The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-26
Future of Russia Seems to Hang
i'm the Balance at Present.
Fighting Quelled I'm Some Places, and
tho Strikers Return to
Work.
THOUSANDS KILLED SINCE 23RD

LONDON, Dec. Zb01ne cOrreSpOn-
dent of the Telegraph at St. Peters
burg in dispatch dated GAS p. M.
Dec. rs, says:
"At an early hour this morning
the casualties at Moscow were esti-
mated at 5000 killed and IA thous-
and wounded, with fighting still pro-
ceeding.
"The inhabitants of Moscow have
been forbidden to leave their dwell
ings after seven in the evening
1T is 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 is threat
ened."
The same correspondent telegraph
ing at 10:26 D. m, says:
Your Moscow correspondents tel
egrams have not been accepted be-
cause all private messages were re-
luSeu tnlS dIteTnOOn.
at is learned, however, that can
non firing is now proceeding in vari-
Gus parts Of the city where tonight
very near the railroad stations. barri-
cades erected by the revolutionaries
u being desperately defended"
"The Kursk Terminus at Moscow
is being pillaged and many wagons
laden with provisions are being loot
ed.
The emperor is engaged daily in
reviewing at Tsarkoe-Selo the regi.
ments of the st. Petersburg district.
The spirit of the troops is decidedly
loyal.
From fragmentary accounts re-
ceived from Moscow, gather that
civil war has brought no decisive ac-
ton but only a thickening of the
blood cloud, and the intensifying of
horrors and an increase of the pre-
vailing bitterness.
1.-THE driving force behind both
troops and rebels is no longer that OF
enthusiasm Or any human impulse. II
is the force of superhuman hate. and
hence deeds reported are not acts of
patriots. soldiers or otherwise. but
the enormities of madmen.
1T is impossible to understand
how any emotion, even of the ex-
tremes of despair or hate, can impart
such foolhardy courage as some of
the rebels display.
"For every barrcade destroyed
Sunday, two or three appeared In
other places. Orders were given by
the revolutionists to shoot only when
there was good hope of bringing
man down, but otherwise to tire out
the troops until they lost patience.
I'm the meantime in their houses
The bulk of the population covers in
the Utmost recesses, kitchens and eel
lars, stricken with fear and tremb-
ling at every boom of cannon or ex'
plosion of bomb.
"The most surprising thing is the
loyalty of the troops which nobody
here anticipated.
Talking with an intelligent group
of st. Petersburg revolutionlsts, |
was informed that while they were
stalking everything upon the issue
and that failure would set back their
cause for several years. They said
they were devoting their efforts TO
shaking the foundations OF Russian
finance, in full confidence that once
the existing regime was overthrown
they could as quickly build up an
other and that foreign nations would
be as ready TO advance money TO a
Democratic republic as TO autocracy.
They emphatically denied that they
were melting the peasantry to conf
nit Agrarian outrages, declaring that
these outrages were the work OF So
cialists, but they did not deny their
advocacy of the distribution oil crown
lands among peasants.
I'm conclusion, they declared
that in the event of failure OF their
cause, they would have recourse to
terrorism, choosing their victims
from all classes of society"