Washington sentinel., 1901-03-30
A Coronation Holocaust ana Its
consequences,


in a railroad carriage that is bomb
proof His food is tasted by others
before it reaches him-il It is Pois-
oned, the death squirming OF the
imperial food tasters is supposed
to warn their master, says the New
York T0HyRaL
Every day there are fresh plots
against the rulers life. Almost
every day some man connected
with his Government is shot, or at
least shot at. Whence comes this
Russian mania for assassination
The Car is a good enough sort ct
kind hearted weakling-why do so
many want to murder him2 Is the
Russian race a murderous racer
Are Russians more brutal than
othersp Is this desire for their
rulers life blood based on pure,
wanton villainy5
Read short, true story. 1t is
the story OF the killing Of peasants
by thousands at the coronation OF
this Car at Moscow. You have
all heard that there was some sort
of panic and some wholesale kill
ing. Here are details. Moscow
was a gay city. The "Great White
Czar"--really a small, feeble man,
with eczema, was to be crowned.
He had summoned for the day the
brilliant, superb Mobility" Of
Russa-that mobility" is really
a cole ction OF unspeakable, AFRO
giant, hard drinking, half brutal
Cossacks and Tartar bali breeds.
The Gar came in his grandeur,
The nobility came in its splendor.
The common people-poor ami
mails, half fed, half starved, wholly
terrorized-came in hundreds Of
thousands. There was a vast field
designated as a sort OF cattle pen
for the common hundreds OF thou
sands. They were to be packed in
there bv soldiers and kept out CT
the way. Finally they were to re-
ceive some little sort OF cheap SOU
venir Of the day-something to re-
mind them that they were to be
taxed permanently to feed useless
mobile" brigands.
Now comes the story:
The streets were to be covered
with sand that noble carriages
might roll smoothly. The sand
was dug from the plain reserved
tor the common people. 1t was
spread all over the streets, and in
the plain there was opened a long
trench fifteen feet deep and twenty
feet wide-irom that trench the
sand had been taken to soothe the
noble serves.
1t was suggested that the COM
mon people, in the crush, might
fall into the trench. That was not
very important-still, some planks
were put over it. II was then sug-
gested that the planks might
break. But the authorities were
tired OF suggestions by that time,
and nothing more was done.
In that field, with the deep, wide
trench, hundreds of thousands oI
common men, women and children
were herded by the police and sol.
diers. They were packed closer
and closer. The thin planks on
the wide trench gave way. IN a
few instants the trench was filled
FULL OF common people.
Five thousand OF them were piled
into the trench by advancing
troops and crushed to death by
panic-stricken hundreds OF thou.
sands trampling on Their.
The wide trench was made safe
at last when it was piled full and
level to the brim with dead peas
ants. Women and children espec.
tally lay dead at the bottom Of the
freshly dug trench. 1t was a
very complete flling-a long ditch
full OF corpses, fifteen feet deep and
twenty wide.
Meanwhile the serene mobility
was driving by very comfortably
and noiselessly on the deep sand
And for every barrel OF sand that
made the streets nolseless there
was one dead body in the trench.
No one was ever punished tor
that. No fuss was made about it.
No newspaper in Russia would
dare to print these facts. Some
bodies were removed from the top
LAYERS and buried a little further
on. Lime was thrown in on the
others to prevent a contagion
which might have spread to the
nobility. Apparently nothing re-
mained OF those FIVE thousand dead
common people, except some
bones eaten by lime ami some
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