The San Francisco call., 1906-08-26
Stolypin Escapes Terrorist Bomb,
but Tweny-Seven Others Perish
House of the Premier
Resembles the Ruin
Of a Shambles.
His Daughter and Two
of the ASSasSlnS
Among Dead.

ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 25.-Twen-
ty-seven persons are dead and thirty
three wounded as the result of a
dastardIy attempt this afternoon TO as
sassinate Premier StOlypin with a
bomb while he was holding n public
rece eption mt his country home
Apfekassy Island. The Premier was
slightly wounded on the face and neck
by flying spIinters.
Among the dead are the Premier's
15-year-OId daughter, who had both
sequenfIy succumbed to her injuries;
General Zamatin, the Premier's per-
EOnal secretaryJ VI. MkhyOff, former
Governor of the province of Penza;
Colonel FodOrOf, chief of the Premier's
personal guard; Court Chamberlain
DavidOf, Court Chamberlain Voronin.
Aide de Camp BOussofY. Prince Naka-
shidge, Police Officer KOnunzeff, four
women, two children, several guards
and several servants.
The wounded include NJ. Stolypin's
three-year-old son, who Is seriously If
not fatally injured, and a number of
persons prominent in the society and
official world.
ASSASSINS DEAD OR WOUNDED.
OF the four conspirators who engi-
neered the outrage, two were killed
with their victims, while the third, who
acted as coaehman for the party, and
the fourth, who remained inside the
carriage, were badly wounded and are
row in the ST. Peter and st. Paul
fortress.
The authors Of the outrage drove up
to the Premier's residence after the
list of visitors had been closed. The
servants refused them admission. at
which they attempted TO force an en-
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sued at the entrance to the ante-room
adjoining the reception-room, during the
course of which the terrorist disguised
as a gendarme dropped a bomb, which
exploded, destroying the ante-room, the
adjoining guardroom, part of the re-
ception-room and also the balcony of
the first floor. The Premier, who was
receiving visitors in a private room.
was not injured. but his daughter and
son, who were sitting in the balcony.
were wounded. The principal loss of
life occurred in the ante-room.
ALL EYEWITNEssEs KILLED.
Whether the assassins threw the
bomb or accidentally dropped it prob
ably never will be known, all the
immediate eyewitnesses were killed.
The tremendous force of the explosion
absolutely blew out the front of the
Premier's residence and carried away
the ceilings above ard the floors be-
meath and the walls of the adjoining
rooms.
People were literally blown to pieces.
Those who were not killed instantly
were horribly mangled or lacerated,
and all the others present were pros
trated by the shock.
The Premier's escape was miraculous.
for only moment before the explosion
took place he had stepped inside his
study at the rear of the salon to speak
to Prince Shakovsky. Although he was
but slightly injured, he is completely
Frustrated by the calamity.
BODIES MANGLED BEYOND RECoG-
NITIoN.
The havoc wrought by the explosion
/ is indescribable. Bodies were so torn
or mangled as to make identification
! linyossible-some of them headless,
armless or legless, lying among the
blood dripping wreckage.
When your correspondent this even
! ing succeeded in securing permission
1 to pass the cavalry guarding the ap
proaches to the house, the dead and
wounded already had been removed to
! a neighboring hospital By the light
of faring torches the police still were
picking out from the wreckage frag
ments of remains for transportation by
ambulances to the morgue. At the hos
pital the correspondent saw frantic at
tendants trying to arrange the shat
] tered bodies into some senlhiance of
human form for Identification by weep
! ing relatives outside.
The terrorist who carried the ex-
plosive into the house was literally
converted into pulp by the force of the
explosion. Inside the gendarme coat
which he had on was found the death