The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1906-01-04
5000 ARE KILLED
Russian Riots Continue With
Great Slaughter
COVERS THE WHOLE COUNTRY
Business is Suffering Seriously From
Strike in Russia-Letters All Gen.
sored-Attempt 60 Kill Prefect of
Police at st. Petersburg Soldiers
Surround Hotel and Bring Up Ar
tillery-Two Regiments of Cos
sacks Mutinied.

Moscow, By Cable.-Fi1ing in the
streets continued until midnight
Wednesday night The Governor
General issued an appeal 10 the peo-
pie, which is displayed in the streets,
urging the citizens not 10 trust to
the false interpretations given the re-
cent manifesto and calling on them to
give up the strike and take sides with
the troops and the police in the preser-
walton Of order, resting on the assur-
ance that the lawful authorities will
know how TO protect lives and prop
erty.
London, By Cable.-The st. Petrs-
burg correspondent of The Times, in
dispatch dated December 26, says:
"Governor General Doubasoff, tele-
graphing reports that $4,000 persons
had been killed or wounded at Mos
COW.
"The latest news from Moscow says
that the first regiment of Don Cos
| sacks, Tvern dragons and the Mes
vizh regiment of infantry mutined
| and are confined in their barracks.
| t---"'rrI am Informed from a good source
that 2,00G persons were killed aud TO-
900 wounded. The revolutionists are
making no headway but they show up
signs OF exhaustion.
All over the city there are marks
Of the battle which has ragged in the
streets for three days, and the distant
booming of cannon shows that the
fighting is not yet at an end. Houses
have been completely demolished by
the artillery, and everywhere VIM
dows have been smashed by bullets.
Governor General Doubasoff has
prohibited the opening of windows.
The better classes are afraid to ven
ture on the streets owing to the fact
that numerous bombs and other dead
ly missiles are being thrown from
the windows and roofs Of houses
Near the triumphal arch could be seen
today, the red flags of the insurgents
flying above their barricades. Sol
| diers surrounded the Continental Ho-
tel and artillery was brought up as 1t
| was claimed that 9 shot had been fired
from one of the windows. 1t was
with difficulty that the landlord per-
suaded the troops not to demolish the
building.
As the correspondent entered the
telephone exchange he saw two aeita.
tors shot by passing patrol. Artil.
lery can be heard at work near the
Nicholas station.
Two attempts on The life Of the pre-.
feet Of police by students, one Of them
a woman, was frustrated. The stu
dents were arrested.
The Bourse Gazette says it is report
ed that General De Dioulin, project ot
police of st. Petersburg, has beer
Informed by telephone that the mum
ber of dead or wounded at Moscow
number 10000 and that when ques
toned tonight the general did no
deny that such report had been re
ceived.
The merchants here complain tha
they are suffering seriously from til,
strike in Russia. and are not receiv
ing the information in regard to tn
situation there: as all letters are care
fully censored.
The correspondent Of the ST
Petersburg Times, wires that 1t is re
ported there, that o military terroris
plot has been discovered by the al
thorities. Fifty arrests have beeI
made in connection with this discov
| eTy.