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'■ :y ffitf Ci . . i x'f L. lU illb |B[; HL>n Dipon liiiii JLuuJ jr _________ _______ RUSSIAN STRIKE.nS GHOT DOWN OR SABERED ESY SOLDIERS Or the e.yperor. % ~%EN AM CHILDREN SLAIM SHARE ~H7 TATE OF THE MEN !N THE r 1. 3T CiG CLASH CF 7 A REVOLUTION. A THE AHZ'fiZR OF THE CZAs? WITH BALL AND BAYONET HIS TROOPS REPLY TO PLEAD ING OF HIS PEOPLE. St. Petersburg, Jan. 23. ft is said 2,3”0 persons were killed snd 5.0C0 wounded Sunday In the center of the city all was quie: at 10 a. re., but ferment contin ues in the outlying industrial quarters. The Official Messenger announces that up to 8 o'clock Sunday night the total killed was 7G; wounded, 233. St. Petersburg, Jan. 23. —Sunday was a day of unspeakable horror in St. Petersburg. The strikers of Saturday, goaded to desperation by a day of violence, fury and bloodshed, are in a state of open insurrection against the government. A condition almost bor deiing on civil war exists in the terror stricken Russian capital. The city is snder martial law, with Prince Yosil chikoif as commander of over 50,000 ©f the emperor’s crack guards. Troops are bivouacking in the streets apd at various places on the Nevsky Pros pect, the main thoroughfare of the city. On the island of Yassiii Ostrov and in the industrial sections, infuriat ed men have thrown up barricades, which they are holding. The empress dowager has hastily sought safety at Tsarskoe Selo, where Emperor Nich olas 11. is living. Minister cf the Interior Sviatopolk- Mirsky presented to his majesty Sat urday night the invitation of the work men to appear at the winter palace Sunday afternoon and receive their petition; but the emperor's advisors already had taken a decision to show a firm and resolute front, and the em-, peror’s answer to 100,000 workmen try ing to make their way to the palace square Sunday was a solid array of troops who met them with rifle, bayo net and saber. The priest, Gopon, the. deader and idol of the men, in his golden, vestments, holding aloft the cross and ma r ching at the head of thousands of workmen through the Narva gate, miraculously escaped a volley which laid low half a hundred persons. The figures of the total num ber killed or wounded here, at the Moscow gate, at various bridges and Islands and at the winter palace vary. The best estimate is 500, although there are exaggerated figures placing the number as high as 5,000. WOMEN AND CHILDREN SHOT BY SOLDIERS OF THE CZAR. Many men were accompanied by their wives and children and in the confu sion which left no time for discrimina tion, the latter shared the fate of the men. The troops, with the exception ©I a single regiment, which is reported to have thrown down its arms, remain ed loyal and obeyed orders. But the blood which crimsoned the snow has fired the brains and passions of the strikers and turned women as well as seen into wild beasts and the cry of the infuriated populace is for ven geance. The sympathy of the middle class is with the workmen. If Father Gopon, who is the master mind of the movement, aimed at open volution, he managed the affair like a genius to break the faith of the peo ple in “the little father,” who they were convinced and whom Father Gopon had taught them to believe, would right their wrongs and redress their grievances. Gorky, the Russian Socialist, ex pressed the opinion that Sunday’s work will break this faith of the peo ple in the emperor. He said Sunday evening: “Today inaugurated revolution in Russia. The emperor’s prestige will be irrevocably shattered by the shed ding of innocent blood. He has alienat ed himself forever from his people. Gopon told the people to believe that •a appeal direct to the ‘little father’ would be herded. They have been *nd°ceived. Gopon is now convinced fcha -acefui means have failed and the only remedy is force. The first blood has been shed and more will be. It is now the people against the op- ! pressors—and the battle will be fought to the bitter end.” MILITARY AUTHORITIES HAD FIRM GRIP ON CITY STREETS, j | The military authorities had a firm j irrip on every artery in the city. At ifybreak regiments of guards, caval- rj and infantry held every bridge m -ass the frozen Neva, the network of canals which interlace the city, and the gates leading from the industrial section, while in the palace square, at the storm center, were massed dragoon regiments, infantry and Cossacks of the guards. Barred from the bridges and gates men, women and children crossed the frozen river and mals on the ice by twos and threes, hurrying to the pal ace square, where they were sure the emperor would be present to hear them. But the street approaches to the square were cleared by rifle vol leys and Cossack charges. Men and women, infuriated to frenzy by the loss of loved ones, cursed the soldiers while they retreated. Men harrangued the crowds, telling them that the emperor had failed them and that the time had come to act. Men began to build barricades in the Nevsky Prospect and ot other points, using any material that came to hand and even chopping down telegraph poles. Fighting meantime continued at va rious places, soldiers Volleying i.nd charging the mob. The whole r ky was in a state of panic. Women v e running through the streets see! big lost members of their families, sev eral barricades were carried by the troops. Towards 8 o’clock in the evening the crowds, exhausted, began to dis perse, leaving the military in posses sion. As they retreated up the Nevsky Prospect the workmen put out all the lights. The little chapel at the Narva gate was wrecked. EVERY WEARER OF A UNIFORM FOUND ALONE WAS MOBBED. On the Kaminostov island all the lights were extinguished. Svery man wearing the uniform of the emperor who was found alone was mobbed. A general was killed on the Nicholas bridge and a dozen officers were seized, stripped of their epaulets and deprived of their swords. It is rumored that M. Witte will be appointed dictator Monday, but the report has not been confirmed. The authorities, while they seem to recognize the magnitude of the crisis that confronts the dynasty 0 and the autocracy on account of Sunday’s events, apparently are paralyzed for the moment. An official statement was promised at midnight at which hour it was an nounced it had been postponed until Monday. Intense indignation is bound to be aroused all over Russia. The work men and revolutionists expect news from Moscow and other big centers, where the troops are not of the same class as the guards regiments of St. Petersburg. A member of the emperor’s house hold is quoted as saying Sunday that this conflict will end the war v ith Japan and that Ruusia will have a constitution or Emperor Nicholas will lose his head. The Warsaw and Baltic railway is reported to have been torn up for a mile and a half, but the damage is said to have been repaired. There are rumors of trouble in Fin land and disaffection of the troops. With darkness it was feared the mob might begin to loot and pillage and even burn, but beyond the break ing of a few windows in the Nevsky Prospect and the pillaging of fruit shops little disorder was reported. Most of the theaters are closed. FIRING CEASED AT MIDNIGHT EXCEPT CN VASHiLI ISLAND. By midnight the sound of firing had ceased except on Vashili Ostrov is land, where the troops met a renewed demonstration with several volleys. In the meantime the strike leaders assembled and decided to continue the struggle with arms. No day was fixed for the next demonstration. The strikers are so excited, however, that trouble is expected Monday. At a meeting Sunday night, the fol lowing message from M. Gorky, the novelist, was read: “Beloved associates: We have no emperor. Innocent blood lies be tween him and the people. Now be gins the people’s struggle for free dom. May it prosper. By blessing upon you all Would I might be with you tonight.; but I have much to do.” A workman who was introduced to speak in Father Gopon’s name made a fiery speech. He appealed to Liber als to furnish arms. The meeting adopted a letter de nouncing the officers and regiments that, fired upon the workmen and an other letter extolling the Moscow regi ments, which refused to fire. The most harrowing scenes of the day occurred around the Palace square. This enormous place back of the winter palace is surrounded by gardens fronting the admiralty and by a vast semi-circular building contain ing the offices of the genera*’ staff, the ministry of finance and the foreign office. In the center of the block is cut an arched gateway surmounted by a bronze quadriga. The gateway serve.-, as an entrance to the grand Morskaia, one of the most fashionable streets of the city, which crosses the Nevski Prospect. Beyond the semi tircular building is a wide space lead ing to the Moikai canal. CROWDS BEGAN GATHERING . EARLY ON PALACE SQUARE. Early in the morning the crowds began gathering at the Palace square, which presented the appearance of a military encampment, being filled with cavalry and infantry. Pickets were stationed at all the entrances of the palace and cavalry patrols kept prome nailers moving along the sidewalk. Sleigh traffic continued uninterrupted till the time came for the cavalry to BATTLEJf KOLPii HUNDREDS OF RUSSIAN STRIK ERS SAID TO HAVE BEEN KILLED OR WOUNDED. r (MARCHING ON CZAR'S PALACE WORKMEN INTENDED TO PRE SENT COPY OF THEIR PETI TION TO EMPEROR. j;:;: 7 l;.vl by the troops THE "-.TTUNG AND HELPLESS V, C;iKMI:N SURROUNDED AND SLAIN LIKE SHEEP. r St. .Tan. 25. —“The ras sals got another bath in blood.” Thus spoke a high military officer, describing a terrible scene he witness ed Tuesday morning. Other officers sneeringly called the slaughter “the battle of Kolpino.” Between 20,000 and 25,000 strikers set out from the town of Kolpino. sev enteen miles from here, to march about ten miles to Tsarskoe Selo, where they thought the czar was at his country palace. The strikers carried a copy of their petition, which they were still determined to present to his majesty himself. Five miles from Kolpino they met a body of troops drawn up to receive them, just as last Sunday Grand Duke Vladimir most advantageously disposed his forces in this city to shoot down the petition ers. The result was the same; for when the men from Kolpino attempt ed to advance they were massacred. Since Sunday a considerable num ber of these Kolpino workmen had got possession of government rifles, and undoubtedly they were prepared to advance, not like sheep to the slaughter, but with deliberate inten tion, so far as it was possible to carry it out, to force their way into the czar’s presence. In a word, they were more rebels than strikers or petition ers. Workmen Ordered to Retire. Early in the morning the workmen proceeded along the high road to Tsarkoe Selo. After they had advanc ed five miles they found a regiment of infantry, supported by a half battery of artillery, awaiting their arrival. They were ordered to retire, but malt ing some show of force, they contin ued to advance until they had come within point blank range of the troops. Then a succession of volley.- stopped them and threw them in disorder They fled precipitately, leaving the ground strewn with their dead T.atcr they tried to form up anew, but in fantrv, quickly following their advant age, pursued them, pouring in succes sive volleys which drove them in a panic into Kolpino. Nor was this enough warning, pun ishment and vengeance to satisfy the Russian commander. He ordered his soldiers to surround the’ trembling, ill armed workmen and poured volley after volley into them. How many were killed and wounded will never be known. It must be hundreds, prob ably thousands. When the slaughter ended the commander of the troops re ported to his superiors here: “Quiet has been restored at Kolpino.” Father Gopon has disappeared. The rebel strikers have no leader. On the other hand, Grand Duke Vladimir is pouring more troops into the city. ANTICIPATE TROUBLE RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES LOOK FOR SERIOUS AFFRAY TO OCCUR AT MOSCOW. r ■ |r St. Petersburg, Jan. 25. —St. Peters burg will be declared in a state of siege Wednesday. General Trepoff, until recently chief of police of Moscow*, has been appoint ed governor general of St. Petersburg and has taken up quarters in the win ter palace. Strangely enough the only precedent is the case of General Trepoff ! s father during the reign of nihilistic terrorism under Alexander I. and it is also a strange coincidence that unsuccessful attempts were made upon the lives of both. General Tre poff is a man of great energy, but the measures he adopted at Moscow for suppressing student demonstrations in December last provoked much resent ment and the revolutionists recently condemned him to death The aspect of the Russian capital is decidedly more calm. Business, which had been at a complete standstill, has been resumed upon a limited scale. The employes in a few small factories went to work Tuesday and the crowds of strikers in the streets were dimin ished. The troops in evidence were not so numerous as on Monday and a more confident feeling exists in official circles that the energetic measures which have been inaugurated will en sure the safety and quiet of the city. Beneath the surface, however, the ferment continues and the public nerv- sness and apprehension as to future developments is still unallayed. Secret meetings of different olasses in opposition to the existing order of things were held in various places dur ing the afternoon and evening, but the divergent elements which were sudden ly brought together by the tragic events of last Sunday are advancing cn diverging plans and no common ground of action yet has been found. In the meantime the police are active ly searching out the leaders. Many Arrests Made. Three well known Russian authors and a prominent editor were arrested Tuesday night and the prisons are filled with agitators, rowdies and stu dent orators. Such methods may re sult in terrorism Wednesday, but the consensus of opinion is that the imme diate future action of the agitators de pends upon what occurs in Moscow and other large cities, where the work men are beginning to strike. Over 100,000 men are now out in the old capital of the empire. A telephone message from Moscow at midnight said there had been no disorder there as yet. There will be a big demonstration In Moscow Wednesday and it is feared it will be accompanied by bloodshed. The situation confronting the military authorities at Moscow is much more serious than at St. Petersburg. Out of over 1,000,000 inhabitants of Mos cow, over two-thirds are workmen, in cluding ah exceedingly rough and turbulent element. The troops there are fewer and the city does not lend itself, like St. Petersburg, to natural barracks to prevent the congestion of men. The center of tbp town has no plazas and no canals, and hills and narrow streets make it difficult for troops to operate. Only the gates piercing the walls of the old Chinese town, which surrounds the Kremlin, would afford the military natural places to bar dem onstrators. At Kovno and VJlna, where strikes also have been begun, the workmen are following the St. Petersburg plan of inarching about the city and induc ing or forcing other workmen to leave their employment. Great Crop of Sensational Rumors. The windows and doors of practical ly every shop and residence in St. Pe tersburg are boarded lip, and at mid night the streets, as on Monday night, were completely deserted except for troops. During the day there was a great crop of sensational rumors, in cluding stories of strikers marching on Kolpini to seize the small arms fac tory there and of the assassination of General Fullon, prefect of St. Peters burg, all of which, on investigation, have turned out to be false. The in habit.? nts have again been warned tc remain indoors. It is not known definitely whether Father Gopon, the leader of the work men, is in Moscow or in St. Petersburg. A proclamation said to emanate from him has been distributed indicating thai he has gone over body and soul t-i I'ne Social Democrats. The proclamation declares that since the emperor and the emperor’s ministers have refused to listen to the people’s grievances and fired upon them, the government has outlawed it self so that every man’s hand should be against it and calls upon the peo ple to stay the outlawry and destroy the government root and branch. It urge? the men to use bombs, dynamite* and anything else, and invites sol die's to break their oath of fealtv. The destruction of government prop erty i? recommended, but the procla mation requests the followers of Father Gopon to spare private prop erty and ransack only shops contain ing victuals and arms and urges all to continue the fight until they succeed in obtaining a national assembly. Escaped the “THigrht Have Been.” “Yes,” said the gentle optimist, “I confess I am superstitious euough to wear a lucky stone.” “And do you really think it gives you luck?” “Oh, I am quite sure of it.” “Did you have it with you yester day?” “Certainly.” “And in spite of it you lost a five dol lar gold piece, tore your coat by catch ing it on a nail, sprained your ankle and failed to (dose the business deal of which you expected so much.” “True,” replied the gentle optimist, “but think of what might have hap pened'to me if I hadn’t had my lucky stone.”—New 7 York Press. 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