The San Francisco call., 1905-05-26
Scores of Persons
Are Killed or
Wounded.
Attempt to Drive Out
Disreputables Ends
in a Battle.
Educated Hebrews Start War
Upon Rough Element in
Their Race.

WARSAW, May 25.-Eisht persons
have been killed and more than 100
wounded in the street fighting between
Jews in this city and the battle is still
In progress. OF the wounded more than
score VIII die. Late tonight patrol
wagons were still bringing in bodies
of the dead or taking wounded men to
the hospitals.
The combat was begun last night and
until tonight the authorities made no
attempt to restore order. While the
lighting proceeded not policeman was
IN sight Occasionally, when crowds
not composed of Jews would gather, a
squad of police would move out from
some rendezvous and disperse them and
then retire Immediately. Apparently
1t was the intention of the authorities
10 let the combatants wear themselves
out.
There has been no pillage, but the
destruction of disreputable houses con-
Quoted by Jews has been complete. 1t
was TO rid the city of the undesirable
element of its own race that the Jewish
Bund, composed of Jews of the better
class, last night began the attack
upon the quarters of the disrueputables.
The latter offered battle, and the COM
bat continued throughout the night. It
is believed that the casualties are much
Z -
as scores of wounded persons were
taken to their homes instead of to the
| hospitals.
Throuhout the night mobs, armed with
axes, smashed the doors and windows of
dlsreputable resorts and took the furni-
ture out in the streets, where they broke
il into small pieces. The owners of the
furniture, in attempting to defend their
| belongings, were attacked, beaten and
even killed. Knives and revolvers were
used freely and some of the dead were
terribly mutilated.
Late tonight the authorities took their
first step to check the riots when the
Cossacks fired upon crowds at two points,
wounding four persons. During the day
patrols of Cossacks had occasionally ap-
peared, but they witnessed the proceed
ings merely as spectators.
The character of the disturbance is un-
precedented. The whole affair is a con-
flict between the respectable Jewish So
cLalist classes and the disreputable Jew
ish element. There are conflicting stories
as TO the origin of the trouble. One re-
port is to the effect that the respectable
Jews, tired Of hearing the members of
their race called keepers of disorderly
houses, thieves and usurers and other op-
probious names, resolved, as the police
were receiving bribes for protecting dis
reputable houses and persons, to take the
law into their own hands
Another report has it that Jewish
roughs in the guise of members of the
Bund were levying bIackmail upon shop
keepers, thus cnraging the Socialists. In
any case the Socialists seemingly deter
mined upon a crusade against the unde-
sirable persons of their own race, with
the result that crowds Of men and boys
are now systematically running the dis
reputable houses.
Extraordinary scenes were witnessed
late tonight when the crowds visited
the better section of the city and demol-
ished apartments filed with costly ef-
fects. The mob in the streets left open
spaces for the falling articles. and then
completed the work of destruction. In
one olace a quantity OF valuable jewelry
was taken out and deliberately smashed
with stones.
The whole affair was carefully or
gaized. The leaders were supplied with
the addresses OF the owners of disreputa-
BILE houses and not single Jewish resort
in Warsaw escaped destruction.