The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-05-12
'RIOTING IN RUSSIA.
Many Stores Robbed and Valuable
Buildings Burned.
A NUMBER KILLED AID WOUNDED.

Manu- raoturers, Their Bookkcepers
ard the Jewish Rcsifients the Vic
tims-The Corpses Mutilated in a
Horrible Observation-Disclosures of the
Btrik ers Arrested.
ST. PETERSBURG, May 12.-Additional
details received from the scene of dis
orders chow that terrible state of af-
fairs has prevailed at Lodz. The dis
patches say that the strikers, besides
looting and demolishing valuable prop.
erty, set fire to the buildings, and that
only for the zeal displayed by the fire
brigades prevented the whole town
from being burned to the ground.
The united forces of the military and
police were powerless against the mob,
and were unable to prevent them from
offering violence to the manufacturers
of the place, the bookkeepers employed
in the factories and the Jevish residents.
These persons were nercilessly felled
and stabbed by the desperate rioters.
Ten of them were killed outright, and
100 were badly injured and had to be
carried to the hospital.
The bloodthirsty ferocity displayed by
the strikers in their attacks on those
who had incurred their enmity is shown
by an incident which was witnessed
during the heat of the rioting, A jew
had been assailed by crowd of the
strikers. He had been beaten and
stabbed and flung PROSTATE to the
ground, and was in imminent danger of
having the life crushed out Of him.
A policeman attracted to the scene by
the bowling of the mob and the cries
for help uttered by the victim forced his
way through the maddened crowd sur
rounding the unfortunate Jew and at
tempted to save the man from their
fury. He succeeded in lifting the Jews
bleeding form from the ground, and
with his arms about him tried to shield
him from blows aimed at him on every
side. All his efforts were of no avail,
however, for the ruthless mob closed in
on the two men, and the jew was beaten
to death with clubs as he clung to the
officer for the protection which he was
powerless to give.
The rioters were not content to murder
their victims, but even after death they
vented their hate on them by mutllating
the corpses in horrible manner
The Cossacks and other soldiers who
were sent to LODI to quell the disturb
ance appeared to take delight in the
scenes of blood which We're visible on
every hand, and took no trouble to avert
the terrible fate of the ;lss;liled jews.
All the rioters were maddened with
drink, and in the work of destruction of
,-%fe and property in which they were
engaged they seemed to have lost con
troll of themselves.
The newspapers do not contain a word
in reference to the riots on account of
the strict censorship which is exercised.
A large force of soldiers have been de-
tailed for duty in Lodz, and all the pro-
prietors of hotels and factories in the
town will have to pay heavily for mill
tary protection. The Cossacks weld
knouts with iron balls attached, and in
suppressing the disorders they are caus-
ing bloodshed everywhere with these
formidable weapons. Hundreds of the
strikers have been imprisoned in the
citadel.
General Gourko, governor of Warsaw,
which is seventy-tive miles from Lodz,
wired orders to the soldiers to take the
most stringent measures to put an end
to the acts of lawlossness, and in one of
bis messages he added the significant
sentence: Don't spare your cartridges" ="
WARSAW, May ~. The excitement
caused by the labor troubles at Lotlz,
and the attendant jew batting there
has not Yet abated, though there is no
fear of renewal of tine disorders The
nhSSoritics have taken active steps to
punish the rioters, and il il believed
that the punishment inflicted upon the
ringlcaderS will have salnturY effect
upon those who are inclined to make
trouble.