Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-16
mobs Take Them From
Trains as They Flee
From Death.
EUGITIvES STARVING
BiaIystok Reported Afire---AIl
Russia Agitated Over
the News.

st. Petersburg June 16.-(After-
nOon) An unconfirmed Tumor is in
circulation to the effect that anti-Jew-
ish outbreaks have occurred at Brest-
Litovsk and Wilma. 1t is also reported
a Catholic priest was torn to pieces at
Bialystok but this is officially denied.
Butchery Probably Goes On.
st. Petersburg, June 16.-Direct tel
egrams from BialystOk TO the newspa-
pers today contain no fresh informa
tiOn. and no doubt a censor controls the
telegraph. The Bourse Gazette prints
a special from Grodne declaring the
governor of the city has expressed
himself to the effect there is no hope
of stopping the butchery of Jews at
Bialystok for two or three days.
Dragged from Trains.
Mobs are invading trains passing
through Bialystok, and are dragging
out and killing passengers. Jews who
escaped from Bialystok are wandering,
starving in the fields or woods.
Town Is Burning.
Berlin, June ia dispatch from
BiaIystok dated at 2:4O p. m. says plum
dering and numbering continues. Troops
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on fire. Fires are continuously break
ing out. The situation is frightful. "A
few Jews through high payments have
been allowed to escape
Continued Lnte.
Warsaw. June 16.-The latest mes
sages received from Bialystok say the
sacking of Jewish houses and shops.
accompanied by conflicts in the streets
between mobs and troops, continued
until late last night. Many Jews,
Poles and Russians, civilians and sol
diers were killed or wounded.
The suburb of Bejary was totally
burned and eight streets at Bialystok
completely sacked.
Covered Large Area,
The rioting is said to have extended
TO Lapy station on the ST Petersburg
railroad. At both places Jewish shops
were looted and Jews murdered or
beaten. The mob devastated Jewish
shops in the town of Chermayawies..
In Warsaw, two sergeants were shot
and killed and another policeman
wounded by terrorists and a policeman
who pursued the assassins was shot
and killed by passing woman.
Confirmed at st Petersburg.
St. Petersburg. June 1G-M Vinaver. |
constitutional democratic member of i
the lower house, received the following |
dispatch from Bialystok early this /
morning:
''Rioting proceeded throughout the |
day with unabated fury and is still con-
tinuing. with no sigss of cessation. 1t |
is impossible to send particulars of
the horrors"
kishincv Excited.
Odessa, June 16.-Jews at Kishinev
are in a state of panic in view of re-
ports that Jewish massacre is threat
ened They hastily closed and barri-
caded all their houses and stores at |
noon today and the town is now pa
trolled by troops Messages from
Yelisabethgrad and Krementchug re-
port anti-Jewish excesses are also ap-
pretended there
Russian Riots Resumed.
Bialystok. Russia. June 16.-Rioting
began early last evening The mob |
was swelled by thousands of peasants |
who had arrived during the day. They |
pluDdered the burning and deserted
dwellings of the Jews Almost all the
Jewish shops are ruined. Jews who had |
not fled were mercilessly harried. Wo-
men were spared, but the men were
bludgeoned. stabbed or shot Firing is
heard in many directions.
Six thousand Jews are now camped |
in the forests surrounded by soldiers.
Another bomb was thrown yesterday |
killing a policeman and wounding
others.
Blame Placed Jews.
According to the information obtain
able the attacks on the Jews were pro-
voked by the throwing of a bomb into
a religious procession, that of Corpus
Christi, seriously wounding a priest,
Father Federoff. who was at the head |
of the procession and several of his
assistants. This aroused the Christian
population. and. although the perpe-
tIators of the outrage were unknown,
the responsibility was promptly based
on the Jews. A mob soon was formed
and for several hours ravaged the jew
ish quarter. Novo Schosseina, Lipova.
Memietzka. and Aiexandrov streets.
pillaging the shops and hunting down