Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-27
THOUSANDS KILLED
DEADLY work OF Maxim GUNS
AT MOSCOW, RUSSIA.
Butcher Mistchenko Traps the Mob
Beneath Deadly Guns-opens Mask.
ed Cannon-Thousand MangIed In
Fearful Automatically May Be
Given Over to Torch.

Moscow, via st. Petersburg, Dec. 26.
1t is estimated at this time that the
casualties during Mondays fighting
will reach 5000 killed and $4,000
wounded. A constant conflict is still
reigning throughout the city and hard
ly building remains that is not bull
let SCARED or marked by shells. Pro-
visions are SO short that many persons
are actually starving. Horrors such
as eclipse anything ever known dur
ing the Paris reign of terror are being
enacted in every quarter of the DOOM
ed city. God alone knows what the
outcome will be.
AS this dispatch is penned, the rat
tie of small arms, clatter, clatter, clat-
ter of rapid fire Maxims and whistle
of shrapnel can be heard all over. A
few hours ago the revolutionary gov
eminent was again proclaimed and
proclamations were scattered broad
cast, calling upon all citizens to rally
around the revolutionary command
and compel the soldiers to retire from
the city.
Flock to Rendezvous.
The result was electrical. Thousands
of persons who had heretofore re-
manned in their homes flocked to the
places of rendezvous and demanded
they be supplied with arms and am
munition to help their brothers in "the
fight for life"
The days of the Paris commune are
simply intensified in these early years
of the twentieth century, and now it
seems certain the troops will be un-
able to quell the rioting.
During the last five hours there have
been 1000 buildings destroyed by fire.
Most of the structures were occupied
or owned by loyalists and the fires
have been set by the revolutionaries,
who kept the firemen from interfering
Carried Storehouse.
Shortly after sunset tonight a de-
tachment Of insurgents swarmed down
on the railway storehouse. Cossacks
were stationed there to guard the
structure, but most of them were shot
down or stabbed by the frenzied revo
lutionaries, who drove the guards from
the scene and carried away everything
portable within the building.
Bomb Throwers Fearless.
The murder" of revolutionaries who
Lwere ambushed beside the walls Of
the government ammunition factories
early Monday has wrought the anti
monarchical residents up to such. a
pitch that they don't care what hap
pens to them. Bombs are being used
to an extent not heretofore dreamed
of. Men, carrying explosives Of great
power in their hands, approach the
ranks of the soldiers and throw theiI
missiles right into the faces of officers
and men. Men throw up their arms
and die, their bodies pierced by many
shots, but happy in the hope they have
killed some of those responsible fol
The murder" of their comrades.
Wires to Moscow Down.
st. Petersburg, Dec. 26-Communi
cation with Moscow was interrupted
just before midnight on Monday night
and it appears, according to officials
of the telegraph company, that the
wires have either been cut on the out
skirts of the city or that the stations
in the city are burned. At that time
fighting was in progress in every sec
ton of the city and everything indi.
Gated last supreme struggle between
the revolutionaries and the troops was