New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-01
MOSCOW REVOLT ENDS.
TROOPS HOLD THE CITY.
last Stand of Rebel Force IN the
Presna Quarter.

.a, factories in the Presna olstrlcl' "ie'e tiie
,.s,,rqents made their last stand. now bear mute
'.s,noss TO the end of the December uprising IN
~. -, The entire district is now occupied by
troops .w-o.+ -,,.4or,+,,
- members of the Fighting Legions'
-. s,rrendered or. after throwing away their
,rdaa,.ored TO escape in the guise Of
1.,1 citi-ens Only the members who acted
Guard to the revolutionary committee stuck
:. .roir colors and the surrender of this hand
=, th,s morning furnished the last act Of the
bloody drama
The staging of this last act was admirable
,,,ora5 landscape. tie small black house
ter tfnv red flag futtering from its gable.
..o end of Gorbatoff Bridge, black with the guns
~ tta artillery and thin encircling line OF the
eo,,inovssy Regiment of the Guard. broken only
s,-act,,- :, the line of fire. Suddenly there was
= fash from the mouth of one OF the guns ana d
..ld sho, crashed through the walls of the
,.,se few splutterng shots replied from
1,in6oyv The cannon spoke again ana asa1li'
,,-tii = dozen shots had been fired
- ,o.,zed like murder to the spectators on
,nT and so evidently thought the officer in
.ua,5 of The battery, which ceased fire
,e con7panv of the Seminovsky Regiment
br advanced and fired vOlleys at the upper
,.,raous At the third volley white hand
,..ro,iAf attached 10 a bayonet was pushed
,hrougb a shattered pane. All was over
,rha ,it+Ia garrison of thirty marched out and
laid down their arms strange collection OF
,4aas and repeating shotguns. All had reVoivers-
strance 10 say not one OF the men had even
baon wounded and when they found that they
o,l7 not be Immediately executed they ap-
re,re5 to be rather relieved that the end OF the
e,r,oe!e had come They gathered round the
CHedf eli
o,er mo cheerful fires. ard begged cigarettes
from the guards
THE. PRISONS BEING FILLED.
The number Of prisoners is being constantly
Increased. most Of the rev arrivals having been
arrested at the bridges or a. other points of
eersss in The Presna district which IS crowded
With refugees.
It is learned that after the fan Of the
pr,lbaron cotton mill and other factories
connciI was hastily held at which it was decided
mat The revolution had failed. An order was
Given to every nan TO save himself as best he
could A hundred agreed 10 hold together so as
r. teep ID 4 show Of fight under cover of which
the others could escape.
After the Anal surrender the inhabitants
srarmed into the streets of the district. and in
a remarkably short time cleared away the re-
mains Of the barricade and other Instructions
with which Tor week the revolutionaries had
blocked the district This morning CORE
spondent found one street where on Friday IT
was necessary to climb over thirty barrcades
dear from end t. end. All except three. which
were carried BY troops yesterday. were denoi-
Isned by the Inhabitants. who were as indus
trious in tearing them down as they had been
"A erecting them.
As he correspondent proceeded he was several
:ir.7es searched ~ soldiers who We're endeavor-
Ing to discover revolutionary literature as the
hest means Of identifying rebels The soldiers
were considerable. .perplexed BY the strange Ian
guage fl which the notes in the pockets of the
correspondent were written, but in each case he
was released.
In squads Of fve the soldiers penetrated every
house searching fer weapons.
loss OF LIFE COMPARATIVELY SMALL.
Considering the Intensity of yesterdays bonn
bardment, when as many as five shots minute
were fired. besides the steady voIleys Of the
Infantry, the losses are surprisingly small, not
more than forty of the revolutionists or the in
habitants having been killed and only about two
hundred having been wounded in the district.
The artillery yesterday was concentrated
mainly against the factories frfngfng the dis
trict but the insurgents usually ran at the first
shot. taking refuge in the cellars of neghboring
houses
The shrapnel and rife bullets did not penetrate
beyond the outer walls and in only a few in
stances did the walls show complete penetration
by solid shot
The correspondent visited the Prokharof.
Manontof and other factories where. according
70 last nights reports, over thousand Of the
fighters had perished in the ruins He found
fragments Of shrapnel everywhere, but no trace
OF slaughter. He was informed by caretaker
who stuck to his post through the fighting that
there one person only was killed and a dozen
wounded
Among the fighting rebels were several girl
students. who stood BY their comrades until the
last
ne only serious attempt at defence was made
a. schrnidts furniture factory where the losses
we're heavy, but # is impossible to give the
NUMBER. as the factory was burned and the
oooies were incinerated The Manontoff fac
'ofy' n which an Englshman named Bigsby
is a partner, was also burned
Iho losses % the troops few in this
region. The Seminovsky Regiment, which per-
FORMED most Of the work had one man killed
ana score wounded, the latter including
Colonel Eller. who was shot through the neck.
THE SUFFERING OF THE POOR
The Presna quarter is a scene of desolation
MS afternoon fugitives were seeking new
ZONES Women were bending under the weight
ol huge packs Of bedding. many of them drag
eihs children along. Sledges were piled high
WIN all the worldly goods Of many families
tile farny ikon usually crowning the top o.
eaOl Pile The poor people made slow progress
WIN their bundles and were subjected 70 fire.
quent search by the soldiers. who sometimes
Threw the loads into the snow and made merry
over the sorry spectacle
IN addition 10 the fires in the bombarded dis