Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-01
WHITE FLAGS FLY IN MOSCOW
Last Remnant of RevoIutiOnists SUR
renders to the Guards and
Uprising is Ended.

MOSCOW, Dec 3l.-white flags flying
from dozen factories and tenement houses
Of Presna district, where the revolution
aries made their last stand now bear mute
witness 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 lighting legions' either
surrendered or, after throwing away their
arms, endeavored to escape in the guise of
peaceful citizens. only the members who
acted as a guard to the revolutionary com
mlttee stuck to their colors, and the sur
render of this handful this morning fur
nished the last act of the sanguinary
drama.
The staging of this last act was admirable
"A snow-covered landscape, the small black
residence with a tiny red flag flutterins
from its gable, the end of GorbatOff bridge,
black with the guns OF the artillery, and a
thin encircling line of the Seminovsky regi-
ment OF the guard, broken only directly
I'm line Of fire. Suddenly there was a flash
of red fire from the mouth of one OF the
guns and a solid shot plowed through the
walls of the house. A few spluttering shots
replied from a window. The cannon spoke
/
been fired
II looked like murder to the spectators
on hill and so evidently thought the Off
GERS in command OF the battery, which
ceased fire. reserve company OF the
Seminovsky regiment then advanced and
fred volleys at the upper windows. At the
third volley a white handkerchief attached
TO bayonet was pushed through a shat
tered pane. It waved frantically and all
was over The little garrison of thirty
marched out and laid down their arms, a
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 exc
/ cuted 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.
The number of prisoners is being con
stantly augmented. most of the new ar
rivals being arrested at the bridges or a.
other points of egress in the Presna dis
trict which is crowded with refugees.
The Associated Press correspondent learns
that after the fall OF the Prokharoff cottor
mill and other factories n council wa!
hastily held. at which it was decided tina
the revolution had failed and an order wat
given to every man to save himself as bes
he could. A hundred agreed to hold to
gether so as to keep up a show Of fight un
der cover OF which the others could escape
After the final surrender the inhabitant
swarmed into the streets of the distric
and in a remarkably short time cleared
away the remains of the barricades anC
other Instructions with which for a weel
the revoutionaries had blockaded the dis
trict.
The workmen's council. or what Is lef
OF II outside prison has formally declared
the strike off. The revolutonaries have
managed to get out o proclamation, declar
ing the purposes of the revolt have beer
fully accomplished and calling upon tn,
proletariat to prepare for a decisive battl
January %. A great many Of the workmen
however, are I'm an angry mood. The!
claim that they have been deceived b,
the revolutionaries and that their famlie
are starving. These are threatening ven
geance on the agitators. Some OF the EN-
ployers. like Mr.. Barry Of the American
Boiler works, will shorten the usual Christ
mas vacation from sixteen to four day
in order to allow the men to earn some
thing.
The casualties here have been greatl
overestmated. but it is difficult to obtai
reliable figures. Up to Friday night onl
1877 were formally reported as dead and %
as wounded.
Governor General Doubassoff has issue
a proclamation forbidding well dispose
persons to shelter revoutionaries. but tn
|, former are powerless, as the revolution
aries appear at their houses with revolver
, in their hands