Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-13
STORY OF SUNDAYS BATTLE.
Associated Press Correspondents Wi
neases Street Fighting.

Associated Press Correspondents Wit
nesses Street Fighting.
Petrograd, Noe. 12.-The new boil
sheviki government, headed by Nikolai
Lenine and Leon Trotzky, is having
anything but an easy time in control
ling the city of Petrograd. as the COM
mittee Of public safety, which includes
all the elements opposing them, 1s
seeking to establish a new socialist
government They continue to placard
the streets with demands that the boil
sheviki realize their folly and con-
sent to lay down their arms and await
the coming Of Kerensky."
Most OF the ministers of the Keren-
sky cabinet who were captured after
the eight hour battle at the Winter
Palace last Wednesday night have been
released from the fortress of st. Peter
and st. Paul.
M. Terestchenko and A. I. Konovalof
are still behind the prison walls, as are
the military cadets captured in the
battle at the telephone exchange on
Sunday.
Sundays Fighting.
At the corner Of the Grand Morskaia
and the Gorokovaia, near the telephone
exchange. during the long battle on
Sunday, In which the bolshevik re-
gained possession Of the exchange from
the military cadets incidents Of the
fighting could be seen from the office
Of tho Associated Press near by.
There were intermittent fusilades
from rifles and machine guns during
the morning and the afternoon, as the
bolsheviki stationed 100 yards from
the Morskaia made spasmodic sorties
toward the exchange. "A curious crowd
peered around the corners. hugged
buildings and crouched in doorways to
escape the bullets.
An arnlored car manned by military
fcadets ana starf0ned 2 n the suuare
around the cathedral Of st. isaac
cleared the streets there with q fusilade
tn reply to occasional firing from boil
sheyiki infantrymen hiding behind the
marbled columns in the great cathedral.
The fuel supply of the car became
exhausted and the car was captured
by the bolsheviki sailors, who killed
two of the occupants by firing thru the
doors. They dragged the third occupant
from the car and he was killed by the
sailors while a crowd Of spectators
within the Hotel Astoria cried out IN
protest The bodies lay In the street
for half an hour until hospital nurses
and French officers gained permission
to remove them.
Battle HaIts For Funeral.
At one moment machine, gun bullets
were whizzing thru the streets; the
next the firing ceased and the people
doffed their hats as funeral cortege
with four white horses drawing
white canopied hearse and black
garbed mourners following on foot,
crossed the Morskaia directly In the
line Of fire.
Bullets spattered against the facades
OF the buildings and one military cadet
fell In q crumpled heap across the
street from the associated Press Office.
Another fell with shot thru the head
as he was warning the onlookers to
seek safer quarters The military cadets
within the telephone exchange sur
rendered shortly after dusk when their
ammunition became exhausted.
The city then became quiet except
for occasional spasmodic firing. Boil
sheviki forces, reinforced by soldiers
from the battleship Petropavlozsk and
other warships and from Helsingfors,
patrolled the city today. The heaviest
guard. backed by artillery,was station
ed at the telephone exchange to pre-
vent a surprise attempt at recapture.