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Show RUSSIAN STRIKERS REVOLT CZAR'S TROOPS KILLS UNARMED MEN AND WOMEN. Labor Troubles In Russia Results In Bloodshed, and May Lead to Civil War In Czar's Domains. Tho strikers of St. Petersburg, goaded to desperation by n day of vlo lenco, fury and bloodshed, aro In a stato of open Insurrection against tho government. A condition almost bordering bor-dering on civil vvnr exists In tho terror-stricken Itusslan capital. Tho city Is under martial law, with Prlnco Va-sllchlkoft Va-sllchlkoft as commander of moro than 50,000 of the emperor's crack guards. Troops oro bivouacking In tho street and at various places on tho Novskt .prospect, the main thoroughfare of the city. On the Island of Vassilios-trov Vassilios-trov and In tho out sections, infuriated infuriat-ed men hnvo thrown up barricades, which they nro holding Tho empress downgor has hastily sought safety at Tsarskoo-Sclo, whoro Fmpcror NIcho las II Is living. Minister of tho Interior Sviatopolk-Mlrsky Sviatopolk-Mlrsky presented to his majesty the Invitation of tho workmen to appear at tho winter palace Sunday afternoon nnd recelvo their petition, but tho emperor's em-peror's ndviors already had taken a decision to show a firm nnd resolute front, nnd tlio emperor's nnswor to 100,000 workmen, trying to make their way to tho palaco square, was a solid array of troop3, who met them with ilfle, bayonet and saber. Tho priest, Goon, tlio leader nnd idol of tho men. In his golden vestments, vest-ments, holOIni; nloft tho cross and jnarchlng nt tho head of thousands of workmen through tlio Narva gate, miraculously mir-aculously escaped n volley, which laid low half a hundred persons Tho Ilg-urcs Ilg-urcs of tho totnl number killed or wounded hem, nt tho Moscow gate, at various bridges nnd Islands, nnd at tho xv Inter pnlaa s, vary. Tho best estimate esti-mate Is 500, although there aro exaggerated exag-gerated ilgtit ss placing tho number as high ns 5,001, Many mos wero nccompanlcd by their wives and children, nnd In tho confusion, v hlch loft no tlmo for discrimination, dis-crimination, tho latter shared tho fato of tho men. Tho troops, with tho exception ex-ception of n singlo regiment, which Is reported to have thrown down Us arms, rcmal.ied Io)al and obeyed or dors Hut tlio blood which crimsoned tho snow has fired the brains and pas-Blons pas-Blons of the strikers nnd turned women wo-men ns well ns men Into wild boasts, and tho cry of tho Infuriated populace Is for vengeance. Tho sympathy of tho mlddlo classes Is with the workmen. Later in Hie evening, nftor tho tor-riblo tor-riblo massicro, every otllcor wearing tho uniform of tho emperor, who vvns found alone, was mobbed A general ns killod on Hw Nicholas bridge and a dozen ofilcers wore seized, stripped of their epaulets nnd dcpiived of tholr swords. It Is rumored thnt M WItto will ho appointed dlctntor, but tho report Is pot confirmed Tho authorities, whllo they seem to realbo tho magnitudo of the crisis with which tho dynasty ind tho autocracy nro confronted on recount of Sunday's events, npparcntly nro paral)zcd for the moment. Intonbo Indignation Is bound to ho nroutcd all over Russia. Tho workmen work-men and revolutionists expect news from Moscow and other big centers, whoro tho troops nro not of tho Bamo class as tho guards' regiment of St Petersburg. A mombcr of tho emperor's houso-hold houso-hold is quoted ns saying that this con-illct con-illct will end tho war with Japan nnd that Russia will havo a constitution or Emperor Nicholas will lose his head. |