The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-06-26
The Full Story of the
Massacre Told.
SCENES FROM THE PIT

-or'e Hand on Wires.
(Ry the Associated Press.)

OF The result Of the investigation by
The Associated Press Of the massacre
Of Jews there its correspondent came
mere. The anti-Jewish rioting at
HiaIystok is now ended. The troops
are in full control and in view Of
the cutlery raised it is certain that
the authorities viii not permit a re
ncWal Of the horrors recently wit
messed at Bialystok.
This entire region is greatly eX-
cited owing to fear that the BIalyStok
massacre vas only the signal tor Z
general attack on the Jews throughout
the pale and in Poland. but if any
such conspiracy existed it is too late
to car.y out the plans. as the most m
pcratiEe orders to prevent further out
breaks have been issued to the gov
cruOrs and goVernOr-generalS from 81.
Petersburg.
When this correspondent arrived
at Eialystok sunday morning the worst
was already over, but on all sides
there was revolving evidence Of savage
bt~tiaIity on the part OF the blood
drunken mobs, which sacked and
burned the jewish houses, shops and
stores.
FOR eeventy-two hours, with a slight
abatement during the day time, the
mad dogs orsie of blood and pillage
went on unchecked. The i~nhumanity
I'll played would have done credit to
the Mongol hordes of Genghis Khan
i'm his c~onquests OF China and central
Asia carly in the thirteenth century.
roIice and Troops melted Mobs.
At first police and troops urged on
the mob. but finally, when ~dislnaycd
by the bloody deeds accomplished,
they reluctantly sought TO obey the
orders of their superiors to put an
end to the work Of the rapacious
bands Of roughs Who We're so far be
yumd 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 We're
hunted down by ferocious pursuers,
who in the majority of cases were
not onten with killing more victims
but tore them to pieces, like Wild
animals. And while this was in
progress the troops either stood idly
by. on. as was more frequently the
case, fired into the houses and shops
where Jews We're concealed, under the
raetext that they believed them to be
revolutionists, but really to make way
for the murderers and plunderers 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 ceme-
teries enables him to approximate the
klIltu at one nulluIeu Jews ana lNtII-
" Christians and the wounded at one
hundred and fifty Jews and seven
Christians.
The question of the origin of the
massacre was carefully investigated.
Although many Of the Jews denied
that a bomb was thrown at the
Corpus Christi procession. Thursday
the fact that a bomb was thrown is
established beyond q doubt, but the
question Of who threw the bomb re-
mains unsettled. The accounts of
impartial witnesses however, demon
Strate that an insulting cry enraged
the Jews who attacked the religious
procession. 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 the crowds watching the pro-
ces#ion a already turned.
Laughing at Butchery.
The Jews at first fought with re-
VolVers and bombs. and with these
weapons the majority of the Chris
tan victims We're killed. But the
Jews were soon overwhelmed and
He'd for shelter. like rabbits to war
1cns, into cellars or attics. The sol
dier& watched this chase and butch
cry, some times laughing With in
difference but never failing to fire
into houses where Jews, sometimes to
the number Of a hundred, were maxi
ing stand against their asSailants. The
soldiers said the Jews We're revolution
its, n that was their excuse for firing
on them. The authorities who wanted
to do something to stop the massa-
ere, were with the police and troops
IN open sympathy with the mob. ut
terIY pOWerleSS.
NIth,nCh =. j. f,-o1,- oIaur11 +I,.
the higher authorities of Bialystok de-
liberateIN organized the massacre. OF,
ii this was not the ease, that il
was carried out under orders from
st. Petersburg. there is no evidence
to supper either charge accordinE
tary commission whose members
were especially anxious to elucidate
his point. NJ. S~chepkin, of Odessa,
4 member of the commission. said:
w wished especially to brins
home the responsibility to the gov
crument if the massacre was organ
lied in st. Petersburg. But our. con
clusiOns are that it was not planned
in st. Petersburg. Neither do We
find proof that chief Of police Shero-
denoff. of Bialystok, was a party t.
the plot. However, the responsibility
Of his sub~ordinates together with thai
of the rank and file of the police
and some of the military officers who
fondly imagine that the odious sys-
tenn of Won Plehve and Trepoff has
not ended, is clearly proven"
Fixing the Responsibility.
I'VE have failed to clear UP whether
d Policeman or an anarchist threw
Lhe bomb. Our Investigations only
demonstrate that the real cause of this
ana similar tragedies is the position
OF the Jews which makes the ignorant
russians consider them to be pariah,
OUTSIDE the protection of the law. h
Jews everywhere are now organizing
societies for Self-defence and as soon
as they show the slightest Resistance
the prosecution they will be treated bv
the troops and ignorant populace as