Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-06-29
POLISH CITY IS
A SHAMELESS
Fighting is Stopped But
Outbreak is Not
QueIIed.
SPIRIT OF PEOPLE ROuSED
And Fresh Collisions Are Expected
Momentarily = Stubborn Fighting
Was Witnessed When 6arricades
We're Stormed BY the Soldiery.

Lodz, June 25.-With the arrival of
reinforcements yesterday morning, ac-
tual fighting in the city stopped, but
the outbreak is BY no e quelled
and fresh collisions are expected mo-
mentarily.
The city resembles a shambles and
the terrible scenes of the last two
days will never he wiped from the
memory OF the Polish people. Alto
gether there are ten regiments en-.
camped in Lodz.
The fighting spirit of the people is
fully aroused. They have tasted blood
and want more. Certainly, the revo-
lutionary spirit is abroad and it re-
mains to be seer whether military
measures will have the same effect as
previously.
Yesterday, at Baluty, a suburb of
LODI, four Cossacks were killed and
sixteen others wounded by a bomb
which was thrown into their barrac s.
Twenty-three of their horses were
killed.
Occasional volleys are still fred by
police or gendarmes in response to
shots from houses.
The soldiers are showing what APP
pears to be wanton cruelty. Late this
afternoon they shot and killed two
women-a mother and her daughter.
The funerals of victims of the shoot
ing of Thursday and Friday took place
today surreptitiously in various out
lying villages.
1t is quite impossible TO give the
exact number of killed and wounded,
as reports vary from which they are
obtained. Certainly, the killed num-
Der more than a hundred, possibly
two hundred, and the wounded five
times as many. An official report
says that the number Of casualties was
largely increased by the neglect OF
persons to remain indoors, and by
others insisting on looking out OF
doors and windows when volleys were
being fired upon the rioters by the
soldiers. Residents of the city say
that they received no orders to re-
main in doors.
The present trouble began at LODI
last Tuesday after the funeral Of the
victims of the conflict between troops
and terrorists the previous Sunday.
The Christians were permitted to
bury their dead, but the Jews were
prohibited from doing so, and the po-
lice secretly inferred the bodies OF
the Jews at night, which excited in
~dignation and terrorists' riots were In
itiated Thursday. The most serious
phase Of the rioting developed when
the crowd deliberately pillaged liquor
shops, and numbers Of persons, in
famed by drink, led a crowd of at least
10000 to further and more serious at
tacks. Police and military were at.
tackled wherever they appeared in
small force, and many individual
members were killed.
After p~illaging the liquor shops the
crowd set fire to them and prevented
the hremen from e~xtinguishing the
blaze. This was repeated deliberate
ly at many places. Friday the fury
Of the mob found full vent, and even
children, caught by the contagion,
we're seen kissing red flags and heard
swearing that they were ready to die
for liberty. A Jewish girl mounted a
box in the market square and address
ell an immense crowd.
Suddenly the police appeared, fred
a volley, and the girl fell dead. Mar
ket gardeners coming in were stopped
and their carts used In building barri-
cades. Wires were stretched in front
of these barbados and the cavalry
was unable to charge. Meanwhile the
n,nh hoH gnrnrnH arms and ravnlVnrg
were freely used. Finally the mill
tary secured the upper hand, but not
without losses to themselves and fear
full slaughter to the rioters. The sol
diers exhibited the utmost careless.
ness as to whether they killed peace
full persons or rioters, and as a conse-
quence many women and children
were among the dead. The streets
on Friday resembled a battlefield. The
houses were barricaded with boards
and mattresses and for hours volley
and individual firing were heard in
every quarter Of the city. Until late
at night the Cossac'is were busy col
lecting bodies of the dead and pick
ing I'D persons seriously wounded.
The bodies were carried off in carts
to n%eighboring c~hurchyards. Hence
the imrossibility of giving an accurate
estimate OF the dead until order is
completely restored, If, indeed, the full
story is ever told. Terrorists are en-.
ergetically fomenting agitation among
the soldiers by distributing revolution
airy proclamations and pamphlets,
but their efforts are without effect.
Shooting was renewed last evening.
Cossacks are robbing the dead of jew
els and money.