Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-05-05
TERROR RE|CNS
IN WARSAW
Nearly One Hundred Killed
and Wounded in
Trouble.
TROOPS ARE UNCOMFORTABLE
Violate All Orders to Act With Mod.
Grafton - Procession Of Several
Thousand Laborers is Fired Upon
BY Troops Of the Gear.

!. Warsaw, May 2.--Nearly one hun.
dred persons were killed or wounded
in disturbances in various parts OF
Warsaw yesterday. The troops ap
parently were uncomfortable and
violated all orders to. act witt. moder.
alton. They fired into crowds OF
demonstrators and workmen in re.
taliaton rcsorted to the use Of fire.
arms and DOHibs. Mdi.y HUmCn anG
children are among the dead and dy
ing. What approaches reign Of
terror exists, the City presents most
gloomy aspect and the temper Of the
entire community augers i'll.
May day opened with every pros
pect that the recent gloomy forehod'
ings would find contradiction in a
peaceful ending. Glorious weather
.ushercd in the beginning of the cele'
brations and all factories. shops and
offices, Of every description were
closed. The presence of numerous
patrols of Cossacks cavalry and in
fantry were only reminders of Turk
ing danger.
The first disturbance occurred be-
tween l and 2 o'clock in the after
noon, and a procession of several
THOUSAND workmen carrying red
flags marched along Zalazna street.
The demonstration was quite orderly
and proceeded without molestation
for some distance. Suddenly several
squadrons of Uhlans appeared. but
without interfering with the process
sion took up a position along the
sidewalks, while the workmen passed
Of infantry approached from the
front and Immediately the cavalry
charged into the procession, driving
it with the fiat Of their swords into q
disorganized mass. When the cav.
airy withdrew the infantry fired
volley, whereupon the demonstrators
turned and fled. The infantry contin'
ued to discharge volleys into the re-
treating. shrieking multitudes. Thlr'
ty-one persons were killed and many
wounded, and of the latter it is be-
lieved that fifteen will die.
The shooting is described as hav'
ing been quite unprovoked. 1t has
aroused the most intense indignation
among all classes in Warsaw. Many
Of those who were killed or wounded
we're shot in the back, showing that
they were running away when they
were struck.
Another TERRIBLE scene was en-
acted at 5 p. m. at the corner CT
Zlota and Sosnore streets when
workmen fired from behind wall at
a patrol which Immediately orened
fire on the passing crowds, killing or
wonnding twenty persons.
The first bomb throwing occurred
at 9:35 o'clock last night when
bomb was thrown into Cossack pa
troll near the Vienna station. Three
Cossacks and one policeman were
killed and two women, who were leaV'
ing the station at the time were Sc
verely wounded by the explosion OF
the bomb. Cossacks and infantry
fired a number Of volleys and it ls
reported that many persons were
killed or wounded Troops sur
rounded the whole neighborhCod. 1t
Las been impossible up to the pres
eut time to secure accurate informa'
ton as to the casualties in this az
fair. At 1920 o'clock disturbances
broke out at the Zombkowska gate
of the suburb of Praga, across the
Vistula river. A great crowd had
assembled there, threatening the
troops. when hussars fired uron the
crowd and killed four and wounded
many others.
Warsaw, May 3.-The industrial
population is deeply eXasperated over
the sanguinary results of Mondays
encounters. The strikes inaugurated
on a large scale here, at LODI and
in other cities are rapidly spreading
and $4,000 persons are on strike IN
LODI. Cossacks are patrolling the
streets of Warsaw by companies on
account of the danger to smaller de-
tachments.
A great crowd which gathered yes
terday in front Of the police station
to which the corpses of those killed
on Monday had been taken demanded
the bodies of their dead, but was dis
persed by Cossacks.
According to an official statement.
the dead, not including those of the
wounded who died in hospitals, num-
her thirty-one. The majority of the
dead were working people.
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