The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-10-13
STRIKES in RUSSIA
REIGN OF TERROR EXISTS IN
MOSCOW and TIfIIS.
1,oops Rush ln-In Conflict With
Strikers VoIIeys Are Fired Into
crouda-More Than Fifty Killed
Dolce Given Power to Stay at Will
Resistance 10 Shown.

.oain exists throughout the city and
the adjoining country as a result OF
renewed rioting between strikers and
+roops. Desperate fighting has taken
Mace in every quarter OF the city. and
dozens of strikers were killed and
wounded
The rioting began early Sunday
morning when band of socialists
carving red flags and banners bearing
derogatory inscriptions commenting on
members of the royal family and local
authorities tried to parade through the
principal STREETS. The police attempted
TO dispense them, when some one fired
a shot from a revolver, the bullet Sc
verely wounding Police Lieutenant
Nicholas Pontchevitch. The police
then fred q volley into the crowd and
CHARGED it, only to be driven back with
some loss.
Troops we're then called and sortie
of mounted Cossacks drove the crowd
into side streets, uamping the leaders
under the feet of the horses.
The situation is considered serious,
and troops were last night brought
from outlying barracks and placed on
guard about the various public build
ings and large manufacturing estab-
lishments.
The temper Of the populace is ugly,
as the strikers are suffering from
hunger and rioting is likely to be re-
newed today.
Thursdays and Fridays rioting were
as nothing compared with those of
Sunday, and details Of the bloody work
which are slowly filtering out indicate
the number of killed will exceed so,
while the number of wounded will run
we'll into the hundreds.
The strikers and military last night
fought q bitter battle on Tversky
boulevard. The strikers withstood two
charges and not until the soldiers fired
three volleys into the heart of the
crowd did 1t break and run.
All Information regarding the cas-
ualties is refused, but it is known
many we're killed and wounded.
The project has published one Of the
most barbarous proclamations ever
published in all Russia. He authorizes
the police to arrest any one they
please. and directs them to shoot to
XII all who resist.
The proclamation has SO exasper-
ated the people that it is feared go
900 operators in the factories will join
the strike today.
4 Up to midnight more than 1000 ar
rests were made, many of those taken
into custody being wounded.
Special dispatches to the London
newspapers describe the desperate
state Of affairs at Moscow Saturday
and Sunday.
Many persons were killed or wound
ed in the rioting on the Tversky boule-
ward At the site of the monument to
the Poet Pushkin and in the great
square fronting the monastry. where
the troops used sabers and rifles, fir
ing point blank into the rioters. The
authorities have issued a proclamation
giving the police absolute power to
prevent assemblages.
The correspondent Of the Standard
describes how many of those arrested
were made to run the gauntlet of a
double line of Cossacks in long, mar
row courtyard, the soldiers brutaliy
striking them with knouts and the
butts Of rifles until they dropped faint
ing or dead ut the end of the line.