Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1904 — RUSSIANS SINK JAPANESE BARGE [ARTICLE]

RUSSIANS SINK JAPANESE BARGE

Soldiers of the Czar Bait the Foe and Both Side Suffer Loss. St. Petersburg, April 26.—A Japanese war barge, loaded with an unknown number of soldiers, was sunk by a shot from Russian field guns on the Yaki river in the severe skirmish of last Friday. Only meager accounts of the fight were received here. Captain Smeizln, the commander of the Russian detachment, the operations of which brought on the skirmish, has died of his wounds. Three Russian soldiers were killed and thirteen others were wounded, beside* Lieutenant Pushkin. The Japanese casualties are unknown.