The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-24
GREAT STRIKE SPREADS
 ON RUSSIAN RAILROADS
MOVEMENT RAPIDLY EMBRAC- ING ALL THE LINES OF
 THE EMPIRE.

Apparently Cannot be Stopped and is
 Communicating Itself to the Mill and
 Factory Hands--GeneraI Strike in All
 Branches of Labor Which Socialists
 Planned for End of Year is Seemingly
 Bursting Forth of Its Own VOIitiOn-
 Moscow Now Isolated from Rest of
 Empire
 St. Petersburg, Oct. 24.-3 a. m.-- The railroad strike situation has now tnEc1cd on highly serious phase. The movement is spreading rapidly to all the railroads of the empire, and .ap- parontly cannot be stopped, while in Ii ahy cities it is communicating itself to the mill and factory employees. The general strike in all branches of labor which the socialists. planned for the end of this year is seemingly bursting forth of it's own volition.
 Minister of Finance Kokovsoff yes terday received telegram from the governing committee of the Moscow bCurse which said that the continual ton Of the strike for g. week longer would force every factory in the Mos COW region to shut down owing to lack of ccal. whether or net the fac tory hands took part in the strike.
 The same condition of paralysis threatens all the trade and industry of Russia unless the strike is speedily settled. The inhabitants of Moscow are already feeling the effects of the strike in the increased prices of food. and they were even confronted by the famine.
 As the demands of the men are pure ly political it seems impossible to sat isfy them by economic concessions. Prince Hilkoff. minister of railroads, yesterday vainly appealed to the Mos COW strikers on the basis of his own | experiences in England and the United States, but he spoke to deaf ears. The men talked of nothing but their politic- 1 al rights which, of course ,the prince 1 was powerleses to grant.
 The situation is apparently at a deadlock, from which egress can only i be had by the surrender of one side, or perhaps the proclamation of mar tial law on the railroads.
 A flood of dispatches yesterday from Simbrsk, Saratoff, Vyazma Poltua, Nizhni Novgorod, Kharkoff, Smolensk, Kieff, Elizabethgrad, Kazan and other railroad centers all over Russia an- nounced the complete typing up of all | transportation.
 The last link that bound Moscow, the 1 commercial center of the empire, with 1 the outer world was broken yesterday l afternoon when the men on the Nicho- lai road, connecting Moscow with St. l Petersburg, went on strike. The en- gineers shut off steam in their engines and Prince Hilkoff had great difficulty in obtaining crew for the special train which brought him to St. Petersburg al midnight.
 St. Petersburg has now only one line to the frontier and the employees of this line held meeting late last night to decide whether or not they should par ticipate in the strike movement.
 Brigadier- General Thomas H. Barry and Captain Sydney A. Clonan, of tht United States army, who have. been with the Russian army in Manchuria left late at night for Vienna on what was perhaps the last train out of St Petersburg. Railroad trains are now running only in the border regions of the empire.
 Pathetic scenes are reported from Moscow, where thousands of the poor CT inhabitants of the adjoining prov inces have been waiting for four days for trains to take them home. They are camping out near the railroad sta tions and in the streets, and many ot them are without money and the neces. sities of life.