Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1906 — RUN WITH BLOOD." [ARTICLE]

RUN WITH BLOOD."

Fearful FlkWliik People and sel<llei-* |„ --Ui.l, MoHi-aw,” Xu civilized Irtnd since the atrocDjesof the French revolution has beeu engaged in such scenes of horror, and bloodshed as Russia is experiencing. The nation seems to have been hopelessly plunged into anarchy, with the whole; fabric <ff society falling Into disintegration. ■ . . ■ On the western border, the BaHie provinces have revolted and proclaimed a Sort of republic. Odessa, in the south, has been drenched in blood. Sara toft, in the east, is in a condition of anarchy, anil even far away Vladivostok lias felt the thrill of the revolutionary spirit, which, is sweeping over t}ie broad empire of the Czar. And now- Moscow, the ancient capital and-the seat both of religious and political power, is in the throes of civil war. Men who were • yesterday the submissive victims of the bureaucratic power have risen and met the Czar’s trained legions. Behind barricades in ihe open streets and from the roofs of buildings they have fought the dreaded Cossacks anti, have learned that Cossacks, too, when, bullets are well aimed and bombs carefully directed, can die. The flow of red blood in the streets, as their ancient enemies went "down before bomb and bullet, fiercely TEfflTecT them and throwing all fear aside they plunged like madmen into the fighting, prepared to die and dying happily if they could take along a Cossack or two for company. The lighting In the streets of Moscow between the revolutionists and soldiers lias been of the fiercest kind. Whenever the conditions lent themselves to the style of warfare, barricades were erected in the streets and from behind them the revolutionists fought with grim determination. Dislodged from barricades In one street, the revolutionists fled to erect fresh obstacles in another thoroughfare, and thus for days they have kept up an almost endless fight. Comrades fell by their side in rows, the machine guns -and shrapnel fire of the soldiers doing fearful'execution; but the sight of blood only deepened their hate and made them more determined to win the freedom so long and cruelly denied them. In Moscow for several days the streets were like slaughter houses. The revolutionists found shelter, some behind the street barricades, some within buildings, others upon roofs, and from these vantage points did deadly execution among the soldiers. Often the latter used artillery to demolish., buildings in which the revolutionists had entrenched themselves; but driven out of one place, the revolutionists speedily rallied in another, taking advantage of every opportunity to pick off the Cossacks by rifle fire or blow them up with bombs. Owing to the lack of discipline among the Cossacks, the latter in many cases fell easy victims. Drunken bands of them charged wildly through the streets and many were tom to pieces by bombs dropped from the roofs of buildings. Sometimes groups of regular soldiers joined the revolutionists, bringing to their support much needed ammunition and arms. The desperate nature of the fighting may be inferred from the estimates of the dead and wounded during three days of this awful carnage. A correspondent in touch with the situation says that no fewer than 5,000 were killed, while he places the number of the injured at 14,00&„ The city is In a state of chaos, neither life nor property being secure. Hundreds of innocent persons have been killed In their houses by stray bullets and other hundreds have^fallen in the streets. Russia is indeed paying a fearful price for the infamies her government has practiced for centuries upon a longsuffering people.