The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-25
Fighting at LODI is Worst for
Many Years
WARSAW ALSO THREATENED
In Lodz Sixty Thousand Workmen,
Many of Them Armed, Defy the
Six Regiments of Sol
diers on Duty.

st. Petersburg. June 25, s:2O a. m.-st.
Petersburg Is without definite news of
the happenings on Friday and last night
at Lodz, and there is the keenest appre-
hension that Saturday may have been
marked by renewal of the battle of Fri
day, the dead of which are apparently to
be numbered by hundreds.
Nothing approaching the disorders which
passed far beyond the scale of recent
demonstrations and approached the dig
nifty of actual insurrection, recalling the
days of the commune In Paris, has been
recorded in Russia since the street fight
ing at Warsaw during the Polish revolu-
tions Of 1880 and 1868. The events of Jan-
uary % in st. Petersburg, red Sunday"
were merely the dispersal of unarmed
crowds by soldiers; but at LODI the troops
were desperately opposed by an army of
go, 600 workmen, many armed with re-
volvers, defending substantial barricades
with bulelts and showers of paving stones
and other missiles and even bombs.
Troops Have Great Task.
The Industrial quarters were apparently
largely in the hands of the manifestants
and the task of the troops was akin to
that of the Russian soldiers in the war
in Turkestan, which towns had to be
stormed street by street. almost house to
house
The demolition of the barracks at Lodz
required regular sapper work under the
fire of revolvers and showers or missiles
from windows of houses and by which
the troops suffered heavily. The military
governor had at his disposal four regi-
ments of infantry and two of cavalry.
The last barricades were taken at
| o'clock Saturday morning.
Killed Number Several Hundred.
A dispatch by way of Warsaw names
the number of claim indefinitely at "sev-
eral hundred worlSmen and sixty sol
diers. but no definite statement has yet
been received, another dispatch direct
from Lodz giving forty dead being ad-
mittedly incomplete.
An outbreak similar in nature to that at
Lodz is threatened at Warsaw where the
industrial population is much larger. and
bitterness and resentment equally wide
spread as at Lodz.
A dispatch last night from Warsaw re-
ported the fear of bloodshed. 1t said the
workmen were gathering in large crowds
and assuming a menacing attitude. The
revolutionists had accumulated a consid-
erable stock of bombs at Warsaw and
expected to employ them at every oppor-
tunity against the Cossacks and infantry.
their carts used in building barricades.
Wires were stretched in front of these
barricades and the cavalry were unable
to charge. Meanwhile the mob had Sc
cured arms and revolvers were freely
used.
The soldiers exhibited the utmost care
lessness as to whether they killed peace
full persons or rioters, and as a conse-
quence. many women and children were
among the dead. The streets on Friday
resembled a battlefield. The houses were
barricaded with boards and mattresses
and for hours volleys and individual firing
were heard in every quarter of the city.
Until late at night the Cossacks were
busy picking up persons badly wounded.
The dead bodies were carried off in carts
to neighboring church yards. Hence the
impossibility of giving an accurate esti-
mate of the dead until order is complete
ly restored, If indeed the full story is
ever told
Terrorists are energetically fomenting
agitation among the soldiers by distribut-
ing revolutionary proclamations and
pamphlets but their efforts are without
effect.
Shooting was renewed this evening. Co.'S
sacks are robbing the dead of jewels and
money.
been shot by strikers.