Rocky Ford enterprise., 1905-12-29
MOSCOW HORROR
FIVE THOUSAND KILLED u
FiERcE STREET FIGHTS
MANY THOUSAND WOUNDED
Awful Carnival Of 0ioodshed on Christ
mas oay-insurssnts Moved Down
With Grape and csnisser-Fisnd-
ish Deeds Of Drunken cossAeks.

I.ondon.-The correspondent OF the
Telegraph at st. Petersburg. in dis
patch dated at C:i5 y. M. December
18th. says:
AT an early hour this morning the
casualties al Moscow were estimated
at 5000 killed and 1900 wounded.
with the fighting still proceeding.
THE inhabitants OF Moscow have
been forbidden TO leave their dwellings
after Z O'Clock In the evening.
at In impossible to move about the
city In consequence Of the frequency
Of stray bullets. Many Innocent per
sons have been accidentally killed.
"a scarcity OF provisions In threat
cn.d.'
Tho same correspondent. telegraph
Ing at 1883 y. M, says:
Your Moscow correspondents tcl.-
grams have not been accepted. be
cause all tn. details were refused.
Cannon firing is now proceeding in
various part OF the city, where To-
night very near tn" railroad stations
the baTricades erected by the royolu-
tionaTies are being desperately de
Tended.
THE Kursk terminus at Moscow II
being pilingcd and many wagons laden
with provisions are being looted.
From fragmcntary accounts re-
ccIVcd from Moscow ! gather that the
civil war has brought no decisive ne
ton, but only u thick-nips Of the blood
cloud. an intcnsifyinE cf the horrors
and an incT.as. OF the prevailing bit
tcrn"SS.
THE driving force behind both the
troops and the rebels Is no longer that
OF enthusiasm or Of any human I'M
pulse. II Is the force of supcrhuman
hate. and hence the deeds reported are
not the acts OF patriots. soldiers ~
otherwise. but the cnormitics OF mad
men.
1T Is impossible to understand how
any emotion. even Of the extremes OF
despair or hate can impart such fool.
hardy courage as some OF the rebels
display.
For every barricadc destroyed Sun
day two or three appeared In other
places. Orders were given by the rcvo-
lutionistA to shoot only when there
was good hope Of bringing n man
down, but otherwise TO tire out tbs
troops until they lost patience.
In the meantime In their houses the
bulk OF the population covers In the
innarmost rcccsscs of kitchens and cell
lars. stricken with fear and trembling
ut every boom OF the cannon or cxplo-
sion OF bomb.
The most surprising thing OF all Is
the loyalty OF the troops. which nobody
here anticipated
All reports agree that the fighting
vest crdny. which continued until mid.
night. assumed the nature OF u butch
Ary by tho machine guns OF the artil-
lcry. grape and canister being en-
ploycd mcrcilessly against the III
| armed insurgents.
Atrocious tales are told OF the Cos.
sacks. who. piled with vodka until
| drunk. fired down the streets. some
times charging with lances.
The insurgents displayed great stub.
bornness In holding barricades. even
advancing in mass to the slaughter.
At tho same time bombs were
thrown from the windows OF houses
near the barricades occupied by the
rcvolutionaries. The artillery was
summoned and battered the houses to
| pieces.
The plan of the insurgents, It is
stated. is TO hold the outskirts and
gradually enclose the troops in the
center OF the city.
Strike leaders announce that an
army OF 10000 Is concentrated ut
Orcchoffseun. northeast OF Moscow,
and will soon be ready to march to the
city's assistance. Both sides were ex-
hausted ut midnight Sunday. when fir-
Ing practically ceased. The streets
were then in absolute darkness save
for scarchlights In the towers of biv-
ouacs behind barricadcs.