Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-02-21
: VICTIM OF 4 bomb
Assassination of Grand Duke
Sergius While Driv- r
ing in Moscow.
Internal Machine Is Thrown I'm
der His Carriage and
Explodes.
The Famous Russian Is Instantly
Killed-Head Torn from
His Body.
The Assassin Is Arrested---Hs Vic
tim Had Long Been
Marked Man.
The Gear Is Frustrated on Hearing Of
the Tragedy-The Dead Man
Was Unpopular.
The Assassin Is Arrested---His Vic
tim Had Long Been
Marked Man.
The Gear Is Frustrated on Hearing Of
the Tragedy-The Dead Man
Was Unpopular.


Was Unpopular.
Moscow, Feb. 18.-Within the walls
of the far-famed Kremlin palace, and
almost underneath the historical tower
from which Ivan the Terrible watched
the heads of his enemies falling be-
meath the axe on the famous Red
Square, and within stones throw of
the great bell of Moscow, Grand Duke
Sergius, uncle and brother-in-law Of
Emperor Nicholas and the chief of the
reactionaries, met a terrible death
shortly before o'clock Friday. The
deed was committed by a single ter
rorist, who threw beneath the carriage
of the grand duke a bomb charged
with the same high power explosive
which wrought Minister Won Plehve's
death. The missile was packed with
nails and fragments of iron, and it's
explosion tore the imperial victims
body to CHASTITY fragments, which
strewed the snow for yards around.
Every window in the great, lofty
facade Of the palace of justice was
shattered and bits of iron were inn
bedded deeply in the walls Of the ar
senal, a hundred yards away.
Long a Marked Man.
The assassin belongs to the noted
Fighting Group" of the socialist rev.
dictionary party, which has removed
other prominent officials and long
since passed sentence of death upon
Grand Duke Sergius. The grand duke
knew that he stood in the shadow Of
death. He was the recipient of re-
peated warnings, and elaborate pre-
cautions were taken to insure his
safety, but all the resources of the
gendarmerie, secret police and SOL
diers proved unavailable against an
attempt almost exactly duplicating the
procedure that caused the death Of
Minister OF the Interior Won Plehve
1ast July.
The Assassination.
According to late details, Grand Duke
Sergius, who generally was accompanied
by his wife when out driving, was on
this occasion going to his private Rus
sian bath in his old official residence in
Tvsrskaia street. The vehicle in which
he rode was plain, shabby closed car
rage, such as would not be likely to at
tract attention. 1t was followed by de-
tsctives in couple Of cabs. The grand
duke was driven rapidly and was half
way across the square between the great
bell tower and the Nicholas gate when
the bomb was thrown beneath his car
rage. where it exploded, literally de-
molishing the vehicle, killing the grand
duke and fatally injuring his driver.
Head Blown Of.
! The grand duke was instantly killed.
His head was blown off, actually being
separated from his body, which was
frightfully mansled.
Grand Duchess Elizabeth, who has
been engaged daily in the task of pre-
pairing comforts for the sick and wound
Cd Russian soldiers in Manchuria, was
about to drive to the palace to join her
husband. When she heard of what had
befallen the grand duke she was driven
in haste to the scene Of the tragedy and
knelt hatless and coatless on the blood
stained snow and murmured prayers for
the wslfare Of the soul Of her slain con-
sort.
The only actual witnesses Of the as
Aasstnation were couple of policemen
on beat In the vicinity. It still appears
to be uncertain whether the assassin was
IN a sleigh or hiding in the tunnel be-
meath the Nicholas tower. A few peo-
pie who had been attracted by the sound
of the explosion, made their way inside
the KRemltn before the police were able
70 close the gates, but they were speedily
sjected. While enormous crowds were
gathering outside the gate, the body of
Grand Duke Eergius was taken by way
of a private corridor from the palace to
the ChoudoH monastery.
Will Lie in State.
!! The body will probably lie in state
several days in the church of the AS
cension In the Kremlin, where Emperor
Nicholas was crowned. From thence it
will be taken to st. Petersburg and In
TERED in the Romanoff mausoleum in
the great Cathedral of St. Peter and st.
Paul, inside the fortress.
Meets with Reproduction.
st. Petersburg, Feb. 18-The assas-
sination Of Grand Duke Sergius undoubt-
edly was the work Of the fighting or
ganization Of the socialistic reyolution-
ary party, which condemned and exc
cuted Count Bobrikotf. governor general
OF Finland. and MN. sipiaguine and Won
Plehve, ministers of the interior. 1t is
regarded as direct challenge from the
terrorists to the autocracy, and re.
Eiysl Of the famous duel between the
nihilists and the government rs years
ago.
The murdsc, of Grand Duke Sergius
1ust ct the til. %hen the forces Of lib
sralism were age. In the supremacy
and when the summoning Of thezemsky
sobor was actually assured, meets with
reprobation, even by extreme
social democrats, who denounce the
crime as strongly as do the liberals and
According to high authority the de-
cision had been already practically TAX
en- to ofacially proclaim the zemsky
sobor on February %. Prince Shirinsky
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