The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-24
FIFTY PERSONS KILLED,
 TWO HUNDRED WOUNDED
TROOPS STORM THE BARRI CADES ERECTED BY LODE
 STRIKERS.

Martial Law to be Declared-Situation
 Throughout Poland Again Very seri-
 ous--Lodz in Turmoil for Last Three
 Days-Strike in Warsaw Commenced
 and Disorders Are Looked For During
 the Trial of Man Who Threw Bomb
 at Police station March 2e.
 Lodz. Russian Poland, June B. Troops have stormed the barrieades erected in the streets by the strikers. Fifty persons have been killed and 200 wounded. Martial law will be declared. Since early this morning this city has been in state of panic. The strike is general at all the factories and the shops are closed. Barricades were erected at many points.
 Rifle volleys and revolver shots are heard continuously. .. . .}e~+..
 Many persons have been killed or wounded but it is impossible at pres ent to ascertain the number with any exactitude owing to the general char actetr Of the disturbances. &ssa
 The mob sacked a number of liquor stores and broke the street lamps. Street railroad traffic is interrupted.
 St. Petersburg, June 24.-3:15 a. m.- According to advices received here the situation in Poland is again exceed ingly serious. Censored dispatches from Lodz, though giving few details, indicate that fierce street fighting was in progress yesterday between the military and the striking workmen, who barricaded the thoroughfares in vari- ous quarters of the city and offered re- sistance which the troops met with VOL ieys The list of the dead and wound ed presumably is heavy but not even an estimate has been received here. Russian correspondents telegraphine; that the streets are entirely in the hands of the military and the mob and that it is unsafe to venture out to ob- tain details.
 It is not known whether the fighting was continued late night but it is fear ed that order can be restored only at heavy sacrifice. lOQN dS9#D6GIl1 Lu1 lOl 5lllC past three days. The strike, which embraces 6O.O0O workers, appears to have entirely lost it's economic nature, and is now a vast political manifesta- ton. All forms of public business ac- tiyity have been suspended, the peace ful inhabitant remaining indoors for fear of their lives. The political zeal Of the manifestants has become in famed by intoxicants from the vodka shops, which were. broken into and pil- laged yesterday. At Warsaw a strike < has commenced and disorders are look ed for during the trial of Okrjey, who threw bomb at a police station March 26, and will probably result in other bomb outrages. A man was arrested yesterday morning armed with a bomb, which was evidently intended to be used in the court during the trial yes terday.
 In the meantime the government has publicly disclaimed all designs as to the Classification of Poland, the committee of ministers in it's deliberations on the school question, which were published yesterday, saying: "The committee considers it absolutely necessary to establish the fact that the Classification and denationalism of the Poles cannot possibly lie within the intent of the Russian government. The aim must rather be the amalgamation of the Pol ish government with the Russian ad- ministration, and the welding of the Polish people with the general body polite of Russia by peaceful ties, which will preserve Polish individuality, cul ture and language