The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-01-26
4 REvOllJIleN :
STlRS RUSSIA.
A QUIET SUNDAY MORNING -
xU1MxD ITO = sClNE
OF CARNAGE.
Workmsn Trying to Present Psti.
ton to the Gear are Moved Down
by Troops. Hen, Woman and
Children Fall in Heaps.

by Troops Hem, Woman and
Children Fall in Heaps.
St Petersburg. January 2a-Yester-
day was dav Of unspeakable horror
in st. Petersburg.
The strikers, goaded to desperation
by . day of violence, fury and blood
shed. are in . state Of open insurrec-
ton against the government.
Acondition almost bordering ON civil
war exists in the terrorstriclken capi-
tai of Russia. .
The city is under martial law. with
Prince Vasilchikon as commander Of
over $4,000 Of the emperor's crack
guards
Troops are bivouacking in streets
and at various points on the Nevesky
Prospect. the main throughout Of the
city. -
On the island Of Nassili Ostrov and
in the industrial: Districts infuriated
men have thrown up barbados which
they are holding.
The empress dowager has sought
safety at Tsarskoe Selo, where EN-
peror Nicholas H. is staying.
An invitation to meet the working
men was presented to the car but he
refused to meet them in front of the
palace
The priest, Gopon, the leader and
idol of the men, in his golden vest
ments, holding aloft the cross, was
marching at the head Of thousands of
workmen through the Narva gate,
miraculously escaped volley which
laid low a hundred persons.
The figures Of the total number
killed or wounded here, at the Mos
COW gate, at various bridges and at the
winter palace vary. 32s
The lowest estimate is 500, although
there are exaggerated figures placing
the number as high as 5000.
Many men wero : accompanied by
their wives and children and in the
confusion which left no time for dis
crimfnation, the latter shared the fate
OF the men. So
The troops, with the exception Of a
single regiment, which is reported to
have thrown down its arms, remained
loyal and obeyed orders.
But the blood which crimsoned the
snow has fired the brains and passions
of the strikers aud turned women as
we'll as men into wild beasts and the
cry of the iufuriated populace is for
vengeance.
The sympathy of the middle classes
is with the workmen.
Father Gopon, the master mind of
the movement. aimed at open revolu.
ton. He managed the affair like q
genius to break the faith of the people
in s'the little father" who. they were
convinced, aud whom Father .Gopen
had taught them to believe, would
right their wrongs and redress their
grievances
The little chapel at the Narva gate
was wrecked.
On the Kaminostov island all the
lights were extinguished.
Every officer wearing the uniform of
the emperor who was found alone was
mobbed. A general was killed on the
Nicholas bridge and dozen officers
we're seized, stripped of their epaulets
and deprived of their swords
1t is rumored that NJ. White will be
appointed dictator today, but the re-
port is not confirmed.
Barred from bridges and gates. mon
women and children crossed the frozen
river and canals on the ice by twos and
threes hurrying TO the palace square
where they were sure the emperor
would meet them.
But the street approaches to. the
square were cleared by volleys and the
Cossack charges.
Men and women, Infatuated to fren-
" by the loss Of loved ones, cursed the
soldiers while they retreated. }
Men harangued the crowds, telling
them that the emperor had failed them
and that the time had come to act.
Men begin to build barbados in
the Nevsky Prospect and at other
points, using any material that came
to hand. and even choppiug down tele-
graph poles
Fighting meantime continued at var.
ious places, soldiers vollying and char.
ging the mob, The whole city was
in state of panic Women were rum
ming through the streets seeking lost
members oftheir families Several
barrie ldes were carried by the troops.
Towards eight o'clock in the evening
the crowds, exhausted, began to dis
perse, leaving the military in possess
sion. As they retire ated up the Nevsky
Prospect the workmen put out all the
lights.
It is rumored that the workmen there
have seized dynamite factory and
also that thirty or forty thousand armed
strikers from Kolpine, sixteen miles
distant. are marching on St Peters.
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