New-York tribune., 1905-12-26
FITE THOUSAND PERISH
.H0scozc,s Founded Estimated at
Fourteen Thousand.

London. Dec. 26.-The correspondent of The
Daily Telegraph at st. Petersburg, in dis
patch dated at As p. IN. December 25, says
At an early hour this morning the casualties
al Moscow were estimated at 5000 killed and
$4,000 wounded with the fighting still proceed
ing.
The inhabitants Of Moscow have been for
hidden 20 leave their dwellings after o'clock in
the evening,
1t is impossible to move about the city in con-
sequence OF the frequency Of stray bullets
Many innocent persons have been accidentally
killed
scarcity of provisions is threatened
The same correspondent, telegraphing at
40 :3s p. N. says:
Your Moscow correspondents kilograms have
not been accepted. because all private messages
were refused this afternoon
Il is learned, however. that cannon firing Is
now proceeding In various parts of the city
where tonight, very near the railroad stations,
the barriesdes erected by the revoutionrsies
are BEING desperately defended.
The Krlsk terminus st Moscow is being pill
.red and many wagons laden with provisions
sre being looted
The Emperor is engaged daily In reviewing
at Tsarskoe seIo the regiments of the St Peters
burg district The spirit OF the troops is de-
Cidedly loyal.
From fragmentary accounts received from
Moscow gather that the civil war has brought
no decisive action. but only thickenins OF the
blood cloud. an intensifying Of the horrors and
Hn increase Of the prevailing bitterness
The driving force behind both the troops and
+he rebels is no longer that of enthusiasm
of any human impulse. 1t is the force of super
human hate, and hence the deeds reported are
not the acts of patriots, soldiers or otherwise,
but the enorn1ities of nnsdTen.
It is impossible to understand how any emo
tion even OF the extremes of despair or hate,
can frnpart such foolhardy courage as some of
the rebels display.
For every barTicade destroyed Sunday. two or
three appeared in other places. Orders were
given by the revolutionists to shoot only when
there was good hope of bringing man down.
but otherwise TO tire out the troops until they
lost patience.
In the meantime in their houses the bulk of
the population covers in the inmost recesses of
kitchens and cellars. stricken with fear and
trembling at every boom Of the cannon or the
explosion Of q bomb.
The most surprising thing of all is the loyalty
Of the troops which nobody here anticipated.
Talking with an intelligent group Of St Peters
hurg revolutonists I was informed that while
they believed the strike would be victorious they
fully realized they were stalking everything upon
the issue. and that failure would set back their
cause for several years. They said they were
devoting their efforts 10 shaking the foundations
IF Russian finance, in full confidence that once
the existing regime overthrown they could
quickly build another and that foreign ma
tions would be as ready to advance money 70
democratic republic as to the autocracy.
They emphatically denied that they were in
citing the peasantry to commit agrarian out
RACES, declaring that these outrages were the
work Of the Socialists, but they did not deny
their advocacy Of the distribution of the Crown
lands among the peasants.
In conclusion, they declared that IN event Of
the failure Of their cause. they would have re-
course to terrorism choosing their victims from
all classes Of society.