Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1906 — ORGY AND PILLAGE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ORGY AND PILLAGE.

3TORY OF THE,BUTCHERY AT BIALYSTOK. Drunken Moba Sack and Burn Jewiah Houses and Tear to Pieces Victims of Their Savage Ferocity —Riot Lasts Three Day*. The anti-Jewish rlatlng at Bialystok, Jtafißia, seems now ended. Th* troops are in full control, and in view of the outcry raised it is certan that the authorities will not permit a renewal of the horrors witjiessedat Bialystok. The entire region is greatly excited owing to fear that the Bialystok massacre was only the signal for a general attack on the Jews throughout the pale and in Poland, but if any such conspiracy existed it is too late to carry out the plans, as the; most imperative orders to prevent further outbreaks have been Issued to the governors and governorsgeneral from St. Petersburg. When the Associated Press correspondent arrived at Bialystok the worst was already over, but on all sides there was revolting evidence of savage bestiality on the part of the blood-drunken mobs, which sacked and burned the Jewish houses, shops and stores. For seventy-two Hours, with a slight abatement during the daytime, the mad orgy of blood and pillage went on unchecked. The inhumanity displayed would have done credit to the Mongol hordes of Genghis Khan in his conquests of China and central Asia in the thirteenth century. At first police and troops urged on the mob, but finally, when dismayed by the bloody deeds accomplished, they reluctantly sought to obey the orders of their superiors to put an end to the work of the rapacious bands of roughs, who were so far beyond control of the local forces that regiment after regiment bad to be thrown into the city before order could be restored. During the rioting the Jews were hunted down by ferocious pursuers, who, in the majority of cases, were not content with killing more victims, but tore them to pieces, like wild anima Is. And; while this was in progress the troops either stood idly by, or, as was more frequently the case, fired into the houses and shops where Jews were con-

cealed, under the pretext that they believed them to be revolutionists, but really to make way for the murderers and plunderers who followed the soldiers. While it is impossible to give the exact figures, the visits of the correspondent to the hospitals and cemeteries enable him to approximate the killed at 100 Jews and twenty Christians and the wounded at 150 Jews and seven Christians. The question of the origin of the massacre was carefully investigated. Although many of the Jews denied that a bomb was thrown at the Corpus Christi procession, the fact that a bomb was thrown is established beyond a doubt, but the question of who threw the bomb remains unsettled. At first the Jews fought with revolvers and bombs, and with their weapons the majority of the Christian victims were killed. But the Jews were soon overwhelmed and fled for shelter like rabbits to warrens. Into cellars or attics. The soldiers watched this chase and butchery, sometimes laughing with Indifference, but never falling to fire Into houses where Jews, sometimes to the number of 100, were making a stand against their assailants.

THE RIOTS IN RUSSIA.