Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-12-30
THOUSANDS KILLED.
DEADLY WORK OF MAXIM GUNS
AT MOSCOW, RUSSIA.
Butcher Mistchenko Traps the Mob
Beneath Deadly Guns-opens Mask
ed cannon-Thousand MangIed in
Fearful Ambuscade-City May Be
Given Over to Torch.

Moscow, via st. Petersburg, Dec. 70.
IL is estimated at this time that the
casualties during Mondays fighting
will reach 5000 killed and $4,000
wounded. A constant conflict is still
eigning throughout the city and hard
building remains that is not bull
ct SCARED or marked by shells Pro-
visions are so short that many persons
are actually starving. Horrors such
as eclipse anything ever known dur
ing the Paris reign of terror are being
nacted in every quarter of the doom
ed city. God alone knows what the
outcome will be.
As this dispatch is penned, the rat
lie of small arms, clatter clatter, clat
ter of rapid fire Maxims and whistle
of shrapnel can be heard all over. A
few hours ago the revolutionary gov
eminent was again proclaimed and
roclamations were scattered broad
asst calling upon all citizens to rally
round the revolutionary command
and compel the soldiers to retire from
the city.
Flock to Rendezvous.
The result was electrical. Thousands
of persons who had heretofore re-
manned in their homes flocked to the
places of rendezvous and demanded
they be supplied with arms and am
munition to help their brothers in "the
fight for life"
The days of the Paris commune are
AEAlxr f,,fr H.,
of the twentieth century, and now it
seems certain the troops will be I'M
able to quell the rioting.
During the last five hours there have
been 1000 buildings destroyed by fire
Most of the structures were occupied
or owned by loyalists and the fires
have been set by the revolutionaries,
who kept the firemen from interfering
Carried storehouse.
Shortly after sunset tonight a de-
achment of insurgents swarmed down
on the railway storehouse. Cossacks
were stationed there to guard the
but most of them were shot
down or stabbed by the frenzied revo-
lutionaries, who drove the guards from
the scene and carried away everything
portable within the building.
Bomb Throwers Fearless.
The murder" of revolutionaries who
were ambushed beside the walls of
the government ammunition factories
early Monday has wrought the anti
monarChical residents up to such a
pitch that they don't care what hap
pens to them. Bombs are being used
to an extent not heretofore dreamed
Of Men. carrying explosives of great
power in their hands, approach the
ranks of the soldiers and throw their
missiles right into the faces of officers
and men. Men throw up their arms
and die, their bodies pierced by many
shots. but happy in the hope they have
killed some of those responsible for
the murder" of their comrades.
Wires to Moscow Down.
st, Petersburg. Dec 26.-Communi-
cation with Moscow was interrupted
ust before midnight on Monday night
and it appears, according to officials
of the telegraph company, that the
wires have either been cut on the out
skirts Of the city or that the stations
In the city are burned At that time
fighting was in progress in every sec
ton of the city and everything indi-
Gated last supreme struggle between
the revolutionaries and the troops was
on.