The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-03
TROOPS FIRE ON THOUSANDS.
RUSSIAN CATHOLICS SHOT DOWN
As THEY PARADE.

Soldiers Invade Cathedral and KIN woman
who sought Rsfuge There--WSraaW
Riots Continue and General strike
IL ORDERED There-POlAnd Il Aname.
spsesaI casss DsspafeAsS 10 TIE SrN.
st. PRTERsBUHO, May THE Vorsion
here Of the trouble at Kalisz, Russian
Poland, yesterday, IL that the troops hrod,
apparently without reason, upon a pro-
oession Of 1900 Roman Catholics, who
we're marching TO their cathedral, killing
and uounding several Troops also
entered the cathedral. where a woman wSs
praying. and shot her dead.
wARsAw, Russian Poland May 7.-As a
conseouence Of vest erdays bloodshed a
general strike was proclaimed to-day.
all the workmen in Poland being called
out.
The city apparently Is quiet to-day, but
the situation Ia grave. workmen are visit
ing tho factories and compelling the en-
ployees to strike.
After the bomb explosion AZ the Vienna
railway station last night the soldiers fired
upon the crowd, ldlling four and wounding
seven persons. All the windows In the
neighborhood were shattered by the eI-
plosion.
The bodies Of thirty persons killed in
zelSzna street yesterday afternoon still
await Identification.
The exact number Of dead In the city
Is not yet known. During the encounters
the troops not only fired volleys, but used
bayonets, swords and the butts Of their
their heads and limbs broken, their injuries
being OF the most terrible nature. Ten Of
the wounded who werS taken 70 the hos
pital have died.
In some cases the soldiers entered the
courtyards Of houses and attacked people
who were hiding there.
During an attack by a crowd upon a
Government liquor shop in the suburb Of
Praga. on the other side Of the vistula, last
night the troops fred two volleys into the
mob, killing two persons. Two soldiers
were wounded.
After q bomb explosion In I,od1 last
night n military patrol ired a volley at the
house in which the throWer Of the bomb
bad taken refuge, killing three Of the per
sons who lived In t. In another quarter
yesterday, during a disturbance. q wom-
an who was looking out Of 4 window was
killed
The number Of men on strike in LODI is
IS 600.
The cab and tramway services have been
resumed and other business IL proceeding,
but there Is an anxious air everywhere
Govern or General MAximovitoh says he
greatly regrets the events Of May day,
but the demonstrators were blamewoHhy
because they paraded in defiance OF polioe
orders and carried red banner with revolu-
tionsry inscriptions.
II is now learned that ffty-tWo persons
were killed yesterday, and nearly 300
wounded Of which ten have died In the hos
pitals. The populAce is dangerously AuEsred
and acts Of revenge are inevitable. Bitter
enmity has been aroused against the sol
diers and police and especially against the
military officers. All OF these who are
known TO the friends Of the victims are
marked for vengeance.
Troops still hold the streets and overaWe
the populaoe, who are not allowed 10 as
sembIe in groups on the thoroughfsres.
KAIIsE, Poland, May 2.-Durng a ,hurch
servios here yesterday the congregation
"a ng patriotic songs GendATmes and police
entered and attacked the singers. The
police had their weapons wreStSd from them
and dragon and q woman Wsre killed
In the hght.
LONDON, May S.--The Warsaw GORE
spondent Of the STANDARD says that the
revolutionists threaten to celebrate the
nniversATy Of the proclamation Of the
! dish constitution on Wednesday by ex-
Il r1ninating the CosSGck regiment that was
responsible for Mondays massacre. They
soy they have enough firearms and OK
plosives 20 enable them 10 carry out their
threat
Large crowds gathered outside the mill
tary morgue and demanded that they be adj
mitted to Identify thiTty-three bodies there.
Others besieged another place where there
we're twenty nine bodies. Not being adj
mitted they began battehng the door. A
riot was only Averted by the timely arrival
Of an order from the Governor 70 admit
them.