Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-06-20
THE STORY 0f
 THE MASSACRE The Associated Press Made a Thorough Investigation of The Bloody
 Carnage crcurc WrDC unDDIDIr
SCENES WERE HORRIBLE
Bestial Were the Actions of the Murderers of the Jewish
 People.

Grodno. Western Russia, June 20.--
 Owing to the refusal of the
 censor at Bialystok to permit the free telegraphing of the result of the investigation by The Associated
 Press of the massacre of Jews there, its correspondents came here. The an- ti-Jewish rioting at Biaiystok is now ended. The troop are In full control and in view of the outcry raised it is certain that the authorities will not gently witnessed at Bialystok.
 permit renewal of the horrors re
 This entire region is greatly excit- ed owing to fear that the Bialystok massacre was only signal for gen eEal attack on the Jews throughout the Pale and In Poland, put if any such conspiracy existed it is too late to carry out the plans as the most imperative orders to prevent further outbreaks have been issued to the governor generals from St Peters, burg.
 When the correspondent arrived at BialystOk Sunday morning the worst was already over. but on all sides there was revolting evidence of savage bestiality on the part of the blood drunken mobs, which sacked and burned the Jewish houses, shops and stores. For seventy-two hours, with slight abatement during the daytime, the mad orgie of blood and pillage went on unchecked. The inhumanity displayed would have done credit to the Mongel hordes of Genghis Khan in his conquests of China and Central Asia early in the thirteenth century. At first police and troops urged on the mob but finally, when dismayed by the bloody deeds accomplished, they reluctantly sough to obey the or ders of their superiors to put an end Co the work of the rapacious bands of .roughs who were so far beynd con trol of the local forces that regiment after regiment had to be thrown into the city before order could be restor- cd.
 During the rioting the Jews were hunted down by ferocious pursuers. who In the majority of cases were not content with killing more victims but tore them to pieces. like wild animals. And while this was in progress the troops either stood idly by, or as was more frequently the case. fired into the houses and shops where Jews were concealed. under the pretext that they believed them to be revolutlonists. but really in order to make way for the murderers and plunderers who followed in the soldiers wake.
 While 1t is impossible to give the exact figures. the visits of the core spondent to the hospitals and ceme- taries enables him to approximate the killed at one hundred and fifty Jews and seven christians.
 The question of the origin of the massacre was carefully investigated. Although many of the Sews denied that bomb was thrown at the or thodox procession Thursday. in honor of corpus Christian day. the fact that . bomb was tS-own is established be- yond doubt But the question of who threw the bomb remains unsettled. The accounts of impartial witnesses, however. demonstrate that an insult ing cry enraged the Jews who attack cd the religious procession. Then from one end of the city to the other the police spread the report of the at- tack. thus flaming the religious fa- naticism of the christians and setting loose the worst clements upon the Jews. on whom the crowds watching the procession had already turned. The Jews at first fought with rcvol- vers and bombs. and with these weapons the majority of the christian victims.
 Christians were killed. But the Jews were soon overwhelmed and fed for eheiter. like rabbits to warrens. into cellars or attics. The soldierx watch cd this chase and butchery. some times laughing with indifference but never failing to fire into the houses where Jews. sometimes to the num- Der of q hundred. were making efand against their aseailants. The soldiers said the Jews were revolu- | tionists. and that was their excuse for firing on them. The authorities who wanted to do something to stop the l massacre were. with the police and | troops in open sympathy with the mob utterly powerless.
 Although It is freely charged that the higher authorities of Bialystok de | liberateiy organized the massacre. or. l If this was not the case that it was carried out under orders from St fet- ersburE. there Is DO evidence to sup 1 port dfher charge.
 According to the investigations of the parliamentary commission. whose | members were especially anxious to eiucidate this point. N. Schepkin. of Odessa. a member of the commission. eaid.
 -we wished especially to bring home l the responsibility to the government. if the massacre was organized In St Pefsrsburx- But our rouclusiors are that if vss not planned in st Peters burg. Neither do we find proof that | Chief of PolIce sheromefief. of Bi1ly- I stok vss . party to the plot However fbe rr<pon<fbllify of his subordiaafcs. fo<e<ber with that nf the rank and l fe of the police and sone of the nil tsry oG3c<rs. vho fondly inarine thst | ske odic1s system of ycn Ff>kve end rpFo9 has pot ended is clearly p<Dfen-
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