Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-25
MORE REGIMENTS
ARE RUSHED
TO LODI
City Streets Resemble
Shambles
Revolutionary Spirit Is
Rampant
Soldiers Accused of Much
Cruelty
Riots Alleged to Have Been Originally
Started by Authorities Refusing
Jews Permission to Bury
Their Dead

BY Associated t'reSS.
LODI, June 24.-Since the arrival of
the reinforcements this morning ac-
tual fighting in the city has stopped,
but the outbreak is by no means
quelled, and fresh collisions are ex-
pected momentarily. The city resem-
bles a shamble and the terrible scenes
of the last two days will never be
wiped from the memory of the Polish
people. Altogether ten regiments are
encamped in Lodz.
The fighting spirit of the people is
fully aroused. They have tasted blood
and want more Certainly the revolu-
ton is abroad, and it remains to be
seen whether military measures will
have the same effect as previously.
Today at Baluty, a suburb of LODI,
four Cossacks were killed and sixteen
others wounded by a bomb which was
thrown into their barracks. Twenty
three of their horses We're killed.
Occasional volleys are still fired by
nolice or gendarmes IN response to
shots from houses.
The soldiers are showing what APP
pears to be wanton cruelty. Late this
afternoon they shot and killed two
women, a mother and her daughter.
The funerals of the victims Of the
shooting of Thursday and Friday took
place today, surreptitiously, in various
outlying villages.
An official report says the number of
casualties was largely increased by the
neglect of persons to remain indoors
others, who insisted on looking out OF
doors and windows when volleys were
being fired upon the rioters by the SOL
diers were arrested. Residents of the
city say that they received no orders to
remain indoors.
Might Not Bury Their Dead
The present trouble began at Lodz
last Tuesday after the funeral of the
victims of the conflict between troops
and terrorists the previous Sunday. The
Christians were permitted to bury their
dead but the Jews were prohibited from
doing so, and the police secretly in
tered the bodies of the Jews at night.
This excited intense Indignation and
terrorist riots were initiated Thursday.
The most serious phase of the rioting
developed when the crowd deliberately
pillaged liquor shops, and numbers of
persons, infiamed by drink, led
a crowd of at least fifty thousand to
further and more serious attacks
Police and military were attacked
wherever they appeared in small force,
and many individual members were
killed.
After pillaging the liquor shops the
crowd set fire to them and prevented
the firemen from extinguishing the
flames. This was repeated deliberately
at many places.
On Friday the fury of the mob found
full vent and even children. caught by
the contagion, were seen kissing red
flags and heard swearing that they were
ready to die for liberty. A Jewish girl
mounted big box in the market square
and addressed an immense crowd
Suddenly the police appeared, fired a
volley and the girl fell dead.
Market gardeners coming in were
stopped and their cars used in building
barricades. Wires were stretched In
front of these barricades and the cav
airy were unable to charge. Meanwhile
the mob had secured arms. and revol-
vers were freely used.
Finally the military secured the up
per hand, but not without considerable
losses to themselves and fearful
slaughter to the rioters. The soldiers
exhibited the utmost carelessness as to
whether they killed peaceful persons
or rioters. and, as a consequence, many
women and children were among the
dead.
The streets on Friday resembled a
battlefield. The houses were barri-
caded with boards and mattresses and
for hours volleys and individual shots
were heard in every quarter of the
city. Until late the Cossacks were
busy collecting bodies of the dead and
picking up persons seriously wound
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