The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-26
BOMB THROWN At
RUSSIAN PREMIER
Daring Attempt Is Made by Rev.
Olutionists on the Life
of StOlypin.
CHIEF ESCAPES, BUT
MANY ARE VICTIMS
Twenty Eight Killed, Twenty
Four Wounded by Awful
Explosion.

ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 25-Twenty-
eight persons arc dead and twenty four
wounded as the result OF a dastardly at
tempt this afternoon to assassinate Pre-
mier StoiypIu with bomb while he was
holding public reception at his country
house on ApteHassy Island. The Premier
was slightly wounded on the face and
neck by hying splinters.
Among the dead are the Premier's NJ
teen-year-old daughter: who had both
legs broken by the explosion and subse-
quently succumbed to her injuries; Gen.
Zanatln tho Premlers personal secre-
tary; n. KhosvoGf. former Governor of
the province Of Pensa: Col. Fodoro1,
chief OF the Premier's personal guard:
Court Chamberlain Dayidoff Court Cham
berlain Voronln and Aide DoubassoM and
four women and two children.
The wounded include NJ. Stolypins
three year old son, who Is seriously II
not fatally injured. and a number OF per-
sons prominent in the society and off,
cial world.
or the four conspirators who engi-
neered the outrage two were killed with
their victims, while the third, who acted
as coachman for the party, and the
riage, were badly wounded and are now
in the St Peter and St, Paul fortress.
Whether the assassins, who entered the
crowded reception hall. threw the bomb
or accidentally dropped IL probably never
will be known, as all the immediate eye
witnesses were killed. The tremendous
force OF the explosion absolutely blew
out the front of the Premier's residence
and carried away the ceilings above and
the floors beneath and the walls Of the
adjoining rooms.
People Blown to Pieces.
People were literally blown to pieces
Those who were not killed instantly we're
horribly mangled or lacerated, and all
the others present were prostrated by the
shock.
The Premler's escape was miraculous.
for only a moment before the explosion
took place he had stepped inside his
study nt the rear Of the salon TO speak
10 Prince Shakovsky. Although he was
but slightly injured he is completely
prostrated by the calamity.
The havoc wrought by the explosion
is ndescribable. Bodies were so torn
or mangled as TO make Identification I'M
possible. some OF them headless, armless
or legless lying among the blood-drip
ping wreckage. Pieces OF flesh and cloth
Ing clung 10 the shattered rafters over
head and some lodged in the branches OF
the elm trees which border the roadway
separating the Premier's residence from
the river. When the Associated Press
| this evening succeeded I'm securing per-
mission TO pass the cavalry guarding the
approaches to the house the dead and
| wounded already had been removed 10
neighboring hospital. By the light OF
naring torches the police were still pick
! ing out from the wreckage bits of flesh
! and placing them in towels for transpor-
tetion by ambulance TO the morgue. AT
the hospital the correspondent saw fran
| tic attendants trying to arrange the shat
| tered bodies into some semblance OF hu
man form for Identification by weeping
relatives outside.
The Terrorists who carried the explo-
sive into the house were literally con-
verted into pulp by the force of the ex-
| plosion,
Inside the gendarmc coat which he had
on was found the death sentence OF Pre-
mier Stolypin that he had tried 10 exc
cute. The police refuse TO make public
the contents of the document.
Created Sensation.
The tragedy created a tremendous sem
sation here, and extra editions of the
| newspapers were sold in the streets until
| midnight. In tho clubs where officials
| and officers gather the most intense In
| dlgnaJlon prevailed. and the prediction
| was freely made that the rcvolutionaries
| would pay dearly for such scnseless
| crimes, and no doubt was entertained
that their only effect would be to drive
| the Government TO moro severe methods
| of repression,
| From information obtained from revo-
| lutionary sources It Is certain that the
| crime was committed by the fighting
| organization of the social revolutionists
in retaliation for tho war which the
| Government has been waglng against
them Since NJ. Stolypin's accession to
tho Premiership over 1000 OF their MEM
| bers have been arrested 400 In ST. Pc
| tersburg alone, and many OF these nave
| been deported
To fight this crusade the lighting or
eanizatlon, which Is composed OF a wing
| known rs Matimists and who believe In
settling up n purely socialistlc state upon
| the ruins OF the autocracy, have delioer-
| ately entered upon duel with tho Gov
ernment such as that which character
| Ized the famous fight of the nihilists In
| the late 70s, and which ended In the as
| sassination OF Emperor Alexander ii.
Within single year ut that time little
coterle of nihilsts. under the direction
| OF Jeriabof, made twenty eight at
| tempts against the Emperor and high OF
ncials, fourteen of which were success
full, Az the head of the present organi-
cation Is a prominent revolutionary who
Is considered to be an organizer equal II
not superior TO Jorlaboff. All the mem-
hers OF The organizations had due notice
that today's attempt on the Premier
would be made. and went Into hiding
1t has become known that an attempt
upon NJ Stolypin was frustrated ten
days ago by the discovery of the begin
Ming OF a subterranean passage from the
wall OF Grenadicr church. adjoining his
residence The mining OF palaces and
residences formerly was favorite
ethod OF the nihillsts. but has not
been used OF recent years.