Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-10-14
STRIKES INRUSSIA
REIGN OF TERROR EXISTS In
M0yC0W And TIFIIS.
Troops Rush ln-ln Conflict With
Strikers Volleys Are Fired Into
Crowds-More Than Fifty Killed
Police Given Power to Stay at Will
II Resistance Is Shown.

Moscow. Oct. IA reign of terror
again. exists throughout the city and
the adjoining country as a result Of
renewed rioting between strikers and
troops. Desperate fighting has taken
place in every quarter Of the city. and
dozens of strikers were killed and
wounded.
The rioting began early Sunday
morning when band OF socialists
carrying red flags and banners bearing
|derogatory inscriptions commenting on
members of the royal family and local
authorities tried to parade through the
principal STREETS. The police attempted
to dispense them. when some one fired
shot from a revolver, the bullet Sc
verely wounding Police Lieutenant
Nicholas Pontchevitch. The police
then fired a volley into the crowd and
charged 1t, only to be driven back with
some loss.
Troops were then called and a sortie
of mounted Cossacks drove the crowd
into side streets. tramping the leaders
under the feet of the horses.
The situation is considered serious,
and troops were last night brought
from outlying barracks and placed on
guard about the various public build
ings and large manufacturing estab-
| lishments.
The temper Of the popuace is ugly
as the strikers are suffering from
hunger and rioting is likely to be re-
newed today.
Thursdays and Fridays rioting were
as nothing compared with those OF
Sunday. and details of the bloody work
which are slowly fltering out indicate
the number of killed will exceed So
while the number of wounded will run
well into the hundreds.
The strikers and military last night
fought bitter battle on Tversky
boulevard. The strikers withstood two
charges and not until the soldiers fired
three volleys into the Leart of the
crowd did it break and run.
All information regarding the cas-
ualtles is refused, but it is known
many were killed and wounded.
The project has published one of the
most barbarous proclamations evei
published in all Russia. He authorizes
the police to arrest any one they
please, and directs them to shoot tC
KIN all who resist.
The proclamation has so exasper
ated the people that it is feared 80,
900 operators in the factories will join
the strike today.
Up to midnight more than 1000 ar
rests were made, many of those takei
into custody being wounded.
Special dispatches to the Londol
newspapers describe the desperat
state Of affairs at Moscow Saturda.
and Sunday.
Many persons were killed or wound
ed in the rloting on the Tversky boule
ward at the site OF the monument t
the Poet Pushkin and in the grea
square fronting the monastry, wher
the troops used sabers and rifles, fiji
ing point blank into the rioters. Tn
authorities have issued a proclamatio
giving the police absolute power t
prevent assemblages.
The correspondent of the Standar
describes how many of those arreste
we're made to run the gauntlet Of
double line of Cossacks In a long. ma
row courtyard, the soldiers brutal
striking them with knouts and tn
butts of rines until they dropped fain
ing or dead at the end Of the line.