The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-06-21
JEWS MASSACRFD
BY THE HUNDREDS
ENRAoED CHRISTIANS DEMoLIsH
STORES AND SLAUGHTER
The JEWS.
JEW ANARCHIST STARTS II
HuRLs BOMB INTO PROCESSION
MURDER AND PiLLAGE
CONTINUE.
JEW ANARCHIST STARTS II

Bialystok, Russia, June ia Jew
ish anarchist threw a bomb among
the participants in the Corpus Christi
procession which was in progress here
yesterday and killed or w.nhied many
persons. In consequence the Chris
.ians attacked and masSacred tie
Jews and demolished their shops.
Hundreds Of persons were killed Or
wounded.
The bomb was thrown from the bal
cony of a house on Alexandrov street.
A Russian clergyman named Federotf
was among those killed by the explo-
sion.
Christians Kill and Destroy.
Immediately after the explosion
Jews began to fire with revolvers from
the windows of the house into the
crowd. Soldiers surrounded the house
and fired two volleys into the win
dows. Meanwhile the enraged Chris
tians attacked the Jewish stores in
A%lexandrov and Suras streets. demol-
ishing the fixtures and windows and
throwing the goods into the buffers,
and beating and numbering the Jews.
A crowd of Jews fled to the railroad
station, pursued by a mob which kill
ed many of them there. Three Jews
were thrown from second-story win
dows of the railroad station building.
Pursue Fleeing Jews.
The Jews are fleeing from Bialystok
to the height oring forests and mobs
are pursuing them. Detachments OF
dragons have beer sent to protect
the Jews.
Jews arriving here On railway trains
have been dragged out of the cars and
many of them have been murdered.
Troops have cleared the railway sta
ton.
At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the
disturbance still continued.
Many Dead and Wounded.
st. Petersburg, June 15.-The latest
dispatches from Bialystck report a sit
uation of the Utmost gravity. The
anti-Jewish outbreak there is still
raging, fighting Is in progress in the
streets, the firing was continuous, the
best stores in the city had been sack
ed and many were dead or wounded.
Figures, however, were not given and
probably the casualties are not known
In Bialystok, owing to the continuance
of the disorders. The signal for the
outbreak, which apparently was DELHI
erately planned, perhaps as a counter
stroke for the murder of Chief of Po-
Hrn nnrkotohnH nm Trnn IN which
was attributed to Jewish Buddhists, is
given as the explosion of a bomb dur
ing a religious procession. This a
followed by revolver fusillades in sew
eral quarters of the city.
Unable to Restore Order.
The police are said not to have in
terfered in the early stages of the
riot. The Jews, who number three
fourths of the population of the city.
offered the best resistance possible,
many of them being armed, but were
unable to prevent the pillaging of
their homes and places of business.
Finally the military interfered, but,
according to advices received here,
without being able to restore order.
Re~inforcements have been rushed to
Bialystok from Grenobe.
Given Over to Slaughter.
Several members OF parliament last
night received messages from Jewish
correspondents at Bialystok. declaring
the police had apparently given over
the Jewish population to pillage and
slaughter. These correspondents urg-
ed that the only hope was in an appeal
to the minister of the interior to in
terfere in their behalf. A delegation
of deputies Immediately called at the
headquarters of the police department,
where they were informed that all
measures possible had been taken to
stop excuses and restore order.