The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-01-05
TROOPS PUT down
MOSCOW REVOLT
FORCE SURRENDER OF REVOLT
TIoNARIEs AND ARE IN FULL
CONTROL OF THE CITY.
Last Stand of Rebels Described-Des-
olate Scene in Presna Quarter
One Account Declares 90, 900 Were
Killed.

houses of PreSna district, where the
revolutionaries made their last stand,
now bear mute witness to the end of
the December uprising in Moscow"
The entire district is now occupied by
troops. During the night the vast ma
jority of the members of the fighting
legions'' either surrendered or, after
throwing away their arms, endeavored
to escape in the guise of peaceful citi-
zens. Only the members who acted
as a guard to the revolutionary COM
mittee stuck to their colors, and the
surrender of this handful Sunday
morning furnished the last act of the
sanguinary drama:
The Last Stand.
The staging of this last act was ad-
mirable-a snow-covered landscape,
the small black residence, with a tiny
red flag fiuttering from its gable, the
end of Gorbatoff bridge, black with
the guns of the artillery. and thin
encircling line Of the Seminovsky regi-
ment of the guard, broken only direct
ly in the line of fire. Suddenly there
was a flash of red fire from the mouth
of one of the guns and solid shot
plowed through the walls of the
house. A few spluttering shots re-
piled from a window. The cannon
spoke again and again, until dozen
shots had been fired.
Forced to Surrender.
1t looked like murder to the specta-
tors on a hill, and so evidently
thought the officer in command of the
battery, which ceased fire. A reserve
company of the Seminovsky regiment
then advanced and fired volleys at the
upper windows. At the third volley
white handkerchief attached to bay
onet was pushed through shattered
pane. 1t waved frantically and all
was over. The little garrison of 30
marched out and laid down their
arms "a strange collection of rifles and
repeating shotguns. All had revol-
vers. Strange to say, not one of the
men had even been wounded, and
when they found that they would not
be Immediately executed they ap-
peared to be rather relieved that the
end of the struggle had come.
Streets Cleared of Barricades.
It is learned that after the fall of
the Prokharoff cotton mill and other
factories, council was hastily held,
at which it was decided that the revo-
luton had failed and an order was
given to every man to save himself as
best he could A hundred agreed to
hold together, so as to keep up show
of fight, under cover of which the
others could escape. After the final
surrender the inhabitants swarmed
into the streets of the district and in
a remarkably short time cleared away
the remains of the barbados and 9TH
er Instructions, with which for week
the revolutionaries had blocked the
district.
A Scene of Desolation.
The Presna quarter is a scene of
desolation This afternoon fugitives
were seeking new homes and the wom-
en- were bending under the weight of
huge packs of bedding, many of them
dragging their children along. Sledges
were piled high with all the worldly
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usually browning the top of each pile.
The poor people made very slow prog
res with their bundles and were sub
jected to a continual search by the SOL
diers, who sometimes delighted in
throwing the loads into the snow and
making merry at the sorry spectacle.
Declares 10000 Were Killed.
London, Jan. Accounts of Satur-
days events in Moscow do not agree
as to the extent and gravity of the
fighting, though all agree that the reb-
els made their last stand in the west
ern part of the city, where practically
the full strength of the reinforced
troops was directed to crush them. The
Moscow correspondent of the Standard
describes the incidents of the massa-
ere, in which, at moderate estimate,
10000 persons were killed. Women
and children Unfortunately were
butchered with the insurgents, the lat
ter forming only small proportion of