The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-27

ing all comers. even high officers at
distance from the villa.
At the hospital of st. Peter and st.
Paul there was a disgraceful scramble
of thousands of curiosity seekers around
the mangled remains of twenty-six of
the victims of the explosion which had
lain exposed on the grass in the hos
pital yards the whole of last night and
today, and were still there at o'clock
this evening. Society women fought and
jostled street laborers and peasant wom-
en- for chance to view the sight. Many
of them were accompanied by children
of tender age.
No Important Arrests.
Though dozens of suspected revolution
lists were gathered in today in the capt.
tall no important arrests have been
chronicled. The police have been unsuc-
cessful in getting on the real track OF
the conspiracy, beyond establishing from
the text of the death sentence found on
the body of one Of the dead assassins
that the band belonged to the Maximists,
better known as the flying group of
the social revolutionists. This group is
thus designated because 1t operates on
an unfixed base. 1t has been responsible
for most of the recent assassinations,
not maving accepted the dictum of the
larger lighting organization" of the So
cial revolutionists to discontinue activ-
ity during the session of parliament.
Among its members who do not exceed
few hundreds. were Mile. Spiridonovo,
who shot Chief of the Secret Police Luz
hennoffsky at Tambov; Mile Barbara
Printz, who committed suicide after the
premature explosion Of a bomb intend
ed for General Kaulbars, the slayer of
General Kozlov of the headquarters staff
who was murdered in the park at Peter
hof July ID. and Belenzoff. the principal
of the great Moscow bank robbery. The
group is financed largely with the pro-
ceeds of the Credit Mutual bank rob-
berry
A peculiarity of its working Is that its
DEGREES are never expected by residents
of the same city in which the victim
lives, but are drafted from other local
tiles which diminshes the chance of po-
lice detection
Military Dictatorship.
Talk of military dictatorship is again
in the air. According to a report current
at a meeting Of the Camarila discussed
the question tonight at Ueterhof and a
majority was in vafor of such step.
Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch, who
has just returned from calling on Premier
Stolypin. was especially in favor of the
plan. IT is said that after the meeting
Grand Duke N1onOlaS ana others OF the
grand dukes friends went to the Emperor
to demand his authorization, but up to the
present moment this has not been re-
ceived.
NJ. Polianvoff. who was talking to M.
Stolypin at the time of the explosion.
gives the following account of the disas-
ter:
After discussing the matter of zemstvo
finances and indulging in a little talk on
the general political condition in the pro-
vince of Simbirsk, had risen to depart.
The minister was extending his hand to
me when the explosion occurred. 1t SEEM
ed as thought there were two or three
shocks in succession. I felt myself lifted
In the air and then hurled violently to the
floor. 1 did not lose consciousness. After
moment l regained my feet and made
my way out through a window into the
garden, the doors of the study being
blocked with furniture and other debris.
The minister's first words were, where is
my family? What has happened?' ! an
swered that 1t was probably due to bomb
being trown from the garden. We then
went to the front of the house and as soon
as I hailed my coachman departed. OF
those in the reception ante-chamber, all
were killed or wounded. My colleagues
and I who were with M. Stoiypin alone
escaped"