The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-24
CROWDS EASILY HANDLED.
Not Sign of Disturbance as the
Night Wore On.

Not Sign Of Disturbance as the
Night Wore On.
Of. Petersburg. Jan. 23-The factory
Ino mil districts of the city We're prac-
ny Ii, geSerted today The strikers had
1 - meeting points had been arranged
IN, nc absence of any definite objective led
the strikers to drift toward the princiI,aj
thoroughfare. the Nevsky prospect which
mas been the center OF today's less thrill
ing events. AS the afternoon wore on
lame dense, and the authorities. possibly
i ieaIlilg that the cars might be converted
street railway traffic and reinforced the
number Of cavalry patrols
On Nevsky Prospect.
r, toward o'clock, driving up the Nevsl<y
spondent saw through the gathering
gloom the blaze of camp fires in the pal
dee square with the dark forms Of the
! troopers sitting around them
ne Nevsky prospect itself was ablaze
Win Win night. Strikers and curiosity seekers
Promenaded the two miles of sidewalk
between the admiralty and the Nicholas
| station and squadrons of hussars and
Sulralssiers rode up and down in endless
procession. The crowds seemed peaceful
enough. the watchword evidently being
Don abuse the troops" The only
rahs.
Plunged Into Darkness.
Suddenly the electric lights in the up
per section, between the bazaar called
TGostinny Dvor and the Nicholas station
were extinguished, and the thorouehfare
was plunged without warning into inter
darkness, which was not relieved even
| by the lights in shop windows. as all the
/ stores were closed The scene was weird
ana fearful The driver at first refused
TO drive on, fearing some hidden danger
! but he finally was persuaded to proceed
eXclaiming with Russian stoicism, One
can die only once
A deathly silence prevailed, heightened
/ by the rustic of hundreds of feet on The
SnOW-clad sidewalks, the muffled tread of
looming squadrons and the lugubrious
| hammering of shOpkeepers taking precau-
/ tons against possible attack BY boarding
uD the windows of their stores with
rough lumber The curious hastily sour
| ried into adjoining streets, finding their
way home as best they could through the
| inky darkness. Only "A fringe of suIlen
strikers and rough characters remained
the police warning all to get home as
soon as possible The only bright spot
was a blaze of light from the court yard
OF the Annitchkoff palace. whence the
empress dowager yesterday fled to
Tsarskoe-SeIo. Beyond stood the dark,
grim palace of Grand Duke Sergius-
Crowd Was Dense.
The crowd was particularly dense
around the approaches to the Nicholas
station. Here. in the darkness. maraud-
ers attacked few news vendors stalls.
sta ton buildings effectuaIiy discouraged
violence. other disturbers broke nu-
merous windows IN the Gastinny Dvor
and the Kiosk at the corner of the An
nitchkoff palace garden a bench torn
up from the adjoining park was placed in
the roadway. in the hope that il might
roughly handled and disarmed in side
streets. but there was no firing.
AS the Associated Press correspondent
drove down the Ne''slSy prospect, troopers
were clearing the sidewalks OF loiterers,
using the flats of their sabres and caus-
ing a general stampede. This continued
until O'Clock at night. when the lights
were again turned on enc revealed the
Nevsi<y prospect almost deserted.