The Washington times., 1906-06-17
Atrocities at Bialystok
Rival Horrors of
KiShenef.
FIENDS TORTURE VICTIMS
Peasant UprisingS Expected
Throughout Southern
Provinces.

ST. PETERSBURG. June 16.-While
the rioting continued in Bialystok today
with increased violence. the disturbances
spread to other points in the empire and
tonight the situation is regarded as de-
cidedly gloomy. 1t is reluctantly ad-
mitted that a general peasant uprising
is feared So imminent is this peril, es-
peciaIy in the southern and southwest
ern provinces. that all the infantry and
army reserve men in that region are TO
be put on a war footing. Flying bri-
gades of Cossacks are to be mobilized-
Similar precautions are to be taken
in central and northern Russia
Fiends Torture Victims.
While the government is seeking to
minimize the slaughter in Bialystok II
is known that the massacres there rival
those in Kishenef and that they have
been accompanied by the most appalling
tortures. So great is the anti-Semitic
fury of the mob that mere killing fails
to appease the butchers. Torture of the
most fiendish nature adds to the horror
OF IL ALL Even the women and children
are subjected to the most awful cruel
dows TO be dashed to. death in the
streets below. where their bodies are
left to be trampled upon by the fren-
Zied mObs. Women have been brutally
beaten to death after being subjected to
the most terrible inhumanities.
Among the dead are many whose
skulls have been beaten in with iron
bars. eyes have been gouged out: limbs
hewn from the bodies. while many have
been burned to death in their homes
The wounded everywhere have been
left to perish miserably from lack of
care, or in the flames Others were suf-
focated or strangled slowly while their
torturers stood by and gloated
Nor were the men alone in perpetrat-
ing these awful crimes. Women urged
on the rioters, in many Instances. and
took a prominent part in the death
work.
Whole City in Fla Des.
Tonight word came that almost the
entire city of Bialystok. which was a
thriving place of 5000 inhabitants a few
days ago. was in fiames and that the
numbering and Iooting was going on
with no sign of ,diminution. Troops
either powerless or too Indifferent TO
check the carnage.
To make matters worse peasants from
the surrounding country. wrought TO
frenzy by race hatred and the thirst
for pillage. are crOwding into town in
spite of the Gordon of soldiers, and are
joining in the work of destruction.
The governor of Grodno has tele-
graphed that for two or three days at
least there can be no stopping the
butchery in Bialystok In Kishnef
there is almost a panic owing to re-
ports of a threatened massacre The
Jews there hastily closed and barri-
caded their houses and stores at noon
and the town is now patroIled by cav
airy, while pickets of infantry are sta
toned at strategic points
Messages from Yelisabtehgrad and
Krementchug report that anti-Hebrew
excesses are also apprehended there.
A mob devastated the Jewish shoDs
in the tOfn of Chernayawiez the first
station out Of Bialystok on the line to
Grodno.
In Warsaw two police sergeants were
shot and killed and another policeman
was wounded by terrorists. and a police
man who pursued the assassins was
shot and killed by passing woman.
Rumored Uprisings Elsewhere.
Alarming reports come from KIef.
Kharkoff, and Observation-Disclosures.
where there are fears of risings against
the Jews, who are in dread of a fate
similar to that # their kindred in
Bialystok
Unconfirmed rumors are in circulation
TO the effect that anti-Hebrew outbreaks
have occurred in Brest Litovsk and
Wilma
1t is also reported that a Catholic
priest has been torn to pieces in Bialy-
stok. This is discredited
In government circles there is a dis
tinct feeling of alarm. Even the most
able and farsighted of the Gar advisers
admit that they cannot see the end of
the present troubles. On the bourse
there is feeling which Verges on manic
Merchants in many places are facing
ruin.
In Moscow, where a general strike has
been proclaimed, agitators are tanning
the revolutionary sentiment, and the
city is like smOldering volcano. Vio-
lent outbreaks are expected, and may
not be delayed another day.