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SYzRAN IN RUINS;
hundreds BURNED
AWFUL LOSS OF LIFE REPORTED
BY DESTRUCTION OF RUS
SLAM TOWN.
PEASANTS SHOT DOWN
BY BRUTAL SOLDIERS

6SOple. MaSSaCTco AT 4nSC1Sat1ou Oh
Land owners-Authoritie Send
ARTILLERY Against MODS Douma
May Be Dissolved.
Samara, Russia. July 21.-The lat
est news from Syrian is that the city
is heap of ruins. Hundreds of per-
sons lost their lives in the flames.
Several men suspected of incendi-
arism were lynched. Food for the
starving inhabitants Of Syrian is be-
Ing sent from here and from Saratoff.
No doubt Is entertained that the
burning Of SyzYan was revolutionary
demonstration. The government
buildings and treasury were destroyed.
Many panic-stricken Inhabitants
sought refuge in the surrounding
fields and forests.
Syrian was an important CONNER
clal and industrial town 70 miles
south of Simbirsk, on the Syrian
river. near its confluence with the
yolga. BY the census of 1897 it had
= population Of over $4,000.
Shoot Hundreds Of Peasants.
st. Petersburg, July 21.Many hum
dreds Of peasants have been killed and
wounded since Sunday near the city
OF voroneIh. Dispatches received Fri
day tell grewsoms stories Of wanton
butchery by troops at the tnstigation
OF the rich landowners.
The slaughter continued until the
peasants were reinforced and by force
of numbers threatened to overwhelm
the soldiers. Then the troops were
forced to retreat
Urgent dispatches for more troops
were sent to the military authorities
by the commander Of the vanquished
detachment. As q result the govern
ment hurried 70 the scene heavy bod
les Of artillery. The gunners are I'M
der orders to disperse all mobs with
solid cannon shot II It is deemed neces-
sary.
Thousands Nay Be Shot Down.
What may follow when the cannon
are t1nlimbered is conjectural. II the
peasants mass before the big guns as
they did before the rifles Of the in
fantry they may be mown down by
thousands. From vorouezh trouble is
spreading over all the central prov
inces and the government considers
It necessary to give An object lesson
In the hotbed OF revolt; hence the>use
Of artillery.
The bloodshed around Yoronszh be-
gan in consequence Of the government
brutality suppressing strike Of hired
laborers. Enormous masses Of the
peasants then congregated and
marched IN great column several
miles IN length to sack all estates In
the neighborhood.
Sack and Burn Fifteen Estates,
Troops arrived ans tried to displacs
the mob with volleys OF musketry.
Hundreds Of peasants were killed and
wounded. but the peasants stubborniy
refused to retreat. The approach Of
masses Of peasants by other roads
made the position Of the troops I'M
tsnable and they reiterated. leaving the
estates defenseless.
i Already is estates near Voronezh
have been sacked and burned by the
peasants and the war continues.
The railway stations are packed
with fugitives and the landlords and
their families are camping by the
roadsides. One large landed pro-
prietor named Dobrousky and his
family wandered for days across fields
before they reached voronezh.
Douma's Death Warrant signedp
\ Extreme nervousness and excite
msnt pervade all classes, owing to
fear that the action Of the lower
house OF parliament n adopting an.
address TO the people may be the sig
nal for 4 coup d'etat against parlia-
ment. It Is rumored the step has
been decided ON, and the Strana prints
a report that an imperial ukase order.
ing the dissolution OF parliament has
already been signed.
The feeling OF general alarm is In
creased by the fact that all night long.
guard regiments have been marching
into the city from the guards, camp
ct Krasnoe- selo.
Moreover. It is knewn that the
colonels OF the seminoysky regiment
OF the guard and OF the hussars OF
Che guard, and the colonels Of the
Ismaiioysky, Pavlovsky, Preobrajen-
sky and Yaegerski guard regiments
and the es,snel Of the horse artil-
1ery Of the guard were summoned
to the headquarters OF the command
er Of tbs st. Petersburg garrison,
where they Fseeived instructions re-
garding the disposition of their troops
in the case Of certain eyentualities. ),