Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-12-30
TROOPS CRUSH
MOSCOW REVOLT
Insurgents Making LastStand '.gainst
Artillery Fire Of Soldiers.
THOUSANDS OF CASUALTIES

Moscow. Dec. 2S.-The cannonading
continues and the list of casualties Is
swelling. Inc revolutionists are oper-
Gting in three sections. There are
about 1000 of them In each section
They are all armed with revolvers and
rifles. The women who are participat-
ing in the fighting are guilty OF the
worst cruelties.
st. Petersburg. Dec q. - Emperor
Nicholas and Count Witte received q
report from General Doubassoff. gov
ernor general of Moscow. saying that
the revolt there had failed, that the
military had the situation In hand. and
that whatever detection may have ex-
listed among the troops had been over
come by the attacks on them with
bombs and revolvers To which they
had been subjected from the windows
and roofs of houses. which had so en-
ragged them that they could hardly be
restrained.
Although rebellion may fare up I'M
mcdiately elsewhere and although
there Is an indication of an upheaval
at Odessa II the attempt at armed re-
bellion in Moscow should be crushed
the leaders of the reds" will receive
blow from which they cannot quickly
recover.
Last night the correspondent OF the
Associated Press at Moscow tele-
phoned that there seems to be no
longer any doubt that the revolution
was collapsing Insurgents still held
the quadrangle in which the work
mems council was sitting rs revolu.
tionary committee. but only because
Governor General Doubassoff was not
yet ready To give the coup de grace.
The insurgents we're defending
themselves with revolvers and bombs
as the, were being hunted down from
house To house.
The correspondent says that the en-.
tire population Of the city Is terror
stricken and that after dark the back
streets present weird and uncanny
appearance As he drove To the telc'
phone station he saw only few civil
fans who were sinking along by the
side of the walls so as To avoid the
police and cavalry patrols who fire
without challenging The windows OF
the houses are stuffed with mattresses
and blankets and no lights are show
Ing. The police carry rifles with bayo-
nets fixed
A telephone message just received
kn oil Mnoenxy
says the fighting in the streets contin-
ued throughout the day. The soldiers
are hemming in the main body OF the
insurgents in the quadrilateral near
the Brest railroad station bounded by
Tverskaia street and the Tverskoi. Sa-
dovia and Bronnia boulevards. In this
quadrilateral the insurgents have for
titled every inch Of their lines with
felled trees and telegraph poles and
street ears. In front Of which they have
constructed network OF entangle-
ments. Artillery Is being used merci-
lessly
The mortuaries of Moscow are filled
with the dead. the hospitals are unable
to find room for the wounded. and
many private houses are filed with
wounded persons.
The nourse Gazette says It Is report
ed that General De Dioulin. prefect Of
police of 81. Petersburg. has been in
formed by telephone that the number
of dead or wounded at Moscow mum.
ber $1,000. and that when questioned
the general did not deny that such a
report had been received.