The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-08-31
THREW DEADLYBOMB
THlRTY.TW0 PERSONS ARE DEAD
and 81 ARE WOUNDED.
rearfui Destruction Follows Attempt
to Assassinate Premier of Russia
At His Country House Dead In
elude His Daushte-Prominent Of
heial and Society People Wounded.

st. Petersburg, Aug. 26.-Twenty
seven persons are dead and 80 wound
ed as the result of a dastardlv al
. tempt Saturday afternoon to assas
slnate Premier S~tolypin with a bonn
/ while he was holding a public recep
ton at his country house on Apten
tassy island. The premier wa.
slightly wounded on the face and
neck by flying splinters.
Among the dead are the premiere
Io-year-old daughter, who had both
legs broken by the explosion and sub.
sequently succumbed to her injuries;
General Zamatin, the premier's per-
sonal secretary; NJ. Khosvoff, former
governor of the province of Pensa;
Colonel Fodoroff, chief of the pre-
mier's personal guard; Count Cham
berlain Davidoff, Court Chamberlain
Veronin and Aide Doubasoff, Prince
Nakashidge, Police Officer Konun-
Jeff and four women and two chill
dren.
The wounded include M. S~tolypins'
3-year-old son, who is seriously if not
fatally injured, and several persons
prominent in the society and official
world.
OF the four conspirators who en-
gineered the outrage, two were killed
with their victims, while the 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
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 admis-
sion, at which they attempted to
force an entrance to the house. A
struggle ensued at the entrance TO
the anteroom adjoining the reception
room, during the course of which
the terrorist, disguised as a gendarme,
dropped a bomb, which exploded, de-
stroying the anteroom, the adjoining
guardroom, part of the reception room
and also the balcony of the first
floor. The tremendous force of the
explosion absolutely blew out the
front of the premier's residence and
carried away the ceilings above and
the floor beneath 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 Frustrated by the shock.
The premier's escape was miracu-
lous, for only a moment before the
explosion took place he had stepped
inside his study at the rear of the
salon to speak to Prince S~hakovsky.
Although he is but slightly injured, he
is completely Frustrated by the ca
The havoc wrought by the explosion
Is indescribable. Bodies were so torn
or mangled as to make Identification
impossible, some of them headless,
armless, legless, lying among the
blood dripping ~wreckage. Pieces of
flesh and clothing hung to the shat I
rafters overhead and some lodg-
ed il branches of the elm trees which |
border the roadway separating the
Dremier's residence from the river. |
The terrorist who carried the ex- {
into the house was literally I
converted into pulp by the force Of q
he explosion. |
Inside the gendarme coat which l
lie had on was found the death SEN
ence of Premier StolypiD that he had A
ried to execute. The police refuse to :
make public the contents of the docu- l
nent. |
Reds Came From Moscow. a
AS a result Of an inquiry it was II
earned that the man who threw the c
,omb came from Moscow via Warsaw.
took lodgings in Morskaia street 5
nd hired a carriage, in which they V
listed one of the open air summer r
heatres prior to going to Premier Il
,tolypin's house. The chief of the r.
ssassins, whose body is now guarded q
y troops, is apparently about 25 years a
f age. He wore a brand new uniform
eneath which he had a civilian vest
( very dirty linen.
Later Report. -,
The daughter of Premier Stolypin, y
'ho was injured by the explosion and -
no was enormously reported to have 9,
led, is still alive. The premier's son, u
no also was hurt, is better.
Two more persons injured by the =
explosion died during Sunday night, 81
the total number of dead up Il
!, 80. Twenty-six persons were in 81
antly killed. RI
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