Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-23
Infuriated by
Carnage, Mob
IS Looting
CRY VENGEANCE
UPON EMPEROR
Now Regard Nicholas
as Their Sworn
Enemy
REVOLT SPREADING
ALL OVER MUSCOVY
WOrkmen Are Marching
on Capital Armed
With Dynamite
Special Cable to The Herald.

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. %, a. m.
Protest became revolt yesterday.
One hundred and fifty thousand
striking workingmen were trans
formed into rebels, not only against
the cars government, but against
the czar himself.
Father Gopon led the revolutionists.
Troops shot them down-troops
commanded by Grand Duke Vladimir.
the czar's uncle, and admirably dis
posed to kill,
Never was more cruel slaughter by
Tartar barbarian than by the czar's
soldiers today.
Thousands Killed and Wounded
Eyewitnesses estimate that 22OO men,
women and children were killed and
$500 wounded. OF the thousands of
Putiloff workmen whom Father Co
wounded.
In the square of the winter palace,
so deadly was the fire that 100 men
We're killed and only fifty wounded.
The procession, beginning it's adj
vance to the palace found its progress
barred almost before it was started,
and as it attempted to continue it was
moved down by volleys.
Terrible Slaughter of Marchers
Twenty thousand working people
set out from Kolpino, the manufac-
turing village twenty-five miles away
At the Moscow arch on the confines
volleys One thousand fell dead and
1900 were wounded.
From Neva river a great crowd
marched to Nevsky gate, where 500
fell dead and 700 were wounded.
Basil island workers lost 200 killed
and 700 wounded.
One of the most serious develop
ments of the day was as the strikers
approached the Nicholas bridge.
Infantry Refuses to Fire
The infantry opposed to them laid
down their rifles and refused to fire on
the workmen. AS the strikers ap-
preached from Vassiliostroff they were
stopped by a strong force of infantry,
Uhlans and Cossacks. The strike lead
ers appealed to the soldiers not to fire
on their brothers, and the infantry
laid down their arms, but the Uhlans
and Cossacks, obeying orders, drove
the crowd back with their swords
wounding many.
A military band was playing while
this conflict was going on.
At the Narva gate the troops fired
on crowd led by Father Gopon and
Father Sergius, the priests carrying
cross, an ikon and a portrait of EN-
peror Nicholas. Father Sergius was
killed and the portrait of the emperor
was smashed.
AT the Putiloff works the scenes re-
sembled a sham battle. There the
workmen facing the troops, when the
order was given to fire, threw them
selves upon their faces on the ground
The troops fired on them as they lay
PROSTATE.
Snow Stained With Blood
Wherever the cavalry charged or the
infantry fired the snow became stained
with long streaks of blood. With the
mob infuriated. vowing vengeance and
melted by its leaders, event succeeded
event with such bewildering rapidity
that the public was staggered and
shocked beyond expression, for up to
the very last moment it seemed to
believe that nothing serious was likely
to happen.
The first trouble began at II o'clock,
when the military tried to turn back
some thousands of the Putiloff strikers
at one of the bridges connecting the
great Industrial quarter with the CEN
tral portions of the city. The same
thing happened almost simultaneously
at other bridges.
The constant flow of workmen press
ing forward refused to be denied access
TO the eomon rendezvous at the palace
square. The military at first used
knouts, then the flats of their sabers,
and finally fired.
The front ranks of the demonstrators
tell ON their knees and implored the
Cossaeks to let them pass. protesting