The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-02-27
FEARFUL OUTRAGE.
Particulars of the Outrage in
the Political Prison at
Kara, Siberia.
Forty Lives Lost by the Burst
ing of Walnut Grove Dam
i'm Arizona.

LONDON, Special.-Further details of the
outrage in political prison at Kara reached
the Russian exiles in London to-day from
friends who are located short distance
from the scene of the horrors. They are
brief, but conclusive, confirming fully re-
port of the affair received here from an of
ticial in st. Petersburg whois in sympathy
with the cause of the people. According to
the details received to-day it appears that
the trouble at the Kara prison originated in
"hunger strike" in August, when the wom-
en- political prisoners tried to starve them
selves to death to escape the brutalities of
their iailers. All the women Imprisoned
there abstained from food for fourteen days.
The iailerS did not believe that they would
be able to keep up the struggle. AT first
they jeered at the women, then tempted
them with food, and then, finding this of
no avail. threatened them. When several
of the women were at the point of death
from their voluntary abstinence from food
the prison officials resorted to artificial means
to compel them to take nourishment. The
methods adopted, however, were violent and
licentious, and the women were compelled
to abandon their strike. Abominable out
RACES followed and were of daily and hourly
occurrence. This state of affairs led Mad
anne Sicida, whose death by flogging has al
ready been announced, to ask for an inter-
view with the director of the prison, in hope
of securing an amelioration of the condi-
ton of the prisoners. This request was
granted, but when she was taken before
him she found him abusive. 1t is said that
in her evaporation at his abuse she called
him villain and slapped his face. 1t is not
positively known, however, what took place
during the interview, but whatever did hap
pen, Madame Sicida
DID NOT RETURN TO HER COMPANIONS.
She was taken from the directors office and
conveyed to the prison in which common
offenders are confined. Three of her COM
panions from among the political prisoners
were permitted to join her. The advices
received to-day state that there were Mary
Koaleski, wife of Prof. Koaleski of Kieff;
Madame Smirnitsky and Marie Kolujny.
The last two ladies were from Odessa. Two
months elapsed after these events before
Lieut.. Gen. Baron Koff, governor general
OF the province of the Amour, instructed
the directors of prisons that the secret
edict of March, 1883, which Or
dered that political prisoners should be
treated by prison officials in pre-
cisely the same manner as criminals con-
demned for common law offenses would be
enforced, and ordered the directars to no.
tity the political prisoners of both sexes
that they would be liable to corporal pun
ish:nent if they violated certain of the
prison regulations. The male prisoners,
foreseeing immediate danger, held a con-
sultation and sent to the director of the
prison petition that he would telegraph
to the minister of the interior at st. Peters
burg requesting him to suspend the appli-
fused to pay the S SeelGG nhs ths Eo ad
upon the men warned him that the first
fiogging of a political prisoner would be the
signal for the Others to .z.ss-
COMMIT SUICIDE ToGETHER--a------
Three days afterward Lieut.. Gen: Baron
Korff sent a special order directing that
Madame Sicida be punished according to
the regulations, and the order was executed
to the fullest extent Madame Sicida was
stripped and received 100 lashes. She was
carried off bleeding and in an unconscious
condition, and her death ensued from a
rupture OF the heart. Her three compan-
ions committed suicide within an hour Of
the. time of hearing of Madame Sicida's
death. The corpses of the four
women were buried at the same
time in the courtyard of the common
offenders prison. For weeks a Gordon Of
vigilance was so closely maintained around
| the prison that nothing was known of what
was happening within. Since the secret
channel of information has been reopened
| it has been learned that the men carried out
the threat of suicide. They met together
and thirty of them shared what
poison they could obtain and then
went to their cells to- die
been smuggled into the prison was not suf
| ficient to kill quickly but i'll the course o
the evening two of those who had shared il
-Bobokoya and Kolujny-died. Theil
eonvulsions and the dead silence which
reigned the other cells reused thu
attention of the guards, and they immedi
ately summoned physicians who admin
ored by every means to counteract the ct
fects OF the poison.
PETITION TO THE czAR.
PHILADELPHIA, Special.-A largely at
tended meeting of the Siberian Exile Peti
ton association was held here to-day. Th'
form of petition to the car of Russia wa
agreed upon. 1t is the purpose of those in
les ofthe petition all over the United State
for signatures and to place the same in tn
hands of the czar. The petition, in sub
stance, is as follows:
To His Imperial Majesty, the Car of All tn
citizens of the United States of America. w
belong to people who have long been bound b
the national ties of sympathy and gratitude t.
the great Russian nation and to the czar
clothed with her majesty, who wfeld her powe
and shape her destiny. Sharing as the past ha
taught us to do in the thoughts that concer
the glory and happiness Of your people
| we have been moved to bring to you, with goo
greetings this petition: That your majesty wi
| personally take note of q widespread interest
among us, In the workings and effects of the s
IBERIA exile system. We do not forget the pens
reforms already accomplished in the Russia
empire We are not blind to the mental an
physical sufferings that of necessity are q par
of any system of punishment for crime agains
individuals, society or the state; nor are we III
mindful of the need OF reforms which al
actively engaging the attention {
with convicts. In this we are but giving el
preston to the feeling OF q friendly people, the
In the punishment of some OF her subjects, Ru
Eia, whether from causes peculiar to her peop
or on account of ancient custom, is not In a
points in harmony with the humanizing sent
ments of the age. Whether we err In this {
whether we are right, our wish Is that by I'll
wisdom and power of the czar and the favor
God Russia may continue to grow in the a.
miration and sympathy Of the American peopl
and Of the whole civilized world.
ADAM BURSTS.
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