Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-27

eight persons are dead and "a wounded
as 4 result of dastardly attempt Sat
urday afternoon to aSsaSSinate Pre-
mier Stolypin with 4 bomb while he
was holding a public reception at his
country home on Aptekarsky island.
The premier was slightly wounded in
the face and neck by flying splinters.
Among the dead are the premier'S
15-year-old daughter who had both
legs broken by the explosion, and sub
sequently succumbed to her injuries;
General Zameatin, thep renters per-
sonal secretary: NJ Khovostoff. former
governor of the Province Of PenZa;
Colonel Federoff chief of the premier's
personal guard; Court Chamberlains
DavidOff and Voronin. Aide DouEas
soft. four women and two children.
The wounded included NJ Etolypin's
3-year- old son. who is seriously though
not fatally injured. and number of
pereons prominent in the official and
social worlds.
OF the four conspirators who enGi-
neered the outrage, two were killed
with their victims, while a third, who
acted as coachman for the party, and
the fourth, who remained inside the
carriage. were badly wounded and are
now in the St. Peter and St. Paul fer
tress.
Whether the assassins who entered
the crowded. reception hall threw the
bomb or accidentally dropped it, prob
ably never will be known, as all the
Immediate eye witnesses were killed.
The tremendous force of the explo-
sion 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 were literally blown to pieces
Those who were not killed instantly
were horribly MANNED OF lac"ratcd ana
all tho otherssprescnt were FRUSTRATED
by the shock.
The premier's escape was mirarT-
lous, for, only a moment before the ~
plosion took place, he had stepped ms iie
his study ut the rear of the salon to
sneak to Prince ShakOvsky. Although
he was slightly hurt he is completely
FRUSTRATED by the calamity.
The havoc wrought by the explosion
IS indescribable. Bodies We're SO torn
or manglcd rs To make identification
impossible, some Of them hc1dlcSS.
armless or leggless lying in the blood
clothing chung to the shattered rafters
overhead and some lodged iii the
branches of the elm trees which Dor
der the roadway separating the pre-
miers residence from the river.
When The Associated Press CORE
spondent this evening succeeded in Sc
curing permission to pass the cavalry
guarding the approaches to the house.
..lY Nv lN..l
been removed to o neighboring hospi-
tai, but by the light of flaring torches,
the police were still picking out from
the wreckage bits of flesh and placing
them in towels for transportation by
ambulance to the morgue.
At the hospital the correspondent
saw frantic attendants trying to ar
range the shattered bodies into some
semblance of human form for identi-
fication by weeping and wailinG relj>-
tives outside.
The Terrorist who carried the cXplo-
sive into the house was literally con
verified into pulp by the force of the
explosion. Inside the gendarme Off
GERS coat which he had on was found
the death sentence of Premier Stolypin
which he had tried to execute.
Inc ponce refuse " Hlsiht publlI
contents of this document.
The tragedy created n tremendous
sensation here and extra editions of
the newspapers were sold in the streets
until midnight. In the clubs where Of
ficials and officers gather, the most in
tense indignation prevailed ana the pre-
diction was freely made that the Rev
dictionaries would pay dearly for such
senseless crimes and no doubt was en-
tertained that their only effect would
be to drive the government to moro
severe methods of repression.
From information obtained from Rev
dictionary sources it is certain that the
crime was committed by the fighting
organization of the Social Revolution
lists in retaliation for the war which
the government has been waging
against them. Since NJ. Stolypin's ac-
cession to the premiership, over 1000 of
their members have been arrested. 100
in st. Petersburg alone, and many III
these have been deported.
To fight this crusade the fighting or
canization, which is composed of
wing known as Matimists and who be
lieye in setting up purely soclalstlc
state upon the ruins of the autocracy,
have deliberately entered upon a duel
with the government such as that
which characterized the famous tight
of the Ninilists in the late IOs ana
which ended in the assassination OF
Emneror Alexander II. Within sin
clio wear at that time q little coterie
Of Nihil;sts under the direction ol 'eli
hoff. made % attempts against the Eill-