Eureka Reporter | 1905-05-05 | Page 2 | Bloodshed Was Expected

pasy a BLOODSHED WAS EXPECTED authony es were prepared for uprising in poland st petersburg bad as was the rioting at warsaw loaz kalisz and other places in poland and venomous as was the hostility displayed against the police and the russian authora ties the uprising was far less forbid able and the results less bloody than anticipated the authorities had given due warning of their intention to permit no demonstrations and the troops quelled the disturbance ruth lessly all reports however indicate that the demonstrators were combar actively few in number the vast bulk of the population fearing trouble re bained indoors where trouble oc burred the crowds were armed with bombs and revolvers in warsaw a red flag procession was dispersed by two volleys cossacks and uhland then charging and cutting down the people in the streets driving them into court yards and beating them with fabres sabres and whips in the cruel fashion peculiar to these wild horse men of the steppes about a hundred persons were killed or seriously wounded according to the reports women and eten children sharing I 1 fate of the men