Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-07

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the further particulars of our enterprise.
w, found that the supply of dynamite
we had was not sufficient. Goldcnberg
was to start Immediately for the South to
bring eighty pounds more and 200 rubles.
Poor Goldenberg seemed to have pre-
sentiment that this was to be his last
Journey, that he was never to see us any
more. With tears in his eyes he prayed
TO be excused from this duty. But as
there were special reasons for his going
he had to obey orders and go.
In the meanwhile our agents, disposed
along the line at short distances from
Simpherepol to Moscow, telegraphed to
us that the czar was to leave the first
named city on the 18th. A day later a
telegram was received announcing the ar
rest of Goldenberg. There remained but
four days till the passage of the czar.
We had to risk all or leave all. We de-
cided for the former.
PREPARING FOR THE EXPLOSION.
The whole night we spent in filing
large copper cylinder, seven feet long and
six inches in diameter, with dynamite.
Though l had got used to dynamite at
our factory in St. Petersburg, still now |
was unable to bear with it. l and all my
companions were attacked with violent
headaches, giddlness, sickness and nau-
sea. l bore up as long as l could, but at
O'Clock in the morning [ became in
sensible, fell to the ground and was car
ried off to bed. Sophie Perovsky alone
bore all to the end, and worked all night
until the whole cylinder was properly
filled with dynamite. The next day we
placed the cylinders into the shaft, at it's
farthest end, armed them with capsules,
wires were fastened to each mine, the
other ends of which communicated with
spiral Rumkorff we had hidden In
large trunk full of linen and clothes in
Perovsky's bedroom. Thence another
pair of wires communicated with
a commutator, placed together
with Creme galvanic battery
in that angle of the barn overlook
ing the railway, which l have men
toned at the outset of my narrative.
Here small loopholc was cut out in the
wall whence one could overlook both
railway tracks. After trying the wires
several times we filled the pit under
meath the house as well as we could,
nailed fast all the boards of the floor in
the first story and were now at length
ready for action. On the 18th there came
a dispatch from our agent at Simphero
pol, telling us that the car had left for
Moscow He constantly changes trains,
cars and routes. The published plan of
his journey is false. Three important
trains, exactly similar, are sent off in va
rious directions. This was what our
agent telegraphed us. But in order to
give the reader an idea of the difficulties
we had to conquer l must sketch in few
words the mnnner of travelling adopted
by the car, just as our various agents
described it. First of all, as [ have already
mentioned, two routes were drawn out by
the ministry of the imperial court-a
false one, published in the papers, and a
true one, held in the profoundest secrecy.
Nevertheless the latter was we'll known
to u.s. The newspapers were forbidden
to publish anything about the cars jour
ney beyond what appeared in the Official
MESSENGER. While the czar was passing
through a telegraph district, the opera
tors in that district were forbidden to for
ward any private messages whatever
During the passage of the czar's train the
stations were cleared of all persons not
belonging to the railway officials. The
car was accompanied on the road by two
other trains besides his own. On small
stations in the middle of the steppe he
passed from one train to the other, from
one car to the other, 'fying like Bird"
one of our agents wrote. If he stopped
in some town by the way he always sent
on his open carriage with his coachman,
his dog and his second self Ia certain Gen.
Annenkoff, who resembled the late car
in most striking way), while he himself
took seat, unostentatiously, in one OF
the following carriages, by the side
of one of his generals. Thus it
happened at Kharkhoff, for instance,
that the troops rendered military honors
to. and the crowd cheered the carriage in
which but the dog and the cook of the
car were seated On each side of the
track soldiers and police offers are post
ed at hundred yards distance from one
another with the order of arresting any
body who should try to approach nearer
than 700 feet to the rails. At night the
whole line is lighted up with torches and
burning woodpiles. Two hours before
the passage of the imperial train, the en-
gineers of the road inspect, themselves,
the track and examine with their own
hands all the switches. Such were the
extraordinary measures Of precaution
which the "beloved father" was taking
to travel among his s'dear children!''
Neither did we neglect to take such pre-
cautions as we deemed advisable. Each
or us always carried pistol and dag
ger on his person. Before the entrance
to our house we laid mine which must
have blown up anyone who entered with
any hostile purpose. Far from this
house, in the center of the city, we had
got rooms where we could hide for some
time without any danger of detection.
The question now suggested to us was
what was to be done if the car should
change trains at some small station
beyond the point where our last agent is
posted and within the limits of the tele-
graph district of Moscow, so that no
message to that effect could reach us any
more. The only way of surrounding this
difficulty was to send man with tele-
graphic apparatus to the last station
before Moscow at which the imperial
train was to stop, to cut the telegraph
wires and direct one of them to our
| house, so that message from our agent
might reach us directly. We bought an
apparatus accordingly, but the plan was
nevertheless abandoned, the time being
now too short. Thus there were three
flaws in our plan-the mine ended seven
feet short of where it ought to have
ended. there was not enough dynamite in