The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-27


reinforcements this morning actual
fighting in the city has stopped, but
the outbreak is by no means quelled
and fresh collisions are expected mo.
mentarily. The shambles and the ter
rible scenes of the last two days will
never >be wiped from the memory Of
the Polish people. Altogether there
are ten regiments encamped in LODI.
The fighting spirit of the people is
fully aroused. They have tasted
blood and want more. Certainly the
revolutionary spirit is abroad, and it
remains to be seen whether military
measures will have the same effect as
previously.
Today at Baluty,a suburb of Lodz,
four COssacks were killed and seven
others wounded by a bomb which was
thrown into the barracks. Twenty of
their horses We're killed.
Occasional volleys are still fired by
the police Or gendarmes In response TO
shots from houses
The soldiers are showing what an
pears to be wanton cruelty. Late this
afternoon they shot and killed two wo-
men, and mother and her daughter
The funerals of victims of the shoot
ing Thursday and Friday took place
today surreptitiously in various outly-
ing villages.
1t is quite impossible to give the ex-
act number of killed an dwounded as
reports vary, according to the quarter
from which they are obtained. Ger
tainly the killed number more than a
hundred, possibly two hundred, and
the wounded five times at many. Ali
official says that the number of casual
ties was largely increased by the neg
lect of persons to remain in doors, and
of doors and windows when volleys
act number of killed and wounded as
were being fired upon the rioters by
the soldiers. Residents of the city say
that they received no orders to remain
in doors.
The present trouble began at Lodz
Tuesday.
The Christians were permitted to
bury their dead, but the Jews were
prohibited from doing so, and the po
lice secretly inferred the bodies of the
Jews at night, which excited indigna
ton and terrOristS' riots were initlat
ed Thursday. The most serious phase
of the rioting developed when the
crowd deliberately pillaged liquor ships
and numbers of persons, infiamed by
drink, led a crowd of at least $4,000 to
further and more serious attacks. FO-
lice and military were attacked wher-
ever they appeared in small force and
many individual members were killed.
After pillaging the liquor shops the
crowd set fire to them and prevented
TIE firemen from eXtingulshing the
hiaZes. This was repeated deliberately
at many places. Friday the fury of
the mob found full vent, and even
children, caught by the cotagior were
seen kissing red flags and heard
swearing that they were ready to die
for liberty. A Jewish girl mounted a
box in the market square and ad-
dressed an immense crowd.
Suddenly the police appeared, fired
v0lley, and the girl fell dead. Market
gardeners coming in were stopped anu
their carts used in building barricadeS
and the cavalry was unable to charge.
Meanwhile the mob had secured arms
and revolvers We're freely used. FL
nally the military secured the upper
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 per
sons or rioters, and as a consequence
many women and children were among
the dead. The streets on Friday re-
sembled Il battlefield. The houses
We're barricadd with boards and mat
tresses and for hours volleys and in
dividual firing were heard in every
quarter of the city. Until late at
night the Cossacks were busy collect
ing bodies Of the dead and picking up
persons seriously wounded The bod
les were carried off in carts to neigh
boring church yards. Hence the I'M
possibility of giving an accurate estl-
mate of the dead until order is COM