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Show -- ' in SHTew pZAR'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 strlkors 0f gt. Petersburg, feoaded to desperation by a day of vio-Jenco, vio-Jenco, fury nnd bloodshed, aro in n btato of open Insurrection against tho govornment. A condition almost bor tiering on civil war exists In tho tor. fror-strickon Russian capital. Tho city Is 'under martial law, with Prince Va tllchlkoff ns commander of mora than PO.00O of tho emperor's crack guards. Troops aro bivouacking in tho street and at various places on tho Novskl prospect, tho main thoroughfaro ol ho city. On tho Island of Vasslllos-trov Vasslllos-trov and In tho out sections, Infuriated Infuriat-ed men havo thrown up barricades, (which thoy arc holding. Tho empress dowagor has hastily sought safety at .Tsarskoo-Selo, whoro Emperor Nicholas Nicho-las II Jb living. Minister of tho Interior Svlatopolk Mlrsky presented to hlB majesty tho Invitation of tho workmen to appear fit tho winter palaco Sunday afternoon find recolvo their potitlon, but tho em (poror's advisors already had taken n poclslon to show a firm and resoluto tront, and tho emperor's answer to (100,000 workmen, trying to mako their (way to tho palaco square, was a solid iarray of troops, who mot them with rifle, bayonet and saber. Tho priest, Gopon, tho leader and Jdol of tho men. In his golden vestments, vest-ments, holding aloft tho cross and imarching at tho head of thousands of workmen through tho Narva gate, mlr nculously escaped a volloy, which laid low half a hundred persons. Tho figures fig-ures of tho total numbor killed or rwoundod here, at tho Moscow gate, at various bridges and, islands, and at tho winter palace, vary. Tho best estimate esti-mate is 500, although there are exaggerated exag-gerated figures placing tho number as Ihlgh as 5,000. Many men woro accompanied by their wives and children, and In tho confusion, which left no tlmo for dls-crimination, dls-crimination, tho latter shared the fatq of tho men. Tho troops. jyfth tho exception ex-ception of a slnglo regimjjfyjjyijch la roportod to have""1,nowh down "llS arms, remained loyal and obeyed orders. or-ders. But the blood which crimsoned tho snow has fired the brains arid passions pas-sions of tho strikers and turned women wo-men ns woll as men into wild beasts, and tho cry of tho infuriated populace Is for vengeance Tho sympathy of tho middle classes Is with tho workmen. Later In tho ovenlng, a,ftor tho terrible ter-rible massacre, every officer wearing tho uniform of tho emperor, who was found alono, was mobbed. A general was killed on tho Nicholas bridge and n, dozen officers wero seized, stripped of their epaulets and deprived of their swords. It Is rumored that M. Witto will bo appointed dictator, but tho report is not confirmed. Tho authorities, whllo they seem to rcallzo the magnltudo of tho crisis with which tho dynasty nnd tho autocracy are confronted on account of Sunday'B events, apparently aro paralyzed for tho moment. Intenso indignation is bound to bo arousod all over Russia. Tho workmen work-men and revolutionists expect news from Moscow and other big centors, whero tho troops aro not of tho sama class as tho guards' regiment of St, Petersburg. A member of tho emperor's household house-hold Is quoted as saying that this conflict con-flict will end tho war with Japan and that Russia will havo a constitution or Emperor Nicholas will loso his head. |