Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-20
JOCKEY TELLS OF HORRORS
j. C. Mitchell Describes the Butchery
in Warsaw
n Associated Press.

by Associated I'1eSS.
NEW YORK, Dec. 19.--After wit
Messing II days of the Russian revo-
luton In Warsaw, after seeing hun
dreds struck down by CossaclSs and
after having felt two bombs explode in
the room under him at his hotel, the
American jockey, J. G. Mitchell, fed
from Russia. He arrived here today
on the steamer Blucher. Mitchell has
been in Russia while under contract
with Baron Slower.
IT have had all l want Of Russia"
he said today. THE Cossacks are hu-
man devils, without one thought be-
yond killing. I saw them charge into
a crowd of five thousand persons in
Warsaw. They used their knouts and
pistols and swung their swords at
every head within reach.
IL stayed at the Bristol hotel in
Warsaw and from November IL to No
vember II, during the great strike
there were no cooks in the hotel. The
night of November 10 l was playing
billiards in the billiard room on the
second floor. We heard a great shout
from the outside. but this had become
so usual that we paid no attention to
it. Suddenly there was a fusillade Of
shots and a crashing of plate glass,
then cries of anger from men and
shrieks from women from the cafe
below.
1--WE ran to the head of the stairs
and saw men and women rushing from
the place. Some dashed up the stairs
and others back through to the hall to
the rear. While we stood there a bomb
was thrown into the cafe and ex-
ploded, wrecl<ing the ground floor;
Another bomb quickly followed and
the whole building seemed to shake.
Before the sound of the explosion
had died away the crowd had swarmed
through the windows and a break in
the wall, and we heard the crashing
of china and chairs and the breaking
of tables. The crowd had begun to
think of the upper stories and we
thought. of some way to escape, when
we heard that indescribable yell of the
Cossacks. Then came a charge Of
cavalry, the cries of the wounded, the
crack of revolvers, the impact of
horses against a living wall of people,
which yielded with a sickening sound
give hundred Cossacks literally
cleared their way through the crowd.
Some rode their horses through the
did not flee. Gradually quiet was re-
stored.
1.-The official statement issued showed
three killed, hut three carloads of dead
bodies were taken away.
"A few days after this I was in the
American bar, which faces on park
square, where there was meeting of
workmen. There were fully 5000 crowd
ed in the place when the Cossacks
charged and cleared the park. The
Cossacks were fired upon and several
were wounded, and this appeared to
drive them to fury, for they used their
sabers freely. The place resembled a
shambles.
Some of the workmen rushed back
and caught up the body of one of their
dead comrades and threw it into a
wheelbarrow with the legs dangling
over the front. The crowd then parad-
ed through the streets singing revo-
lutionary songs, with the dead man
wheeled in the lead. 1t took me two
hours to get out of the crowd.
after this I went to st. Petersburg.
On December it was impossible to
get telegram or a letter out of St.
Petersburg. The only way was to give
your message to a conductor on rail-
way and pay him well to mail it at
some point out of Russian territory"