho transports Hitachi and Sado by tho a '" Russians has been removed, according ' a I to advices rocolved from Toklo, Threo ' ' hundred and ninety-seven survivors of tho Hitachi arrived at Mojl and 153 ! survivors of tho Sado havo arrlvod at Kokura. - - Details of tho destruction of tho two transports and tho full oxotcnt of th casualties aro not obtainable Details obtained from tho survivors of tho 111-fntod Japancso transports show that th Hltnchl and the Sndo met threo Russian warships near Ikl Island at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. morn-ing. Tho Russians fired on tho Japancso Jap-ancso ships and stopped them and soon afterward thoy torpedoed and sank tho helpless transports. Tho transport Sado and several men wero captmed. Over ono hundrod mon escaped es-caped In tho boats and landed nt Kokura. Ko-kura. It Is repotted that tho transports trans-ports Hitachi and Sado carried ouly 1,400 men. It this Is truo. tho loss In lives probab,y is loss than 1,000.