The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-22
AWFUL SCENES IN
THE PROVINCES
Soldiers and the Socialists Stay Each
Other Without Mercy.
ESTATES SACKED BY MODS
CHAOS HAS COME IN INTERIOR
OF RUSSIA.

Riga, Livonia, Wednesday Morning,
Dec. 20.-Refugee land owners are
arriving here. It is reported that there
was bloodshed at Talsen yesterday.
Revolutionary peasants entrenched
themselves in their houses. from the
windows of which they fired on the
pauolling soldiers. II is estimated
that forty infantrymen and cavalry
men were killed OF wounded.
Additional details Of the revolt at
Takum, Courland have been received.
The revolt began Dee. II. when the
revolutionary government requested
Captain Won Mueller who was sta
ton there with fifty infantry and forty
Dragons 10 withdraw the military
patrols from the streets because the
inhabitants wished To establish civ
, ilian guard. The captain agreed 10 do
this but forgot 10 inform his soldiers,
who, upon resuming guard duty, we're
encountered by armed agitatOrs- The
leader 90 the latter shouted that they
had received Won Mueller's permission
20 carry arms. but the soldiers fired
on the agiUatOrs and 4 fight enSued IN
which fifteen persons were killed.
Fired on Funeral Procession.
/ ON Dee. Is the soldiers buried their
I comrades, but the people fired on the
I funeral procession from the windows
( OF their houses
/ More dragons arrived and another
I fight occurred. The soldiers finally
were compelled 10 retire with ten
+ wounded leaving Tucum in the hands
of 5000 armed revolutionaries. The
. same evening a disguised dragOOn sue
4 ceeded in bringing u report of the af~
fair to the governor general, who was
/ asked To send achievements.
Slaughter of Officers.
Next morning the revolutionaries
set fire To the building in which the
officers and forty dragons We're
housed. The officers and men tried TO
] escape but We're prevented by the en-
/ tanglements and were fired on by the
, revolutiOnaries from the windows of
/ houses resulting in the killing of Cap
tain Won Mueller and twenty-four dra
/ goons and the wOunding of an officer
. and thirteen privates- Only three
/ escaped. The revOlutiOnaries then
! frightfully mutilated the bodies Of the
dead soldiers.
Next day five companies of rein
/ forcements with three guns arrived.
but the reyolutionaries compelled
them to retire by fusillade from the
windows.
Town Bombsrded.
General ChoTOunchenkO then ordered
I the artillery 10 lombard the town.
MANY Of the inhabitants who had not
learned OF the arrival OF reinforce
ments thought that terrorists Were
: throwing bombs and they ned in a
panic in all directions The troops
! surrounding the town fired on the pcO-
pie, killing. according to refugees. loo
Of them. The blOodshed lasted from
s O'Clock i'm the evening until Q CLOCK
in the morning. when the tOwnsmen
surrendered, The leaders Of the revo-
/ lutionaries, however. escaped, Two
/ thirds of the inhabitaOnts fed the
( town. \ sanitary train started from
Riga yesterday for Tukum.
Similar occurrences are reported from
Goldingen and Talsenen, TO which
places reinforcements have been sent.
No details of these disturbances are
yet available.
Estates Devastated.
Meanwhile peasants continue TO dew
astate the estates of the nobility and
fifty estates are reported to have been
/ burned down. Baron Won Wolf was
pulled out Of his bed by peasants but
! succeeded in escaping. He reached Riga
without clothing and is now danger
OuSiy i'll. Baroness Won Wolf. Who
was the Wen known Italian actress
Alice Barri, arrived here i'm a Sledge.
The baroness has cared for. fed.
clothed and taught q hundred peas
ant children in their castle AT Sto
merZe. The peasants burned this cas-
tie and robbed IL of valuable, which
they are selling at ridiculous prices.
For instance, four horses were offered
for $40
The post and telegraph service has
not yet been re-established and the
postofiiee is filed with unopened mail
bags.
Leader interviewed.
The Associated Press today inter
viewed the leader of the socialist par
ty, Lapa Jansen, who is the editor
Of a Lettish revolutionary organ. He
said:
Our struggle is purely political and
economical We will not rest until
autocraoy and feudalism in the Baltic
have been finally eXtirpated. All the
military and other authorities in the
Baltic province are either Russians or
Germans. and not a single one is a
I Lett Since 1901 the Lettish demOc-
/ Tacy has secretly worked 10 organize
the country people. The strength of
the peasants and workmen's organi-
"a ion has been gradually increased
and when the empeTOr's manifesto
ma king concessions to the peasants
was published they We're able partly
to shake off the long standing yoke of
, the despotism of the Baltic nobility
The concessions. however. were insult
} hcient. The peasants were longing for
freedom and for revenge against the
estate owners, who We're living in lux
urious castles. whereas the peasants
were crowded IN miserable huts-
Pulling Down the Rich.
The fury of the peasants was di-
rected principally against the rich
} / Prince LieVen who maltreated and
tormented them. The prince fled the
country as soon as the manifesto was
published. and the peasants thereupOn
} decided to attack other estate owners.
In Livonla and COurland we have boy
cotted all the government officials and