The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-26
Many Innocent People Meet Death from Stray Bullets
 of the Fighters
COMMUNICATION WITH
 MOSCOW IS UNCERT
Population Covers in Kitchens and Cellars Stricken With Fear and Trembling at Every
 Boom of Cannon.

London, December 26.-The correspond ent of the Daily Telegraph at St. Peters burg, in dispatch dated at 6;45 p. m, December 25, says:
 At an early hour this morning the casulties at Moscow were estimated at 5000 killed and 14,00o wounded. with the fighting still proceeding
 ..The inhabitants of Moscow have been forbidden to leave their dwellings after I o'clock in the evening.
 "It is impossible to move about the city in consequence of the frequency of stray bullets. Many innocent persons have been accidentally killed.
 "A scarcity of provisions is threatened ' The same correspondent, telegraphing at 10:SS D. m, says:
 TeIegrams Were nefused.
 Your Moscow correspondents telegrams have not been accepted because all pri- vate messages were refused this after noon.
 "It is learned. however. that cannon firing is now proceeding in various parts of the city, where tonight very near the railroad stations, the barricades erected by the revolutionaries, are being desper- ately defended.
 "'rhe Kursk terminus at Moscow is be- ing pillaged, and many wagons laden with provisions are being footed
 ''The Emperor is engaged daily in re- viewing at Tsarskoe-Selo the regiments of the St. Petersburg district The spirit of the troops is decidedly loyal.
 From fragmentary accounts received from Moscow I gather that the civil war has brought no decisive action, but only thickening of the blood cloud an in tensfying of the horrors, and increase of prevailing bitterness.
 Force of Superhuman Hate.
 '"The driving force behind both the troops and the rebels is no longer that of enthusiasm, or of any human impulse. It is the force of superhuman hate, and hence the deeds reported are not the acts of patriots, soldiers or otherwise, but the enormities of mad men.
 "1t is impossible to understand how any emotion even of the extremes of despair or hate can impart sucn roolhardy cour- age as some of the rebels display.
 For every barricade 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 a man down, but otherwise to tire out the troops until they lost pa tience.
 '1n the meantime in their houses the bulk of the population covers in the in- nermost recesses of kitchens and cellars, stricken with fear and trembling at every boom of the cannon or the explosion of bomb.
 "The most surprising thing of all is the anticipated.
 Stake Everything on Issue.
 ''Talking with an intelligent group of St. Petersburg's revolutionists l was in- formed that while they believed the strike would be victorious, they fully realized that they were stalking everything upon the issue and that failure would set back their cause for several years They said they were devotng their efforts to shak- ing the foundations of Russian finance, in full confidence that once the existing regime was oVerthroWn, they could as quickly build another, and that foreign nations would be as ready to advance money to a democratic republic, as to the autocracy They emphatically denied that they were melting the peasantry to com init agrarian autrages. declaring that these outrages were the work of the so- cialists but they did not deny their advocacy of the distribution of the crown lands among the peasants.
 "In conclusion they declared that in event of failure of their cause, they would have recourse to terrorism choosing their victims from all classes of society,"
 Baltic Railroad Men Strike.