The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-23
GRAND DUKE TURNS
PILGRIMAGE INTO
BLOODY MASSACRE
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violent intentions and manifesting only
q touching belief that when on the NOR
row they had carried their petition and
knowledge Of their complaints to the
car, they would have practically
achieved all their desires. Father Co.
pom, indeed, returned from his Inter
view with the minister of justice and
told his followers in SO many words that
the governments had refused them ev
erything and it only remained for them
TO march on the morrow with their
wives and leading their little children
by the hand to the Winter Palace and
then our car, who is good man and
has little children Of his own, will see
that we have Justice
People and the oruciflx.
$50 it was arranged that the people
were to assemble after the morning ser
carried in front, they were to 20, men,
women and children, rather as a pill
grimage than as demonstration, as II
the palace were a sacred place to make
their intercession.
"All Saturday there was not a YES
tige Of police interference, but the au-
thorities spoke Of their intentions dur
ing the morrow, declaring that the mill
tary would be placed to prevent the
pilgrimage. But the soldiers passed
thru the people without interfering
in any way, SO that to certain extent
the sight Of them passing in ,good,huo,
mored way gave strength to the belief
which was almost generally held by the
populace that they had nothing to fear
from the soldiers.
why should the soldiers harm uss'
they said. 'They are our brothers and
they think as we think.
Significant Of Violence.
"There were two circumstances. how
ever, which some regarded as signif
cant; first, Grand Duke Vladimir, OF
whom none ever suspected any tender
ness for the, populace., came, instead OF
Selo, and it was announced, as if with
authority, that the grand duke had come
armed with full authority to deal witt
the situation as he thought fit. The
fact was, he came in his capacity al
commander-in- chief of the army, tx
make his preparations
"Another incident was that the dow
ager empress came from Gatchlna will
her Cossack regiment to her Anitchkof
palace on the Nevsky Prospeckt, ant
several times during the afternoon
practically unescorted, drove up an(
down the Prospeckt as if she had come
purposely to show the populace that sh'
at all events did not fear them.
"This morning early all was still an
strangely quiet. It was bitterly coll
morning, with piercing wind and 'driv
ing fine snow. The people, muffled il
furs, went to church as usual A few
strolled towards the palace square t.
see what was to be seen, and fndin
nothing, strolled away again. There wer
no troops in front Of the palace and tn
bridges across the Neva were open t.
traffic as usual.
Sunday in the Capital.
est. Petersburg, under a layer o
freshly fallen snow, was white and fai
city, from which the gilt minarets o
the admiralty, the cathedral of st. Pete
and st. Paul, and of the fortress, sho
up like tongues of fame in the grow
ing sunshine. The church bells wer
calling the worshipers in swift NOV
ing sleighs with splendid horses glide
by, and it was impossible then to cor
meet the scene with the pitiful TRACED
that WAS so swiftly to follow.
"At 10 O'Clock the troops began t
move about, passing in different dire