Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-06-21
TORE JEWS TOPIECES
Russian Mob at Bialystok
 Like Wild Animals.
DETAILS REVEAL REIGN OF TERROR
Troops and Police Urged on Rioters to Massacre and Hunt Down Un- armed Hebrews-GOvernOrO of
 Grodno Upholds Murder.

to Massacre and Hunt Down Un.
 armed Hebrews-GOvern0r of
 Grodno Upholds Murder.
 BIALYSTOK, June 21.-Three off, cial investigations to determine the responsibility for the massacre of the Jews will be at once opened. These are to be conducted by the commission of the lower house of parliament, the minister of the interior and the min istry of Justice. All witnesses of vio- lence and sufferers by excesses are in vited by the ministry of justice to sub init depositions to the judge of the To- cal court.
 It is said that in replying to a Jew ish deputatlon which visited him be- fore the Bialystok outbreak the gov ernor of Grodno said he thought lit tie bloodletting would be useful, add ing: That was the case in June, 1905. Only forty Jews were killed, but we had peace for six months afterward."
 The police are enforcing the restora- tion of pillaged property.
 This entire region is greatly excited owing to fear that the Bialystok mas sacre was only the signal for general attack on the Jews throughout the pale and in Poland, but If any such conspiracy existed it may be too late to carry out the plans. as the most i'm perative orders to prevent further out breaks have been issued to the govern ors and governor generals from St. Pe- tersburg.
 When correspondents arrived at Bl- alystok 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 orgy of blood and pillage went on unchecked. The inhumanity displayed would have done credit to the Mongol 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 sought to obey the orders of their superiors to put an end to the work of the rapacious bands that were so far beyond control of the local forces that regiment after regiment had to be thrown into the city before order could be restored.
 During the rloting 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. The troops either stood idly by or fired into the houses and shops where Jews were concealed under the pretext that they believed them to be revolutonists The question of the origin of the mas sacre wac carefully investigated. Al though many of the Jews denied that bomb was thrown at the Orthodox procession in honor of Corpus Christi day, the fact that bomb was thrown is established beyond a doubt But the question of who threw the bomb re. mains unsettled. The accounts of i'm. partial witnesses, however, demon strate that an insulting cry enraged the Jews, who attacked the religious procession.
 At Riazan the Bolkhofsky regiment has mutinied. the men surrounding tho Ofiicers club and firing upon it. Sev eral officers were killed. Panic pre- vails at Riazan. A pogrom Is expected The Jews are fleeing.