Shocking Calamity at Moscow.
1100 PEOPLE TRAMPLED TO DEATH. (Per Press Association.) St. Petersburg, May 30. A terrible scene took place at a peasant feast held outside Moscow in honor of the Czar's coronation. An immense crowd of four hundred thousand people assembled and the attendance not being adequate, the people madly rushed the booths. The crowd was wedged in a narrow passage, and the pressure was terrific. People were trampled to death, chiefly women and children. The hollows in the ground proved great death, traps. Tbe police and the Cossack soldiery were quite unable to stop the mad rush. It is officially announced that 1100 were killed and 450 injured. May 31. The Czar is deeply distressed at the terrible disaster at the peasant feast at Moscow, and has assigned a sum of one thousand roubles to each of the bereaved families.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 279, 1 June 1896, Page 2
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143Shocking Calamity at Moscow. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 279, 1 June 1896, Page 2
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