The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-01-24


about four hours soldiers from the en-
gineer corps with the aid of German
engineers from factories, started up
the plants. When the lights were turn
ed on, except for the patroling in
fantry and cavalry, the streets were
deserted. At midnight, when life i'll
the Russian capital is usually bright,
St. Petersburg resembled a city of
the dead invaded By hostile army.
The facades of the buildings were
black and every restaurant and place
of amusement was closed. The only
sound to be heard was the deadened
patter os the hoofs of the cavalry
horses and the tramp of marching men
over the snow as the emperor's legions
moved to and fro.
The guards at the palaces of the
grand dukes are especially heavy. and
over 10000 troops are massed al. Tsar-
skoe-Selo.
The estimates of the number of dead
and wounded yesterday continue to vary
greatly, as at least a majority Of the
killed and wounded were carried off by
their comrades. Few of those taken
to the hospitals have. been reported.
Theoficial account of the rioting by no
means indicates the total of killed and
wounded. From careful Investigation
by the staff of the Associated Press it
appears that the estimate Of 500 cabled
last night seems liberal.
There were forty-seven killed and fif-
ty-four wounded at the Poutiloff works,
where the greatest casualties occurred,
about sixty in the Alexander gardens,
fifteen in Meika district, forty-five in
the yassili Ostroff district and the re-
mainder at various other points.
The factory and mill districts Of the
city were practically deserted to-day.
The strikers had no plans for demon
strations, and no special meeting points
has been arranged. The absence of any
definite objective led the strikers to
drift towards the principal thorough
flare, the Nevsky Prospect which has
been the center of to-day's less thrilling
events. AS the afternoon wore on the
crowds in the Nevsky Prospect became
dense, and the authorities, possibly
fearing that the cars might be conyert-
ed into material for barricades, stopped
street railway traffic and reinforced the
already considerable number of cavalry
patrols. NJ
Towards 5 o'clock, driving up the
,Nevsky Prospect, the Associated Press
correspondent saw through the gather
ling gloom the blaze of camp fires in
the palace square, with the dark forms
OF troopers sitting around them. The
Nevsky Prospect itself was ablaze with
life and animation. Strikers and curios-
ity seekers promenaded the two miles of
sidewalk between the Admiralty and
and the Nicholas station, and squadrons
|of Hussars and Cuirassiers rode up and
down in endless procession. The
crowds seemed peaceful enough, the
watchword evidently being, Don't
abuse the troops . The only shouts heard
lWere few isolated hurrahs. Suddenly
The electric lights in the upper section,
between the bazaar called Gostinny
Dvor and the Nicholas station were ex-
tinguished, and the thoroughfare was
plunged without warning into utter
darkness. which was not relieved even
by lights in shop windows. as all the
stores were closed. The scene was
wierd. The driver at first refused to
move on, fearing some hidden danger;
but finally he was pursuaded to proceed,
exelainling with Russian stoicisn1. '0ne
can die only once. A deathly silence
prevailed, heightened by the rustic OF
hundreds Of feet on the srloWclad side
walks, the Tnuffled tread of looming
squadrons, and the lugubrious hammer
ing OF shop keepers taking precautions
against possible attack by boarding up
| the windows of their stores with rough
Humber. The curious hastily .scurried
Into adjoining streets, finding their
ways home as best they could through
| the inky darkness. Only a fringe of
sullen strikers and rough characters re-
| mained, the police warning all to get
home as soon as possible. The only
bright spot was a blaze of light from
the courtyard of the Annitchkoff palace,
from whence the empress dowager yes
| terday fled to the Tsarkoe Selo. Be-
yond stood the dark, grim palace of
Grand Duke sergius. The crowd was
particularly dense around the ap-
L pr0aCneS TO tn6 NlcnOIdS StaJlOll. 7f1eFe,
| in the darkness, marauders attacked a
few news vendors stalls, but grim
row of infantry around the station
buildings effectually discouraged vio-
Hence Other disturbers broke numerous
windows in the Gastinny Dvor and the
kiosk at the corner of the Annitchkoff
palace garden. A bench turn up from
the adjoining park was placed in the
roadway in the hope that it might trip
lup cavalry. Some policemen were
roughly handled and .disarfned in side
streets, but there was no firing. / st
AS the Associated Press correspond
lent drove down the Nevsky Prospect,
Troopers were clearing the sidewalks OF
leiterers, using the flats Of their sabres
and causing a general stampede. This
continued until 8 o'clock at night when
the lights were again turned on, and
revealed the Neysky Prospect almost
deserted.
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