The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-27
MOSCOW WORKMEN FOLLOW
ST.PETERSBURC STRIKERS

Reserve troops We're called out to guard
h darkened portion of the, city. The
people still in the streets, except a few
strikers and toughs, fed to their homes.
Police officers visited every house and
store, ordering all not to venture out
at their peril and to turn out the lights
in their front windows. Shopkeepers
and even private house owners boarded
or barred their windows and doors. At
ter about four hours, soldiers from the
engineer corps with the aid of German
engineers, from factories, started up the
plants. When the lights were turned
on. except for the ~patrolling calvary
and infantry, the streets were deserted.
| LIKE A CITY OF THE DEAD.
At midnight when the capital is usu-
ally bright, st. Petersburg reserbled a
city of he dead, invaded by a hostile
army. The facades of the buildings
! were black and every restaurant and
place of amusement was closed. The
only sound to be heard was the deaden-
ed patter of the hoofs of the cavalry
horses and the tramp Of marching men
| over the snow, as the Emperor's legions
moved to and fro.
OVER 10000 TROOPS AT TsARsKOE
SELO.
The guards at the palaces Of the
Grand Dukes are especially heavy and
| over 20, 900 troops are massed at Tsars-
koe Selo.
Factory and mill districts of the
city were practically deserted today
The strikers had no plans for demon
STATIONS and no special meeting points
had been arranged. The absence Of
any definite objective, lead the strik-
ers to drift towards the main thor
oughfares, the Nevesky Prospect,
which has been the centre of today's
less thrilling events. AS the afternoon
| wore on the crowds in the Nevsky
Prospect became tense and the au-
thorities. possibly fearing that the cars
might be converted into material for
barbados stopped street railway traf-
fc and REINFORCED the already con-
siderable number of cavalry patrols.
TROOPS CAMPED IN THE PALACE
SQUARE:
Towards 5 o'clock, driving up the
Nevsky Prospect. the Associated Press
correspondent saw through the gath
ering gloom the blaze Of camp fires in
the palace square with the dark forms
of troops sitting around them.
DON'T ABUSE THE TROOPS
!, The Nevsky Prospect Itself was
ablaze with light. Strikers and curios-
| ity seekers ~promenaded the two miles
| of sidewalk between the Admiralty
and Nicholas station and squadrons Of
Hussars rode up and down IN endless
procession. The crowds seemed peace
FIJI nnn,,rh tho NyofoI, unrl oxilopfI
being, Don't abuse the troops" The
only shouts heard were few ISOLATED
hurrahs. Suddenly the electric lights
in the upper section, betWeen the
Bazaar called Gostinny Dvor, and, the
Nicholas station, were e~xtinguished
and the thoroughfare was plunged
without warning into utter darkness,
which was not relieved even by lights
in shop windows. as all the stores were
closed. The scene was weird and fear
full. h driver at first refused to
move on. fearing hidden danger, but
he finally was persuaded to proceed,
exclaiming. with Russian stoicism.
zone can die only once" A deathly
silence prevailed. heightened by the
rustic of hundreds of feet on the SNOW
clad sidewalks, the muf1ed tread IF
OSHii' NtNtSN oAhSs oiAd LII -
hammering of shop keepers, taking
precautions against possible attack by
boarding up the windows of their
stores with rough lumber. The
curious hastily scurried into adjoin-
ing streets, finding their way home as
best they could through the inky
darkness. Only a fringe of sullen
strikers and rough characters re-
p1a:na5 the rn1joo .1yorrino oil IN ocf
home as early as possible. The only
bright spot was a blaze Of light from
the court yard Of the Annitchkoff
palace. Here in the darkness, marau-
ders attacked n few news vendors
around the station buildings effect
ua1ly discouraged them. Other dis
turbers broke numerous windows in
the Gostinny Dvor and the Kiosk, at
the corner of the A~nnitchkoff palace
! garden. A bench torn up from, the
adjoining park was placed in the DAD
way in the hope that it might trip up
cavalry. Some policemen were rough
~ handled and disarmed in side
streets, but there was no firing.
AS the Associated Press c~orrespon-
dent drove down the Nevsky Prospect,
troopers We're clearing the sidewalks
of loiterers, using the flats of their
sabres and causing a general stam-
pede. This continued until 9 o'clock
at night when the lights were again
turned or the revealed Nevsky Pros
pect almost deserted
! GENERAL STRIKE IN MOSCOW.
Moscow, January 2S, s p. m.-Em-