Show THREE THOUSAND SAILORS AT seven thousand cossacks using ma chine guns were required to put mutiny down fires sill gloat SL kov lo 10 this city was in a furcro of excitement all 0 yesterday and late into the night avei itao news ol 01 tie at Crona every one of tho exaggerated 1 coorts ot the affair received credence in many qu artera and halt the inhabitants Inh abitanta of the capital believed that the mutiny successful abat the troops sent from here had joined iu the revolt that the entire garrison of st peters burg would follow suit today that the town of bad been burned to the ground together with the surrounding forte the place was represented aa being in the hands of sailors who had murdered their officers seized tho arsenal and bombarded the imperial palace at Peter bof across the bay butchery was said to have prevailed in the streets all during the day and the aro sro mora even went to the artent of saying that father john of cronstedt Cron stadt has left the bed on which he was supposed to be dying 0 o tead ibe mutineers muti many of these sensational were of course entirely false but sufficient details have been received to prove that about 2000 sailors and a battalion of artillery from one of the forts indulged in a mutiny which was only put down by about cossacks and troops of the imperial guard hastily dispatched from st petersburg and from the garrisons near and that machine guns had to bo employed before the arrival of the troops the sailors many of whom were drunk on liquor plundered from the spirit shops had set fire to the market and to several groups of houses about sailors were still holding out at midnight and although these are expected to surrender today tho authorities became so alarmed that the paul regiment of the guard was dispatched to 1 this morning the governor of cronstedt Cron stadt telegraphed the general staff at midnight that the had been crushed that there was no likelihood ot a renewal of revolt today that the reports to the effect that members 0 the guard had joined the mutineers muti were calab and that there was no truth in the reports that the mutineers muti had seized the arsenal and the forts the governor in his telegram said that many of the mutinous bailers bailors tried to escape in boats to the mainland but that they were captured and were brought back to cronstedt Cron stadt ho gave no estimate of the casualties the correspondent of the associated press who is on the ground says the officers estimate the casualties at which is certainly very conservative in view of the reports brought by refugees who entered the town from the mainland at this critical juncture there is no attempt made in government circles to minimize the seriousness of ali a mutiny and it Is admitted that it the battalion of artillerists joined the sailors in open revolt the mutinous spirit must have been contagious tag ious it la admitted that while the cossacks and guards stood the severe test of shooting upon their fellows in another branch of the service there is tear that the mutiny will have a bad effect on the morale of the troops which already has been badly shaken by the revolutionary propaganda As soon as the news of the mutiny was received here the seventeenth and eighteenth equipages equi pages of sailors of the guard were locked la their barracks and the barracks surrounded hy coa i sacks the sailors were furious with rage and shouted from the windows that they were ready to join their mui comrades during the rioting today machine guns were employed against the mutinous sailors who had been joined by a battalion of artillery men from the fortress and which raised the total number of mutineers muti to the sailors say their chief grievances are poor food and clothing and an insufficient amount of liberty from barracks boughs roughs joined in the pillage the workmen did not participate in st many of the workmen and the civilian population have either fled or are trying to flee from the city and docka are piled high with baggage and house hold effects the fires are still glowing in the market and another group of buildings the stores and houses are boarded up and troops arc patr ding the streets searchlights from warships and torpedo boats in the harbor are flashing across the waters in order to aid launches in their search tor individual who are trying to escape to tho mainland by boat though a majority of the mutineers muti have surrendered several hundred are still holding out in the eastern section of the town they have thrown up barricades but are surrounded and machine guns are posted at all the streets leading to their strongholds strong holds it is expected that the remainder of the muter will submit tomorrow |