Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-10
WORKMEN SLAIN
BY Reds BOMBS
SERIOUS DISORDERS OCCUR
IN ST. PETERSBURG
RevoIutionarles Surround Cabaret,
Ktllnu TWO Persons and Wound-
Ing Eiehteen-Woman At
tacks Chouknln
Nv Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 9.-The war
between the fighting organization of
the revolutionists and the so-called
Black Hundred assumed new phase
tonight when a band of reds surround
ed the Cabaret Schluesselbery Chaus-
see on the bank of the Nevsky river
and threw a bomb among an assem-
blage of workmen. The reds then
opened fire on panic-strlcken inmates
Of the cabaret, killing two and seri-
ously wounding eighteen, Of which
latter one died while being taken to the
hospital. Military detachments which
are constantly patrolling the turbulent
industrial suburbs hurried to the scene
of the disturbance, reinforced by dra-
goons and police from the city, and
threw a Gordon around the whole dis
trict. Most of the revolutionists made
off at the approach Of the troops, but
a few bolder spirits remained and Of
fered a desultory resistance to the en-
circling soldiers.
Wholesale arrests were made, which
were still continuing up to late hour
tonight.
The bomb which was hurled through
window into the main room of the
restaurant demolished almost the en-
tire building. A wooden partition was
blown out and much furniture, glass
ware and crockery was shattered. The
ruins were spattered with liquor and
blood and pieces of flesh, the whole
presenting a sickenlng sight.
The restaurant had been for some
time known as a resort of the lower
order of worlxingmen and rough char
acters who were believed to be in the
employ of the police and were accused
not only of furnishing information
about revolutionists, but of sallying
out at night and conducting searches
on their own account and beating stu
dents who were members of the OPP
posite faction.
The killing of three workmen at the
Putiloff factory yesterday and tonight S
episode are believed to be but a pre-
lude to other acts of retaliation and re-
yenge between the two factions.
Three employees of the Putiloff works
belonging to the Party of Active
Struggle Against Revolution and An
archy," the so-called Black Hundred
We're surprised and killed yesterday by
a party of revolutionary workmen
They were accused of furnishing the
police with lists of revolutionary work
men and with assisting in making ar
rests and searches.
The territorists' campaign has been
vigorously prosecuted in the provinces
of late. From two to ten attempts on
the lives of officials and police are re-
ported daily.
The disclosures regarding the impor-
tation of arms into Finland have been
followed by the revelation that arms
in large quantities have been openly
imported through the customs houses
at Reval and other Baltic ports and
forwarded to Moscow and other places
in the interior. The bureaucratic Off
cial at Revaly declared in his justif-
cation that the law prohibited only the
importation of military rifles of the
Russian pattern, and said nothing
about consignments of Mausers of the
French and Belgian types, which are
now being confiscated. Guards have
been placed on the island of Margen,
where suspicious ships have been OBJ
served.
The preliminary elections among the
st. Petersburg workmen begin next
week. Reports from the interior say
that the registration lists have been
prepared and that all rs ready for the
elections in many of the districts OF
the cities.
The cabinet and council of the empire
are working overtime preparing drafts
of laws for submission to the national
assembly. Even the papers which have
been fighting the government tooth and
nail, like the Russ and Nasha Shini,
refer to the strong liberal tendency re-
Gently manifested in the cabinet and
declare that Interior Minister Durnovo
is almost alone in favoring a reac-
tionary policy.
A number of naval officers, according
to dispatch in the Slovo from Sebasto-
pol, have been transferred to the far
east for petitioning the marine ministry
for an open trial of former Lieutenant
Schmidt and for satisfaction of the SER
vice demands which were one of the
main causes of the mutiny of sailors
belonging to the Black sea fleet.
Schmidt commanded the cruiser Otcha-
koff, the crew of which mutinied in
November last at Sebastopol. The
cruiser subsequently was sunk by the
loyal ships.
The trial of Schmidt has been post
poned because it was thought to be
hazardous to transfer him from the
fortress OF Otchakoff, near Odessa,
where he is confined, to the naval
headquarters of Sebastopol.
Mutiny is still smouldering on board
several vessels of the Balck sea fleet,
notably on the battleship Catherine ii,
where several officers have been ar
rested