Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1904 — RUSSIAN SHIP BLOWN UP. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RUSSIAN SHIP BLOWN UP.

Transport Ycnesci Rims Upon Mine ,nt Port Arthur. The Russian Jorpedo transport Yenisei was blown up by a mine at the harbor of Port ArtLtsr Friday. The vessel went to the bottom mid four officers and nine; ty-one men were killed of. drowned. Among the officers lost is Captain Ste-

panoff. This disaster came as unexpectedly as the others that have _so seri-ously'cT-IppTedthe Russian fleet and left the officers and men wearing the Czar’s colors in a condition of mind that borders on panicky’. The Yenisei was built at the Baltic works in- 1899. She was of 2,500 displacement and could make fifteen knots.

Her armament consisted of five twelvepounders and six three-pounder quick-fir-ing guns. Russians fired upon the British steamer Fu Ping as she was leaving Port Arthur. Three Qhinese members of the crew were killed. The Russians hastened to make an apology and declared it a most ifiifortunute accident. The Russian transport Surgari was wrecked in the battle off Chemulpo. It had just reached there with troops to be landed nt Seoul. AH the survivors of the Variag, Koreitz and the transport Sungari were taken on board th'e British, French and Italian war ships off Chemulpo. Two Japanese merchant ships, Zensho Maru and Nakanoura Maru, while on their wny to Otaru, on the western const of Yezo Island, from Sakata, were fired on by four Russian men-of-whr off the coast of Aomori prefecture nnd thp Naknnoura Maru was sunk, while the Zensho Mani had a narrow escape. A neutrality proclamation has beeh is sued by President Roosevelt, wanting citizens against enlistment, fitting out privateers, or carrying arms to the belligerents.

THE CZAREVITCH.