The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-26
Houses Battered Down.
THOUSANDS KILLED.
Frghtful Loss Of Life in the Streets
of Moscow.

London, Dec. 26.-The correspondent OF
the Daily Telegraph at St. Petersburg
IA "a dispatch dated SIS p. IN, Dec. p
says:
AT an early hour this morning. the
casualties at Moscow were estimated ar
b,Vn killed and IA 600 wounded, with the
lighting suIl proceeding.
THE inhabitants of Moscow have been
forbidden 20 leave their dwellings after
Z o. clock IN the evening.
III Is impossible to move about the city
IN consequence Of the frequency of the
stray bullets. Many innocent persons
nave been accidentally killed.
"a scarcity OF provisions is threatened"
The same correspondent telegraphIng at
Your Moscow correspondents tele-
grams have not been accepted because all
private messages were refused this att
eruOOn.
Cannon Firing Continues.
III 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 the reyOlutionaries are being desper-
atelN defended.
''-I'he Kursx terminus at Moscow is be-
iu,~ pilluged and many wagons laden with
provisions are being looted.
THE emperor is engaged daily IN re-
viewing al Isarskou-Sci0 the regiments
of the ST. Petersburg district. The spirit
o. the troops is decidedly loyal
Prom f~4gmentalN accounts received
from MO- I EULnEF liidn iLE CIVIL ~ al
has brous..- uo decisive action, but Only
a thickeumg of the blood cloud an in
teUsityiug of the horrors and an increase
Of the prevailing bitterness.
Bitterness Of Hate.
The driving force behind both the
Gle ops and rebels is no longer that OF en-
Al tlu-IIsm of any human impulse. IL Is
\ he forces of the super human hate, and
tieAer the deeds reported are not the acts
~ I4lTllfE soldiers OLnErMlSH. but the
enCrmtties OF madmen.
cit is impossible To understand how any
emotion, even of the extremes Of despair
or hate can fmpart such toolhardy co.G-
age as some or the rebels display.
For every barricadc destroyed Sunday
two or three appeared in other places.
Orders were given by the reVoiuuouists
TO shoot only when there was good hope
OF bringing a man down, but otherwise TO
tire out the troops until they lost pa
thence.
I'm the meantime in their houses the
bulk OF the population covers in the in
most recesSes of kitchens and cellers,
stricken with fear and trembling at every
boom Of the cannon or the explosion Of a
bomb,
Troops Remain Loyal.
'''The most surprising thing of an is the
loyalty of The troops which nobody here
anticipated.
Talking with am intelligent group OF
st petersburg reNoluuOnists / was I'M
formed that while they believed the strike
would boz victorious they fully realized
they we're stalking everything upon the
issue and that failure would set back
their cause for several years They said
: hey were drvOtng their efforts 20 shak-
ing the foundations OF Russian finance
in tom confidence that once the existing
regime was ovrrthrown they could as
quickly build another and that foreign ma
tons would be as ready Co advance money
10 d democratic republic 40 to the au-
tOcrucy. They emphuticaiiy denied that
they were melting the peasantry 60 com
mil agrurlau Outrages declaring that
these Outrdgcs were the work OF socialists
but they did not deny their advocacy Of
Ehc distribution Of the crown lands among
the peasants.
In conclusion they declared that IN
event of the failure of their cause they
would have recourse TO terrorism, chOos-
ing their victims from all classes of So
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