The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-01-27

1t is D6lleV6d That l, 0UU people nave
been killed or wounded in today s
Iiotlng, but all estimates must for the
)t5,lj - tt;4Dj with caution.
Popular rumoIs say that many thous-
ands have fallen.
The city is now quiet. Troops ale
bivouacked around camptiIes here ana
there in the streets.
AT the Neva gate the troops fired on
crowd led by Father Gopon and
Father Sergius. the priests carry lng
cross and ikon and portrait Ct
Emperor Nicholas Father SeIgius
was killed ard the portrait was
/ smashed
At the Putilotf works the scene re-
sembled a sham battle. There the
workmen, facing the troops when the
order was given to fire, threw them
selves upon their faces upon tn
ground. Tho troops fired on them as
they lay prosrIate
st. Petersburg, Jan. %, 1890 p.
m. The Vassiliostriov quarter to-
| night is in darkness, neither gas nor
electricity being available. Shops are
being pillaged, and strikers are burn
| ing telegraph poles. Some firing is
| heard.
1t is reported that body of strikers
tried to reach TsaIskoe Selo, but were
driven back by the troops after a
sanctuary conflict.
st. Petersburg Jan. %, midnight. -
Firing continues on he VassiliostIov.
1t is rumored there that the wolkmen
have seized a dynamite factory, and
also that 80 900 Oh 40. 900 armed strikers
from Kolplno. sixteen miles distant,
are marching on st Petersburg.
BarIlcades erected on the island OF
VassIllostrov late tonight were de-
stroyed by the troops almost lmmed-
ltately. with loss of thirty woIkmen
killed.
ST. Petersburg, Jan. 22.-ThIs has
been a day of unspeakahle horror in
st. Petersburg The strikers of yes
terday, goaded to desperation by day
of violence, fury and bloodsehd, are
in state of open insurrection against
the Government. condition almost
bordering on civil war exists in the
horror stricken Russian capital. The
city is unde: martial law, with Prince
Vasilcikotf in charge as commander of
over 80, 600 OF the Emperor crack
guard. Troops are bivouacking in
the streets tonight and ar various
places. On the island of VsssiliostIov
ana In the industrial sections infuIl
ated men have thrown up barr icades
which they are holding. The Empress
DowageI has hastily sought safety at
Tsarksoe -Selo, where Emperor Nicholas
living.
Minister Sviatopolk- MiIsky presented
to Ills Majesty last night the invita-
tion of the woIkmen to appear at the
Winter Palace this afternoon and
receive their petition but the En-
peroI g advisors already had taken a
decision to show firm and 1esolute
front. and the Emperor s answer to
100, 900 workmen trying to make their
way to the palace square today was
solid array of troops who met them
with rifle. bayonet and sabre.
The priest GopOn, the leader and
idol of the men, in his golden vest
ments, holding aloft the cross and
marching at the heads of thousands of
workmen through the Narva gate.
mlraculously escaped a volley which
laid low half hundred persons.
ESTIMATES OF THE KILLED.
The figures of the total number
killed or wounded here at the Moscow
gate, at various bridges and islands
and at the Winter Palace, vary. The
best estimate is 500 although there are
exaggerated figures placing the num-
her as high as 5000. Many men were
accompanied ny their wives and chill
dren. The troops, with the exception
of single regiment, which IS reported
TO have thrown down Its arms. Ie-
manned Loyalty and oheyed orders.
But the blood. which crImsoned the
snow has flied the brains and passions
of the strikers and turned women as
we'll as men into wild beasts, and the
cry of the lnfuriated populace is for i
vengeance.
The sympathy of the middle classes
il with the workingmen.
IL Father Gopon, the master mind OF
the movement, aimed at osen revolu-
tion. he managed the affair like a
genius to bresk the faith of the people
;n the Little Father. " who they were
convinced and whom Father Gopon
had taught them to believe would
right their wrongs and redress their
grievances. GoIky. the Russian nov
elest. expresses the opinion that to-
davis work will preak this faith OF thes
neoule in the emperor. he SAID thi ,