The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-30
CLASH IN CAPITAL
COssacks and WOrkmen Fight
at st. Petersburg.
Casualties 81 Dead and Many
Wounded.
HOUSES ARE STORMED.
Where RevolutiOnists Take Ref
uge in Moscow.
They Continue to Shoot the
They Continue to Shoot the
Soldiers From Ambush.

st. Petersburg. Dec. 80, 5:2O p. m.
In an encounter between workmen
and Cossacks yesterday at the Nevsky
ship building yards. eight Cossacks
and 27 workmen were killed and
many were injured The railroad
trains from st. Petersburg to Moscow
are not running to that city, but are
stopping at a station near Tver.
The permanent way of the Nicholas
railway has been damaged between
Tver and KuIitacia stations
Stormed Their Houses.
Moscow, Dec. 3O.-Three armed
bands of revoIutionists whose offer
yesterday to surrender if guaranteed
free pardon was refused by the au-
thorities, barricaded themselves today
in their houses. According to the
latest reports the houses were stormed
and captured by the troops
Nevertheless the work of routing out
the revolutionists viii be difficult and
perhaps costly as the tactics of the rev
olutionists are not to fight in the open
but to defend the barricades which are
used to impede the movement of troops,
while, from the adjoining houses little
groups in ambush shoot at the soldiers
and throw bombs. The maze of narrow,
crooked streets and the hiIly nature of
the ground make it practically impossi-
bic to use artillery effectively and event
ually viii compel the troops to clear
the region by moving from house to
mouse. The region covers several square
miles between the river and Tverskaia
and is hemmed in by troops whose lines
out off the revolutionists from the
Brest railroad on the east. The troops
| occupy a ridge along the boulevard
a correspondent Of the Associated
Press had no difficulty in traversine
the whole region under the escarf Of
member of the "Druiina'' or a fight
Ing organization Of the revolutionists
me pIekets near the boulevard were
then exchanging a sharp fusilIade. The
alu5lila old not appear to be well or
gatnlzed and lacked regular officers
The workmen's council was sun
posed TO nave general direction Of the
workmen's army, but each erour
seemed TO act on its initiative. The
majority of the men were armed only
with revOlvers of a cheap Dattern
Two companies of 200 men each. how
ever were armed with repeating shot.
guns and a few rifles. The most b17si.
ness-like feature was the "drujinists' ,
hospital which was equipped with a
regular surgical staff and Sisters OF
Mercy.
The wounded men were well cared
for. The troops on Thursday captured
a surgical detachment of the reyolI.
Gonists commanded by DR.. Abram. a
Jew.
The members of the drujina. are
very resourcemuL They declare they
are not discouraged and that on fbf
contrary they will take the offensive.
Troops are continually arrivins
here. The rate arrivals are the Dag
| hestan cavalry, hib. dashing Iookine
fellows with scarlet tipped caps.
ciliary visits at night and have seized
an immense quantity of revoIvers. In
one house inhabited chiefly by Jews
they captured sixty revolvers and sew
eral bombs The owners of the weap-
Ons were taken to the prison which is
already full to overlooking.