Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-23

! wounded resOunded. Ihen came
deadly silence, broken only by the gal
Looping ambulance horses.
The next twenty minutes passed
without incident Nothing indicated
the approach of the horrible butcherJ
which was destined to stain the cornei
| Of the Admiralty gardens with human
/ blood. The crowd there persisted Il
refusing to move. clamoring for the
emperor and hurling abuse at the
| troops. but attempted no violence. Tive
companies of the Preobrajensky
guards, OF which Emperor Nicholas
! himself was formerly colonel, which
had been standing at ease in front ol
| the palace, formed and marched al
double quick toward the fatal corner
Events followed with awful swiftness
Terrible Slaughter Begins
The commanding officer shouted:
''Disperse, dispense, disperse." Many
in the crowd turned to flee, but it was
too late. A bugle sounded and the
men in the front ranks sank to their
I knees and both companies fired three
volleys, the first two with blank cart
ridges and the last with balls. A hum
dred corpses strewed the sidewalk
Many women were pierced through ths
! back as they were trying to escape
! The Associated Press correspondent;
standing behind the troops, saw man.
gled corpses of persons of all ages and
both sexes strewn on the ground. A
! boy of 13 had his skull pierced and
rent by bullets.
Great splashes and streams of blood
stained the snow. Only few of the
victims remained alive for the fatal
volley was fired at a distance of not
more than twenty PAGES, and so the
ambulances had little work to do.
The police recruited a large number
of sleighs to carry off the dead.
Heartrendng Scenes Witnessed
Heartrending scenes were witnessed
as wives, husbands and mothers came
up to claim their dear ones and were
carried off with them in the sleighs.
Meanwhile the crowd had drifted up
the Nevsky Prospect yelling Murder
ers, murderers," and the square re-
sumed it's calm aspect, the troops re-
turning TO their stations.
1t was now the turn of the crowd
stationed at Morskaia entrance to the
square, where the horse guards re-
peated the exploit with which they had
cleared the Moika and drove the people
pell-mell down the thoroughfare.
From thenceforward the palace
square ceased to be the center of in
terest. The Associated Press corre-
spondent went to Grand Morskaia and
stood whole hour near the corner IF
the Nevsky Prospect. The fashionable
hotels on either side of the Grand
Morskaia were crowded, but the doors
were locked except to well-known visi-
tors. Fashionable jewellers and other
stores We're barred and most shuttered.
Quite a number of prominent per-
sons stood on the sidewalks watching
the developments. Secretary Spencer
Eddy of the American embassy chatted
with Grand Duke Boris, who had
driven up in stylish sleigh drawn by
a magnificent trotter. M. Bompard,
the French ambassador, drove past
with his wife. AS couple of squad
rons of red capped hussars trotted
by, the officers gave the command
use the flats of your swords"
Crowd Incited to Frenzy
Then the troopers moved off and
disappeared down the street, the
crowds shrieking "Murderers," Dogs"
but quickly vanishing before them. A
few who were wounded were picked
up and conveyed to a drug store on
the opposite corner of the Grand Nor
skaia and the Nevsky Prospect. No
troops were visible for as much as
half an hour. A crowd quickly
formed outside the drug store and an
orator was found for the occasion.
Standing on the steps of the drug
store he addressed the impromptu
meeting thus:
Comrades: We came humbly and
peacefully to meet the emperor and
lay our grievances before him.. but
the emperor refuses to see us, and
instead soldiers We're sent to shoot us
down. Then all 1 can say is, he is no
emperor"
Down with the emperor" shouted
the crowd.
1--WE have suffered under the sway of
the Chinovhiks,' said the speaker.
Down with the Chinovniks.
1--WE hoped for redress, but hope is
no longer possible; we can win our
rights only by fighting"
Down with the autocracy," yelled
the crowd
"Our only chance of redress is from
representatives of the people"
Long live the constitutional assem-
bly,"
"Then all have to say is, to arms,
comrades; to arms"
"To arms" was the thunderous re-
sponse.
The crowd, now aroused to a state
of frenzy at the sight of the wounded,