The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-06-28
THE POPULATION OF LODI
HAS A SEVERE BATTLE
WITH TROOPS.
Thousands Are Slain-Eniaged at
Slaughter of Socialist Marches,
People Unite in Desperate
Outbreak-Dead Fill
tbs Streets-Bombs
Were Thrown.

were DrOWn.
Lodz, Russian P Poland, June "a
Yesterday, "Black Friday" in Lodz
surpassed all the horrors of Red
Sunday" in st. Petersburg. While
is not yet possible to ascertain
the exact number of the victims,
estimates place the killed and
wounded as high as 1000.
The troubles here were initiated
by the social democrats and Jewish
bund, who determined to avenge
their comrades killed in the rioting
on Wednesday,.
Thursday the feast of Corpus
Christi passed off quietly, but dur
ing the night workmen attacked the
patrol. In this fighting two officers
and seven Cossacks were killed.
One Of the latter was shot by girl
of 13 yesrs.
Friday was day of terror. The
city was given up to bloodshed.
Anarchy and fierce street fighting
prevailed all day. Barrfcades were
hurriedly constructed in the Jewish
quarter at dawn. Men climbed to
| the roofs of houses. cutting tele-
phone and telegraph wires to use
for entanglements III the streets,
while others cut down telegraph
Ipo1es and used them in strengthen
Ing their barricades which already
had been constructed and in build
ing others.
EARLY in the day two bombs were
|throNa from the crowd into the
lbarracksr killing or wounding 20
soldiers.
THIS started the shedding OF
hiood (which continued until after
|pIghtfafl.
At II o'clock all the factory
lands struck and focked into the
streets. Cossacks. Drrgoons and
infantry charged the dense, surg.
ling mobs time after time, firing vol
Hey after volley into the serried
q mass. The rioters later replied
! with revolvers, while their COM
| 3fades on roofs and in windows join
ed in the fusilade. Some dashed
| vitriol from points of vantage upon
| the troopers in the streets below,
The burning fluid drove its victims
into frenzy and led to scenes of a
terrihle character.
i Fighting continued throughout
the day, and only diminished in its
intensity at nightfall, when the city
was plunged into utter darkness, as
!, practically all the street lamps had
been destroyed. Even then occa.
sional volleys and isolated rifle shots
were heard in different quarters, ths
: troops having received orders t.
shoot any person appearing in tn
t streets.
) The dead were carried off in mil
itary wagons, the troops acting a
8 undertakers. But this morning.
: many dead and wounded were ly
: ing in the streets and coultyards
e Terrible, indeed is the plight Q
o the wounded, for medical aid is un
Y obtafBable, and they are dying fo
Q 1.-THE lack thereof.
vi There was renewal of bloodshe
d this morning. A regiment of drs
: eosns and one Of infantry hav
s been ordered hence of Warsaw.
q New York, June 23.-A Ne,
@ York agent for one of the big Amer
L Iican firms which has extensive ir
d terests in the Far East, including
le branch at Port Arthur, said toda
if that he did not look for any seriou
& glcomplications as a result of the al
q ton of the Japanese government i
ordering foreign merchants frol
y Port Arthur. He said the Japar
IS ese mercy are doing what it ha
.. been the intention of the Russia
l. government to do at some futur
lg time, and that not only foreign b,
d native merchants are affected b
X by the decree.
ID The Russian plan was to NAL
# Port Arthur purely fortress and
ID build up a great commercial city
o. Dalny, only short distance ava
g, He said that while some of the fo
r. leign commercial houses at Port A
thar might have had immen
stocks of goods on hand before t
be beginning of the war, undoubted
the amount was reduced far bele
normal during the siege, and tn
be therefore the order would entail
great hardship.