Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-06-21

barge on news from Bailystok was lift.
ed yesterday and the Associated Press
staff correspondent was for the first
time allowed to telegraph directly
from the sacked city a picture of the
scene of ruin and desolation. Accord
ing to frequent bulletins order was re
stored and maintained throughout
the day in spite of incentive to dis
order at funerals which were in pro
gress almost the whole day; but the
atmosphere is subcharged and a
slight event may suffice to precipi
tate a renewal of the fighting.
The story told by the Associated
Press correspondent is dreadful one;
but there are indications that he has
been prevented by the censorship from
relating further details about the con
dition of corpses, the utter bestiality
of the mob and the ability of the
troops to cope with the excuses dur
ing the first days of rioting.
1t is evident from the dispatches
that the excuses assumed the char
acter of a three-cornered fight between
the military, mob and armed members
Of the Jewish bund, who instead of
submitting passively to slaughter as
their unarmed coreligionists have
done heretofore, carried war into the
enemy's camp and fought bravely
through without inflicting appreciable
loss on the troops, among whom no
serious casualties have been reported.
Horrible details have been sent by
the correspondent of the Bourse
Gazette, who arrived in Bialystok in
company with Deputy St. Chespkin
Saturday and who managed to send
his story by messenger Sunday after
noon.
The correspondent, who accom-
panied St. Chepkin directly to the
hospital, escorted by a corporal's
guard says he was utterly unnerved
by the sights he witnessed there,
Merely saying corpses were multi
ated," the correspondent writes. fails
to describe the awful facts, The
faces of the dead have lost all human
semblances and the corpses simply
are crushed masses of flesh and bone
soaking in blood. 1t is impossible to
conceive of such bestiality. The
corpse of Teacher Apstein lay on the
grass with hands tied. In the face
and eyes had been hammered three
inch nails Rioters entered his home
and after fearful outrages killed him
thus and then murdered the rest Of
his family of seven.
Massacres Challenge Belief.
Apstein's body was also marked
with a bayonet thrust Beside the
body of Apstein lay the corpse of a
child of 10 years, whose leg had been
chopped off with an axe. Here also
where according to a witness soldiers
came and plundered the house ana
killed the wife, son and neighbor S
daughter and seriously wounded
Schlachter and his two daughters.
81 am told the soldiers entered the
apartments of Lapidus brothers, which
were crowded with people who had
fed from the streets for safety, ana
ordered the christians to separate
themselves from the Jews. A chris
tian student named Dikar protested
and was killed on the spot. Then al,
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 bayone,
marks.
In one corner of the yard was de,
mented Jewess trying to cover the
body of her husband, but her efforts
were in vain. as the blood simply
oozed from beneath the inadequate
covering.
Wounded Tell Horrible Stories.
From the wounded in the hospital
the correspondent heard many pitiable
stories, all of the same general tenor.
Here is the account Of a badly wound.
ed merchant named Nevyazhiky: a
live in the suburbs. Learning of the
progrom, | tried to reach town through
the fields but was intercepted by
roughs. My brother was killed, my
arm and leg broken, my skull frac
tured and | was stabbed twice in the
side. / tainted from loss of blood
and revived TO find a soldier standing
over me who asked, What, are you
still alive? Shall | bayonet your /
begged him to spare my life. The
roughs again came. but spared me.
saying He will die, let him suffer
longer"
Not Much Robbery.
The correspondent, who adopts the