Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-12-28


killed and ii 900 wounded.
A fierce conflict is still raging
throughout the city and hardly
building remains that is not bullet
SCARED or marked by shells
Horrors such as eclipse anything
ever known during the Paris reign of
terror, are being enacted i'll every
quarter of the city.
A few hours ago a revolutionary
government was again proclaimed and
a proclamation scattered broadcast
calling upon all citizens to rally
around the revolutionary command
and compel the soldiers to retire from
the city.
DAYS OF Commune Repeated.
The result was electrical. Thousands
of persons who heretofore remained III
their homes flOcked to the places of
rendezvous and demanded that they be
supplied with arms and ammunition
to help their brothers win the flight
for life"
| The days of the commune simply
are intensified in these early years of
the twentieth century, and now it
seems certain the troops will be una
BILE to quell the rioting.
| During the last five hours there have
been 900 buildings destroyed by fire.
They were mostly structures occupied
or owned by loyalists and the fires
have been set by the revolutionary
fparty, who kept the firemen from in
terfering.
Shortly after sunset last night a de-
tachment of insurgents swarmed down
on the railway storehouse in which
the troops were. Cossacks were sta
toned there to guard the structure,
but most of them were shot down or
stabbed by the frenzied revolutionists,
who drove the guards from the scene
and carried away everything porta
BILE within the building.
The murder of the revolutionists
who were ambushed beside the walls
of the government ammunition fac
tories early on Monday morning has
wrought the anti-monarchical resi-
dents to such pitch that they do not
care what happens to them.
Bombs are being used to an extent
not heretofore dreamed of.
Men carrying explosives of great
power approach the ranks of the sol
diers and throw their missiles right
in the faces of officers and men. The
men throw up their arms and die,
their bodies pierced by many shots,
but happy in the hope that they have
killed some of those responsible for
the murder of their comrades.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 26.-Commu-
nication with Moscow was interrupted
just before midnight, and it appears,
according to the officials of the tele-
graph companies, that the wire either
has been cut on the outskirts of the
city, or that the stations in the city,
or that the stations in the city have
been burned. At that time fighting
was in progress in every section of the
city, and everything indicated that
the last supreme struggle between the
revolutionists and the troops was on.
Odessa, Dec. 26.-Russian soldiery
is unable to overcome the dauntless
spirit of the Moscow townspeople,
and despite superior arms, enormous
advantage in military training and
complete supply of all warlike appli-
cations, the troops are hardly holding
their own. Fighting is now going on
in every section of the city and the
dead number hundreds reports
say thousands-and the end is not in
sight.
Terrible slaughter of the rev olution-
aries took place Sunday night and
early Monday, when the terrorists
attempted to capture the enormous
ammunition factories held by the SOL
diers.
BY order of Gen. Mistchenko, the
famous Cossack chieftain, who is now
in command of the garrison, the ar
tillery was instructed to mount rapid
fire guns at every window and on the
roof, so that they would command all
avenues of approach to the store
houses. Order was given that these
rapid firers should not be unmarked
until the people actually began break
ing into the structure.
The result was that mobs packed
the open street in front when the sig
nal was given to fire. Immediately
as one, all the wooden shutters fell
back and whitening volleys poured
into the crowds, while the guns on
the roofs were turned on the crowd
that had been unable to get into the
immediate vicinity.
Defeat Soon Forgotten.
The crowd was stunned for mo-
ment, and turned to flee, but the fir
ing kept up and simultaneously there
issued from places of concealment
whole troops of the Cossacks, who,
using carbine and sword, swept
through the panic stricken crowds,
killing all whom they could reach.
Inside half an hour the people dis
persed and declared fully two thou