The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-20
ALARM CAUSED BY
RIOTS IN RUSSIA
Students and Workingmen En-
ragged at COssacks' Brutality.
MANY PRISONERS TAKEN
THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY
WOMEN ARRESTED.

st. Petersburg, Monday, March IS
Alarm pervades high circles here. The
police have notified house-owners to
have their house police report for duty
and hold themselves in constant readi-
ness. It is apparently confirmed that
three students were killed yesterday.
the sidewalk, and many faces were cut
open by their knotted whips. The stu
dents and workingmen sthrew rubber
shoes, canes and snOwballs at the Cos
sacks. 1t is reported that one Cossacl1
was killed.
An official of the political police said
1000 prisoners were taken, among them
being $50 women students. The pres
ence Of workingmen among the rioters
rendered this demonstrate ton more dan
gerous than any known in a genera
After reading the manifesto the stu
dents threw their crumpled copies into
the crowd and raised a flag inscribed,
For Liberty" The students also
shouted Help us get our rights" and
the mob responded with cheers.
Many of the participants in the dem
onstration in and around the square of
the Cathedral of Our Lady of KaZan
yesterday, on the anniversary of the
suicide of the girl Yotrora, in the po-
itical prison of the fortress of st. Peter
and St Paul, were factory workers. The
authorities having anticipated trouble,
had made preparations for this out
break, and the rioters were vigorously
met, a majority of them being pre-
vented from entering the square. For a,
time, however, they blockaded the Neb-
skoi prospekt.
During the disturbance one of the
students read a proclamation by the
students committee, demanding the
abolition of the military service regu-
foI = rifaIa
who Shot and fatally wounded the min
lister of public instruction, NJ. Bogolie-
poff, last month.
A curious crowd remained in the vi
cinity of the scene of the disturbance
until late in the evening, and persist
emily spread reports of horrors in Mos
COW. 1t is asserted, though without
demonstra BILE foundation, that the chief
of police was killed.
How Disorders Started
The Official Messenger which pub
fishes an account of the recent disor
ders in various Russian cities, and Of
Sundays outbreak in st. Petersburg,
says of the latter:
When the crowd, which numbered
5000, became turbulent, the Cossacks
and police were summoned. The dem
onstrations retreated to the cathedral
of Our Lady of Kazan, pelting the
Cossacks and police with various mis-
sles.
The students attempted to display
red and white flags bearing various in
scriptions. on one side of the cathe-
dral the crowd came into violent col
Iision with the Cossacks and the police.
portion retired into the cathedral, be-
having noisily and smoking cigarettes.
although the service was going on, un-
til forcibly expelled
Altogether 339 male students, 377 wo-
men, mostly students, and forty-four
other persons were arrested. A police
commissioner, twenty policemen. four
Cossacks and thirtytwo rioters, male
and female, were wounded
All the higher schools of the city
are closed and all the police headquar
ters are filed with arrested persons.
Others in custody who had been tenn
pOrarily confined in the military riding
school were taken to various prisons to-
day in OmnibuseS. They were cheered
by the students as they passed
The demonstrations Sunday continued
after the ARRAY at the cathedral, at
other places, especially in front of the
Office of the police, where some Of the
persons arrested were taken, in front
of the Litovsky prison and near the
mining institute and the Pontilaw fac
tory.
A remarkable feature of the demon
stration has been the prominent part
taken by women of the higher classes
of the university.