The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-02
MORE BLOOD MAY
FLOW IN WARSAW
Social Democrats Proclaim Cen
eral Strike as Result of
Yesterdays Tragedy.
Strike Down the Innocent and
Helpless in Their Fury with
Workmen.

y Warsaw, May 2.-Ihe commlttee OF
the social democratic party of Poland
land Lithuania has issued manifesto
2proclaiming a general strike and call
ing out all workmen Immediately IN con-
sequence of Yesterday s bloodshed.
The city is outwardly quiet this morn
ing, but the situation is grave. Work
men are going from factory to factory;
compelling their comrades to strike, amt
the probability of further conflicts
3arouses the keenest apprehension.
The bodies of the thirty odd persons
killed by the troops on Zalazna street
yesterday are still lying in the morgues
awaiting Identification. Ten, of the
wounded who were taken to hospitals
died Of their wounds.
Women and Children Wounded.
During the encounter on Jerusal lem
street, the troops not only fired a volley,
but used the butts Of their rifles and
their bayonets and swords. Many
women and children had their heads
the injuries were of a terrible nature,
and there were cases where the soldiers
enter the courtyards of houses and at
tackled those hiding there.
When the troops fred after the bomb
was thrown near the Vienna railroad
station, four persons were killed and
seven were wounded: All the windows
The bomb struck the head Of a Cos
sack horse, literally blowing the horse
and rider to atoms and killing two
other Cossacks and two women.
& Today the scene of last night's bomb
explosion is attracting immense crowds.
Blood Shed in Church.
/ At Kalisz, during q service in a
church yesterday, the congregation be-
gan singing patriotic songs, whereupOn
soldiers and police entered the building
and attacked the people, wounding
many Of them. A free fight ensued in
which weapons were wrested from the
police shots were exchanged and stones
were thrown. A dragon, woman and
a man were killed inside the church. a
squadron Of cavalry was summoned and
dispersed the crowds. The church was
closed for reconsecration.
There was an explosion in the police
station of Minsk yesterday evening, fol
lowing which a crowd fired on a detach,
ment of Cossacks. The latter replied
and order was soon restored.
81 The strikers at Lodz now number
$4,000.
At LODI a woman who was looking
out. of window, was shot by Cos
sack.
People in Panic.
While there were no serious distur
Polish border Of southwestern Russia
dispatches this morning say that thu
people are in a state of panic. TIL,
streets are filed with moving patrols
THE millowners at Bylostock, south
western Russia, fed in fear Of thei
lives.
The. situation. is especially straine,
ct Borisoff and Gomel, southwestern
Russia.
Troops Fire Into Crowds.
The first disturbances occurred yestel
day between l and 2 o'clock, when
procession of several thousand work
men, carrying red flags, marched alon
zelazna street. The demonstration wa
quite orderly and proceeded without me
Hesitation for some distance. Suddenl
several squadrons of Uhlans appeared
but without interfering with the pre-
icession, and took up a position alon
the sidewalks while the workmen passe
thru the lines. Then a company of il
5fantry approached from the front an
then immediately the cavalry charge
into the procession, driving the me
with the fiat Of their swords into a di
organized mass.
When the cavalry withdrew the il
fantry fired a volley, whereupon til
demonstrators turned and fed. Tb
infantry continued to discharge volley
into the retreating, shrieking multitude
Th1rty-one persons were killed outrigh
and many wounded.
Workmen Open Fire.
Another terrible scene was enacted q
3 O'Clock pm. at the corner of Zlot
and Sosnore streets, when workmen fire
from behind a wall at a patrol, whic
Immediately opened fire on the passin
crowds, killing or wounding twenty pc
sons.
Early in the afternoon disturbance
soroke out at the Zombowska gate {
the suburb of Praga, across the Vistu]
river. A great crowd had assemble
there, threatening the troops, when hui
sars fired upon the crowd and kille
four and wounded many others.
Several Killed at LODI.
It was reported by telephone fro1
LODI that a crowd there had stoned
military patrol, whereupon the soldier
/ fired and killed two men and wounde
boy. Later a similar scene occurre
an Balucki Square in LODI, when tW
persons were killed.
In LODI also at 9 'clock last night
bomb was thrown at a PATROL but it We
Il not effective. The patrol fred into tt
ID crowd and killed two and wounde
. three persons. A student who was di
tributing proclamations in VIOLA, a SUI
lrb of Warsaw, was killed by patrc
In Nawrot street, Warsaw, a pair
killed a woman.
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