"Supplementary reports of the commander of the _Almaz_, forwarded by the post commandant at Vladivostok, state that the transport _Kamtchatka_ was seriously damaged." "The _Almaz_ had Lieutenant Mochalin and four sailors killed and ten sailors wounded. There is no news as to those who were saved or those who perished on the sunken warships." The arrival of the _Almaz_ has thus been described by an eye witness at Vladivostok: The _Almaz_, which arrived at her anchorage here Monday evening, May 29, bore scars of the battle. Her mizzen mast was shot away, and one of her smokestacks was pierced by a cannon shot. But the _Grozny_, though engaged for several hours in a running fight at short range with a large Japanese destroyer, showed no signs of the fray. After her commander, Captain Andriffski, had been wounded, and an officer and three men had been killed, the _Grozny_ succeeded in sinking her opponent with a luckily placed shot, and reached Vladivostok without further adventure. For two days Vladivostok had been buzzing with rumor and excitement. The fact that a battle between the rival fleets was imminent, if Rozhdestvensky was not already at hand-grips with Togo, was made known through telegrams from Europe, and when it was learned Monday morning that a Russian cruiser had been sighted off Askold Island, headed for the harbor, the city was filled with the wildest reports of every nature. [Sidenote: Story of Russian Survivors] The inhabitants clustered in the streets, thronged the waterside or climbed the frowning hills overlooking the harbor for a better view. Finally, toward 6 o'clock in the evening, a graceful cruiser with two snowy-white stacks, shot in view at the entrance to the Golden Horn and rounded to an anchorage beneath the bristling guns of the curving promontory. From afar the broken stump of her mizzen-mast and a shot hole showing black upon the white paint of one stack indicated that the cruiser had encountered the Japanese. As the anchor chain rattled in the hawse holes the vessel wreathed itself in smoke--it was an admiral's salute in honor of Rear Admiral Von Jessen. Scarcely had the boom of the last cannon begun to echo from the surrounding hills when Von Jessen's flagship, the cruiser _Rossia_, answered the salute, and a minute later the guns of the fortress took up the cannonade. Excitement beyond description seized the thronging spectators, who, with frantic "huzzas," tossed high their caps. Citizens embraced each other and danced jubilantly upon the pier, while the crews of the ships in the harbor joined in wild cheering. In a thrice the boats were dropped from the davits, and in a moment the officers of the cruisers and torpedo boats in the harbor and the military officials from the fortress were swarming on board the _Almaz_ to learn news of the fight. [Sidenote: Saw Flagship Go Down]