Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1907 — REDS HURL BOMBS. [ARTICLE]

REDS HURL BOMBS.

Latest Outbreak of Russian Terrorist* Occurs at Tlflis. Ten bombs -were hurled in Erfvan square, in Tiflis, Trans-Caucasia, exploding with terrifie force. Many persons were killed and injured and the houses over a large area in the neighborhood were shattered. The bomb horror is but another evidence of the growth of the Russian revolution. Tiflis is in the extreme southern portion of the Russian empire, not a great distance from Baku, on the Caspian Sea, the scene of the oil riots, when many were killed, a few years ago. There had been no signs of an outbreak and the police and troops were taken wholly by surprise. It was undoubtedly the work of she terrorists, whose plots and intentions wer* unlooked for. Shortly after daybreak a crowd collected in Grivan square, apparently without cause. When commanded by the soldiers to disperse there was no response the sudden reports of the exploding bombs. The noise was deafening. It was more than an hour before the terrified troops could be induced to return to the square to begin the work of removing the injured. The exact number of dead will probably never be known, as many persons were blown to such fragments they can never be identified.