The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1906-01-04
They Bear Mute Witness to the
End of the December
Uprising in Moscow.
TROOPS OCCUPY PaESNA DISTRICT
Vast Majority of Members Of the
Fighting Legions" Surrendered
or Threw Away Arms.
The Last Of the RevoIutionaries, the
Guard Of the Committee, surrend-
cred Sunday Morning to the
Government Troops.

Government Troops.
Moscow, Jan. 1.-White flags flying
from dozen factories in the tenement
houses Of Presna district where the
revOlutionaries made their last 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 the members Of the Fighting
Legions" either surrendered or. after
throwing away their arms, endeavored
to escape in the guise of peaceful citi.
zens. Only the members who acted as
a guard to the revolutionary committee
OF this handful Sunday morning fur.
nished the last act of the sanguinary
drama.
The staging of this last act was ad-
mirable-a snow-covered landscape,
the small black residence with a tiny
red flag fluttering from its gable, the
end of Corbatoff bridge, black with the
guns of the artillery. and a thin encir-
cling line OF the Seminovsky regiment
OF the guard, broken only directly in
the 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 win
dow. The cannon spoke again and
again until a dozen shots had been
fired.
II Looked Like Murder.
II looked like murder to the specta-
tors on hill and 50 evidently thought
he officer in command of the battery.
which ceased fire. A reserve company
OF the Seminovsky regiment then ad-
vanced and fired volleys at the upper
windows. At the third volley white
handkerchief attached to a bayonet
was pushed through shattered pane.
Il waved franctically and all was over
The little garrison Of 30 marched out
and laid down their arms. a strange
collection OF rifles and repeating shot
guns. All had revolvers.
Strange to say not one OF the men
had even been wounded, and when
they found that they would not be i'm
mediately executed 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
constantly augmented, most of the new
arrivals being arrested at the bridges
or at other points Of egress n the
Prosna district, which is crowded with
refugees.
A Scene of Desolatlon.
The Presna quarter is a scene OF
desolGtion. Sunday afternoon fugltlyes
were seeking new homes and the wo-
men were bending under the weight
Of huge packs of bedding, many Of
them dragging their children along
Sledgos were piled high with all the
worldly goods of many families, the
family ikon usually crowping the top
of each pile The poor people made
very slow progress with their bundles
and were subjected TO continual search
by the soldiers. who sometimes de-
lighted in throwing the loads into the
snow and making merry at the sorry
spectacle.
In addition to the fires in the bom-
barded district, which are now under
control, a conhagaration broke out
Saturday night in the buildings adjoin-
ing st. Georges church, which, II 10
believed. were set fire to by the revo-
lutionaries as a means of divertng
the troops. The buildings burned all
night and the firemen had great diff
Guilty in saving the church, the spire
Of which is filled with shrapnel fred
earlier in the week against the insur.
gent sharpshooters. who picked OFF
the soldiers by rife shooting from Il.
The appearance Of the center of the
city Sunday was quite normal. The
people, who have been cooped up for a
week, are crowding the streets. through
which pass gay sleighs and the mag
nificent turnouts of the Moscow mer
chant princes. Sunday night the city is
quiet except for an occasional shot
where revolutionist is trying to -.
cape capture.