Show denit CZARS TROOPS KILLS UNARMED MEN AND WOMEN labor troubles in russia results in bloodshed and may lead to civil war in czars domains the strikers of st petersburg goaded to desperation by a day of vio lence fury and bloodshed are in a state of open insurrection against the government A condition almost bor dering on civil war exists in the ter stricken russian capital the city Is under martial law with prince va sll chikoff as commander of more than 50 of the emperor s crack guards troops are bivouacking in the street and at various places on the anevski prospect the main thoroughfare of the city on the island of troy and in the out sections ed men have thrown up barricades which they are holding the empress dowager has hastily sought safety at Tsar selo where emperor nicho las Is living minister of the interior presented to his majesty the of the workmen to appear pt the winter palace sunday afternoon ind receive their petition but the em derors advisors already had taken a decision to show a firm and resolute front and the emperor s answer to workmen trying to make their avay to the palace square was a solid array of troops who met them with rifle bayonet and saber the priest gopon the leader and idol of the men in his golden vest ments holding aloft the cross and marching at the bead of thousands of workmen through the narva gate mir escaped a volley which laid low halt a hundred persons the fig tires of the total number killed or wounded here at the moscow gate at various bridges and islands and at the winter palace vary the best esti mate Is although there are exah aerated figures placing the number as agh as many men were accompanied by their wives and children and in the contusion which left no time tor dis crimination the latter shared the fate of the men the broons with the ex of a single regiment which Is reported to have thrown down its arms remained loyal and obeyed or ders but the blood which crimsoned the snow has fired the brains and pas alons of the strikers and turned wo men as well as men into wild bearta and the cry of the infuriated populace Is for vengeance the sympathy of the middle classes Is with the workmen later in the evening after the ter massacre every officer wearing the uniform of the emperor who was found alone was mobbed A general was killed on the nicholas bridge and a dozen officers were seized stripped of thear epaulets and deprived of their swords it is rumored that M witte will be appointed dictator but the report Is not confirmed the authorities while they seem to realize the magnitude of the crisis with which the dynasty and the autocracy are confronted on account of sunday s events apparently are paralyzed for the moment indignation Is bound to be aroused all over russia the work men and revolutionists expect news from moscow and other big centers where the troops are not of the same class as the guards regiment of st petersburg A member of the emperors house hold Is quoted as saying that this con flicht will end the war with japan and that russia will have a constitution or emperor echolas will lose hia head |