The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-30
TASTE BLOOD
AND Want MORE
ALL "RED SUNDAY" HORRORS
ARE SURPASSED BY SCENES
AT LODI.
CITY RESEMBLES SHAMELESS
GIVEN UP TO BLooDsHED, AND
ANARCHY AND STREET FIGHT
ING PREVAIL.
CITY RESEMBLES SHAMELESS
WANT0N BUTCHERY BY TROOPS
TERRIBLE SCE,.GS WILL NEVER
BE WIPED FROM MEMORY
OF POLES.

| LODI. June 27-Since the arrival of
| reinforcements actual fighting in the
| city has stopped. but the outbreak is
| by no means quelled, and fresh col
+, lisions are expected momentarily.
The city resembles shambles, and
| days will never be wiped from the
memory of the Polish people. Alto
gether there are ten regiments en-
camped at LODI. The fighting spirit
of the people is fully aroused. They
have tasted blood and want more.
AT Baluty. a suburb of LODI, four
Cossacks were killed and sixteen
others wounded by bomb which was
J thrown into their barracks.
Show Wanton Cruelty.
| The soldiers are showing what APP
pears to be wanton cruelty. Late yes
terday afternoon they shot and killed
| two women, mother and her daugh-
i ter.
1t is quite impossible to give the ex-
act number of killed and wounded. as
reports vary according to the quarter
! from which they are obtained. Ger
tainly the killed number more than a
hundred possibly two hundred, and
the wounded five times as many.
| Worse Than "Red Sunday"
"Black Friday" in LODI surpassed
all the horrors of Red Sunday" in ST.
/ Petersburg. While it is not possible
/ to ascertain the exact number of
victims, estimates place the killed
and wounded as high as 1000. All the
hospitals of the city are filled to over
flowing.
| The rioters Sunday morning at.
tempted to fire the government Offices,
but were scattered by strong force
of troops.
The troubles here were initiated by
the Social Democrats and Jewish
bund, who determined to avenge their
comrades killed in the rioting of
Wednesday.
Thursday, the feast of Corpus
Christi. passed off quietly, but during
the night workmen attacked the pa.
trolls. In this fighting two officers and
seven Cossacks were killed. One OF
the latter was shot by a girl thirteen
years old.
Day of Bloody Terror.
At dawn Friday commenced a day of
terror.
The city was given up to bloodshed
Anarchy and fierce fighting prevailed
all day. Barricades were hulriedly
: constructed in the Jewish quarter at
dawn. Early in the day two bombs
were thrown from the crowd into the
barracks. killing or wounding twenty
soldiers. This started the shedding of
blood, which continued after nightfall
At II o'clock all the factory hands
struck and flocked into the streets
Cossacks, dragons and infantry
charged the dense, surging mobs time
! after time. firing
VoIIey After Volley
into the serried masses. The rioters
later replied with revolvers in the
streets and from windows.
Some dashed vitriol from points OF
vantage onto the troops below The
burning fluid drove it's victims into a
frenzy and led to scenes of a terrible
character.
Terrorists are energetically TO
menting agitation among the soldiers
by distributing revolutionary procla
nations and pamphlets, but their eff
forts are of little effect.
Recalls Days Of Commune"
Nothing approaching the disorders
which passed far beyond the scale OF
recent demonstrations and approx
mated the dignity of actual insurrec
ton, recalling the days of the Com
mune" in Paris, has been recorded in
Russia since the street fighting al
Warsaw during the Polish revolutions
of 1890 and 1868. The events Of Jan
% in st. Petersburg. Red Sunday
were merely the dispersal of unarmed
crowds by soldiers; but at LODI the
troops were desperately opposed by an
army of 10000 workingmen. many
armed with revolvers, defending sub
stantial barricades with bullets and
showers of paving stones and other
missiles, and even bombs
Terrible. indeed, is the plight of the
wounded. for medical aid is unobtain
able and many are dying for lack
thereof.
The most serious phase of the fight
between the military and strikers is al
an end. but there are still isolated at
tacks in the suburbs.
| At Baluty yesterday morning Cos
sacks attacked Jewish family of five
persons who were driving in cab a,
the station and shot and killed all, in
Guiding the cabman.
J At Pabjanice, near LODI. workmen
attacked two policemen and shot and
killed one and wounded the other.