A Russian Tragedy.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 164, 15 July 1904, Page 4

A Russian Tragedy.

Advices from Kieff contained the following For a week a small boa! bearing the dead actors in a hideous tragedy has been drifting over the placid waters of the Caspian Sea. On May 4 a Turcoman herdsman mar Krasinoodsk saw a tiny boat, apparently derelict, drifting in the distauee. Approaching the shore, tiic I oat grounded on a far-away sanvdpit. The Turcoman, eager to seize anything of value in the abandoned craft, waded out to it. The lirs't sight of the targo caused him Jo rush bacK tv) his .encampment and summon his fellow j tribesmen. In the hott>n of the boat, deatl and barm; by i ■>» sut. lay a young woman, an 1 Sesi-rle ' .'twas a ghas-tiy heap of remains vvhirh had lost oil semblance *o huni.oiiiv. Examination proved the he -.p to be the remains cf two yonn »; i nil.::

Afraid .hat 1 !:ey might be accused of responsibility for the tragjdy, the Turcomans were on the point of flight when they noticed a s i; j> ol written paper thus revealed its terrible

ret "My husband left us in the boat. It drifted out when 1 was asleep. This is the fifth day. The children have eaten tine fish. God help me ! The devil puts in my iuail terrlblo thoughts. The children will 'die ill any case." The unfortunate woman had sacrificed her children in the vain effort to save her own life.