The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-10
THREATENS A new
ST. BARTHOLOMEW
Black Hundred" Plans General
Slaughter of the Jews and
Intellectuals.
SIGN OF DEATH ON
THE HOMES OF JEWS
Mutiny at Kronstadt Suppressed
After a Day Of Fright in
the Capital.

st. Petersburg, Nov. 16.-Stories are
being industriously circulated that
regular st. Bartholomew massacre of
the Jews and intellectuals has been
planned by the HBlack Hundredo of
St. Petersburg forsaturday night. 1t
is declared that all houses containing
Jews are marked by red cross.
While it is undoubtedly true that
the lower classes would like to be let
loose, no real danger is anticipated, as
the police have received the most rigid
instructions to suppress any attempt at
an uprising.
Count Witte has ordered a thoro in
vestigation of all the Jewish massa cres
and other disorders in the interior
where the police, troops, and officials
are charged either with melting, or
have all the offenders removed and pun
ished.
Quiet at Kronstadt.
All is quiet at Kronstadt today. The
mutinous sailors have all submitted and
the leaders, to the number of several
hundred, have been deported from the
island. The others are thoroly repent
ant. Troops are pouring into Kronstadt
| from all sections by water. Beside ma
chine guns, other street artillery and
a battery of quick firing field guns have
arrived there, and any further disorder
at present is utterly out of the ques-
! ton. = go S.s,
The mutineers andgrowdies gutted the
4 Tartar eand jew, markets, and on Paw
1 loft street, near the barracks, destroyed
ten modern business blocks and several
smaller stores. The fires burned them
selves out dnxiug the night and today
/ the buildings are only heaps of snlok-
! whole day. There was little attempt
! to check them, as the firemen shared
I in the general Decentralization and many
Of them became intoxicated.
/ The business streets sacked by the
rioters present a lively picture today.
: There are crowds of spectators on the
sidewalks watching the unfortunate
salVaging their property from these
heaps thrown into the streets and from
the wrecked interiors of stores. Patrols
mingling with all the crowds prevent
further robbery.
] There was no disorder during the
night.
/ st. Petersburg Alarmed.
This city was in Juror Of excitement
all of yesterday and late into the night
over the news Of the mutiny. Every
one of the exaggerated reports of the
! affair received credence I'M many quar-
ters. and half the inhabitants of the
capital believed that the mutiny was
successful; that the troops sent from
here had Joined in the revolution; that
the entire garrison of st. Petersburg
would follow suit today, and that the
town of Kronstadt had BEEN burned to
the ground, together with the Surround
4. ing forts.
; were, Of course, entirely false, @ but psr suf- f
ficient details have been received to
prove that about 5000 sailors and a
battalion Of artillerists from one of the
only put down by about 1000 Cossaeks
!: and troops of the imperial guard hastily
dispatched from st. Petersburg and
from the garrisons near Peterhof, and
that machine guns had to be employed.
j Before the arrival of the troops, the
liquor % plundered % ed from from the Msf spirit % shops, %
} had set fire to the market and several
groups Of houses.
Mutiny Crushed.
| The governor of Kronstadt tele-s
graphed the general staff at midnight
!. that the mutiny had been crushed; that
there was no likelihood of renewal
| Of the riot today; that reports to the
| effect that members of the guard had
joined the mutineers were false, and
, there was no truth in the reports that
:. the mutineers had seized the arsenal
7 and forts.
/. The correspondent of the Associated
, Press, who is on the ground, says the
3 officials estimate the casualties at 200,
which is certainly very conservative, in
view of the reports brought by refugees
who fled from the town to the mainland.
In Fear and Trembling.
/ At this critical juncture there is no
/ attempt made in governmental circles
/ to minimize the seriousness of the mu-
3 tiny and it is admitted that if a bat
terry of artillerists joined the sailors in
7 open revolt the mutinous spirit must
: have been contagious. It is also adj
e mitted that while the Cossacks and the
! guards stood the severe test of shoot
: ing upon their fellows in another branch
q Of the service, there is fear that the
mutiny will have a bad effect upon the
morale Of the troops, which already has
| been badly shaken by the revolution
:. ary propaganda.
& AS soon as the news of the mutlny
I was received here, the Seventeenth and
;, Eighteenth equipages of sailors of the
:. guard were locked in their barracks
), and the barracks were surrounded by
: Cossacks. The sailors were furious with
> rage and shouted from the windows
that they were ready to join their mu-
. tinous comrades.
f Saved the Treasury.
h During the rioting at Kronstadt the
4 government treasury there, which was
surrounded by deep moat, filed with
water, was only saved from the mot
by the removal of the bridges. Ethel.
bert Watts, the American consul gen
l. eral here, received the following dis
patch last night from Consular Agent
z Peter Wigius at Kronstadt:
I, ssSailors, aided by mob, commen-
rsl cling rioting here, and several houses
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