The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-25
lODz A SHAMELESS,
Warsaw /: N IN ARMS [ !: |.
Cars Troops Shoot
Down Men. Women
and Children.
|. ROBABLY 200 DEAD:
OVER | 900 INJURED.
Fighting Spirit Of People Aroused
and Danger Of More Blood
shed is Great-Mother and
Daughter Ruthlcssly
Shot Down BY
Cossacks.
(By Associated Press.)

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LODI, June 24-SInce the arrival OF
relnforcements this morning, the general
fighting In the city has stopped. but the
\ outbreak iB by no means quelled and
fresh collisions are expected momentarly.
The city resembles q shambles and the
4 terrible scenes OF the las two days will
never be wiped from the memory Of the
Polish people.
Altogether there are ten regiments en-
e camped in LODI.
Shooting was renewed this evening, Cos
sacks robblng the dead of Jewels and
X money. A factory owner named Neumann
!. has been snot by strikers.
People Aroused.
The fighting spirit Of the people IS
/ fully aroused. They have tasted blood
and want more Certainly the revolution
y airy spirit is abroad. and 1t ren1aino to be
q seen whether military measures will have
Il the same effect as previously.
To-day$sat Balnty, a suburb OF L.odz,
Il four COSTA cks were killed and sixteen
q others wounded BY a bomb which was
Z thrown into4the barracks. Twenty OF their
4 horses were killed. II
Occasional volleys are still fired by the
Il police or gendarmes In response to shot5
from houses.
The soldiers are showing what appears
4 they shot and killed two women, q mother
and her daughter.
The funerals Of victims OF the shooting
Fl Thursday and Friday took place to-day
surreptitiously In varlous outlying viii
4 lagos. es,ys 55s9 81
Probably 200 Killed.
1t is quite impossible to give the exact
4 number OF killed and wounded. as re-
y ports vary according to the quartersfrom
which they are obtained. Certainly the
5 killed number more than n hundred pos
X sibiy two hundred and the wounded five
{ times as many. An official report says
that the number OF casualties was
4 largely Increased by the neglect OF per-
sons to remain In doors and Of others
who insisted on looking out OF doors and
n windows who volleys we're being fired
q upon thesrioters by the soldiers Residents
OF the city say that they received no
III orders TO remain In doors.
The present trouble began at LODI last
Tuesday a fter the funeral OF the victims
of the conflict between troops and ter
y rorists the previous Sunday. The Chris
I tians were permitted to bury their dead.
Z but the Jews were prohibited from doing
10, and the police secretly Inferred the
bodies of the Jews at night which excited
Z Indignation, and terrorists' riots were in
& itiated Thursday. The most serious phase
3 OF the rioting developed when the crowd
deliberately spillaged liquor shops and
4 numbers OF persons. nflamed by drink
I led a crowd of at least $1,000 to further
and more serious attacks. Police and mill
z tary were attacked wherever they appear
ed In small force and many Individual
IA members were killed &
a After pllaglng the liquor shops the
u crowd set fire to them and prevented the
firemen from extinguishing the blazes
This was repeated deliberately at many
& places.
Girl Shot Down.
Friday the fury OF the mob found full
Il 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 box in the
3 market square and addressed an Inn
Fl rnense crowd.
s Suddenly the police appeared. fired
volley and the girl fell dead.
Market gardeners coming in were
stopped md their carts used In building
!. barricades. Wires were stretched in
front OF these barrcades and the cavalry
was unable to charge. Meanwhile the
4 mob had secured arms and revolvers
were freely used. Finally the military
secured the uppcrhand. but not without
ii COUSlQeIdDle gltSSeS W .LJelliSelVeSF ana
fearful slaughter to the rioters,
The soldiers exhibited the utmost care
4 lessness as to whether they killed peace
full persons or rioters, and as a conse-
quence men, women and children We're
among the dead.
Streets Resemble Battlefield.
The streets on Friday rcsembled
battlefield. The houses We're barrlcaded
with boards and mattresses and for
3 hours voleys and Individual firing were
i heard In every quarter OF the CITY,.
y Until late at night the Cossacks were
busy collecting bodies OF the dead and
picking up persons seriously wounded.
Il Tho bodies wero carried off In carts to
neighboring church yards. Hence the
impossibllity Of giving an accurate esti-
mate OF iEthe dead until order is COM
II pletely restored, If. In deed the fun
story is ever told, si