Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-25
Trouble Began Tuesday Over Funeral
Victims of Previous Conflict.
JEWS NOT ALLOWED TO BURY DEAD
Rioting Renewed Thursday aud Became q
Slaughter Friday.
WANToN CRUELTY OF THE soLDlERY
women md Children RuthIessIy shot
disorder Breaks out at Warsaw
and Serious Trouble il
Feared.

LODI. June 24-Since the arrival of REIN
forcements this morning actual fighting in
the city has stopped. but the outbreak Is
by no means quelled and fresh collisions
are expected momentarily.
The city resembles a shambles, and the
terrible scenes of the last two days will
never be wiped from the memory of the
Polish people. Altogether there are ten
regiments encamped in LODI The hghting
spirit of the people is fully aroused. They
have tasted blood and want more. Ger
tainly. the revolutionary spirit is abroad
and it remains to be seen whether military
measures will have the same effect as
previously.
Today at Baluty, suburb of Lodz four
Cossacks were killed and sixteen others in
jured by a bomb which was thrown into
their barracks. Twenty-three of their horses
were killed.
Occasional volleys are still fired by police
or gendarmes in response to shots from
houses
The soldiers are showing what appears
to be wanton cruelty. Late this afternoon
they shot and killed two women. mother
and her daughter The funerals of victims
of the shooting of Thursday and Friday
took place today surreptitiously in various
outlying villages.
over Twelve Hundred victims.
1t is quite impossible to give the exact
number of killed and wounded, as reports
vary according to the quarter from which
they are obtained Certainly the killed
number 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 in
doors. Others insisted on looking out OF
doors and Windows when volleys were being
fired on the rios by the soldiers. Resi-
dents of the city say that they received no
orders to remain in doors.
Trouble Begins Tuesday.
The present trouble began at Lodz last
Tuesday after the funeral of the victims
of the conflict between troops and terror
lists the previous Sunday. The Christians
| were permitted to bury their dead, but the
| Jews were prohibited from doing 80, and
| the police secretly inferred the bodies of
| the Jews at night, which excited indigna-
| ton and terrorists riots were initiated
| Thursday. The most serious phase OF the
| rioting developed when the crowd deliber-
ately pillaged liquor shops and numbers of
| persons, infamed by drink, led a crowd of
at least $1,000 to further and more serious
attacks. Police and military were attacked
wherever they appeared in small force and
! many members were killed After pillaging
| the liquor shops, the crowd set fire to them
and prevented the f1remen from extingulsh-
| ing the blazes. This was repeated deliher-
| ately at many places. Friday the fury OF
| the mob found full vent and even children,
caught by the contagion, were seen kissing
| red flags and heard swearing that they
were ready to die for liberty Jewish
! girl mounted a box in the public square
and addressed an immense crowd. Sud
i 6rad nd
the girl fell dead. Market gardeners coming
| in were stopped and their carts used In
building barricades. Wires were stretched
! In front of these barricades and the cavalry
was unable to charge. Meanwhile the mob
had secure arms and revolvers were freely
used.
| WantOn Acts of Soldiers.
The military secured the upper hand but
not without considerable losses to them
selves and havoc to the rioters. The SOL
diers exhibited the utmost carelessness as
to whether they killed peaceful persons or
rioters and as consequence many women
and children were among the dead. The
streets on Friday resembed battlefield.
The houses were barricaded with boards
and mattresses and for hours volleys and
individual shots were heard in every quar-
ter of the city. Until late at night the
Cossacks were busy collecting bodies of the
dead and picking up persons seriously
wounded. The bodies were carried OFF In
carts to neghboring churchyards. Hence
the impossibility of giving an accurate es-
innate of the dead, and 1t is doubtful II the
full story is ever told. Terrorists are ener-
getically fomenting agitation among the
soldiers by distributing revolutionary proc
lamations and pamphlets, but their efforts
are without effect.
|
sacks are robbing the dead OF Jewels and
money.
RiOtinR In Warsaw.
! WARSAW, June 2-Riots commenced
here tonight. Gendarmes charged crowd
and infantry patrols fired two volleys
Three men were injured. The crowd was
also armed and fired upon the troops. A
J secret police agent was stabbed.
! Professions were formed at o'clock
this evening and marched, with red flags,
down Grsybowska street. At the corner
< OF Wronia street mounted patrol crossed
= the procession and one of the marchers
/, threw a bomb, which exploded and
r wounded two gendarmes. The thrower OF
I | the bomb escaped.
r simultaneously there was another demon
0 stration by persons carrying a red flag
e at Leschno, but there was no bloodshed.
Crowds are assembling at several locali-
ties east Of the city. TIER attitude Is
. menacing and the public is panic striken.
r The situation here, with a majority OF
,, the worlSmen striking, the walkout threat
; enlng to become general and the working
J. class inhamed by the news of the fighting
- at LODI, is extremely critical The strike
r was organized by the social revolutionary
committee as a demonstration to affect the
Y trial Of Stephen Okrjeia, the locksmith
" who threw a bomb into the Praga police
station on March 20, injuring six policemen,
~ and his conviction and sentence TO death
today has still further enTaged the revolu-
tionary leaders.
" Workmen are wearing mourning for
those killed at Lodz.
All the street railways except on the
n principal thoroughfares in the city have
| hean atonned and the naWaDaDara havs