The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1905-01-24
The Estimates of the Killed and
WOunded in st. Petersburg Vary
From 500 to 5000.
The WOrkmen Became Infuriated, Bar.
riCades Were Thrown Up and Fight
ing Became General.
A General Was Killed on III Nicholas Bridge
and Dozen Off GERS We're Seized and
Stripped of Swords and Uniforms.
1t Is Predicted War With Japan VIII
End and Russia Will Have
Constitution or the Car
Lose His Head.

Lose His Head.
st. Petersburg, Jan. 23.-There was
a day of unspeakable horror in st. Pc
tersburg. The strikers, goaded to des-
peration by day of violence, fury
and blOodshed, are in a state of open
instruction against the government.
A condition almost bordering on civil
war exists in the terrOr-stricken Rus
sian capital. The city is under mar
tial law, with Prince VasilchikOff as
commander of over $4,000 of the en-
peror's crack guards. Troops are biv-
Ouacking in the street and at various
places on the Nevsky Prospect, the
main thoroughfare of the city. On
the Island of Vassili Ostrov and in the
industrial sections Infatuated men have
thrown up barbados, which they are
holding. The empress dowager has
hastily sought safety at Tsuskoe Selo,
where Emperor Nicholas II. is living.
Minister of the Interior SviatapOlk-
Mirsky presented to his majesty the
invitation of the workmen to appear
at the winter palace and receive their
petition, but the emperor's advisers
already had taken a decision to show
firm and resOlute front, and the en-
peror's answer to 100000 workmen
trying to make their way to the pal
ace square was a solid array of troops
who met them with rifle bayonets and
saber.
Priest Gopon Led the Parade.
The priest Gopon, the leader and
idol of the men, in his golden vest
ments, holding aloft the cross and
marching at the head of thousands OF
workmen through the Narvagate, mi
raculously escaped a volley which laid
low half a hundred persons. The fig
ures of the total number killed or
wounded here, at the Moscow gate, at
various bridges and islands and at the
winter palace vary. The best esti-
mate is 500, although there are exag-
gerated figures placing the number as
high as 5000. Many men were accom-
panied by their wives and children.
The military authorities had a firm
grip on every artery in the city. At
| daybreak guards, regiments, cavalry
and infantry, held every bridge across
the frozen Neva, the net work of ca
nails which interlaces the city, and the
gates leading from the industrial sec
ton, while in the palace square, at the
storm center, were massed dragon
regiments, infantry and COssacks Of
the guards. Barred from the bridges
and gates, men, women and children
crossed the frozen river and canals OH
the ice by twos and threes, hurrying
! to the palace square, where they were
sure the emperor would be present to
hear them.
Streets Cleared BY VoIeys.
But the street approaches to the
square were cleared by volleys and
| Cossack charges. Men and women, in
furiated to frenzy by the loss of loved
ones, cursed the soldiers, while they
retreated. Men harrangued the
| crowds, telling them that the emperor
I had foiled them and that the time had
come to act. Men began to build bar
ricades in the Nevsky Prospect and at
! other points, using any material that
came to hand and even chopping down
telegraph poles
Fighting meantime continued at va
rious places, soldiers volleying and
charging the mob. The whole city
was in state of panic. Women were
running through the streets, seeking
lost members of their families. Sew
eral barbados were carried by the
! troops.
Towards o'clock in the evening
the crowds, exhausted, began to dis
perse, leaving the military in posses
sion. AS they retreated up the Nevsky
Prospect the workmen put out all the
lights.
A Chapel Wrecked.
The little chapel at the Narva gate
was wrecked On the KaminOstov Is
land, all the lights were extinguished
Every officer wearing the uniform OF
the emperor who was found alone was
mobbed. A general was killed on the
/ Nicholas bridge and a dozen officers
were seized, stripped of their epaulets
| anu uSpi1NSQ VI lHSII SWOIUS.
1t is rumored that NJ White will be
appointed dictator, but the report is
not confirmed The authorities, while
they seem to realize the magnitude OF
! the crisis with which the dynasty and
the autocracy are confronted on ac
count of these events, appeared nearly
| paralyzed for the moment.
Intense indignation is bound to be
aroused ali over Russia. The work
men and revolutionists expect news
from Moscow and other big centers,
where the troops are not of the same
class as the guards regiments of st.
Petersburg.
A member of the emperor's house
hold is quoted as saying that this con-
fiict will end the war with Japan and