The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-06-22
B[STIAL. WORK IN
BIALYSTOk RIOT
RUIN AND DESOLATlON LEFT IN
THE WAKE OF THE BLOOD.
THIRSTY MOB.
EMBARGO ON news LIFTED
CORRESPONDENT Is UTTERLY
UNNERvED BY SIGHTS HE
WITNESSED.

st. Petersburg, June 20.-The en-
barge on news from Bialystok wa
lifted yesterday and the Associated
Press staff correspondent was for the
first time allowed to telegraph direct
from the sacked city picture OF the
scene Of ruin and desolation left in
the wake of the mob. According to
frequent bulletins order was restored
and maintained throughout the day.
in spite of the incentive to disorder
at funerals which were in progress al
most the whole day; but the atmos-
phere is supercharged and slight
event may precipitate a renewal of
street fighting
Make Show of Force.
The authorities apparently realize
this and hope to avert such a catas-
trophe by a strong show of force. On
one occasion the whole garrison was
called out on some alarm, and the
streets were literally packed with
horse, foot and artillery until the
danger was passed.
The story told by the Associate cor
respondent was a dreadful one. but
there are indications that he has been
prevented by the censorship from re-
lating further details about the condi-
tion of corpses, the utter bestiality
of the mob and the inability of the
troops to cope with the excesses dur
Ing the first days of the rioting.
Three-cornered Fight.
1t is evident from the dispatches
that the excesses assumed the charac-
ter of a three -cornered fight between
the military, the mob and armed
members of the Jewish bund, who, in
stead Of submitting passively to
slaughter as their unarmed coreligion-
lists have done heretofore, carried the
war into the enemy's camp and fought
bravely through without inflicting ap-
preciable loss on the troops. among
whom no serious casualties have been
reported.
Horrible details have been sent out
by the correspondent Of the Bourse
Gazette, who arrived in Bialystok in
company with Deputy St. Chepkin on
Saturday, and who managed to send
his story by messenger Sunday aft
ernoon.
Unnerved by Slaughter
The correspondent, who accompa-
MED ST. Chepkin directly to the hos
pital, escorted by a corporars guard,
says he was utterly unnerved by the
sights he witnessed there.
Merely saying that corpses were
mutilated." the correspondent writes,
"fails to describe the awful facts. The
faces of the dead have lost all human
semblance, and the cOrpses simply
are crushed masses of flesh and bone
soaking in blood 1t is impossible to
conceive of such bestiality.
Nails Driven in Face.
The corpse of Teacher Apstein lay
on the grass with the hands tied. In
the face and eyes had been hammered
three-inch nails. Rioters entered his
home an dafter fearful outrages killed
him thus and then murdered the rest
of his family of seven. When the
corpse arrived at the hospital 1t was
also marked with bayonet thrusts
Beside the body Of Apstein lay the
corpse of child OF ten years, whose
leg had been chopped off with an ak.
corpses Marked With Fire.
II am told that soldiers entered the
apartments of Lapidius brothers.
which were crowded with people who
had fed from the streets for safety,
and ordered the Christians to separate
themselves from the Jews. A Chris
tian student named Dikar protested
and was killed on the spot. Then all
the Jews were shot. Some of the
corpses were marked with fire. These
had been brought from a burned tan
merry and showed bullet and bayonet
marks.
"In one corner of the yard was a
woman trying to cover the body of her
husband, but her efforts were in vain
as the blood simply oozed from be-
meath the inadequate covering. From
the wounded come many pitiable
stories, all Of the same general tenor" :"
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