The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-09-13
SLAUGHTER JEWS
BY the HUNDRED
CHASTITY Atrocities P%erpetrated
by Russian SoIdiery at
Siedlce.
MASSACRE WAS PLANNED
Christians Were Told to Hang Out
Ikons So They Would Not Be At
tacked-Oficers Do Not
lnterfexe.

Siedlce, Poland, Sept. PA Jewish
massacre surprising in seriousness all
previous ones in his vicinity took
place here Saturday and Sunday. 1t
was carefully planned beforehand, the
soldiers warning the Christian popu-
,lation in advance to hang out their
ikons SO they might email undis-
turbed. \
Saturday night some terrorists killed
two soldiers and thereupon the Libau
regiment broke forth in unrestrained
fury. They began numbering Jews on
every hand and continued the slaugh-
tier all night Saturday and all day sun
day. The CHASTITY work of numbering
and pillaging continued until an early
hour this morning. when Governor
Conceal Skallon t~elegraphed for per-
mission to use the artillery.
Slaughter Was Frightful.
-Four batteries then opened fire dow
Pienkna, Warsaw and Aliena streets,
which were inhabited by thousands of
Jews. The destruction was horrible.
AS a result of the general slaughter
it Is estimated that fully 200 Jews were
killed and 1000 wounded. Three thou
san prisoners are In custody, a great
many of whom are wounded. Not a
soldier was killed. This morning squads
Of soldiers were parading through the
streets selling pillaged watches and
jewelry. Army officers openly coun-
tenanced the selling Of loot. Local
Governor Engelke took no steps to pre-
vent the outrage.
\ Carnival of Slaughter.
st. Petersburg, Sept. 1O.-Fighting,
which broke out in Siedlce, Russian Po-
land, Saturday night. developed yester-
day into a carniva of indiscriminate
slaughter and pillage in which the sol
hiery and mob took part. Unfortunate
Jews were shot n ~bayoneted in the
streets Of the town.
Houses and shops were wrecked n
Waluables were carried off and offered
for sale by the soldiers to passengers
on passing trains. In addition the Jews
and a number of Christians, eve some
officers, met death in the fighting.
A conservative estimate places the
number of victims at lao. Reports from
Warsaw and other towns in the vicin-
ity of Siedlce place the number of vic
time at several hundred.
Terrorists Blamed Again.
Early reports of the Siedlce mas
sacres put the responsibilities at the
door of the terrorists, but fugitives de-
clare the soldiers would lave
Of hand without c~onnivance, if not &C
tual direction Of their officers. The
first reports received of the Bialystok
massacre last Jun said the terrorists
were to blame there also.
1t is difficult to obtain the details
Of the trouble at Siedlce as the town
twas surrounded yesterday by soldiers
and nobody was allowed to enter. Pas
however, who arrived at War
saw during the night gave the follow
ing account of the slaughter:
After the murder of a policeman by
the terrorists Saturday night and the
firing Of a volley by the troops into the
assembled crowd, which resulted in
the killing Of two citizens and the
wounding of many more, the terrorists
held a meeting and decided to exact
vengeance by the inauguration of a
general campaign against the police
troops, similar to the recent aetiv-
ity along the same lines in Warsaw.
In the course of Sundaymorning twelve
patrolmen and soldiers were killed.
Wanton PIundering.
AS a result of this the Libau regi-
ment, in a state of Infatuated anger,
left it's barracks in the afternoon and
marched into the Jewish quarters,
shooting right and left as it went. The
troops were Joined by crowds Of hool-
igans who co-operated in plundering
and wantonly destroying everything
they were unable and undesirous Of
carrying away.
went on under the very eye of their
officers.
At a late hour yesterday afternoon the
Kaluga regiment arrived on a special
train from Bal and measures were in
stituted to put a stop to the pogrom.
In spite of this, however, the shooting
continued UP to a late hour last night.
A correspondent of the Associated
Press, who was not able to get into
Siedlce yesterday, started for there the
second time this morning. Siedlce is a
town of 10000 people, half of whom are
Jews.