Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-30
MANY KILLED
BY A BOMB
lerrorists Attempt Life Of
Nj. Stolypin, Russian
Premier
HE IS SLIGHTLY INJURED
Bomb Expiodes in Crowded Recep-
ton hall-Twenty-eight Lose Lives
inch ding Many Prominent Persons
Two Nihilists Blown to Bits

st. Petersburg, Aug. 26.-Later de-
tails show that the authors Of the out
rage arrived at the premier's residence
after the list of visitors had been
closed. The attendants refused them
admission. at which they attempted
to force an entry. A struggle ensued
at the entry to the anteroom adjoin-
ing the reception room during the
course of which the bomb was drop
ped. Phe principal loss OF life &C.
CURED In the ante-room. Altogether
there were sixty victims of the ex-
plosion, including twenty-eight per-
sons killed.
St Petersburg, Aug. 26.-Twenty'
eight persons are dead and twenty
four wounded as the result OF an at
tempt yesterday afternoon TO assas-
sinate Premier Stolypin with a oomD
while he was holding public recep-
ton at his country house on Apate-
karsky island. The premier was
slightly wounded on the face and neck
by flying splinters.
Among the dead are the premier's
15-year-old daughter, who had both
legs broken and subsequently sue
cumbed to her injuries; Gen. X. xam-
etin, the premier's personal secretary;
M. Kohvstoff, former governor or the
province of PenZa; Colonel FederoH,
chief of the premier's guard; Court
Chnmberlains Davidoff and Voron1n
and Aide Deubassoff, four women and
two children. The wounded INCLUDE
M. SteIypin's 3-year-old son and a num-
Der of persons prominent in the social
and Official worlds.
OF the four conspirators who en-
gineered the outrage, two were Kill
led, while the third, who acted as
coachman for the party, and the
fourth, who remained in the carriage,
were badly wounded. These two were
arrested.
The victims were literally blown to
pieces. Those who were not killed IN
stantly were horribly manned or
lacerateF and all present were pros
trated by the shock.
The premier's escape was miracu-
lous for only moment before he had
stepped In his study at the rear OF the
salon to speak to Prince Shakovsky.
Although he was but slightly injured
he is completely Frustrated.
The havoc wrought by the explo-
sion Is indescribable. Bodies head
less, armless, or legless were found
among the blood dripping wreckage.
Pieces Of flesh and clothing chung to
the shattered rafters over head or
lodged in the trees which border the
roadway, separating the premier's
residence from the river. When The
Associated Press last evening sue
ceeded in securing permission to pass
the cavalry guarding the approaches
to the house the dead and wounded
had been removed to a neighboring
hospital, but by the light of flaring
torches the police were picking up bits
of flesh and placing them in towels
for transportation to the morgue.
At the hospital frantic attendants
were trying to arrange the shattered
bodies in some semblance of human
form for Identification by weeping rel
atives.
The terrorist who carried the explo-
sive was converted into pulp. Inside
the gendarme officers coat which he
wore was found the death sentence OF
Premier Stolypin, which he had tried
to execute. The police tragedy created
a tremendous sensation here, and ex.
ira editions of the newspapers were
sold in the streets until midnight. In
the clubs the prediction was freely
made that the revolutionaries will
pay dearly for such senseless crimes,
which will drive the government to
more severe repressions.
From information obtained from
revolutionary sources it is certain
that the crime was committed by the
fighting organization Of the social rev.
olutionists in retaliation for the war
which the government has been wag-
ing on them. Since M. Stolypin's
accession to the premiership over 1000
OF their members have been arrested,
400 in st. Petersburg alone.
1t has been known that an attempt
upon M. Stolypin's life was frustrated
ten days ago by the discovery of the
beginning of a subterranean passage
from the church adjoining his resi-
dence The mining of palaces and res
licences formerly was a favorite meth
cd of the nihilists.
Emperor Nicholas when appraised of
the disaster sent his personal con.
CALCULATIONS to Premier Stolypin on
his escape and the cabinet ministers
and diplomatic crops rendered SYM