Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1906 — MANY JEWS SLAIN. [ARTICLE]

MANY JEWS SLAIN.

Whol««n]« Rd»i Masnacre la 'Started by- Ttipvlag of Bomb. At least thirty Jews were killed! during an nmi-Hernitic outbreak at Binlystok, Russia. Thursday. All the Jewish shops on the foiir principal streets were sacked and the city, with a popu Yattun of OOiKXI. vt whom 35,000 are Jews, was at the mercy of the mob. Every indication supports tlie belief that the Nannwsacre was deliberately planned. The slaughter began when some one /brew a Ik»hß> at the Corpus Christi procession as it was passing through Alexandrovskt’ street. The bomb was thrown from a balcony, and It .exploded among the proces&kinlfltß, killing and wounding many persons, Including Tedoroff,-a priest of the Russian church. It is asserted that the bomb was, thrown by a Jew. The explosion of the bomb sfetens to. have lieCh the signal for the ferocious outbreak. Almost immediately shots were fired into the crowd from the, building fro'iiT wHh*B""The bomb was hurled. ' -- ~ \v. - Revolver fusillades also were beardsimultaneously in other parts of the city. Soldiers hastily surrounded the house from which the bomb was thrown aml poured two volleys through the windows. Then the enraged Christians attacked the Jews wherever they could find them. A mob poured down through the entire Jewish quarter and attacked the Jewish shops, particularly in Alexnmlrovski and Sura streets, demolish-, ing tlie fixtures and windows and throwing the goods into the gutters and beating and murdering the Jews. • A crowd of Jews fled to the railroad station, pursued by the mob. which' killed many of them there. Three Jews were thrown from second story windows of the railroad station building. Blalvstuk is an extensive manufacturing town. ICO miles northeast of Warsaw It is one of the handsome cities of old 'Poland, and has been called tlie “Versailles of Poland.” It is ‘a garrison _point, but not well manned with troops. * ,