The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-03-15

tive presence - some safeguard against
the fury q the mob, Who threatened
them With slaughter and annihilati00.
On the morning of the 9th of April l
found means to diaguise myself - .
Russian lab0rer, and proceeded to the
AlexandrOwsk market place, at which
phase Ut rendezvous I found the rioters
engaged In trying to break open the
iron d0Ors Of large warehouse, aud the
military placed In front Of It behind
them. They had been using their Ut
most efforts ut that door the day before,
and their present exerti0ns proved
equally vain. Vexed ut their disap-
p0intment they sent for the fire engines,
with the object vi cutting the place.
The fire brigade came to the spot with
the engines; but fOrsOnlc reason or other
they refused to act, and soon returned
home. Tie riot lasted till 3 p. H., when
the mob was fred ut by u company Of
soldiers, and they dispersed in al direc-
lions, rushing ike nlatl for th>ir lives.
It Was not General DreMtcln who had
ordered the soldiers tn fire, but one VI
the officers, who was provoked by the
moi, and who had seen several " tue
soldiers assaulted l,y them. In giving
the order to fire he had acted on his own
responsibility, and was, in fact, immedi-
atcly placed under arrest. Five ri the
rioters were killed aud five wounded,
among the latter being two women.
About ) O'clock Oh that day l went
to the cO,ln,aiIdNnt Of the town, Gen.
Che,,lersin, and told him that | could
recognize many vi the rinEleu,ier- vi
the mob, and offered to- find them out ii
he wished To arrest item. Gen. Ivanoff
was present. Gen. C..eiIlcrsim told me
to " to the clict Oi police, NJ. Gubenet,
and went IT, his Residence but found
him absent. His adjutant, NJ. cherish,
AL sised me to SEE Nj. Levitski, chief Of
the gen(larrnes, but he was also away
from home. On the 18th of April 10.
S. We were informed that the rioters
were still engaged in their work Of de-
vastatiOn, and were assembled ut some
village u few miles from kieff, wreck
ing and pIundering the houses Of the
tein tn inform him Of the fact, but he re-
fused to see me: His adjutant, how
ever ordered nle to 70 tO NJ. Levitzki,
and accordingly went to his residence
and was soon admitted to his presence.
the past Two days in the most sylnpa.
tS4CS1C SCa 1ssoS Wv WsSs AAOsuSAsS " pAOVVAs
the repetition Of those scenes in the vii
lagos. He also told me that he had re-
ceivctl information OF what was about
to happen three weeks before the out
break, aud that he had not failed to in
form Gen. Drentcin Of 1t. The latter,
however, he said, would give no Gre
dence to his statements and took no pre-
cautions whatever.
II must also mention that on 10th
days of the riot IN kieff saw many Of
the rioters carry home large booty,
some of them being dressed in three or
four coats, besides what they carried on
their shoulders and i'm their hands, the
police and military suffering them to
pass into their homes, arrt~ting only
about one out Of twenty who passed
them. Another incident which | wit
nesstsl on the second day of the riot wa~
Of this nature: The mob in one street
began to smash windows and break
open the door OLA shop, when q priest
came up to them from church Opposite
and told them that they should alesist.
~ the owner was u Christian. They,
however, did not heed linn, and con-
tinuinS t,:eir work, they succeeded ut
last in efl;r:;ng an entrance. They
were about to iM:.in the work Of 'lcstruc-
ton when, in one corner Of the place,
they found Il holy lamp with Il cruciftx
before it. This ut once convinced them
that the owner was Il Christian, and
they Immediately retired from the
place.