The surgeons and Red Cross ambulances are busy. A night of terror is in prospect. The soldiers of the Preobrazhensky regiment, without any summons to disperse, shoot down the unfortunate people as if they were playing at bloodshed. They are almost all children, women, and young people. It is terrible.
Blood flows on all sides.
At 5 o'clock the crowd is driven back, cut down and repelled on all sides. The people, terror- stricken, fly in every direction. Scared women and children slip, fall, rise to their feet, only to fall again farther on. At this moment a sharp word of command is heard and the victims fall en masse. There had been no disturbances to speak of.