Connecticut western news., 1879-12-31
The Moscow Pot.
LONG AND THE WORK REQUIRED TO BUILD IT,

A Berlin correspOndentot an English paper says At last Russian letters and papers are allowed to convey more de- tails relative to the attempt on the life of the Czar of Russia. Though at distance of two miles from the station, the spot where the attempt was made is situate in a densely inhabited part of the suburbs. In September one of Sthe wooden cottages commanding the rail way, 160 feet distant from the metals, was purchased by young man profess ing to be an artisan from Samara. He was evidently in hurry to close, and without any bargaining paid the 25O paper rubles asked by the proprietor. Immediately after, he moved into the house, accompanied by young wo- man and two associates. He held little intercourse with his neighbors, and led a quiet and retired life. His furniture was scanty, and his food supplied by the poorest shops in the neighborhood. On the rare occasions whom 9 messenger OF neighbor entered the house, lamps were seen burning before the sacred images, and the walls were found covered with portraits of the Emperor and E npress, as be fits an orthodox Russian.
 About the middle of October the new tenants commenced to sink we'll in their courtyard, telling the neighbors that they required large quantity of water for trade purposes. As has since khn lu tnSo count for the quantities of sand removed from shaft dug ina wooden shed form ing part of the premises. Tais shaft was driven to the depth of five fset. From the bottom of the shaft subser- ranean passage was bored in the direc- ton of the railway, the sand being placed in the courtyard and soms of the cottage rooms. This passage was 160 feet long and about 3 feet high. It was scientifically constructed, bricked throughout, and where it reached the ide of the embankment widened into Q spacious hole for. the reception of the explosive material. For the latter, py- roxiline seems to have been selected. Being placed at the destined spot little time before the imperial train was due, it seems to have frozen in the severe cold of the last few days, which ac- counts for the comparative small mis- chief done. From the pyroxline wire was laid down to an electric battery con- structed on tho same primitive princi- ples, and placed in the wooden shed in the courtyard.
 While the Emperor, who thanks to an inversion of tho usual order of the trains, had passed the fatal spot un- scathed, was paying homage before the wooden statue of the Virgin at the Krem- lin Gate, the second train reache d the spot opposite the miners' house, and was blown into the air. Those of the railway servants who escaped unhurt immediately ran to the next telegraph station to inform the police, but the wires wore cut all round, and if was an hour before the first con- stables appeared on the scene. No trace of the criminals was detected, the only evidence left being the battery and 0 morsel of food.
 As no one dared to acquaint the Em. peror with what had occurred, his Maj esty learned the incident only on the following morning. Two mora days elapsed before the g.. Petersburg press were permitted to allude to the event. Their articles are unanimous in express ing horror at the crime, and thankful ness for the special Interpretation of Providence manifested.
 The labor expended by the oouspira. tors in digging the Moscow mine is truly astonishing. Taking the length of the subtsrranesu passage at the fig ures given above, the earth dug out cannot have weighed less than 12, ,00C hundred weights. If we assume five minutes to be required for three men to dig out and bring to the surface qusn- tity weighing 40 pounds, 2, 800 hours, some four months must have been needed to construct the entire passage. Even this gives no idea of the amount of work done. It being alleged that the entite passage, as we'll as the cavern at it's termination, was bricked, no fewer than 12, 900 bricks can have been wanted to accomplish this work. To perform it without light or air for length of 160 feet must have boon no trifljng matter. Again, as it cannot have taken less than 50 wagons to convey the bricks to the revolutionary cottage, the cunning of it's denizens in achieving the exploit with out arousing suspicion is one of the most marvellous features of the case. Nor are the art and tact displayed in the arrangement of tho mine to be lost sight of. Where the soil consisted of loose saud, the gallery, according to the most approved technical rules, was supported by boards maintained by triangular fcames, which could not havs been brought to the spot without carts and horses. If add that ths passage ter Ininasod at five feet from the railway em- bankment as to carry it under tho em- baukment might have caused some train to break in before the time appointed, tho reader will be able to conceive ths prodigious amount of talent and work devoted to the undertaking. From these aud similar circumstances, no5 few Russians are led to imagine that there i more in this subterranean matter than appears on tho surface.
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