Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1906 — RUSSIAN HORROR. [ARTICLE]

RUSSIAN HORROR.

Victims of Sledlce Huucrs Perish Miserably Of Thirst. The full horror off the massacre at Sledlce will never be known. The official report is that 100 were killed, but this is far belowt he total. Whole blocks of houses were burned and tremendous damage was done toy sheila from the battery of artillery that fired recklessly into the mob. All this, however, is merely incidental, being as nothing when compared to the awful details of that Russian tragedy. A terrible feature of the woe of Siedlce is that many persons died of thirst. The drunken soldiers and police cleaned out blocks, leaving only the dead and wounded behind. Many of these buildings were not entered for five days'-and it is said twenty bodies of men and women, who died from their wounds and thirst, have been picked up. One Jewish girl was found unconscious on the floor under a water faucet. Two policemen had broken both her legs and cut her in the side-wlth a sword. She had dragged herself across.the floor, but was unable to rise to the faucet. There she lay in agony for nearly five days. She revived just long enough to gasp “Water! Water!” and then died. An old white-headed Jew, one of the wealthiest men in the city, was found dead in a bathtub in bis house. He had been shot twice in the body and evidence was found showing he had spent two or three days helpless on the dining room floor. Blood clots showed where he had dragged himself to the bath room. Apparently, in a delirious ecstasy at getting water, he had turned on the faucets, struggled over the side into the bath and was drowned. A few days ago, with a prayer for Russian freedom on their lips, SenaWe Konoplianikovo, the girl who assassinated Gen. Min Aug. 28 in the Peterhof railroad station, walked with firm step up a scaffold and was hanged. When the black cap was being pulled on the girl In a loud voice called: “Long live the social revolution for land and liberty !”