Evening capital., 1905-01-23
PRICE ONE GENT
RUSSIA'S GREAT REVOLUTION
AWFUL MASSACRE BY THE
RUSSIAN COSSACKS.
Over Two Thousand Citizens Are
Dead And Five Hundred
Wounded.
CARS LIFE THREATENED.


Special cable dispatches to the New
York Sun, shis morning contains the
following
st. Petersburg, Jan. %. The saori.
flee has been made. Thousands have
fallen today. willing martyrs in the
cause of human liberty, in the belief
that their blood will seal the doom of
Russian tyaTiy and oppression.
Not since the massacre of st. Bar
tholomew' Day has a civilized com
munity witnessed such a massacre as
stains the latest page of Russian his.
tury Its victims cannot vet be mum
bered The official estimate puts the
number of dead at 2, 100 ard the
wounded at 5000
DELIBERATE SLAUGHTER
The last act of the bloody drama
was the deliberate slaughter of hun-
dreds of onlookers in the centre of the
city. After all the organized attempts
OF the insurrectionists TO march 20
the Winter Palace had failed, a large
body of Cossacks was turned loose by
the authorities against 90, 900 people
standing IN the streets, with orders Go
Kill without mercy.
The murderous command was obeved
to the letter. The carnage which fol.
lowed has no parallel in modern rec.
| ord. The fierce horsemen cut down
with their sabres all within reach
Those who fled were shot at with re.
volvers and carbines.
1t is said that the authorities com.
mitted this atrooity with the deliber.
ate purpose of terrorizing not only
st. Petersburg, but all Rusisa, and
| quenching the rising flames of revolu.
tion throughout the Empire.
BY stacked rifles and blazing wood
| fires on the frozen snow st. Peters
| burg's garrison stands at the present
hour across every approach to the CEN
tire of the city. Behind the troops
| rulers; before them the inscrutable
| tenement colonies, with a vast and
growing mass of determined men.
The days bloody work is told in
the cold official figures of the police
| At the Narya Gate, where Father
Gapon started with his devoted boz
guard and the workmen from tl6
| PutiloH Iron Works, 300 were killed
and 800 were wounded. At the Mos
koyksi level crossing gate 1000 were
killed and !, 900 wounded, and at the
Nevski Gate, below the Moskow sta
tion, 500 were killed and 700 wound
| ed. In the Vassili Ostroff district 200
were killed anil 500 wounded. In
other parts of the city 100 were killed
aud 700 wounded.
On and on the Cossacks pursued
their victims, in perfect carnival OF
killing. Before half block was pass
ed their swords were dripping blood
and the payements were crimson AS
the circle enlarged finally the soldiers
became somewhat separated and the
rage OF the populace found some
chance of revenge. They fell upon
everyone wearing a uniform Dark.
ness was now falling and harsher or
ders were given the troops The Cos
| sacks fired five volleys down the
Nevski Prospekt from in front of the
Kaazn Cathedral. The killed and in
jured were dragged into the side
streets by friends.
MANY SHOT AS THEY RAN
Many, to escape the galloping
| charges, jumped from the embankment
of the Noiku Canal and then fed
| along the ice. The Cossacks shot
them as they ran.
No accurate account can yet be
given of the victims of this unproyok.
ed massacre. There is reason to fear
that the police report of 2, 100 dead
falls far below the truth. The author.
ties show a natural desire TO mini.
mize the record of the awful carnage.
There was reason to doubt that the
revolutionary spirit was dominated in
st. Petersburg before today's occur
renee, but the spirit of rebellion burns
| tonight with an imperishable fare. In
the heart of the people a cry never
heard in st. Petersburg before is raised
tonight by an incensed and outraged
city. This is Down with the Czar;
down with the monarchy
This cry will re-echo throughout
the Russian Empire and this days
work will have its fruit in mighty