Show moscow a scene of merciless carnage H atrocious tales told of the work of drunken cossacks Cor sacks london dec 26 the correspond nt of the dally telegraph at at petersburg in a dispatch dated p TO december 25 says at an early hour this morning the casualties at moscow were estimated at killed and wounded with the fighting still proceeding tha inhabitants of moscow have been forbidden to leave their dwelling after 7 in the evening it Is impossible to move about tha alty on account ot frequency of alray bullets many innocent persons bavo been accidentally killed A scarcity ot provisions is threat ened the same correspondent telegraph at p m saya your moscow correspondents telegrams have not been accepted because all private messages were refused abla afternoon it is learned however that cannon is now proceeding in various arts of the city where tonight very near the railroad stations the barricade erected by the revolutionaries i are being desperately defended J tho bursk railroad terminus af 9 moscow is being pillaged and many t cars laden with provisions ars being looted f the emperor Is engaged dally in re I 1 viewing at seio the regiments oe the st petersburg district tho troops Is dely loyal accounts re I 1 gather that the civil war has brought no decisive action but boly a thickening of the blood cloud an of the horrors and an the prevailing bitterness the driving force behind both tha droopy and rebel Is no longer that 0 enthusiasm or any human impulse it is the forces of superhuman bate and hence the deeds reported are not the acts of patriots soldiers eol diers or otherwise but the enormities of madmen it Is impossible how any emotion even in the extremes 0 despair of hate can impart such foolhardy couri age as some of the rebels display for every barricade destroyed sun day two or three appeared in their places orders were given by the revolutionists to shoot only when thera was good hope of bringing a man dolfl but otherwise to tire out the troops until they lose patience in the meantime in their b auses he bik 0 ohp population cowers in the inmost recesses of hutchens and cellars stricken jtb tear and fremb ling at every boom of cannon or the explosion ol 01 a bomb ol 01 alli thy loyalty w the afra anticipated talking with in intelligent group of st petersburg revolutionists I 1 was informed that while they believed tha strike would be victorious they fully realized they were staking everything upon the issue and that failure would et back their cause tor several years they said they were devoting tbell fiorta to shaking the foundations ot russian finance n full confidence that once the existing regime was overthrown they could as quickly build another and that foreign nations would be aa ready to advance money to a democratic republic as to the autocracy they emphatically denied that bey were inciting the peasantry to comal agrarian outrages declaring that these outrages were the work of the Socialists but they did not deny their advocacy of the distribution of theroun the rown lands among the peasants in conclusion they declared that in the event of failure of their cause they would have recourse to terrorism choosing their victims from all classes of society st petersburg dec p m direct telegraphic communication with moscow was severed last night but the government succeeded in restoring communication by A roundabout route this morning all reports agree that the fighting yesterday day which continued until midnight assumed the nature ot a butchery by the machine guns of the artillery grape and co nister being employed lesly galust the armed insurgents atrocious tales are told of the cos backs who having drank vodka until drunk fired on th streets with machine guns and charged with lances the insurgents de splayed great stubbornness born ness in holding their barricades even advancing in a mass to the slaughter at the same time bombs were thrown froni the windows of bouses near the barricades occupied by the revolutionaries the artillery wae summoned and battered the houses to pieced the plan of the insurgents it Is stated is to hold the outskirts and gradually enclose the troops in the center of the city leaders announce that an army ot is concentrated at northeast of moscow and will boon be ready to march to the cites assistance the latest report la that both sides were exhausted at midnight when firing practically the streets were in absolute darkness save lor search lights in the towers of bivouacs behind barricades L |