The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-02-21
CRUEL MAN OF RUSSIA DIES
BY THE HAND OF ASSASS|NS
Head Blown to Atoms by Explosion of Bomb
Thrown by Student Minds of The People
riIIed With Terror.
MAY AYHASTENPEACE- TROOPS SNEEDEDAT HOME

pared to pay the penalty for his deed. !
He was informed that, unless he made
a clean breast of the whole plan which
eliminated in the assassination, he
would cause great suffering to many
who may be entirely innocent of the
conspiracy.
II have done my share" he said.
For the rest do not care
MANY STUDENTS CONCERNED.
Official circles are responsible for
the statement that more than these
three students were concerned in the
carrying out Of the plot and that
hundreds of men and women may be
held responsible for its conception.
So far, however, it is not known
whether any of those arrested during
the afternoon of yesterday are sus-
pected of being parties to the conspir-
acy other than in a general way by
being affiliated with revolutionary or.
ganizations.
VARIOUS REPORTS.
The events which preceded the as
sassination of the grand duke Sergius
are variously reported. The version
which appears to be the most correct
has it, that two cabs were following
the grand duke IS carriage through the
enate quarter, on it's way to private
Russian bath in the old official resi-
dence in Tverskaja street and that
public sleigh, which had been observ-
ed in the rear of the cavalcade, sud-
denly dashed up and ahead of the car
riage and then slowed up. A second
later the grand dukes carriage had
again overhauled it but as the two We,
| hicles came abreast with each other,
dark object was hurled through the
air and the next moment the carriage
| of the grand duke was mass of splin-
| ters and the grand dukes headless
body was seen alongside of the man
| gled form of the coachman in the
snow amidst a mass of splinters. OF
the carriage only the wheels remained
intact. The body of the vehicle was
shattered to pieces.
CONFUSION AFTER EXPLOSION.
The confusion which followed the
explosion beggars description. A
shower Of glass from the court house
and other buildings came down upon
the soldiers and passers-by who had
been witnesses of the assassination.
For a few seconds the spot was dark
with the smoke from the bomb. AS
this pail cleared away two distinct
| groups could be observed inside the
crowd which seemed to have sprung
from the earth and numbered several
thousand inside of a few minutes.
One of the groups was made up of
soldiers and citizens who had closed
in upon the ghastly remains of the
grand duke and the writhing form of
the coachman who was so horribly
burned that he died shortly after at
the hospital.
The head of the grand duke was lit,
orally torn to atoms. Only the brain
was found some time later by an old
woman who handed it to a police
officer.
The other group presented a bewil-
dering picture of swords slashing
through the air, of soldiers and po-
licemen in the act of bearing to the
ground struggling foemen and Of the
latter-the students entrapped imme-
diately after the bomb throwing--be-
ing felled to the ground by merciless
blows.
EXCITEMENT GREW.
The excitement in the vicinity grew
from moment to moment and the
mounted soldiers who galloped through
the streets some sent for medical aid,
though 1t was useless, and others to
the barracks there to inform the COM
ately be placed under military rule,
carried the CHASTITY tale through the
city.
Several scores of students were ar
rested within few moments after the
crime. They were observed distribut-
ing circulars among the dense crowd.
Many citizens were also taken into
custody. It does not appear that they
were in any way concerned in the
plot.
Hardly quarter of an hour after
the assassination the Grand Duchess
Elizabeth, Grand Duke Sergius' widow,
appeared on the scene. She wore no
cloak and no hat and arrived in an
open carriage, probably the only one
in readiness at the time in the palace
yard. She was only with difficulty rs-
strained from throwing herself upon
the ground where dark stains still
showed where her husband had met
his fate.
i The grand duchess was driven back
to Nicholas palace, where the remains
of her husband had already been con-
yeyed by different route in closed
carriage,
The Ave gates of the Kremlin were