The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-01
SURRENDER OF
MOSCOW REDS
White Flags Flying and the Revolu-
tionists Have Escaped as Best
They Could.
SLAUGHTER NOT GREAT
LAST ACT OF THE BLOODY ORA
Z, MA DRAMATIC.

Moscow. Dec. S1-white flags fly
ing from a dozen factories in the
tenement houses Of Presna dis
trict, where the revolutionaries made
their last stand now bear mute wit
ness to the end Of the December up
rising in Moscow" The entire district
is now occupied by troops.
During the night the vast majority
of the members of the fighting le-
sgions'' either surrendered or, after
throwing away their arms. endeavOred
10 escape in the guise of peaceful citi-
zens. Only the members who acted as
q guard to the revolutionary commit
ftee stuck to their cOlors, and the sur
render OF this handful this morning
furnished the last act of the sanguin-
airy drama
The staging of this last act was ad-
mirable-a snow-covered landscape,
the small black residence with a tiny
red flag fluttering from its gable, the
end Of Gorbatoff bridge, black with the
guns Of the artillery and a thin en-
.circling line of the Seminovsky regi-
fment of the guard, broken only direct
1y in the line of fire. Suddenly there
was a flash of red fire from the mouth
of one of the guns, and solid shot
gplowed through the walls Of the house.
"A few spluttering shots replied from
window. The cannon spoke again
and again. until dozen shots had
been fired.
White Flag Raised.
1t looked like murder to the specta-
tors on a hill, and SO evidently thought
the officers in command of the bat
terry, which ceased fire. A reserve
company of the Seminovsky regiment
then advanced and fired volleys at
the upper windows. At the third vol
ley white handkerchief attached to
a bayonet was pushed through a shat
tered pane. 1t waved frantically, and
all was over. The little garrison of
thirty marched out and laid down their
arms, strange collection of rifles and
repeating shotguns. All had revolVers.
Strange to say, not one of the men
had even been wounded, and when
they found that they would not be
Immediately executed they appeared to
be rather relieved that the end of the
struggle had come. They gathered
around the soldiers bivOuac, stretched
their hands eagerly over the cheerful
fires and begged cigarettes from the
guards.
Legion of Prisoners.
The number of prisoners is being
CONSTANTLY augmented IIlOSl VI the new
arrivals being arrested at the bridges
or at other points of egress in the
Presna district. which is crowded with
refugees.
The Associated Press learns that af
ter the fall of the Prokharoff cotton
mill and other factories a council was
hastily held, at which it was decided
that the revolution had failed, and an
order was given to every man to save
n al hac he A
agreed to hold together so as to keep
up a show of fight under cover Of
which the others could escape.
After the final surrender the inhabi-
tants swarmed into the streets of the
district and in d remarkably short
time cleared away the barricades and
other Instructions with which for a
week the revOlutionists had blockaded
the district. This morning a CORE
spondent of the Associated Press found
one street, where one Friday it was
necessary TO climb over thirty barri-
cades. clear from end to end All
these except three, which were car
ried by troops yesterday, were demoI-
ished by the inhabitants, who were
as industrious in tearing them down
as they had been in erecting them.
Correspondent Searched.
AS the correspondent proceeded he
was several times searched by SOL
diers who were endeavoring to dis
cover revolutionary literature as the
best means of Identifying the revOlu-
tionaries. The soldiers were consider
ably perplexed at the language in
which the notes in the pockets of the
correspondent We're written, but in
each case he was released. In squads
of fiVes the soldiers penetrated every
house for
Considering the intensity of yester-
days bombaTdment, when as many as
five shots a minute were fired, beside
the steady volleys of the infantry, the
losses were surprisingly small, not
more than forty of the reVolutionarfes
or the inhabitants being killed and
only about 200 being wounded in the
district.
The artillery yesterday was concen-
trated mainly against the factories
fringing the district. but the revolu-
tionaries usually deCamped at the first
shot, taking refuge in the cellars OF
neighboring houses.
The shrapnel and rife bullets did not
penetrate beyond the outer walls. and
in only few cases did the walls show
complete penetration by the solid shot
No Trace of Slaughter.
The correspondent visited the Prok-
harOff, Manonton and other factories
where, according to last nights re-
ports. over thousand of the fighters
had persisted in the ruins. He found
fragments of shrapnel everywhere, but
no trace of slaughter He was in
formed by a caretaker who had stuck
TO his post throughout the fighting that
there was only one person killed and a
dozen were wounded.
Among the fighting revolutionaries
were several girl students, who stood
by their comrades until the last
The only serious attempt at defense
was made at Schmidt's furniture fac
tory, where the losses were heavy. but
1t is impossible to give the number as
the building was burned and the bodies
were moderated. The Manotoff fac
tory in which an Englishman named
Bigsby is a partner, was also burned
The losses to the troops We're slight
In this region. The Seminovsky regi-
rnent, which performed most of the
work, had one man killed and q score