Connecticut western news., 1906-09-13
MASSACRE IN POLAND.
Russian Troops Slaughter and Burn In Jewish Quar-
 ter of SiedIce.
VICTIMS NUMBER THOUSANDS
Government Knew of Planned Outbreak, Artillery Used on Hebrews-ChiIdren Slain In Street Before Mothers Eyes. Bombs Thrown In Warsaw.

Artillery Used on Hebrews-Children
 Slain In Street Before Mothers Eyes.
 Bombs Thrown In Warsaw.
 St. Petersburg, Sept. 12.-The fight ing and bombarding of houses at Siedlce, Russian Poland, in an attack on the Jews of the town by troops, halted Monday noon, but it was later resumed, apparently because Governor Engelke demanded that the Jews and Poles deliver up to him the members of the Jewish Self Defense association Preferring death in the open to a tame surrender the latter resume6their de- fense. The fighting lasted three days, but the city is now quiet.
 Two hundred Jews have been killed and 1000 wounded in the massacre in Siedlce. Only one Christian was killed
 Government Warned of Outbreak.
 No excuse, no spacious reasoning can absolve the Russian goveEISnent from direct responsibility for the slaughter of the hapless victims of the rage of the soldiers. The authorities had am pie warning on Aug. 23 that the massa- ere was coming, but did not do any thing to prevent 1t.
 In giving its version of the wholesale slaughter of human besegs, the govern ment said that on Saturday night ter rorists killed two soldiers and that the Libau regiment became so infuriated that the soldiers got beyond the control of their officers. Yet the fact is that on Saturday morning the soldiers went through the town warning all the Christians to hang out their ikons and proclaimed openly that the massacre that had been planned several weeks before would take place that night. Children Slain In Street.
 The prediction of the soldiers were fulfilled. Soon after 6 o'clock on Sat urday night the Libau regiment start ed for the Jewish quarter and began murdering men, women and children. The men in uniform pillaged the shops, tore jewels off the fingers of the wom- en, mistreated them in the streets and killed their children before their eyes. There is hardly a soldier in the regi- ment who is not loaded up with loot,
 
 to take away they burned.
 The scenes were of unspeakable hor- TOT. Everywhere there were screams and cries mingled with the sound of shooting.
 The soldiers were permitted to vent their fury without interruption. Jew. ish refugees filled the railroad station, but they were unable to leave the town by rail. At the sight of a group of soldiers the refugees lied into the woods and wandered about for hours Finally Governor General Skallon tele, graphed to St. Petersburg for permis. sion to use artillery In suppressing the massacre.
 Artillery Fired at Hebrews.
 The permission was given, and the artillery was used In characteristic Russian style. Four batteries opened fire, not on the murderous soldiers, but on the Jews. Down Pienkna, Warsaw and Aliena streets the batteries sent their shots, and men, women and chil. dren fell by the score. Not soldier however, was killed. Then the authori ties began making wholesale arrests and fully 5000 prisoners were taken Not soldier was among them.
 Reports of bombs being thrown in Warsaw come in so fast that 1t Is al most impossible to keep track of all of them. Not only the city, but the en tire province of Warsaw Is in a state of terror, and soldiers, officers and DO licemen are being shot down in the streets or blown up in their homes
 At Rudgusowska, forty miles east ot Warsaw, scenes similar to those en acted at Siedlce were witnessed. The soldiers are said to have killed forty persons.