Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-01-26
RUSSIANS
in REVOLT
Masses Who Ask a Hearing
Met BY Shower of
Bullets.
FIFTEEN HUNDRED SHOT DOWN
Emperor Refuses to Hear Cry of
His ChiIdren-Father Gopon Insti-
gator of the Revolt, Leads His Fol-
lowers Into a Hail of Bullets.


M -St. Petersburg is sleeping quiet
ly at this hour, worn out by the ex-
element OF long day. Laborers and
spectators have long since left the
streets, and the military and rolice
have had little to do for hours be-
| yond driving off occasional riotous
bands of irresponsible young roughs
bent on window breaking and maraud.
ing, and dispensing groups of too
| demonstrative socialists or liberals
returning from protracted meetings
where their minds were fired with
incendiary speeches. Since midnight
the Russian capital has been as
peaceful as 1t was the preceding
night; but in the palace square and
in all the principal streets and open
places throughout the town bivouac
fires are cleaning and infantrymen
sleeping near their stacked rifles or
marching hither and thither. Caval-
rymen on wearied horses are patrol
ling the long thoroughfares. No fur
Their firing has been heard and no
more reports of collisions have been
received.
A renewal of rioting is not ex-
pected until late in the morning, IL
at all today, as tho strikers thorough
ly wearied by yesterdays events, will
be inclined to wait until the military
precautions have somewhat relaxed.
1t is impossible even now to esti-
mate closely the casualties of the
HQv Tho har ~
probably never will be known. No
Americans were injured
. st. Petersburg, Jan. 22.-(9:30 a.
m.)-It is believed that 1,500 persons
have been killed or wounded; but all
estimates must for the present be &C.
cepted with caution. Popular rumors
say that many thousands have fallen.
st. Petersburg, Jan. 23.-With hun
dreds of men, women and children
shot down, one regiment in revolt
and barricades building in many
streets, yesterday was one of I'M
speakable horror in st. Petersburg.
The strikers Saturday, goaded to
desperation by day Of violence, fury
and bloodshed, are in state of open
insurrection against the government.
A condition almost bordering on
civil war exists in the terror-stricken
Russian capital. The city is under
martial law, with Prince Vasilchikoff
as commander of over $4,000 of the
emperor's crack guards. Troops
bivouacked in the streets last night
and at various places on the Nevski
prospect, the main thoroughfare OF
the city.
On the island of Vassili Ostrov and
in the industrial quarters Infatuated
men have thrown up barbados,
which they are holding. The en-
press dowager has hastily sought
safety at Tsarskoe SeIo, where EN-
peror Nicholas II. is living.
Minister of the Interior Sviatopolk-
Mirsky presented to his majesty Sat
urday night the invitation of the
workmen to appear at the Winter
palace yesterday afternoon and re-
ceive their petition. but the en-
peror's advisers already had taken a
decision to show a firm and resolute
front, and the emperor's answer to
100000 workmen trying to make their
way to the palace yesterday was a
solid array of troops who met them
with rifle, bayonet and sabre.
The priest, Gopon, the leader and
idol of the men, in his golden vest
ments. holding aloft the cross and
marching at the head of thousands
of workmen through the Narva gate,
escaped a volley which laid low half
hundred persons.
The figures of the total number
killed or wounded at the Narva gate,
at the Moscow gate, at various bridges
and islands and at the Winter pacace,
vary. The best estimate is five hun
! dred, although there are exaggerated
figures placing the number as high
| as five thousand.
Many men were accompanied by
their wives and children, and in the
confusion which left no time for dis
elimination, the latter shared the fate
| of the men.
The troops, with the exception OF
a single regiment, which is reported
to have thrown down it's arms, re-
! NAMED loyal and obeyed orders. But
| the blood which crimsoned the snow
has fired the brains and passions of
| the strikers and turned women as
we'll as men into wild beasts, and the
cry of the Infatuated populace is for
vengeance.
The sympathy of the middle classes
is with the workmen.
If Father Gopon, the master mind
of the movement, aimed at open revo-
luton, he managed the affair like q
genius to break the faith of the peo'
pie in "the little father" who, they
were convinced by Father Gopon.
would right their wrongs and redress
their grievances.
The military authorities had firm
grip on every artery In the city. AT
daybreak, guards, regiments, cavalry
and infantry held every bridge across
i the frozen Neva, the network oil
canals which interlaces the city, and
the gates leading from the Industrial
section, while in the palace square
at the storm center, were massed
dragoon regiments, infantry and Cos
sacks of the guards. Barred from
the bridges and gates, men, women
and children crossed the frozen river
and canals on the Ice by twos and
threes, hurrying to the palace square
where they were sure the emperor
would be present to hear them.
But the street approaches to the
square were cleared by volleys and
Cossack charges. Men and women
Infatuated to frenzy by the loss OF
loved ones, cursed the soldiers while
they retreated. Men harangued the
crowds, telling them that the EN-
peror had foiled them and that the