Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1905 — NOT SO BLOODY IS ANTICIPATED [ARTICLE]

NOT SO BLOODY IS ANTICIPATED

Russian Authorities Looked for Formidable Uprising in Poland. MORE DETAILS OF SLAUGHTER Over One Hundred Person* Were Killed or Received Serious injuries. 1 Stories of Revolting Cruelty Praoticed by the Cossacks and Other Troops—General Strike Is Proclaimed. Warsaw, May 3.—The committee of the social Democratic party of Poland and Lithuania has issued a manifesto proclaiming a general strike and calling out all the workmen immediately In consequence of Monday’s bloodshed. St, Petersburg May 3.—Bad as was the rioting at Warsaw, Lode, Kalisz and other places in Poland, and venomous as was the hostility everywhere displayed against the police and the Russian authorities, the uprising was far less formidable 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 disturbances ruthlessly. Demonstrators Were Few. All reports, however, indicate that the demonstrators were comparatively few in number, the vast bulk of the population fearing trouble remained In doors. Where trouble occurred the crowds were armed with bombs and revolvers. In Warsaw a red flag procession was dispersed by two volleys, Cossacks and Ulhans then charging and cutting down the people in the streets, driving them into courtyards and beating them with sabers and. whips in the cruel fashion peculiar to these wild horsemen of the steppes. About a hundred persons were killed or seriously wounded, according to the reports, women and even children sharing the fate of the men. At Lodz workmen attacked the police with bombs and were charged by dragoons and uhlans, who cut off the bomb throwers, drove them into a house, surrounded it and then fired upon those inside, killing three persons and wounding many. Cruelty of the Cossacks. Supplementary reports of the rioting just received confirm the earlier Warsaw advices of the revolting cruelty of the Cossacks aud other troops. People were driven into courtyards and beaten with the butts of rifles, some of them Into insensibility. The limbfl of some of the victims were broken. The bomb thrown Into a Cossack patrol near the Vienna station, Warsaw, struck the head of a Cossack’s horse, literally blowing the horse and rider to atoms and killing two other Cossacks and two women. In Kombakoff street hussars fired two volleys Into the crowd. At Lodz a woman who was looking out of a window was shot by a Cossack. While practically there were no disturbances in the Jewish cities on the Polish border of southwestern Russia, dispatches say that the people are in a state of panic. The streets are filled with moving patrols. SITUATION AT WARSAW Probability of Further Conflicts Is Causing Much Apprehension. Warsaw. Russian Poland. May 3. The city is apparently outwardly quiet, but the situation is none the less grave. Workmen are going from factory to factory compelling their comrades to strike and the probability of further conflicts arouses the keenest apprehension. The iMxiies of the thirty odd persons killed by the troops on Zelazna street are still lying in the morgue awaiting identification. Ten of the wounded who were taken to hospitals died of their wounds. During the encounter on Jerusalem street the troops not only fired a volley but used the butts of their rifles and their bayonets and swords. Many women and children had their bends and limbs broken. Some of the injuries were of a terrible nature and there were cases where the soldiers entered the courtyards of houses and attacked those biding there. When the troops fired after the bomb was thrown near the Vienna railroad station four persons were killed and seven were wounded. All the windows In the neighborhood were shattered. There was an explosion in the police station of Minsk, following which a crowd fired on a detachment of Cossacks. The latter replied and order was soon restored. The strikers at Lodz now number 75,000. At Kalisz, during a service In a church the congregation began singing patriotic songs, whereupon soldiers and police entered the building and attacked the people, wounding many of them. A free fight ensued, during which weapons wrested from the police, shots were exchanged and stonefl were thrown. A dragoon, a woman and a man were killed inside the church. A squadron of cavalry waa summoned and dispersed the crowds. The church was closed to* reconsecration.