Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1906 — RUSS GORE FLOWS [ARTICLE]

RUSS GORE FLOWS

1 Terrific Battles Are Fought in Moscow. CIVIL WAR IS FEARED Revolutionists Mowed Down by Drunken Cossacks.

toatb**- Between “Red" Army and Cmar’a Forces Races for Three Bure—Rebel Troops are Bathorlnsr and Leader* Assert Armr Will Soon March on Soldiers and End ‘ Ciordom—Disturbances in Other Parts of Empire. "After three days of riot and slaqgjii* tor la the streets of Moscow the spirit of revolution is blazing out in other parts of Russia. At Odessa, Kieff and elsewhere the strike is on, end a call -for an armed rebellion has gone oUt In Moscow the fighting continued without interruption. The strikers were driven from their intrenchments by the Cossacks and dragoons, only to fall back on new barricades, scattering Into new thoroughfares and extending the zone of battle. Five thousand persons were killed and 14,000 wounded in fights in Moscow between revolutionists and Cossacks. Leaders of the Russian revolutionists assert armed forces are being assembted to fight the soldiers and that civil war between organized bodies of troops will begin soon. Frightful execution was done with the machine guns. They were trained on the crowds, and innocent women and, children who were fleeing for their lives fell beneath the hail of bullets. Thousands are reported killed or wounded. In one Instance the machine pieces stationed at the Monastery of Passion were trained on pers'ons who were seeking escape from the pursuing Cossacks. Hundreds are reported to have fallen, and the hospitals are filled with the dying and Injured. The strikers in Moscow appear’to have become disorganized, and their attacks were often turned Into unruly routs. Thousands were drived outside the walls and the fighting caused terror in the suburbs. Once, a mob of revolutionaries swirling around a street corner surrounded a small sqUad of Cossacks. The soldiers used their knouts and. knives, but were dragged from their horses and trampled under foot. Twenty Cossacks were killed. The revolutionary leaders are still untamed, although on the whole the skirmishes went against them. The constitutionalists assert that the strikers have lost the day, while the government officials point to the fact that although the strikers have sought to capture the railroads, trains are still running between St. Petersburg, Moscow and Eydtkuhnen, and the tramways and electric lights are still til operation. In Moscow the military seems to have triumphed, but out in the proylnces the danger is said to be grave and outbreaks are looked for at Odessa and other points that will be even more sanguinary than the bloody street conflicts in Moscow.