The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-06-28
GRIM STORY OF THE
BlALYSTOK HORRORS.


stok is now ended. The troops are
in full control, and, in view of the
outcry raised, it is certain that the
authorities will not permit a re-
newal of the horrors recently lit
messed at Bialystok.
The entire region is greatly ex-
cited owing to the fear that the
Bialystok massacre is only signal
for a general attack on Jews
throughout the country and in Po-
land, but if any such conspiracy ex-
listed it is too late to carry out the
plans as the most Imperative orders
to prevent further outbreaks have
been issued to the governors, and
governors general from st. Peters
berg.
When the correspondent arrived at
Bialystok the worst was already over
but on all sides there was revolving
evidence of the savage bestiality on
the part of blood drunken mobs
which sacked and burned Jewish
houses, shops and stores. For seven
ty-two hours with slight abatement
during the day time the mad orgy of
blood and pillage went on unchecked.
The inhumanity displayed would
have done credit to the mongrel
hordes of Geghis Khanil in his con-
quests of China and Central Asia
during the early part of the thir-
teenth century.
At first the police and troops urged
on the mob but finally, when dis
mayed by the bloody deeds accom-
plished, they Reluctantly sought to
obey the orders of their superiors
and put an end to the work of the
rapaicous bands of roughs who had
gotten so far beyond the control of
the local forces that regiment after
regiment had to be thrown into the
city before order could be restored.
During the rioting the Jews were
hunted down by ferocious pursuers,
content with killing more victims but
tore them to pieces like wild ami
mails. And while this was in progress
the troops either stood idly by or, as
more frequently was the case, fired
into the houses and shops where the
Jews were concealed, under a pre-
text that they believed them to be
revolutionists but really to make way
for the murderers and plumbers who
followed in the soldiers wake.
While it is impossible to give the
exact figures. the visits of the CORE
spondent to the hospitals and Gene
teries enable him to approximate
the killed at 100 Jews and twenty
Christians and the wounded at $50
Jews and seven Christians.
The question of the origin of the
massacre has been carefully inyesti-
gated. Although many of the Jews
denied that a bomb was thrown at
the Corpus Christi procession last
week. the fact that it was thrown is
established beyond any doubt, but the
question as to who threw it remains
unsettled. The accounts of impair
tial witnesses, however, demonstrate
that an insulting cry enraged the
Jews, who attacked the religious pro-
cession. Then from one end of the
city to the other, the police spread
the report of the attack, thus fan
ming the religious fanaticism of the
Christians and setting loose the
worst elements upon the Jews, on
whom crowds, watching the pro-
cession, had already turned.
The Jews first fought with revol-
vers and bombs and with these
weapons the majority of the Chris
tian victims were killed. But the
Jews, soon overwhelmed, fed for
shelter like rabbits to warrens, into
cellars or attics. The soldiers
watched this chase and butchery,
sometimes laughing with Indifference
but never failing to fire into the
house where Jews, sometimes num-
bered by the hundreds, were making
a stand against their assailants. The
soldiers said the Jews were revolu-
tiOnists and that was their excuse
for firing on them. The authorities
who wanted to do something to stop
the massacre were, with the police
and troops: in open sympathy with
the mob, utterly pOwerless.