The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1906-01-04
REVOLUTION CRUSHED
PAST ALL HOPE NOW
Iron Hand Is Used In Moscow
and ST. Petersburg With
Unfailing Results.
GIVE THEM NO MERCY
Workmen Who Offer 20 Surrender
Granted Immunity. Are Ruthless.
Iy Attacked and Forced 10
Yield Anyway.

Moscow. Jan. white nags nying
from "A dozen factories In the tenement
houses In the Prcsna district, where
the rcvoiutIonarics made their 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 majority OF
members OF the fighting legions"
either surrendered. or, after throwing
away their arms. endeavored TO escape
In the guisc OF peaceful citizens. Only
the members who acted n n guard
to the revolutionary committee stuck To-
their colors and the surrender of this
handful this morning furnished the last
act OF the s~anguinary drama
The staging OF this last act was ad-
mirable-a snow covered landscape. he
small black residence with n tiny red
flag nuttering from It's gable. the end
OF Gorbaton bridge. black with the guns
OF the artillery. and the thin en-
tirciing line OF the Seminovsky regi-
ment OF guard broken only directly IN
the line OF hse. .
suddenly there was n fash Of red
fire from The mouth OF n OF the guns
and a solid shot plowe1 through the
walls of the house. a Few splutterinE
shots replied fror~ n window. The can
hon spoke again and again until q
dozen shots had been fired. IL looked
like murder TO the spectators on n hill
Ind 80 evidently thought the officers In
command OF the battery which ceased
lire.
A reserve company OF the Semi
noysky regiment then advanced and
fred volleys at the upper windows.
At the third vollcy n white hnndker-
shicf attached to n bayonct was pushed
through a shattered pane. IL waved
frantically and all was over. The little
garrison OF thirty marched q lnid
iown their arms a strange collection
Of rifles and repeating ~shotguns. All
had rcvolvers.
Strange 10 say not one OF the men
had even been wounded, and when they
found that they would not be imme-
diatcly executed they appeared TO be
rather relieved that the end OF the
struggle had come. They gathered
around the soldiers biyounck. stretched
their hands eagerly over the cheerful
fires and begged cigarcts from the
guards.
The number of prisoners Is being
constantly augmented. most OF the new
arrivals being arrested ut the bridges
or at other points or cgTcss In the
u ANgAAA ~ $50 -
refugees.
The Associated Press learns that aft
or the fall OF the prokarhou cotton
mills and other factories n counc was
hastily held ut which IL was decided
that the revolution had failed. and an
order was given to every man TO saw
himself as best he could. a andre
agreed To hold together so rs TO keep
up a show OF fight under cover OF which
the others could escape.
81. Petersburg, Dec. 3O.-In an en-
counter between workmen and Cos
sacks yesterday. at b Nevski ship
building yards. eight Cossacks and
twenty-seyen workmen were killed and
many injured.
Railroad trains from st. Petersburg
10 Moscow are not running TO that
city but are stopping At "A station near
Tver. The permanent way OF the
Nicholas railway has been damaged be-
tween Tver and Kulitacia stations.
|. Moscow, Dec. 30.-Three armed bands
OF restitutionists. whose offer yesterday
to surrender. IL guaranteed n free par
don. was refused by the authorities.
barricaded themselves today I'm their
houses. According to b latest reports.
the houses were stormed and captured
by the troops.
81. Petersburg. Dec. 3o-M. Akymor.
n member Of the senate, has been ap-
pointed minister OF justice In success
sion To NJ. Mannkhin.
Traffic las been resumed on the MI
tau-windnu and Mitau-Riga railroads
at Baranovitchi. government OF Minsk.
Troops subsequently restored order
without bioodshed.
At Kien passenger service has been
restored ON the Southwestern railroad
and freight traffic is gradually being
Resumed.