Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-01-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.
REVOLT IN ST. PETERSBURG.
Soldiers Fired Upon Strikers Who De-
manded to See Gar and About 400
Were Killed or Wounded.

Soldiers Fired Upon Strikers Who De-
manded to See Gar and About 400
Were Killed or Wounded.
Sunday was a day Of horror i'm St
Petersburg a condition bordering on
civil war existed in the Russian capital
| The city was under martial law, with
Prince Nasiliechitom as commander OF
over $4,000 Of the Emperor's guards
| Troops bvouacked in the streets Sunday
night and at various places on the Nevsky
Prospect the main thoroughfare Of the
city. On the island OF Vassili Ostrov and
in the industrial sections Infatuated men
threw up barbados. The Empress Dow
ager hastily sought safety at Tsarskoe-
Selo, where Emperor Nicholas II is living
Minister OF Interior Sviatopolk- Mir
sky presented to His Majesty Saturday
night the invitation of the workmeh to
appear at the Winter Palace Sunday
afternoon and receive their petition; but
the Emperor's advisers already had taken
decision to show resolute front, and
the Emperor's answer to 100, 900 workmen
trying to make their way to the palace
square Sunday was a solid array Of troops
who met them with rifle, bayonet and
sabre
The priest Gopon. the leader and idol
OF the men, in hts vestments holding
aloft the cross and marching at the head
OF the thousands OF workmen, through
the Narva gate, escaped a volley which
laid low hah a hundred persons. Many
men were accompanied by their wives
and children and in the confusion, which
left no time for discrimination, the
latter shared the fate OF the men. The
troops, with the exception OF n 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, and the cry
Of the popuace Is for vengeance. The
| sympathy of the middle classes is with
| the workmen.
The first statements sent from st.
! Petersburg were to the effect that thou
sands had been killed. but the official
Messenger places the casualties at as
| dead and 233 wounded The slaughter
! seems to have been needless, the soldiers
! firing with but little warning. Soldiers
who fell into the hands OF the mob were
! roughly handled. One general was killed
on the Nicholas bridge, and n dozen
| officers were seized and stripped of their
/ epaulets and swords.
A member Of the Emperor's house,
hold is quoted saying that this con-
| nict will end the war with Japan. and
| that Russia Will have a constitution or
I Emperor Nicholas will lose his head
! Moscow and ocher labor centres are
! joining in the great strike movement to
/ which the Socialists and other discon-
! tents are making every effort to give
/ a revolutionary tinge. There have been
some disturbances in st Petersburg since
/ Sunday, but the soldiers are apparently
/ In full control.
| Not a mill or factory was started in
/ St Petersburg Tuesday, and work was
1 suspended in Moscow. Kovno. Radon
and Wilma Several prominent members
/ Of the reform party were put in prison,
| including NJ. Aunensky, chief of the body
! which expects to be the future provis-
/ mol government of Russia. Proclama-
lions urging the people to destroy the
autocracy were freely circulated in the
! capital. St Petersburg is virtually in
/ state of siege Gen. Trepoff, who has
/ been put in supreme command. has not-
! fed the strikers to return to work. The
! Car has issued a proclamation holding
| out promise Of reduced numbeI of
| hours and protection from agitators. 1t
| is evident that the official statement OF
| the losses was too small. as 167 bodies
were buried in one cemetery Wednesday
Some correspondents still insist that the
killed and wounded numbered thousands
and that the attack OF the troops was
wanton slaughter.