The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1905-10-14
STRIKES IN RUSSIA
REIGN OF TERROR EXISTS In
HOSCOW and TIFIIS.
Troops Rush ln-ln Conflict With
Strikers voIIeys Are Fired Into
crowds-More Than Fifty Killed
Police Given Power to Stay at win
II Resistance 10 Shown.

II Resistance 10 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 lighting has taken
place In every quarter OF the city, and
dozens OF strikers were killed and
wounded.
The rioting began early Sunday
morning when q band OF socialists
carrying red Hags and banners bearing
derogatory inscriptions commenting ON
members Of the royal family and local
authorities tried to parade through the
principal strets. The police attempted
to disperse them. when some one hred
shot from . revolver. the bullet Sc
Verely wouRding Police Lieutenant
Nicholas PontcheVitch. The police
thea fred = Vollsy into the crowd and
charged 1t. only to be driven back with
some loss.
Troops were tnen called and a sortie
of mounted Cossaeks drove the crowd
into side streets. tramping the leaders
under the feet Of the horses.
The situation Is considered serious.
ana troops we're 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 popuIace 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 altering out indicate
the number Of killed will exceed so.
while the number OF wounded win run
well into the hundreds.
The strikers and military last night
fought a bitter battle on Tversky
boulevard, The strikers withstood two
charges and not until the soldiers Hred
three Volleys into the heart Of the
crowd did It break and run.
All information regarding the cas-.
ualtiss IL refused. but 1t is known /
many were killed and wounded.
The project has published one OF the
most barbaroas proclamations ever
published in all Russia. He authorizes
the police to arrest any one they
please, and directs them to shoot 10
KIM all who resist.
The proclamation has so exaspsr.
ated the people that IT is feared 30
BOO operators in the factories will Join
the strike today.
Up to midnight more than 1000 ar.
rests we're made. many OF those taken
into custody being wounded.
Special dispatches to the London
newspapers describe the desperate
state OF aKairs At Moscow Saturday
md Sunday.
Many persons were killed or wound.
ID In the rioting on the Tversky boule.
rard at the site OF the monument to
he Poet Pushhn and in the great
'quare fronting the monAstry. whore
he troops used sabers and rides FIR. {
ne point blank into the rioters. The /
have issued q proclamation (
'VinE the police absolute power to !
'reysnt asssmblages. Ii
TAe correspondent Of the Standard
describes how many Of those arrested [
we're made to run the gauntlet Of .
oubis line Of Cossaeks In a long, mar. 8
oE courtyard, the soldiers brutally 9
trikinE them with knouts and the I
utts Of rifles until they dropped faint. b
ne or dead at the end OF the line. I
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Tinis.-SsVsral bombs we're thrown '
I tAs COssaeks this evening. The a
roops fired amd a general manic an.