The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-25
HUNDREDS ARE SLAIN.
Innocent Bystanders Fall Under
Fire Of the Cossacks.
EiolinE Begins In LODI and Spreads to
Warsaw-InfernaI Machines Used
Against Men on Horseback Troops
Charge Against the Barricades In
the Streets-Troublr starts Between
the Employees and the Viii Owners.
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spft'Gi cable Despatch fo THE SUS
1opz. Russian Poland, June pa bomb
was thrown into the barracks at Raluty,
A suburb Of LODI, to-day. and four cossacks
were killed and sixteen seriously wounded.
Twenty-three horses were killed The
rerson who threw the bomb escaped.
Isolated cases of shooting continue.
man standing in the window Of house
opened fire with a revolver on patrol,
killing one man. The patrol thereupon
fred a Wiley into the house, killing four
men and two women and wounding twelve.
Another patrol killed a mother and her
daughter in the street. Such incidents
have been of frequent occurrence.
MORE THAN 1000 CAST AITIEs.
Yesterdays scenes were of the most
terrible description. Fighting between the
troops and the mob continued all day,
nigh. when the city was plunged into
total darkness. owing to the strike Of work.
men at the Illuminating plants.
It is impossible as yet to ascertain the
number of casualties, but they will prob
ably exceed 1900.
Rioting on a large scale began on Thurs
day night, when two officers and seven
cossacks were shot.
All that night the mob worked OF erect
ing barbados in the streets. In the morn
ing telegraph and telephone poles were
chopped down and the wires stretched
nom building to building so as to form
additional barriers TO the movement OF the
soldiers.
The troops attacked the harricades.
charging repeatedly and firing continual
volleys at their defenders. Workmen re-
Piled with reviewers from doors windows
and roofs, some even pouring vitriol on the
heads of the soldiers in the street below.
Many of the victims were mere onlookers.
Others were innocent wayfarers. No warn
Ing was given the people by the authorities
to keep indoors or not to appear at win
dows. After the troops got to work they
shot at sight any civilian who was to be
seen either at window. in doorway,
on balcony or in the street Among the
killed was factory owner
BOMB THROWN IN WARSAW.
WARSAW, June 24.-Rioting was begun
here this evening. A procession carrying
red flags, which had been organized by
Socialists, was stopped by mounted gen.
darmes on Wronia street and told to dis
perse. While arguing the question one of
the men in the procession threw bomb,
killing horse and wounding two gen.
darmes. The bomb thrower made his
escape.
The gendarmes then charged the crowd,
which offered resistance. The number of
rioters constantly increased, and finally
the troops were called out. They fired
two volleys into the crowd. wounding
several. The shopkeepers hastily put their
shutters up.
A detective was found among the crowd
who had been shot in six places and also
stabbed.
TROOPS SENT TO LODE,
An infantry regiment and regiment
LODI to-day to reinforce the garrison at
that place.
Telephone communication with LODI
was restored to-day. The latest reports
are that 100 persons were killed in the street
fighting yesterday. Forty-one died In the
hospitals last night.
The hospitals are filled with wounded
persons, many being compelled to lie upon
the floor. The Ambulance Society at
tended 800 slightly wounded persons.
There were eighteen casualties to-day
by noon. The rioters tried to set fire to
the Government offices.
A general strike OF workmen commenced
here this morning.
HOW THE TROUBLE STARTED.
LODI is town OF Russian Poland
In the province Of Piotrokow. 1t
les forty miles by rail to the north
Of the chief town OF the province, on
branch railway Of the line between
Warsaw and Vienna. Only a small ham,
let with 80 inhabitants in 1921. when
its WOODEN manufactures were first in
troduoed by Germans. 1t Is now the
second town Of Poland, both in population
and the importance Of its cotton mills,
the annual production of which
amounts to valus of considerably
moro than fl7s,ooo that Is, fve-sixths OF
the whole cotton prod ;otion in Poland.
This as we'll as the other less in
portant industries Of the place, WOODEN
cloth manufacture, dyeing and Sd on.
ia chiefly in the hands Of Germans. AMI
thus the German language predominates in
the town.
Lodz still maintains its village character