The San Francisco call., 1906-06-19

BIALYSTOK, June 1S.-Quiet reigned
today throughout this devastated town.
Firing was heard at midnight on the
outskirts of Bialystok, near the ceme-
terry, but no further disorders have oc-
CURED.
The total figures of the casualties are
not available. but seventy bodies were
buried today. This is claimed to be
less than half the total of the killed.
Jewish estimates say that not less
than 200 were killed. The number of
wounded is enormous. Surgeons have
arrived from Warsaw TO assist the
overworked staffs of the hospitals in
caring for the injured.
A few instances of the excesses were
the bestiality and brutality with which
the victims of the massacre were
mere masses of pulped flesh. the
wounded in some cases having scarce
ly sound bone in their bodies.
Today the story of the riot was writ
ten in large letters in the aspect Of
streets, which were one continuous pic
ture of arson and pillage. The win
dows and doors of the Jewish houses
were wide open, giving a view of their
wrecked interiors. or were boarded up
with rude wooden shutters.
HOMES OF JEWS WRECKED.
women, hunting for traces of killed or
wounded relatives. The principal
stores were either devastated wrecks
or mere mounds of ashes, among which
the wretched proprietors. last week
rich, but now reduced to poverty, were
wandering about weakly endeavoring
TO ascertain the extent of their mis-
fortunes. Before practically every
house left intact hung an ikon, with
burning lamp, and the street doors
were marked with great crosses. made
with chalk or of cloth, to show that
the inmates We're Christians.
Another attack was made yesterday
evening on the police station by armed
revolutionists, who occupied a house
near by. They opened fire from the
building on the police, but a force of
Cossacks was gathered. the house was
stormed and the revolutionists were
dispossessed.
1t was feared that the latter, who
are members of the Jewish Bund and
are enraged and embittered by the
slaughter of their co-religionists, would
seize the occasion of the funeral of the
victims today to make a new attack,
but the Governor General took the
necessary military measures to prevent
it. The garrison has been strongly re-
inforced s,s
On account of the destruction of the
stores of provisions, supplies are al
most unobtainable just now. but food
tgtted is being impoFtf to relieve the desti-
BODIES FRIqAsrFULLY aIUTILATED.
The scene at the Jewish Hospital,
where the majority of the Jewish dead
and the more severely wounded were
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outside the hospital today was covered
with mangled corpses, arranged in two
long rows, awaiting burial The wood
en- walk from the gate to the door,
over which the bodies were carried,
was stained with blood. The dead and
wounded were still arriving. Many of
them had been lying untouched in the
streets for two days. Only the most
severely wounded were taken inside
the hospital The bodies of some of
these were frightfully bruised. broken
and mangled.
A constant stream of unhappy per-
sons visited the hospital yard and,
when allowed to do so. the wards, en-
deavoring to locate and identify. mem
bers of their families or friends, or
obtain bodies of the dead for burial.
Some of the bodies had already been
removed, but the hospital attendants
asserted that about hundred in all
had been brought in and that many
more remained in the outskirts of
Bialystok, where it was still unsafe
for the Red Cross detachments to VEN
ture.
At the district hospital there were
six dead persons and eight or ten
wounded. These were all Christians.
One man had been killed and two
wounded as result of the explosion
of bombs. The others had bullet
wounds. These bodies were not
mangled or mutilated, as was the case
with the Jews, whose hand. arms and
legs were chopped off from mere wan
tonness.
OUTBREAKS AGAINST JEWS.
WARSAW, June 18.-The Chief of
Police of Warsaw today issued a proc
lamation warning the people against
the efforts to provoke racial hatred and
stating that every attempt at rioting
would be mercilessly suppressed by
force of arms.
at Zabludow and Giuondz, in the pro-
vince of Grodno and at Ossowiec, in
the province of Lornza-
ODESSA, June 1S.-The Novosti of
this city published dispatch today
from its correspondent at Bialystok,
saying:
II personally counted 2sO Jewish
corpses, a great number of which were
horribly mutilated. Only six Chris
tians were killed and eight wounded
BERLIN, June 1S.-The Jewish So
ciety today received telegram from
Grajewo,. Russian Poland, dated Mon
day, saying that at Lapy, a village
| near Bialystok. five Jews had been