Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-01-26
4 DAY OF TERROR
IN ST.PETERSBURG

IN ST.PETERSBURG
Army of Workmen, Led By Father
Gopon, Start For Winter Palace.
PROGRESS BARRED BY TROOPS
Persisting in Their Efforts h
Troops Fire, First With Blank,
Then With BALL., and Hundreds
Are Killed OF Wounded.
st. Petersburg, Jan. 23.-Sunday's
bloody work here is told in the cold
oficial figures of the police.
At the Narva gate, where Father
Gepon started with his devoted
bedyguard and the vorkmen from
the Putilof iron works. o were
killed and 0 were wounded.
At the MoskOwski level crossing
gate, 1000 were killed and 1900
wounded.
At the Nevsky gate, below h
Moscow station, o were killed and
700 wounded.
In the Vassili Sotrof district, 0
were killed and SOC wounded.
In Other parts Of the city 100 were
killed and 700 wounded.
Total. Killed, 1000; wounded, g.
aOO.
st. Petersburg, Jan. 29.-Sunday
proved a day Of unspeakable horror in
st. Petersburg. The strikers, goaded
to desperation by a day of violence,
fury and bloodshed, are in a state of
open instruction against the govern
ment. A condition almost bordering
on civil war exists in the terror-strick-
en- Russian capital. The city is under
martial law, with Prince Vasilchikoff
as commander of over $4,000 Of the
emperor's crack guards. Troops are
bivouacking in the streets and at va
riou places on the Nevsky Prospect,
the main th%oroughfare of the city. On
the Island of Vassili Ostrov and in the
industrial sections Infatuated men
have thrown up barricades which they
are holding. The empress dowager has
hastily sought safety at Tsarskoe Selo,
where Emperor Nicholas II. is living
The EmperOr's Answer Was Troops
Minister of the Interior Sviatopolk-
Mirsky presented to his majesty, Satur.
day night, the invitation of the work,
men to appear at the winter palace
Sunday afternoon and receive their pc
tition, but the emperor's advisers al
ready had taken a decision to show
firm and resolute front, and the en-
peror's answer to loo, 900 workmen try
ing to make their way to the palace
square was a solid array of troops who
met them with rifle, bayonet anG
sabre.
The Killed and Wounded.
The best estimate is 500, although
there are exaggerated figures, placing
the number as high as 5000. 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 {
single regiment which is reported tt
have thrown down its arms, remained
loyal and obeyed orders. But the bloot
which crimsoned the snow has fired thu
brains and passions of the strikers
and turned women as well as men int
wild beasts, and the cry OF the infuri
ated populace is for vengeance. Th'
sympathy of the middle classes is will
the workmen.
Father GOpOn the Master Mind.
If Father Gopon, the master mind o
the movement, aimed at open revolu
ton, he managed the affair like
genius to break the faith of the peopl
in "the little father" who they wer
convinced and whom Father Gopol
had taught them to believe, woul'
right their wrongs and redress thei
grievances. Gorky, the Russian nov
elist, expresses the opinion that Sun
days work will break this faith of tn
people in the emperor. He is quote
as saying:
Revolution Inn~usurated."
To-day inaugurated revolution L
Russia. The emperor's prestige will b
irrevocably shattered by the sheddin
of innocent blood. He has ALLEVIATE
himself forever from his people. Gopo
taught the workmen to believe that a
appeal direct to the little father
would be needed. They have been TN
deceived. Gopon is now convinced ths
peaceful means have failed and ths
| the only remedy is force. 1t is no
the people against the oppressors, an
the battle will be fought to the bitte
end"
Military Had n Firm Grip.
!. The military authorities had a fri
grip on every artery in the city. 4
daybreak guards regiments, cavalr
and infantry held every bridge acros
the frozen Neva, the network Of ca
+, nails with interlaces the city and th
gates leading from the industrial SCI
: ton, while in the palace square, at til
storm center, were massed dragoo
: regiments, infantry and Cossacks of ii
!. guards. Barred from the bridges an
: gates, men, women and children crosse
. the frozen river and canals On the il
! by twos and threes, hurrying to IL
Frank Croker Dead.
: Ormond, Fla, Jan. 23.-Frank Or
Ikor Of Nau York died here soon aft