Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-12-30
THOUSANDS KILLED
DEbDlY WORK OF EAHIM GUNS
At MOSCOW, RUSSIA.
Butcher Mistchenko Traps the Mob
Beneath Deadly Guns-opens Mask
ed csnnon-Thousands Mangled in
Fearful Ambuscade-city May Be
Given over to Torch.

Moscow, via St. Petersburg, Dec. 26.
1t is estimated at this time that the
casualties during Mondays fighting
will reach 5000 killed and $4,000
wounded A constant conflict is still
Ireigning throughout the city and hard
ly building remains that is not bull
let SCARED or marked by shells. Pro-
visions are so short that many persons
are actually starving. Horrors such
as eclipse anything ever known dur
ing the Paris reign of terror are being
enacted in every quarter of the doom
ed city God alone knows what the
Outcome will be.
As this dispatch is penned, the rat
tie of small arms, clatter clatter, clat-
ter of rapid fire Maxims and whistle
of shrapnel can be heard all over. A
few hours ago the revolutionary gov
lernment was again proclaimed and
lproclamations We're scattered broad
cast, calling upon all citizens to rally
laround the revolutionary command
and compel the soldiers to retire from
1.-THE city.
Flock to Rendezvous.
The result was electrical. Thousands
of persons who had heretofore re-
NAMED in their homes fiocked to the
lplaces of rendezvous and demanded
they be supplied with arms and am
munition to help their brothers in "the
fight for life"
The days of the Paris commune are
lsimply intensified in these early years
Iof the twentieth century. and now it
seems certain the troops will be I'M
able to quell the rioting
During the last five hours there have
been 1000 buildings destroyed by fire.
Most of the structures were occupied
or owned by loyalists and the fires
have been set by the revolutionaries,
who kept the firemen from interfering
Carried Storehouse.
Shortly after sunset tonight de-
tachment of insurgents swarmed down
on the railway storehouse. Cossacks
were stationed there to guard the
structure, but most of them were shot
down or stabbed by the frenzied revo
; lutionaries, who drove the guards from
the scene and carried away everything
portable within the building.
Bomb Throwers Fearless.
The murder" of revolutionaries who
were ambushed beside the walls o.
the government ammunition factories
early Monday has wrought the anti
Imonarchical residents up to such ;
pitch that they don't care what hap
Ipens to them. Bombs are being uset
to an extent not heretofore dreamed
., of Men, carrying explosives of grea
power in their hands. approach tn
ranks of the soldiers and throw thei
missiles right into the faces of officer
y and men. Men throw up their arm
/ and die, their bodies pierced by man
e shots, but happy in the hope they hav
u killed some of those responsible 70
Ie the murder" of their comrades.
- Wires to Moscow Down.
It st. Petersburg, Dec. 26.-Commun
Ig cation with Moscow was interrupte
n. just before midnight on Monday nigf
" and it appears, according to official
a. of the telegraph company, that tn
40 wires have either been cut on the GU
ic skirts of the city or that the station
is in the city are burned. At that tin
or fighting was in progress in every Sc
Is ton of the city and everything ind
Gated a last supreme struggle betwee
the revolutionaries and the troops WI
u on.