Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-26
)lly Decisive Result Of Battle is Increase
Of Bitterness Between 0onte,tanta
,hNY MORE BARRlcADtS ERECTED
Every Time One is Destroyed Two or Three
Others Appear in New Places
PEOPLE MOVED DOWN BY MACHINE GUNS
Grape and Canister Arc Merctiessiy
Used Against Insursents-Drunkea
Cossacks Armed with Lanoes
Charge Down streets.

LONDON, Dec. S.-The correspondent Of
the Daily Telegraph at St Petersburg, In
a dispatch dated at s:45 p. m, December
%, says AT an early hour this morning
the casualties at Moscow were estimated
at 5000 killed and 1900 wounded. with ths
fighting still proceeding.
The Inhabitants of Moscow have been
forbidden to leave their dwellings after
o'clock in the evening.
1t is impossible to move about the city
| in consequence OF the number OF stray
bullets. Many innocent persons have been
| accidentally killed A scarcity of pro.
visions ia threatened.
The same correspondent, telegraphing at
1913 p. M. says: Your Moscow corre-
spondent's kilograms have not been ao-
| cepted because all private messages were
refused this afternoon.
| 1t is learned, however. that cannon firing
is now proceeding in various parts OF the
| city where tonight, very near the railroad
| stations. the barricades erected by tho
| revolutionaries are being desperately de-
| Tended
! The kursky terminus at Moscow Is being
pillaged and many wagons laden with pro-
| visions are being looted.
The emperor is engaged daily in review
st. Petersburg district. The spirit of the
troops is decidedly loyal.
bitterness Between Antagonists.
| From fragmentary accounts received from
Moscow 1 gather that the civil war has
brought decisive action, but only a
| thickening Of the blood cloud. intensi-
flying of the horrors and increase OF
the prevailing bitterness.
The driving force behind both the troops
and the rebels is no longer that OF
thusiasm or of any human impulse. 1t Ii
the force of superhuman hate and hence
the deeds reported not the acts of pa
triots, soldiers or otherwise. but the enor-
mites OF madmen.
| 1t is impossible to understand how any
emotion. even of the extremes of despair
or hate can impart such foolhardy cour-
age as some of the rebels display.
For every barricade destroyed Sunday
two three appeared In other places.
Orders were given by the revoutionists
TO shoot only when there good hope
of bringing a man down, but otherwise
to tire out the troops until they lost pa
tience. In the meantime, In their houses,
the bulk Of the population covers In tina
innermost seculison Of kitchens and cellars,
trembling at every boom of the cannon or
the explosion OF "A bomb.
Troops Remain Loyal.
. The most surprising thing of all is the
loyalty of the troops, which nobody here
, anticipated Talking with intelligent
group OF ST. Petersburg revolutionists.
was informed that while they believed
the strike would be victorious, they fully
realized they were stalking everything
upon the Issue and that failure would SO.
back their cause for several years.
They said they were devoting their ef.
: forts to shaking the foundations OF Rus.
sian finance in full confidence that. once
the existing regime was overthrown. they
. could quickly build another and that
foreign nations would be as ready to ad-
vance money TO democratic republic as
, to the autocraoy. They emphatically
denied that they were melting the peas
antry to commit agrartan outrages, de-
| claring that these outrages were the work
A, OF the socialists, but they did not deny
' their advocacy OF the distribution OF tho
crown lands among the peasants. In con-
clusion they declared that in the event of
the failure OF their cause they would have
recourse to terrorism. choosing their VIC
Tins from all classes OF society.
Z Butchery by Machine Guns.
, ST. PETERSBURG, Dec 3.-1:1O D. m-
: Direct telegraphic communication with
q Moscow severed last night. but the
n government succeeded In restoring COM
IT municatiop by a roundabout route this
e morning. All reports agree that the fight
n ing Yesterday. which continued until mid .
night, assumed the nature of g butchery
IL by the machine guns Of the artillery. grape
IS and canister being employed msreilessly
"a against the ill-armed insurgents
"a Atrooious tales are told of the Cossacks
Ia who. piled with vodka until drunk fired
down the streets. sometimes charging with
la ipE
: stubbornness in holding bsrricsdes. even
advancing in a mass TO the slaughter. AT
=, the time bombs were thrown from
the windows Of houses near the barricades
occupied by the revolutionsries. The arti-
lery summoned and battered the
houses to pieces.
g. Tho plan of the insurgents. IL is stated.
e is to hold the outskirts and gradually en-
e. close the troops in the center of the city
Of Leaders announce that army OF 900,
" is concentrated at Orecharfsueff northeast
t. OF Moscow. and will soon be ready tn
TX march to the city's assistance. The latest
ty report is that both sides were exhausted
,y at midnight. when firing practically ceased.
le The streets were In absolute darkness save
lis for searchlights in the towers OF Bivouao
behind barricades
Railway strike In Poland Ends.
n WARSAW, Russian Poland, Dec 2S-
1880 d. m.-The strike Of tho post and
~ the telegraph employees here il at an end
The strikers have accepted the conditions
OF the government. The telegraphers re-
sumed work today.
The military governor has issued an or
der prohibiting the street sales of news
=, papers, the singing NJ revolutionary songs
- the holding Of meetings and the organiznC
OF professions. Persons who violate ths
order are subject IN Imprisonment for
three months each and 10 fine OF $500
. The railroad men today resolved 70 re-
!, sumo work unless their comrades IN St
Petersburg should join in the strike.
French Cruisers for Baltic.
a BREST France, Dec. &.-The cruiser
Cassini has been ordered to proceed tc