Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-08-01
lsartnuun's Revelations.

| lsartinuun's Revelations.
Saturdays New York Herald gives much
space to communication from Hartmann. the
Nhil!st, Stating the part he played 10 the at
t,mpt to blow up the Gar on board raia on
| the railroad near Moscow 10 the latter part OF
| 1879. us says:
"fhe idea of using dynamite in taking off The
| Cz;r had simultaneously suggested itself to
| many nlods. At length our agents returned
from their rcoou1o!ri1g expedition. Ole OF
| thom had found house for sale 10 Moscow, sit.
uated on the outskirts of The city. 100 feet dis
| tnns from tho track OF the Southern railroad by
which the Cz was to pass ou his way from tie
, tho Urimea 10 the capital.
This house the Administrative Counc;l ro-
solved to purohsss. and wss instructed to 70
imm 'dlately to Moscow after having selected
suCh co operators as WIRE 6t to take part 10 go
scrious business Sophie Psroysky, Golden
| burg tho ssmo who later committed suicide in
tho Sc. Petersburg fortress and two others
vtluuteered 10 sclompnny me. Sophie PeroV
ekY aud myself preceded the others 90 the 7,h
Of September, both iu diEguise-I as q young
Russian merchant, SukhorukoE By name, she
as my G'te
"Ths house was OF length purchased. The
last cfthe three dodgers occupying he lower story
Ind not yet left the premises, and already NC
had hired TWO woikmon to dig large hole near
tha stovo Of seven feet by seVen. The earth
was theowa out into the yard. Of oourso the
ueghboTs camo immediately to Inquire what
We were a5aut. All suspicious vanished, how.
ever, when | explsoed 20 them that meant to
dig largo ics cellar under the house for storit
UP provisions for the Water.
hnp, unf =. ~
following m.notr: At 5 o. m. We descended
into the oeIlsr and worked unt when half ao
hour was allowed Tor tea. Then We worked ill
dipuer. which Was served at .. N. From 4
.. u. We sgalo worked iii 7. when We drank
our eveoiug tea aud rested half 40 hour rhu
work was thee c>utinued TIL ii r midnight, &C
cMdiDg 10 the progress We had made during
the day. Only TWO # Us myself aud n,
5elug the anaItcsF 10 seture, worked 10 ,he
gallery E'ch Of Us hal 10 remaio ccoucblug
10 III. fluI, daup air OF the M ue for eight hours
C Cius@cutiyeiY.
ralo set in aod did immense damage. We
were nearly discovered. l. touk Us a whole
W., TO repair the damage dcoe by the water
What We had to suffer duriug that iimc cso
soaroely describe. One OF cur comrades lost the
Use Of his iess, another was 50 racked by rhcu-
mstism that VIC were obliged 10 GARY him about
AID to feed hin. As soon as these two could
bs moved they were taken away durlog the
night sad lWo others, sent from 81. Petersburg,
took their places.
IS pie 7 Pro9sky did not show the least
sign vi ss,i uds or suffering, tu, she was grow
log daily !hluner, asd what ehe suff red We
could SEQ 10 her eYeS, though her iips never u.
tered oue word If Complaint. With almost III
prrHuman ltEgr W" succeeded In sdvsncir
seven feet il three days The end of tho shait
Wss Already ueer the fist pair of rails we had
to Gig yet Fl teen tch'. Bus here the traius
passrg overhead by the c0mmotiou they to,a-
.iuued rcudsred all further advsLc, Impossible.
We resolved, therefore, to pieroe tho last fifteen
feet with large steel bore which | bought in
the city. 1t would be 10 vain 10 attempt to
deacrlb. the efforts we made these last days of
our york. Nothing seemed now impossible to
Us The sh,tt vas GOV barely large enough for
a man to crawl into it on his stomach or on hil
back, And If is thus we worked. lying at full
lerg.h In the icy water, orsWliog over each
her like serpeDts, thiuking 20 logger of the
constant dagger which threatened u. Of beins
clflod SIlVe-iho last part of the Shaft not
being rocfed-aud bent ouy ou one purpose, to
Goish tho miae in time for the passage of cur
deadly foe.
"At leugth we fouud ourselves uudcr the
track. For assuring tho sucoess of the expo
sion it Was strictly speaking, nee: ssary to dig
out seven feet more. but cur TINA sud our
strength both failed US.
"ln tho mta1Hhie our agents, disposed
along the iipo al short distances from Simpler
opol TO Moscow, teleRrsphed to US that the
Gar %ss 10 leave the frs. named city 90 the
l6.h. There rtmalned bat four days till the
passage Of the Gar.
The whole night VIC spent 10 6Ilirg srse
copper cylioder. seven fee, lJng and oue half
foot 10 diameter, aith dynamite Though
bad got used 10 dynamite at our factory 10 St.
Petersburg, still now was unable to besr with
| il. | and all my Comrades we're attacked Hilh
| violent headaches, giddiuees. sickness AID
| Dausaa. bore up as long as could. bu. at
O'Clock ln The mcroing became iosansible, fell
| 20 the ground and VAS carried off to bed So
phie ProVsky alone bore ell 10 the end. aud
| worked all rixht uotil the whole cylinder was
properly filled with dynamite.
| "fhe n,xc doy We placed the cylinders toto
the shalt At It's lurthest cod. armed them with
csisu CO, wires were fastened to epch niue, the
other -nds OF which communicated 8i;n spiral
Ruuk uff we mad hddeu 10 large truck toll
ef nen and clothes in Peroesky's bed ROOM
The1cs another pair of sires oomnunica,cd
with o c)mmunicitor placed together with q
| Hreoe gaVaul, battery 10 hat angle of the barn
overlooking tae railway. Hers small loophole
| wss cut out in the wall, whence one could over.
| look both railway tracks,
| 'Oa the lG b there came dispatch from
| our agent at 6lnpherGpo telling Us that the