Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-16
THIRTY KILLED AND THE HOS
PITFALLS ARE FILLED WITH
THE WOUNDED
POLICE GUARD STREETS
Bomb Thrown at Procession Is Signal
for outbreak-sltuatlon In Lower
House Of Parliament Is Strained to
the Breaking Polnt-eovernrnent De.
mands Expulsion Of Ullanon.

Bailystok, Russia, June 15.-As far
as can be ascertained thirty Jews
were killed during yesterdays out
break here. The hospitals are filed
with wounded, but it Is impossible to
ascertain the correct number of cas-.
ualties as many of the injured ara
hidden in private houses. All Jewish
shops on the four principal streets
were sacked. Military and police pa.
trolls now guard the streets and no
civilians are allowed to leave the
houses. A sort of armed truce has
been established pending complete
restoration of order.
Bomb Explosion Signal.
The massacre began when some one
threw bomb at the Corpus Christi
procession as it was passing through
Alexandrovsh street. The bomb was
thrown from a balcony, and 1t explod-
ed among the processionists, killing
and wounding many persons. including
Fredoroff, a priest OF the Russian
church. 1t is asserted that the bomb
was thrown by Jew.
The explosion of the bomb seems to
have been the signal for the ferocious
outbreak. Almost Immediately shots
were fred into the crowd from the
building from which the bomb was
hurled.
Revolver fllsillades also were heard
simultaneously in other parts af sislr,
Soldiers hastily surrounded the house
from which the bomb was thrown and
poured two volleys through the win
dows.
Then Massacre Begins.
Then the enraged Christians attack
ed the Jews wherever they could find
them. mob poured down through the
entire Jewish quarter and attacked the
Jewish shops, particularly in Alexan-
droVsK and Sura streets, demolishing
the fixtures and windows and throwing
their goods into the cutters and beat
ing and numbering the Jews.
A crowd Of Jews fed to the railroad
station, pursued by the mob, which
killed many Of them there. Three Jews
were thrown from second story win
dows of the railroad station building.
Troops Interfere Too Late.
The police are said not to have at.
tempted to interfere in the early stages
of the riot.
The Jews, who number three-fourths
of the population Of the city, offered
the best resistance possible, many Of
them being armed, but were unable to
prevent the pillaging OF their homes
and places Of business.
Finally the military interfered, but
without being able to restore order.
Situation Critical.
st. Petersburg, June 15-The press
Is unanimous in Its profound pessi-
mism over yesterdays events in tho
lower house OF parliament. The situa-
ton is strained to the breaking point.
The attempt Of the military procur.i
ator, General Payloff, in behalf of the
war minister to shift the responsible
ity for the military executions to the
minister of the interior is palpabls
evasion of the issue raised by the
house and has echoed throughout the
country, with the result that a storm,
of indignation has been aroused and
is being augmented by the cool at.
tempt Of the government to invade
the inyiolability Of the members OF
parliament. and it's demand for the ex.
pulsion Of M. Ulianoff.
Avoid Action by Government.
Whether the government dares to
follow up legally the refusal of the
house to expel Ulianoff and It's fiaunt.
ing OF Pavliff is now a question.