The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-06-27
FATAL RIOTS I'M POLAND
Wan:on craelty Of Russian Soldiers
Adds to the Horrors.
Charges Made By cossauss and Infantry,
and Eepeated voiIoys Fired Into
sIle Masses OF Humanity.

I.odz, Russian Poland. The most Sc
rious phase o. the fighting between the
military and strikers is at All end, but
thega are still isolated attacks in the
suburbs. st BaIuty CosSacks III
tackled jewish family Of five per-
sons who We're diving in cab 10 the
railway station anu shot and killed all
CT them, as we'll as the cabman.
At Pabjanice. near LODI, workmen
attacked two policemen and shot and
Killed one and wounded the other.
There is a general exodus from LODI.
Twelve thousand persons haze already
left the city, and all trains are
crowded
In the disturbances thirty -fiye Gov
crnment liquor stores were destroy ed
by the mobs, which appropriated all
the cash and stamps found on The
premises aud added them to the funds
of the Socialist party
Prominent citizens te;cgraphed to
General Shusrow, commanding the
troops, asking f3i protection against
lie brutality of the soldiers, especially
The ('ossacks. wh3 in one instance
Killed and robbed tine servant OF
wealthy man named Rosenhlatt, who
was carrying 5000 TO the bank.
TIC city resembles shambles, aud
the terrible scenes OF the last two days
will never be wiped from the memory
OF the Polish people. Altogether there
arc ten regiments cncamped In Lodz.
AT Baluty, 4 suburb OF Lodz. four
Cossacks were killed and sixteen
wounded by a bomb, which was
thrown into their barracks Twenty
three of their horses were Killed.
The soldiers are showing what APP
pears to be wanton cruelty. Late in
the afternoon they shot ana killed two
wcnlen-a mother and her daughter.
II is quite impossible to give the eS-
act number of Killed and Of wounded,
us reports vary according to the quar-
ter from which they are obtained. Ger
tainly the killed will be over q hun
dred, possibly two hundred, and the
wounded five times as many
The present trouble began at Louz
after the funeral of the victims of the
conflict between troops and Socialists
the previous Sunday. The Christians
were permitted TO bury their dead, but
| the Jews were prohibited from doing
so and the police secretly inferred the
! bodies of the Jews at night, which ex-
cited indignation, and Socialist riots
were initiated. The most serious phase
of it was when the crowd deliberately
pillaged liquor shops and numbers of
persons. infiamed by drink, led crowd
of at least 10000 to further and more
serious attacks Police and military
were attacked wherever they appeared
in small force and many Individual
members were killed
The fury of the mob found full vent.
and even children. caught ny the con-
tagion, were seen kissing red flags
and heard swearing that they were
ready to die for liberty. A Jewish
girl mounted box in the market
square and addressed an immense
crowd.
Suddenly the police appeared and
fired volIey and the girl fell dead.
Market gardeners coming in were
stopped and their carts were used i'll
building barricades. Wires were
stretched in front Of these barbados
and the cavalry was unable to charge
Meanwhile the mob had secured arms
and revolyers were freely used. FL
nally the military secured the upper
hand, but not without considerable
losses to themselves and fearful
slaughter to the rioters. The soldiers
exhibited the utmost careIessness as
to whether they killed peaceful persons
or rioters, and as a consequence many
women and children were among the
dead
The streets resembled a battlefield.
The houses were barrlcadcd with
boards and mattresses and for hours
volleys and individual firing were
heard in every quarter of the city.
Until late at night the Cossaeks were
busy collecting bodies Of the dead and
picking up persons seriously wounded.
The bodies were carried off in carts to
neighborinG churchyards. Hence the
impossibility of giving an accurate es-
innate of the dead until order is COM
pletely restored. Il, indeed, the full
story is ever told.