Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-24
REIGN OF TERROR
THREATENS CITY
THOUSANDS OF STRIKERS ARE
MARCHING ON CAPITAL
Dynamite Factories and the cronstsdt
Arsenal Sacked by RevoIutionlsts
Preparing for Gigantic strus-
gle With Troops

gle With Troops
officers to be seen alone on unpatrollet
streets.
Two officers were walking on the
bank of Ekaterinskala canal yester.
day when they were suddenly sur
rounded by workmen and had to run
for their lives.
Workmen attacked a cartridge fac
tory on the Viborg side of the city
Monday morning. The soldiers fired
several volleys at them. killing and
wounding an unknown number.
cronstadt Arsenal Plundered
1t is said worlxmen at Cronstadt at
tackled and plundered the arsenal there
and are marching on st. Petersburg. 1t
is alleged five sleigh drivers were killed
by the strikers for refusing to join the
strike. The strike leaders, members of
the provisional government and heads
of the literary committee are about to
appeal in the name Of the Russian peo-
pie, now fighting and dying for their
litCuOAlg W lilG LLu6llSH-oPChhAAAS PCO-
pie of the world, who inherit their
freedom as their birthrights, for Pc
cuniary assistance to enable them to
continue their struggle. They will ask
the newspapers to collect subscriptions.
Gar Seeks Safety In Flight
The imperial family has fed from
Tsarskoe-Selo. After three days and a
half of secrecy and frequent changes
from palace to palace, the czar hur-
riedly left Tsarskoe-Selo Monday morn
ing when news arrived that the strikers
from Kelpino had chosen the palace
there as the goal of their march.
Despite the reassIring statement
from the court dignitaries and military
nerve Immediately and announced his
intention to go to his summer resi-
dence, Peterhof palace. Objections
were raised by the dowager empress,
who suggested Gatschina. The czar
consented and the imperial family
started for there hastily. 1t is said the
imperial yacht Standard is reported at
Libau, to take the czar and his family
to Copenhagen. Another report says
the czar inspected his new yacht Alex
andria Monday, but it is not stated
where.
Sailors at kieff Mutiny
The Kieff correspondent of the Stand
ard ascribes the recent destruction of
the naval depots at Sevastopol to the
revolutionary incendiarism, in which
the sailors were badly victualed. over
on shore in barracks, shared.
He quotes eye witnesses as saying
the sailros were badly victualed, over
worked and unpaid, and they were
sent to war without being allowed to
bid farewell to their relatives.
Finally they openly refused to obey
orders. On one occasion the sailors,
who were on eve of sailing for the
for east, pelted their admiral with all
sorts of missiles after he had made
u farewell speech to them.
At another time the men who were
confined to the barracks for an OBJ
noxious reason, forced the gate and
swarmed TO the quarters yelling: END
the war, down with absolutism!"
Rioting followed. Mutineers, who
had armed themselves with iron rail-
ings, forced their way into dwellings
of unpopular officers, maltreated
them and set fire to their dwellings.
They then rushed to the headquar-
ters of the naval staff, where a de-
tachment of infantry was on guard.
The troops were ordered to fire a vol
ley at the rioters, but they fired into
the air and none of the sailors were
hurt The troops were thereupon or
dered to their barracks and another
detachment was sent to replace them
These acted similarly.
City in Terrible Panic
The tension which was somewhat re-
lieved in the morning, continued to in
crease during the day. Conditions APP
peared to be ominous, when shortly af-
ter dark the workmen in two electric
light plants walked out, refusing triple
pay to remain and plunged half the city
into utter darkness, including the New
sky prospect, which is the fashionable
residence quarter. The water supply
also was cut off and a veritable panic
ensued.
Tales that dynamite was in the pos
session of the strikers and that it was
the purpose to sack and burn the town
had been in circulation. and many peo-
pie were terror stricken. Reserve
troops We're called out to guard the
darkened portion of the city. The peo-
pie still in the streets, except few
strikers and roughs. fed to their
homes. Police officers visited every
house and store, ordering all not to
venture out at their peril and to turn
out the lights in their front windows
shopkeepers and even private house
owners boarded or barred their win
dows and doors.
After about four hours soldiers from
the engineer corps. with the aid of
German engineers from factories