Show COSSACKS KILLED AND LIMBS CUT i n i wild russian mob mutilates the bodies of victims st petersburg again isolated from outside world hukum courland russia sunday dec 17 via stettin prussia dec 19 A special staff correspondent of the associated press who has just arrived here learns that the mobs of lithun ians and Esth onlan yesterday attacked a hundred cossack Coss acl and dragoons the only military force stationed in hukum the mobs after wild fighting 1 killed the soldiers to the last man cut off their anus and legs and ripped their bodies the streets were with bodies and parts six hundred troops arrived here this morning st petersburg dec 18 despite the statement that two army corps are being sect to the baltic it Is learned that no such number of troops is available the government has sent two regiments from st petersburg in reply to the frantic appeals for reinforcements but it Is considered loo dangerous to deplete the garrison of the capital any further during the crisis and the government can only await the arrival 0 the cossacks and other troops which are being hufled forward by general irom manchuria in the meantime the governments fear Is that the rebellion which Is extending southward to the polish frontier may arouse the poles to an armed uprising reliable details regarding the establishment lish ment 0 the so called republic ot have at last arrived the workmen s socialistic organizations joined by troops took possession of the city and with the aid of militia armed with pistols and axes established a government or federated council as the executive committee wa called this council issued decrees which the authorities were perfectly powerless to resist the council turned off the electricity from the houses on the ground that it only benefited the rich while allowing 11 to burn in the streets sheia it benefited the people and declared war on the thieves which have been terrorizing the city when a lobber was captured he was placed under a trip hammer with the threat that it would be dropped unless he revealed the whereabouts 0 the booty this usually was and the recovered plunder was ic turned to its owners two notorious robbers were hanged in the public square CAVALRY AMBUSHED province Pio vince of courland tins sia undated by mail to st petersburg ers burg dec 19 frightful stories are pouring in from the interior where desperate fighting has occurred between the troops and insurgents revolting tales are told of the barbarities practiced on the german land eloids who are moie detested by the itts than aio the russians in a fight near bakum fourteen dragoons were killed and sixteen were wounded it is estimated that the ansur gents lost men killed A squadron of cavalry was ambush ed and badly cut up near crossant Gros sant and limped into ellau with its wainder wain ded |