The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-07-20
Great Mob Burning Estates
In Central Russia
HUNDREDS SHOT DOWN
Troops Utterly Unable to Dispense the
Horde-Armed Threat to Duma--
Barracks Near Parliament Hall
Filled With Picked Troops.

st. Petersburg, July ao.The peasant
war, which began in the province 81
yoronezh, is spreading over the central
provinces. Fifteen estates near the city
Of Yoronezh have been burned by peas
ant mobs since Sunday.
a strike OF hired laborers week ago
was brutally suppressed by the Govern
ment forces. Enormous masses Of peas
antry then gengregated and matched IN a
great column several miles in length to
sack al the estates in the neighborhood.
Troops arrived and tried to dispense the
mob with yolleys Of musketry. Many
hundreds 81 the peasants were killed
and wounded, but the hordes stubbornly
refused to retreat.
The approach OF masses Of peasants
by other roads made the position of the
troops untenahle, and they retreated,
leaving the estates defenceless. The
Government had sent artillery ID the
scene.
The railway stations are packed with
fugitives ana landlords and their fami-
lies are camping by the roadsides
A large landed proprietor named Do
lbrOyoisky and his family wandered for
days across the fields before they reach
cd Noronezh.
Burning Of ObIoff Estate.
Details have arrived OF the destruction
OF Prince OrlofFs estate at Padi, where
the famous stud Of 0rlof horses Was
kept The men in charge had warning
Of the mobs coming and were able to
drive the horses to the steppes, and the
families 81 the employees we're sent
away. Soon enormous columns OF smoke
were seen arising fromAthe buildings of
the estate
The devastators then advanced on
the Tnlinoysky estates, where the
horses and cattle were driven out Of
the yards. The local peasants hoped
the estate would escape destruction ow-
ing to the owners friendly relations
with the peasantry of the district
a spokesman advanced from the van
guard of the horde. however, and read
10 the local peasants and Tulinovsky's
tenants a decree ordering the burning
and destruction Of all estates. The
peasants were allowed to move their
household belongings.
A mechanic from the crowd bored a
hole in the wall Of the main building
and the place was fred with chemical
explosives.
The horde advanced and repeated its
destructive work on al the surrounding
estates The devastation II still going
on. A large armed force was on the
0rlof estate, but was unable to prevent
its destruction.
Mobs Hating Trains.
Armed peasants Of the province Of
Tula are camped across the railroads
near the station % Suvorolo and are
preventing the passage Of all trains.
They have been reinforced BY 5000 men
from the Government carriage factory
at 1ula, which Is closed.
Companies Of the lsmailovskv Regi-
ment of the Imperial Guard have now
been placed AZ The stations on the rail
way between st. Petersburg and Moscow
TO protect them.
Killed Eighty Peasants.
Private kilograms say that dragons
killed eighty peasants in the village Of
Kocheroyka, province Of Tamboff, while
5000 were holding d peaceful meeting
and discussing the land question.
Mounted police and Dragons, after
firing several voleys into the crowd,
official despatch says that one person
has been killed and one wounded in riot
ing at Tyer.
Warsaw. July 1o<-The agrarian strike
is still spreading. II has now extended
to several governments, in which the
harvest is likely to be lost In Lnbin,
where the rcvolutionists declared war on
the gendarmes and police, ten police
men have been shot.
Odessa, July to.1he principal june
4 tions on the Southern Railroad have
Just been supplied with nine special
military trains, fitted with steel blinds.
| Military engineers are instructmg the
employees Of the railroad in track re-
pairing, in readiness for an impending
general strike