New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-25
A REVOLUTION
STIRS RUSSIA.
a QUIET SUNDAY MORNING Is
TURNED INTO A SCENE
cF CARNAGE.
Workmen Trying to Present Petit
ton to the Gear are Moved Down
by Troops. Men, Women and
Children Fall in Heaps.

st. petersburg. January 23.- Yester-
day was a dav of unspeakable horror
IN st. Petersburg.
The strikers, goaded to desperation
by day of violence, fury and blood
shed, are in a state of open insurrec-
tlon against the government.
a condition almost bordering on civil
war exists in the terror stricken capt.
tai of Russia.
The city is under martial law, with
Prin:e Vasilchikoff as commander Of
over 10000 of the emperor's crack
guards.
Troops are bivouacking in streets
and at various points on the Nevesky
Prospect, the main throughout of the
city.
On the island of Nassili Ostrov and
IN the industrial districts infuriated
men have thrown up barbados which
they are holding.
The empress dowager has sought
safety at Tsarsloe Selo, where EN-
peror Nicholas II is staying.
An invitation to meet the working
men was presented to the car but he
refused to meet them in front of the
palace.
The priest, Gopon, the leader and
idol OF the men, in his golden vest
ments, holding aloft the cross was
marching at the head of thousands of
workmen through the Narva gate,
mlraculously escaped a volley which
laid low a hundred persons.
The figures of the total number
killed or wounded here, at the Mos
COW gate, at various bridges and at the
winter palace vary.
The lowest estimate is 500, although
there are exaggerated figures placing
the number as high as 5000
Many men were accompanied by
their wives and children and in the
confusion which left no time for dis
elimination, the latter shared the fate
of the men.
The troops, with the exception of a
single regiment, which is reported to
have thrown down its arms, remained
loyal and obeyed orders.
But the blood which crimsoned the
snow has fred the brains and passions
of the strikers and turned women as
well as mensinto wild beasts and the
cry of the Infatuated populace is for.
vengeance.
The sympathy of the middle classes
is with the workmen.
| Father Gopon, the master mind OF
the movement, aimed at open revolu-
ton. He managed the affair like a
genius to break the faith of the people
in ''the little father" who, they were
convinced, and whom. Father Gopen
had taught them to believe, would
right their wrongs and redress their
| grievances.
The little chapel at the Narva gate
was wrecked.
On the Kaminostov island all the
lights were extinguished.
! Every officer wearing the uniform Of
the emperor who was found alone was
mobbed. A general was killed on the
Nicholas bridge and a dozen officers
were seized, stripped Of their epaulets
and deprived of their swords.
It is rumored that NJ Witte will be
appointed dictator today, but the re-
! port is not confirmed.
| Barred from bridges and gates, men
women and children crossed the frozen
river and canals on the ice by twos and
threes hurrying to the palace square
where they were sure the emperor
would meet them
/ But the street approaches to the
square were cleared by volleys and the
Cossack charges.
Men and women, Infatuated to fren-
zy by the loss of loved ones. cursed the
soldiers while they retreated
Men harangued the crowds, TELLING
them that the emperor had failed them
and that the time had come to act.
Men began to build barbados in
the Nevsky Prospect and at Other
points, using any material that came
to hand, and even chopping down tele
graph poles.
Fighting time continued at var
ious places, soldiers vollying and char
| ging the mob. The whole city wa,
J in a state of panic Women were run
! ming through the streets seeking los
members of their families Severa
{ barricades were carried by the troops.
! Towards eight o'clock in the evenin s
the crowds, exhausted, began to dis
/ perse. leaving the military in posses
| sion. As they retreated up the Nevsk,
Prospect the workmen put out all th,
lights.
[ It's rumored that the worlSmen Their
have seized a dynamite factory an.
also that thirty or forty thousand arme,
strikers from Kolpine, sixteen mile
distant, are marching on st. Peters
burg.
: TWIN CITY MARKETS.