The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-01-24
ST. PETERSBURG
IN .|NKY DARKNESS
Lights Turned off to Stop Assem-
bling of Crowds
SOLDIERS CAMP FIRES
THE ONLY RAY OF LIGHT TO RE,
VEAL THE FORMS OF RUS
SIAN TROOPS ON GUARD
AT NEVSkY PROS
PEcT.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
st. Petersburg, Jan. 23.-The fac.
tory and mill districts of the city
strikers had no plans for demonstra-
tons, and no special meeting points
had been arranged. The absence of
any definite objective led the strikers
to drift towards the principal thor.
oughfare, the Nevsky Prospect, which
has been the center of today's less
thrilling events. AS the afternoon
wore on the crowds in Nevsky Pros
pect became dense and the authori.
ties, possibly fearing that the cars
might be converted into material for
barbados, stopped the street rail
way traffic and reinforced the already
considerable number of the cavalry
patrols
Soldiers Camp Fires.
Towards O'Clock, driving up News
| ky Prospect, the Associated Press
correspondent saw through the gath
ering gloom blaze of camp fires in
the palace square. with the dark
forms of the troopers sitting around
them. Nevsky Prospect itself was
amlaze with light. Strikers and curl.
osity seekers promenaded the two
miles of sidewalk between the admir-.
atty and Nicholas Station and squad
rons of Hussars and cuirassiers rode
up and down in endless professions
The crowd seemed peaceful enough,
the watchword evidently being don't
abuse the troops" The only shouts
heard were a few isolated hurrahs.
All Lights Go Out.
Suddenly the electric lights in the
upper section, between the Bazaar
called Gostinny Dvor, and the Nicho-
las Station were extinguished, and
the thoroughfare was plunged with,
out warning into utter darkness,
which was not relieved even by lights
in the shop windows, as all, the stores
were closed The scene was weird
and fearful The driver at first re.
fused TO move on, fearing some hid
den danger, but he finally was per.
suaded TO proceed. exclaiming. with
Russian stocism: "One can die only
once"
A deathly silence prevailed. height
ened by the rustic of hundreds of feet
on snowclad sidewalks. the muffled
tread of looming squadrons and lugu,
briQus, hammering of shop Keepers
taking precautions ri against a pos
sible attack by boarding up windows
Of, their stores with rough lumber
The curious hastily scurried into ad,
joining streets, finding their way
home as best they could through the
inky darkness. Only a fringe of sui
len strikers and rough characters re.
manned, the police warning all to get
home as soon as possible.
One Blaze Of Light.
The only bright spot was blaze
Of light from the courtyard Of An
nitchkoff place. whence the empress
dowager yesterday fled to Tsarsko Sc.
10. Beyond stood the dark, grim pal
ace of Grand Duke Sergius. The
crowd was particularly dense around
the approaches to the Nicholas sta
ton.
Here in the darkness. marauders
attacked a few news vendors stalls,
but a grim row of infantry around
the station buildings effectually dis.
couraged violence Other disturbers
broke numerous windows in Gostin
ny Dvor and the Kiusll at the corner
of the Annitchkoff palace garden
Some policemen were roughly hand.
led and disarmed in side streets. but
there was no firing.
AS the Associated Press CORE
spondent drove down Nevsky Pros
pect troopers were clearing sidewalks
of loiterers using the flats of their sa,
bres and causing a general stampede
This continued until O'Clock at
night when the lights we're again
turned on and revealed the Nevsky
Prospect almost deserted.