The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-01-23
PopuIace Rises and Marches
on the Royal Palace
Hundreds Killed and
Wounded.
PEOPLE FRRNzIED BY
The SIGHT OF BLOOD
SYMPATHY OF MIDDLE CLASSES
WITH THE WoRKMEN.

s[s-
Troops, With Single Exception of one
Regiment. Which Lays Down lis
Arms, Remain LoyaI--City Under
Martial Law With $4,000 Troops in
command-F'ather Gopon, Idol of the
Strikers, Wounded While Leading the
Demonstrators in His Golden vest
mcnts-Ruinors of Trouble in Fin
Iand--Disaffection Among Troops.
st. Petersburg. Jan. 22-This mas been
4 a day Of unspeakable horror in ST.
Petersburg. The strikers Of yesterday,
goaded to desperation by day of vio-
lence, fury and bloodshed, are in a state
Of open insurrection against the gov
eminent. A condition almost bordering
on civil war exists III the terror-strick-
en- Russian capital. The city is under
martial law. with Prince Vasilchikoff
as commander Of over $4,000 Of the em-
peror's crack guards. Troops are biy-
ouacking in the streets tonight ana at
various places on the Neysky Prospect,
the main thoroughfare of the city. On
the Island Of Vassili Ostrov and in the
industrial sections infuriated men have
thrown up barricades, which they are
holding. The empress dowager has
hastily sought safety at Tsarskoe Selo
where Emperor Nicholas II. is living.
Minister Of the Interior Sviatopolk-
Mirsky presented to his majesty last
night the invitation Of the workmen to
appear at the winter palace this after
noon and receive their petition; but the
emperor's advisers already had taken a
decision to show a firm and resolute
front and the emperor's answer to the
100, 900 Worknen trying to make their
way to the palace square to-day was
q Solid array of troops, who met them
with rifle, bayonet and sabre. The
priest Gopon, the leader and idol of the
men, In his golden yestments,i holding
aloft the cross and marching ait the
i head DIT thousands of Workmen through
the Narva gate, miraculously escaped
q volley which laid low half hundred
persons. The figures Of the total num-
ber Of the killed or wounded here, at
the Moscow gate, at various bridges
and islands and at the winter palace
vary. The best estimate is 500, al
though there is exaggerated figures
placing the number as high as 5,00O
Many men We're accompanied by their
wives and children, and in the confu-
sion, which left no time for discrimina-
tion, the latter shared the fate Of the
men. The troops, with the exception of
q single regiment, which is reported to
have thrown down its arms, remained
loyal and obeyed orders. But the blood
which crimsoned the snow has fired the
brains and passions Of the strikers, and
turned women as well as men into wild
beasts, and the cry Of the infuriated
popuIace is for vengeance.
The sympathy Of the middle classes is
with the Workmen. *t y.
IL Father Gopon, the master mind of
the movement, aimed at open revolu-
tion, he managed the affair like a
genius TO break the faith Of the people
in sthe little rather who they were
convinced, and whom Father Gopon
taught them to, believe would right
their wrongs and redress their griev-
a1ces. f4 s..
Gorky, the Russian novelist, expresses
the opinion that to-day's work will
break this faith of the people in the
emperor He said this evening to the
Associated Press: To-day inaugurated
revolution in Russia. The emperors
prestige will be irrevocably shattered by
the shedding of innocent blood. He has
alieiliated himself forever from his peo-
pile. tGopon taught the workmen that
an appeal direct, to the little father
would be needed. They have been UNI
deceived. Gopon is now convinced that
peaceful means have failed ad that the
only remedy is force. The first blood
has been shed, but more will follow.
It is now the people against the OPP
pressors, and the battle will be fought
to the bitter end.
The military authorities had firm
grip on every artery in the city. At
daybreak guards regiments, cavalry
and infantry held every bridge across
the frozen Neva, the network of canals
which interlaces the city, and the gates
leading from the industrial section,
while in the palace square, as the storm
center, were massed dragoon regiments,
infantry and Cossacks Of the guards.
Barred from the bridges and gates, men,
women and children crossed the frozen
river and canals on the ice by twos and
threes, hurrying to the palace square,
where they were sure the emperor
would be present to hear them. But
the street approaches to the square
were cleared by volleys and Cossack
charges. Men and women, infuriated
to frenzy by the loss of loved ones,
cursed the soldiers while they retreat.
ca. Men larangued the crowds telling
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