Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-25
TYING UP RUSSIAN ROADS
Nsu Meeting Of Eight Thousand Men At
Capital Votes for General striks.
SERIOUS SITUATION IN MANY CITIES
strike Takes violent Turn at
Many Points and Numerous
Encounters Are re-
ported.

ST PETERSBURG, Oct. 2L-The gov
eminent resumed railroad service on a
! few roads today, but under great diff
culties. The decision OF the railroad men
at a meeting here tonight to declare a
general strike has immensely complicated
the problem. Trains left for Moscow to-
day over the Nicholai road, but the pas
sengers were notified that communication
was guaranteed only as far as Tver.
Several attempts were made today TO in
terrupt communication by telegraph and
telephone out of Moscow, but telegraph
Offices had to be guarded by Cossacks.
Persons wishing to send messages had to
fight their way through crowds OF strikers
and in many cases we're severely handled.
The strike has taken a violent turn in
number OF cities. from which reports
come of encounters between mobs and the
police and troops,
Agrarian disorders have broken out in
the province of Samara. The troops sent
there include detachment OF artillery,
indicating that the situation is quite scri-
GUS.
The executive committee Of the League
Of Leagues has adopted resolutions say
ing that the present moment was favor
able for a general strike OF all the pro-
fessions and recommending doctors law
yers, engineers and other members OF con-
stituent organizations to cease all pro-
fessional activities.
Water Affected at Moscow.
! MOSCOW, Oct. A.-The strikers have
damaged the water conduit between Mos
| COW and Mytishtchi and some sections of
Moscow are without water.
! A meeting of 10000 strikers today decided
| to prevent Geographic communication
which already is becoming very difficult.
The strike is spreading in all directions.
Yaroslav. Nishni Novgorod, Sizran, Sara
| toff, Voronezh. Kharkoff Simferopol
! Ekaterinoslav. Kieff and Smolensk are all
affected. On the Moscow, Windau &c
Rybinsk line the evening express could
| only reach Potimoskoviaait station and the
passengers were compelled to walk to Mos
, COW. At the Moscow and Kazan station
1900 passengers are waiting. They are be-
| ing paid by the railroad administration,
first and second class 50 cents daily. and
third class Is cents on the St. Petersburg
line, with the exception of a train tonight
which brought the minister Of works, not
a train was run today
Bombs and Bullets Fly.
| KHARKOFF. Russia, Oct IA serious
conflict between troops and people, during
which there were many casualties on both
| sides, occurred here last night. While a
meeting of 10000 citizens, students and
workmen were in progress, the cry of the
| ''Cossacks are coming" was suddenly
raised and a panic followed. Many per-
, sons were injured In the crush. Suisse
quently the crowd came in contact with a
detachment of cavalry. Revolvers were
fired and small bombs were thrown among
the cavalry. ThereupOn they fred two
volleys of blank cartridges and then fired
with bullets. Both sides suffered seriously.
Many wounded were left on the ground
when the crowd dispersed.
Strikers have since plundered the gun
smiths stores and have armed themselves,
A nuNber of bakeries have been destroyed
and work has been stopped at others.
Scarcity in the necessaries OF life is al
| ready felt here.