Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-21

The rOughs again came, but spared me,
saying: He will die; let him suffer
longer"
Dead at the Hospital.
The scene of the Jewish hospital,
where the majority of the Jewish dead
and most severely wounded were TAX
en-, was terrible. When the cores
pondent arrived there the grass plat
outside the hospital was covered with
mangled corpses, arranged in two long
rows, awaiting burial. The wooden
walk from the gate to the door, over
which the bodies were carried, was
stained with blood.
The dead and wounded were still ar
irving. 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 bruis-
ed, 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 OBJ
tain the bodies of dear ones for burial.
Hundred Bodies Brought In.
Some of the bodies already had been
removed, but the hospital attendants
asserted that about 100 in all had been
brought in, and that many more re-
manned in the outskirts of Bialystok,
where it still was unsafe for the Red
Cross attachments to venture.
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 the result of the explosion
of bombs. The others had bullet
wounds. These bodies were not man
gled or mutilated, as was the case with
the Jews, whose hands, arms, and legs
were sometimes chopped off from
mere wantonness.
All Jewish Shops Ruined.
| The story Of the rioting is written
in large letters in the aspect of streets,
which are one continuous picture OF
arson and pillage. The windows and
doors Of the Jewish houses are wide
open, giving view of their wrecked
interior, or are boarded up with rude,
wooden shutters. Everywhere can be
seen weeping women hunting for
traces Of killed or wounded relatives.
The principal stores are either de-
vastated wrecks or mere mounds OF
ashes, among which the wretched pro
prietors last week rich, but now re.
duced to poverty, are wandering about
weakly endeavoring to ascertain the
extent OF their misfortunes.
Before practically every house left
intact hangs an ikon with a burning
lamp, and the street doors are marked
with great crosses, made with chalk
or Of cloth, to show that the inmates
were Christians.
4 The streets are patrolled by detach
ments of cavalry and infantry and the
Gordon of troops drawn around the
town when the outbreak first, occurred
is still maintained The railroad sta
ton is occupied by the military, and
nobody is allowed to enter the town
without a permit from the command
ant. Strict martial law prevails.
i Attacked by Revolutlonists.
i Another attack was made yesterday
evening on the police station by arm
ed revolutionists who occupied house
NEARBY. They opened fire from the
building on the police, but a force Of
cossacks was gathered, the house was
stormed, and the revolutionists were
disperseds 1t was feared that the lat
ter, who are members Of the JeW1sf
bund, and are enraged and embitterec
by the slaughter of their co-religlon
lists, would seize the occasion OF the
funeral Of the victims today to make
new attack, but the governor gen
eral took the necessary military meas
ures to prevent it and the interment'
passed off without incident.
The garrison has been strongly rein
forced and now includes besides seV
eral regiments of infantry two squad
rons Of cavalry, three squadrons o
dragons and two batteries OF artil
lery. On account of the destruction :
,, the stores Of provisions, supplies ar
almost unobtainable here just now
but food is being imported to reliev'
the restitution.
Massacre Was Prearranged.
ST. Petersburg, June 19.-The EN-
, barge on news from Bialystok wa
: lifted last night and correspondent
was for the first time allowed to tele
: graph directly from the sacked city
picture Of the scene of ruin and desc
| lation left in the wake of the mob.
The correspondent who adopts tn
! bitterest tone towards the government
I holds that the massacre undoubtedl
! was provoked He attributes the re
sponsibility to Police Lieutenan
: Sherematieff, and says the distinctly
. characteristic Of the outbreak, in whic
$ it differs from the excuses at Odessa
Y Kishinev, Gomel and Kiev, aside fror
e bestielity, is the comparatively smaI
amount of actual robbery committed
g The participants seemingly were nc
i inspired by motives Of loot but of mul
t der and destruction pure and simple
S The correspondent declares that tn
d participation of the troops has bee
e completely proven and quotes Deput
Stchepkin as saying that this is clea
ly shown by the decentralization of tn
! soldiery consequent on the removal {
e all restraint. The correspondent d.
:. clares that not only the soldiers BIT
l. their officers also participated, an
that he himself was witness as lat
f as Saturday to the shooting down of
n Jewish girl from the window of h,
d te, by Lieutenant Miller of the Vlad
Y mir regiment The governor of TIL
n Z. L