The sun., 1905-12-25
FIGHTING GOES ON In MOSCOW
HUNDREDS HAVE BEEN SLAIN
IN STREET BATTLES.
Troops Prove Loyal and Obey Orders to
Fire on the Mobs-Artrlery Used
Against the Barbados Put UP by
the Observation-Disclosures Wrecked.
Special Gable Dispatches TO THE SUN.

Against the Barricades Put Up by
the Observation-Disclosures Wrecked.
Special Gable Dispatches 10 THE SUN.
Moscow, Dec. "a, P. M.-The fighting
which began here Friday night has con-
tinued, with some intermission, until now
in various parts of the city and has not yet
ended.
In large city, parts of which have been
conver ted into battle areas, it is impossible
to keep pace with all the happenings or to
at once report the full results, but few
main facts are beyond question.
There have been great slaughter and
mutilation and great destruction OF
property. Neither the troops nor rebels
have been finally vict orious, and what
perhaps ia most significant Of all, looking
to the end Of the struggle, the soldiers OF
all arms have been unswervingly loyal,
and so far as can be asoertained at present
have shown no disposition to sympathize
with the revolutionists.
SLAUGHTER All THE DARRIcADEs.
During Saturday afternoon artillery and
quick firing guns were posted in the Steast-
moi Monastery square. AL the streets
opening on the square, in which the rebels
had erected barricades, were swept by the
fire Of the troops.
The principal barricade was in Tver
street, where the missiles poured inoes-
sanity, the infantry firing concurrently with
the artillery. Infantry sharpshooters were
placed in the belfry of the monastery to
snipe the rioters below,
The carnage around this centre was
very great, but the estimates Of the num-
bers killed and wounded are purely guess
work.
Meanwhile fighting was going on in
other parts of the city which could not be
reached. The results are unknown, but
there is reason to believe there were many
casualties. 1t is stated that the rebels
hold a house in Strastnoi Square from
which they fred on the troops with an
English machine gun. The artillery turned
their field pieces on the house and shelled
and demolished it.
BARRIcADEs TAKEN SECOND TIME.
The night brought some respite in the
fighting, but the revolutonists took ad-
vantage Of the darkness to rebuild their
barricades which were destroyed on Satur-
day. 1t was found this morning that these
were stronger than ever.
Artillery and rifles were again brought
into action. and the carnage began again
when the guns bombarded the barricades.
Dragons followed, charging and hewing
down the remaining defenders and burning
the wreckage
The rebels fought with desperate courage.
They did not seem to be depressed by their
previous days losses, although it cannot
be learned that they made any headway.
The hospitals and pharmacies are crowded
with wounded.
! Among the dead and wounded victims
are many who had no share in the move
| ment. The troops fired into houses where
they suspected rebels we're hiding.
The area of to-days fighting was wider
| than that of Saturday, and when darkness
fell, although the firing had abated in the
centre of the city, it was still going Oh
briskly in the outskirts. The troops hold
the railway stations, but are unable to
prevent plundering.
BOMBS THROWN AT TRAINS.
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. % Delayed).-
| raI oI of ba
nobility, who is now here, has learned by
telephone that the situation in that city is
the worst possible. Three barricades be-
fore the Triumphal Gate Of the Kremlin
have been carried by dragons. Hundreds
Of the defenders were killed.
Elsewhere there has been desperate
fighting, lasting for hours, especially be-
fore the Passion Gate Of the Kremlin and
in Tver Square.
Bombs are frequently thrown at trains
leaving Moscow. Countess Tcheremetieff
wife of one OF the leaders of the Moscow
conservatives, and her children were on q
train that was wrecked. She obtained an
improvised sleigh and travelled twenty
versts to the family estate, only to find
it had been burned and plundered.
WHAT THE REBELS PLANNED,
LONDON, Dec. 25.-The rumors current
on Saturday that the troops at Moscow
we're mutinying are not confirmed All
the latest dispatches indicate the con-
trary. What the revolutionists declare
is the final struggle to overthrow Czardon
does not seem to have made substantial
headway but the end is not yet.
The st. Petersburg correspondent Of the
Teleoraph, recording events at Moscow
and elsewhere, says the struggle is going
on with bitterness, cruelty and inhumanity
There is no quarter
Fiendish, superhuman hate has swal
lowed UP human sentiment. The insur-
gents in Moscow are fighting like demons
for D over. Power for themselves, no
longer prosperity for the nation, is what
they openly and clamorously demand.
Their daring plan was to seize it suddenly,
form a provisional government, drive out