The Grit-advocate., 1905-12-29
MOSCOW HORROR
FIVE THOUSAND KILLED IN
FIERCE STREET FIGHTS
MANY THOUSAND WOUNDED
Awful Carnival of 6loodshed on Christ
mas Day-Insurgents Moved Down
With Grape and canister-Fiend-
ish Deeds Of Drunken Cossacks.

London.-The correspondent of the
| Telegraph at St. Petersburg. in dis
patch dated at GAS p. M, December
18th, says:
AT an early hour this morning the
| casualties at Moscow were estimated
at 5000 killed and $4,000 wounded,
with the 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 frequency
| sons have been accidentally killed.
"A scarcity of provisions is threat
| ened."
The same correspondent, telegraph
ing at 1928 p. m., says:
Your Moscow correspondents tele-
grams have not been accepted, be
cause all the details were refused.
Cannon firing is now proceeding in
various part of the city, where to-
night very near the railroad stations
the barricades erected by the revolu-
tionaries are being desperately de-
| Tended.
THE Kursk terminus at Moscow is
with provisions are being looted.
From fragmentary accounts re-
ceived from Moscow | gather that the
! civil war has brought no decisive ac-
tion. but only thickening OF the blood
cloud an intensifying of the horrors
and an increase of the prevailing bit
terness.
1.-The driving force behind both the
nd ha
of enthusiasm or of any human i'm
pulse. 1t Is the force of superhuman
hate, and hence the deeds reported are
not the acts of patriots, soldiers or
! otherwise, but the enormities of mad
men.
at is impossible to understand how
any emotion, even of the extremes of
despair or hate can impart such fool
hardy courage as some of the rebels
| display.
For every barricade destroyed Sun
day two or three appeared in other
places. Orders were given by the revo-
lutionists to shoot only when there
was good hope of bringing a man
down, but otherwise to tire out the
troops until they lost patience.
"In the meantime in their houses the
innermost recesses of kitchens and eel
lars stricken with fear and trembling
at every boom of the cannon or eXplo-
sion of bomb.
1.-The most surprising thing of all is
the loyalty OF the troops, which nobody
here anticipated"
All reports agree that the fighting
yesterday. which continued until mid
night, assumed the nature of butch
cry by the machine guns of the artil-
lery, grape and canister being en-
ployed mercilessly against the Ill
armed insurgents.
Atrocious tales are told of the Cos
sacks. who. piled with vodka until
drunk. fired down the streets, some
times charging with lances.
The insurgents displayed great stub
bornness in holding barricades. even
advancing in a mass to the slaughter.
At the same time bombs were
thrown from the windows of houses
near the barricades occupied by the
revolutionaries. The artillery was
| summoned and battered the houses to
pieces.
The plan of the insurgents. it is
stated, is to hold the outskirts and
gradually enclose the troops in the
center of the city
Strike leaders announce that an
army of 10000 is concentrated at
Orechoffseuff. northeast of Moscow.
and will soon be ready to march to the
city's assistance. Both sides were eX
hausted at midnight Sunday. when fir
ing practically ceased. The streets
We're then in absolute darkness save
for searchlights in the towers of biv-
ouacs behind barricades.