Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1905-01-26
HUNDREDS SHOT DOWN
IN ST. PETERSBURG.
Open InsurrectiOn Preached ON
q Sunday OF Riot and Blood
shed I'm the Capital.

Lurid revolution broke suddenly
in st. Petersburg Sunday. 1t was
day of hor rors that will be forever
memorable in the history of Russia.
Five hundred persons, according
TO conservative estimates, were kill
led or wounded by soldiers for col
lecting in street mobs and refusing
10 dispense. Some estimates of the
victims run TO 5000 and beyond,
the London Daily Mails correspon-
dent stating that about 1900 were
killed and o, 400 wounded. Alright
the crowds, stung TO madness by
the merciless treatment they receiv-
ed, were arming for a renewal Of the
conflict today.
Gar Nicholas ii disregarded the
plea OF the 100, 0O0 strikers to appear
in front of the Winter Palace at Up. NJ.
and receive their petition. Instead,
thousands of soldiers were drawn
up there and at other vantage points
in the city, ready TO NOV down the
people.
AS the mobs approached they
were ordered to disperse. They
refused 70 do so and hurled epithets
NJ the soldiers, also claInoriug 20 see
the Car. Then volley after volley
was fired and Cossacks charged
with sabers, men, women and child
rem falling by scores before them.
For time the mobs were dispers-
ed by these fierce onslaughts, but at
night they gathered in other quart
ers OF the city and were arming for
renewal of the outbreak today.
Their faith in the Gar seems broken,
and shouts of Down with the EN-
peror I" are heard.
Father George Gopon, the priest
who is leading the outbreak, was
spared by the troops.
affected and that one body of troops
refused to fire on the strikers.
A member of the Gar S household
is quoted as saying that the outbreak
will end the war with Japan and
that Russia viii have q constitution
or the Gar will lose his head. Com
ment was made that the troops were
drawer against their own people than
against the Japanese.
Though the overshadowing display OF
military force prevented q renewal on a
large scale Monday OF the bloody out
breaks which stained Sc. Petersburgh's
snowy streets on Sunday, the people Of
the capital passed day and night OTTER
ror. Suppressed in the center Of the city
where the Cossacks eongregated, the rev.
II or suAe a.. Al.
| and angrily planned to continue the
movement for freedom. MANY bombs
were thrown at the Cossaeks.
Twelve thousand strikers from the Can
iloff works, 16 miles from the city. are
reported to have beaten back the troops
sent against them and to be marching
ON the capital. A state of siege prevails
and the pavements ring with the tramp
OF soldiers. Orders were issued that per-
sons who leave their houses without per
mission do 50 at the risk OF being shot.
Many residents are fleeing.
The London Daily Telegraph's CORES
/ pondent says that the Car Nicholas and
his family hurriedly left Tsarkoe Selo
Palace when he heard that the strikers
were marching on it and that he took
refuge at the CATCHING Palace. From
Moscow, the ancient capital OF Russia.
comes ominous news. A strike has be-
gun there and the workingmeu are clos
ing shops as they did in &c. Petersburg
last week. The city Is in great excite
ment and the Liberals, who have their
chief stronghold there, are working with
a fever OF energy to organize the revolt.
In other Russian cities the fever Of revolt
10 ielt.
| Prices in the stock markets OF New
York, London, Paris and Berlin fell. CIV.
| ing TO the lear of q great decline in Rus
sian securities shaking the financial equi-
librium OF the world. Agents Of the Rus
sian revolutionary party are collecting q
large sum Of money in this country 60
help their cause. They are said TO have
cannon In Germany ready to be moved
across the border.-Sun,