Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-10-26
RAILWAY TRAFFIC PARALYzED.
po,Ia is Practically Isolated from
The Rest Of the Continent Of
Europe,
INTERNATIONAL SERVICE CEASES,
Whole Country Becoming Alarmed
situation Growing Worse Reported
Nutlpy on the Catherine IL

NutIny on the Catherine H.
81 Petersburg, oct, 90, i:lj p. M
Russia is practically Isolated today
IRON, the rest of the continent of
Europe as the international train SER
vice on all the lines has virtually ceas
ed The tie-up in the interior is more
comrlete than yesterday The only
trains running are operated by the rail-
road battalons,
The strike contagIon is spreading
All classes Of workmen are organizing
sympathetic strikes and industrial life
SIN The country is coming to "a staudstill
The situation cannot long continue
Either the workmen win soon be starv-
ed into submission or pIllage with mill
tary interference and bloodshed on
large scale are bound TO follow
Al Moscow 800 cahmon have already
fought the strikers whom they charge
with taking bread out of their mouths,
in many cities, especially at Moscow.
the question Of food is becoming eX-
tremely serious.
collisions between troops and strik-
ers are reported to have occurred at
several places.
AZ Ekaterinoslay regular pitched
battle between the soldiers ana strikers
was fought and the city was left in
darkness. But as a rule the reyolu-
tionary leaders are keeping their men
IN hand,
Communication by telegraph with
many interior points is interrupted.
The whole country is becoming
alarmed and IN ST. Petersburg an in
dplent panic prevails The boats and
the Finnish trains. now the only
means Of egress, are crowded with peo-
pe fleeing abroad
The situation here has grown much
worse over night The ranks Of the 40
non workmen from the mills and fac
tories who Joined the strikers yesterday
We're increased by 10000 more this
morning All the employees OF the port,
a O00 In number, walked out and II, 600
other men from the steel works left
work IN a body. The inhabitants Of st.
Petersburg awoke to tind the capitol re-
sembllng beleaguered city, The shops
in the VaslliostOrov district and in all
The suburbs are closed windows are
boarded and barred and mounted pa
trolls are TO be seen everywhere In the
streets Except IN the heart Of the city,
women and children are afraid to ven.
ture out, Workmen are gathering at all
The places frequented IN the days %
Father Gapon, but they are quiet and
the Coss3cks have had no prOvocatiOu
10 interfere. The general appearance Of
the town Is menacing.
The prices Of food have gone up ana
the supplies OF beef Is only sufficient for
three days, but there are ample supplies
Of wheat and rye for TWO months The
emperor and the court at Peterhof are
supplied by q warship from ST. Peters
burg. All the families who can afford
II have FASTENED to lay In supplies and
stand siege. The suffering falls the
heaviest on the poor who live from
hand 20 mouth, All the bakers sold our
iner bread before noon. The meat
dealers have been ordered by the rev
olutI0niSts not 20 deliver meat to the
troops under pain Of death, and con-
tequenty the soldiers are living on cam
ned food, The butchers have notified
their patrons that the meat market
VIII probably be closed tomorrow, be-
cause of lack OF meat. All the ST. Pc
lersburg schools were closed today and
me children were sent home with In
ttruclions not TO return until their par
'nts think It safe 10 do so.
The great strike promises to delay
ana possibly interrupt the negotiations
Tor the new Russian loan. The inter-
national bankers who are here do not
teem greatly disturbed by the situa-
non although they are constantly in
receipt Of threatening letters from the
,eFoluuonists warning them that IL
lney contract n loan without the con-
stut or the national assembly II will
De repudated Nevertheless, they are
rot disposed TO close with the gov
eminent until the situation has cleared
up The fact that the strike may leop-
tIal2e the success OF the loan Is one
~ the most potent levers behind the
kuNtrhmen, and makes the foreign
D9nhers the unconscious allies of the
tNocates Of the far-reachinE reforms
"'''h are about to be promulgated.
MuTINY ON BATTLEsHIP.
london. oct ga special dispatch
ron Odessay says It is reported that
mutlny has occurred on the Russian
nSl'ieship Cataherine II, at Sebastopol
rested
AGIrAToRs ORGANIZING.
warsaw, Russian Poland Oct 26.-
HBt@tors are organizing revolutionary
,.etungs IN the factory districts ana
'V.preral strike is anticipated oct 2S.
me prices Of food are rapidly in
,,satslng Telephone communication
WIZ" LODI IL Interrupted
WILL HOLD TREPoFF RESPONSE
BILE.
~ Petersburg oct. 90. $3.50 .. m. BY
,,u.pellal order the garrison Of st. Pc
,rlsDurg has been placed under the
,'.IInmand Of Gen, Trepoff, assistant
,nlnlster o. the interior, who Is held re-
eponsiole for the safety and order Of the
.apitol and the troops distributed In
IL'ous parts OF the city, but martial
~ WIN It's accompanying hardships
w people has not been proclaimed.
l,!he garrison of st. Petersburg has
SSsaerto been included in the military
GsLlSt OF 81. Petersburg, Of which
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