Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-02
Cossack Troops Cut Down
People in Poland.
CLASHES MANY PLACES
PUBLIC AND PRESS INTENSELY
EXCITED OVER BLooDSHED.
Russian Authorities Felicitous Over
Fact-Rioting Was Less Form1d-
able Than Was Expected.

ST PETERSBURG, May 2.-Bad as was
the rioting at Warsaw, Lodz, kalisz and
other places In Poland, yesterday, ana
venomous as was the hostility everywhere
displayed against the police and the Rus
sian authorities, the uprising was far less
formidable and the results less bloody than
anticipated. The authorities had given due
warning of their intention to permit no
demonstrations, and the troops quelled the
disturbances ruthlessly. All reports, how
ever, indicate that the demonstrators were
comparat lively few in numeber; the vast
bulk of the population fearing trouble re-
manned in doors. Where trouble occurred
the crowds were armed with bombs and
revolvers
In Warsaw a red flag procession was dis
persed by two volleys, Cossacks and Uh-
lans then charging and cutting down the
people in the streets, driving them into
courtyards and beating them with SabreS
and whips in the cruel fashion peculiar to
these wild horsemen of the steppes. About
a hundred persons were killed or seriously
wounded, according to the reports women
and even children sharing the fate of the
men.
At Lodz workmen attacked the police
with bombs. and were charged by dra-
goons and Uhlans, who cut off the bomb
throwers, drove them into mouse, sur
rounded it and then fired upon those in
side. killing three persons aud wounding
many.
According to the reports which have
reached st. Petersburg from kal1sZ the
workmen there for a time had the upper
hand of the police and gendarmerie, dis
arming and stoning them until rescued by
a squadron of cavalry.
The early morning reports today say the
Polish press is intensely excited by yeSter-
days bloodshel, and it is feared the trou-
bic will be renewed.
Revolving Cruelty of Cossacks.
The only place in European Russia where
trouble occurred yesterday was at Minsk,
which, strictly speaking. belongs to Poland.
There also the reports received say there
was bomb throwing and firing upon Cos
sacks and patrols from windows, but the
fatalities were few.
Supplementary reports of the riotinS yes
terday just received confirm the earlier
Warsaw advces of the revolving cruelty of
the Cossacks and other troops. People
were driven into court yards and beaten
with the butts of rifles. some of them into
insensibility. The limbs of some of the vic
tins were broken The bomb thrown into
a Cossack patrol near the Vienna station,
Warsaw, struck the head of a Cossack's
horse. literally blowing the horse and rider
to atoms and killing two other Cossacks
and two women.
In Zombkoff street huSSars fired two vol
leyS into the crowd
At Lodz a woman. who was looking out
of window, was shot by a Cossack.
While practically there were no disturb
ances in the Jewish cities on the Polish
border of the southwestern Russia, dis
patches this morning say that the people
are in state of panic. The streets are
filled with moving patrols.
The mill owners at Byelostok south
western Russia, fed in fear of their lives.
The situation is especially strained at
Borisoff and Gomel, southwestern Russia.