Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-09
STREETS RUN WITH BLOOD.
Fearful Fighting Between People
and Soldiers in ssHoIy Moscow


Fearful Fighting Between People
and Soldiers in holy Moscow"
No civilized land since the atrocities
of the French revolution has been en-
gagged in such scenes of horror and
bloodshed as Russia is experiencing.
The nation seems to have been hope
lessly plunged into anarchy, with the
whole fabric of society falling into dis
indignation.
On the western border, the Baltic
provinces have revolted and proclaim
ed a sort of republic Odessa, in the
south, has been drenched in blood.
Saratoff, in the east, is in condition
of anarchy, and even far away Vlad-
lyostok has felt the thrill of the revo-
lutionary spirit, which is sweeping
over the broad empire of the Car.
And now Moscow, the ancient capital
and the seat both of religious and DO
litical power, is in the throes of civil
war. Men who were yesterday the
submissive victims of the bureaucratic
power have risen and met the Cars
trained legions. Behind barricades in
the open streets and from the roofs
of buildings they have fought the
dreaded Cossacks and have learned
that Cossacks, too, when bullets are
well aimed and bombs carefully di-
rected, can die The flow of red blood
in the streets, as their ancient enc
mics went down before bomb and
bullet, tiercely thrilled them and
throwing all fear aside they plunged
like madmen into the fighting, pre-
pared to die and dying happily if they
could take along a Cossack or two for
company.
The fighting in the streets of Mos
COW between the revolutionists and
soldiers has been of the fiercest kidd.
Wherever the conditions lent them
selves to the style of warfare, barri-
cades were erected in the streets and
from behind them the revolutionists
fought with grim determination. Dis
lodged from barricades in one street.
the revolutionists fled to erect fresh
obstacles in another thoroughfare, and
thus for days they have kept up an
almost endless fight. Comrades fell
by their side in rows, the machine
guns and shrapnel fire of the soldiers
doing fearful execution; but the sight
of blood only deepened their hate and
made them more determined to win
the freedom so long and cruelty denied
them.
In Moscow for several days the
streets were like slaughter houses. The
revolutiorists found shelter, some be-
hind the street barbados, some with
in buildings, others upon roofs. and
from these vantage points did deadly
execution among the soldiers. Often
the latter used artillery to demolish
buildings in which the revolutionists
had entrenched themselves; but driven
out of one place, the revolutionists
speedily rallied in another, taking adj
Tantage of every opportunity TO pick
} the Cossacks by rifle fire or blow
them up with bombs. Owing to the
lack of discipline among the Cossacks,
the latter in many cases fell easy vic
ed wildly through the streets and
many were torn to pieces by bombs
dropped from the roofs of buildings.
Sometimes groups of regular soldiers
joined the reyolutionists, bringing to
their support much needed ammuni-
ton and arms.
The desperate nature of the fgf11rg
may be inferred from the estimates of
the dead and wounded during three
DAYS of this awful carnage. A CORE
spundent in touch with the situation
says that no fewer than 5000 were
killed, while he places the number OF
the injured at 14,00O. The city is in
a state of chaos, neither life nor prop
erty being secure. Hundreds of inno-
| cent persons have been killed In their
houses by stray bullets and other hun
dreds have fallen in the streets Rus
STA is indeed paying a fearful price
for the infamies her government has
practiced for centuries upon a long
suffering people