Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-04-20
NihiliStS Ear. ed

| EihilistS Hars ed.
ST. PETER BURG, April l5.-All the
Nhilists, except tie woIhan Hcssy
Helfmann, cond mned to death for con-
nection with the Cars assassination,
namely, Russakof. Michailoff, Kibalts-
chitisch, Jeliaboff and Sophie Pieoffski,
were hanged at 10 O'Clock this morning.
MicAailof'frope brok kotwice Order @as
J not disturbed Fhere was an immense
concourse Of spectators. The appeals
of Russakoff and Michaiioff were sub
mttcd to the Gar, but he replied the
sentence Of the court must be carried
| out.
The condemned were escorted from
the fortress to the place OF execution
by Cossacks and infantry, with drums
beating and ffes playing. Detach-
mems of all the regiments of guards in
St. Petersburg surrounded the scaifold.
All the prisoners received the ministra-
tions of priests and kissed the cross
and each other They were very firm
except Russakof, who tainted at the
last moment.
MANY thousand people passed the
night at the place ofexerution in order
to obtain a good view The execution
er was a reprieved convict. The pris0-
ners were conveyed from the fortress in
two carts with their backs to the horses
and hands tied to boards on their
breasts bearing the word 'regicide' in
large letters. After hanging twenty
minutes the bodies were cut down and
taken to cemetery outside the city.
When the prisoners mounted the
scaffold the head of each was covered
with It sack They were then placed
upon stools. which were drawn away
and they were left to strangle.
A man has been captured having in
his possession unlawful prints He de-
clned to answer any questions. He
had been made to stand upon a chair
at the Prefecture of Police, and all the
house porters and the general public
have been invited to pass through the
apartment to see if any of them could
indentify him.
Yankton Feople Appealing for Help
III l0b / DlSUFeS5.
YANKroN, d. r., April IA be CON-
mttee of citizens yesterday issued an
address saying there is need of immedi-
ate aid to put stop to the suffering
caused bv the late floods in the Mssou-
ri river They say: For two weeks
large areas of bottom lands, extending
many hundred miles along each side of
the river, have been submerged by wat
er and heavy masses of ice. A large
share of this land is, or was, we'll sot-
tied. All the stock is lost, dwellings,
churches, stores, school houses, even
whole villages are demolished and
swept away In many instances groups
of families who had taken refuge in the
larger buildings are still imprisoned in
the g0rged ice, and cannot be reached
by the most determined efforts. Care
fu estimates show at least seven
thousand people are driven from tLeir
homes. OF this number at least balf
lose everything but the clothing they
had on and will need aid from one to
tn ee months.
II has been ascprtained that the
gorge which has caused the food upon
the bottom land extends from Tankton
to VermiIion, filling the river channel
over thirty miles with solid ice, and
rising in places to the height of thirty
feet above the surface Of the water. |
Nothing but extreme warm weather OF
the use Of powerful explosive will re-
IaoSo II hundred and thirty neoolp |
were rescued from Mavsville Tuesday
night. where they had been surrounded
by water and ice for two weeks. They
are being brought TO Yankton, There
are twenty families in a river bend
some fifteen miles below here who can
not be rescued on account of field of
heavy ice surrounding them. They
have not been heard from since the
food covered the bottom. Great anX-
iety is felt for their safety A party of
men who have been working for eight
davs in fruitless effort to reach this
bend returned this morning, refitted
themselves and have gone back to their
heroic labor. Two parties are also en-
to work their way through
the ice to Mckling, where about fifty
persons are still imprisoned When
the bottoms overho we'd a vast amount
of fontng ice was thrown upon them,
and through these fields of ice, which
stand from FIVE to twenty feet in height,
it is difficult and often impossible to
pass.
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