Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-28
TUMULT I'm RUSSIA
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sion on that occasion, which completely
wrecked two rooms. blowing the body OF
kazanof almost to atoms, severing ms
head and arms from the trunk, the heads
the explosive was identical with that used
in todays tragedy. which was also
caused by bomb or internal machine of
similar power WITH that of the former
plot and that the perpetrator was the
man who escaped at that time.
Explosive Bullets in Bomb.
AS further indication of the identity of
the tragedy with the Hotel du Nord af-
fair, there were in each case explosive
bullets in the bomb
1t Is reported that six men are impli-
Gated and that five of them fed into a lit
tie hotel adjoining the scene of the
sassinatfon the only one who was wound
ed having been captured The hotel was
surrounded by the police and all it's in
mates were arrested.
The wounded man. who is said to be
Jew. was taken to the Alexander Hos
pital SO dazed as to be unable to speak.
his cOnoltlon was accounted for by the
fact that he took poison Immediately af-
ter throwing the bomb
Followed by Secret Service Men.
The deceased minister's carriage was
being followed by secret service men on
bicycles. but by miracle not one Of them
was injured.
Inc force OF the explosion was so tre-
mendous that all the windows of a hotel
facing the street were blown in, and even
some Of the large panes of the Warsaw
station, a hundred steps away, were shat
tered Some of the drosky drivers at the
CAB stand In front of the station were in
jured
According to a later account the bomb
was thrown from a window of the Warsaw
notel. Won flehves head was torn off,
the lower portion was completely shattered,
but the upper part was untouched. There
were two conspirators according to this
version, one of whom threw the bomb from
the window and then bOlted. When cap
tured another bomb is said to have been
found in his pocket
Street Guarded by Police.
A heap of debris from the carriage, por-
tion of the coachmans uniform, mute and
pitiable relics of the tragedy, were still
lying In Zabalansky street, where the crime
was committed when the correspondent OF
the Associated Press again returned to the
spot this afternoon. For block either side
or the street was guarded by police and no
one was allowed to approach.
Even in the midst of the CONSERVATION
produced by the tragedy everybody is talk
ing OF Won Plehve's probable successor
Won PlehVe'S assassination was officially
announced at about l o'clock and was fol-
lowed Immediately by the issuance of extra
editions OF the papers. Although they con-
tanned only four lines referring to the trag
edy, the newsboys were fairly mobbed by
the crowds in the streets, SO eager were all
for the details of the crime. Intense ex-
element reigned everywhere. Only the
sassination of the emperor could have
created more of a sensation, as next to his
majesty himself Won Plehve was regarded
as the most powerful personality in the
Russian government.
Festivities Countermanded.
1t transpires that Won Plehve was on his
way to Krasnoye Selo sixteen miles south
west of st. Petersburg, where the Grand
Duke Vladimirs birthday was to be cele-
brated. The emperor is. still at the Peter
hof palace. When the news received
all the festivities of the day were of course
Immediately countermanded, and instead a
requiem service was held. When the re-
mains of Won Plehve reached his residence
requiem mass was celebrated in the pri-
vate chapel. Another one will be celebrated
tonight and two masses will be celebrated
daily until the funeral service occurs