The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-02-22
ANOTHER VICTIM
GRAND DUKE SERGIUS KILL
ED WITH ABOMB AND
TORN TO PIECES.
Assassin Eyults Over the Success
of His Crime-Liberals Are
Joyful at the Awful Deed.
Described by an Eye
Z witness-He Was
an Anarchist.

| an Anarchist.
Moscow, Feb. 1.-THE Grand
Duke Sergius was assassinated here
this afternoon by a bomb. I wit,
messed the murder from the Krem.
lin.
I was walking along, admiring
the vast Imperial Palace and the
panorama of Moscow, which stretch
ed away as far as the eye could
reach. The great clock of the
Kremlin was. striking 3 o'clock
when 1 heard alterridc report. An
immense sheet of fame at the same
time rose about 500 meters (550
yards) from me in the middle of
the vast avenue which separates the
palace Of justice from the arsenal.
In the midst Of the flames / saw
several black masses projected into
the air and fall in pieces on the
ground. [ ran as fast as I could in
the direction of The flame.
In an instance I reached the en-.
trance of the arsenal. A cloud of
smoke was lifting and, scattered on
the ground amid heap of debris,
were pieces Of human body, smold-
ering besides pieces Of wood and
broken glass. A little further on
men were stopping two horses,
maddened and covered with blood,
which were dragging all that re.
mained OF q carriage, a spring and
two wheels that were twisted and
broken.
In handsome sleigh young
and pretty woman had tainted, and
around her a crowd attracted by
the exp iosion; were pressing. shs
was Immediately recognized as the
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodo-
rovna, sister of the empress of Rus.
sia and wife of the Grand Duke
lSsrgius.
| The terrible truth was at -oncs
made clear to me. The, smoking
human debris scattered around me
j was all that remained of the grand
duke. His head had been literally
blown from his body and lay there,
almost unrecognizable. Soldiers
who had rushed from the guard
house, aided by generals and Dvor-
.niks, began to, gather up the re.
mains. A Gordon of troops was
drawn up before the Nicholas gate.
This is what happened, as far as
could be ascertained from the pre-.
liminary inquiry:
AS the Grand Duke Sergius was
driving to town in his coupe at the
usual hour bomb was skillfully
thrown under his carriage. His
, assassins followed exactly the same
tactics as were adopted when Min.
lister de Plehve was murdered. The
carriage, the grand duke and the
coachman were, hurled in the all
amid a column of flames.
The body of the grand duke was
Literally stripped of its clothing by
the force Of the explosion, and was
REDUCED to pulp. The coachmau
was hurled distance of Is yards
against another carriage. Every
window in the palace of justice and
the arsenal for distance of 25(
yards was shattered. One of t {
assassins, who had been wounded
was arrested ON the spot and drag
lged quickly into the arsenal.
A stretcher was brought, OF
which the pieces Of the grand duke
body were placed. They were GOV
fered with a coat lent by a genera
Ito hide the horrible sight. Preced
ed and surrounded by soldiers will
fixed bayonets, the lugubrious pro
cession started. Behind the blood
stained stretcher, which, was bern
by superior oficers: walked th
grand duchess, who had beel
1 quickly restored to consciousness
She was enveloped in atblue cloak
Her head was bare and she wa
pale as death. A couple Of officer
| supported her. Slowly the corteg
made its way to the Imperial Pal
| ace, where, amid impressive silenc
the stretcher was put down. tth
| palace where the assassination. oc
! Cured debris Of all kinds were still
J. being picked up.
Ii A few days ago the grand duk
| went to live in the Imperial Palac'
] in the Kremlin because the polio
| had declared that they were unabl
| to guarantee his safety in his resi-
lldence on the Tverskalia. Th