Show PEOPLE SHOT DOWN BY RUSSIAN SOLDIERS horrors of st petersburg s red sun day surpassed in recent massacre in glodz st petersburg latest reports from glodz would indicate that the outbreak of friday and saturday was more erious than at first supposed and that the dead are numbered by hundreds nothing approaching the disorders which passed ar beyond the scale ot recent demonstrations and approximated the dignity of actual in recalling the days of the commune in paris has been record ed in russia since the street fighting at warsaw during the polish revola alons of 1830 and 1863 the events of january 22 in st petersburg red sunday were merely the dispersal of unarmed crowds by soldiers but a glodz the troops were desperately op posed by an army of 60 working men many armed with revolvers de tending substantial barricades with bullets and showers of paving stones and other missiles and even bombs it la quite to give the exact number of killed and wounded as reports vary according to the ter from which they are obtained certainly the killed number more than a hundred possibly two hundred and the wounded five times aa many an official report says the number of casualties was largely increased by the neglect of persons to remain in doors and others who insisted on look ing out 0 doors and windows when the volleys were being fired upon the rioters by the soldiers residents ot the city say that they received no orders to remain indoors the present trouble began at glodz on the after the funeral of the victims of the conflict between troops and terrorists the previous sunday the christians were permitted to bury their dead but the jews were cited from doing so and the police se creely interred the bodies of the jews at night which excited indignation and terrorist riots were initiated on the the most serious phase of the rioting developed when the crowd deliberately pillaged liquor shops and numbers of persons inflamed by drink led a crowd of at least to further and more serious attacks police and military were attacked wherever they appeared in small force and many individual members were killed after pillaging the liquor shops the crowd set fire to them and prevented the firemen from extinguishing the flames this was repeated bellber abely at many places friday the fury of the mob found full vent and even children caught by the contagion were seen kissing red flags and heard swearing that they were ready tor lib erty A jewish girl mounted a box in the market square and addressed an immense crowd suddenly the police appeared a volley and the girl tell dead mar ket gardeners coming in were stopped and their carts used in building bar wires were stretched in front of these barricades and the caa airy was unable to charge meanwhile the mob had secured arms and vers were freely used finally the military secured the upper hand but not without considerable losses to themselves and tearful slaughter of the rioters the soldiers exhibited the utmost carelessness as to whether they killed peaceful peace fut persons or riot ers and as a consequence many women and children were among the dead |