The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-06-19


ST Petersburg luno IA uory a'e
Details Of the treatment ~ Je~}sa
eorr1e 81 niaiystot have been resf
BY the correspondent ~ ,he Beursc
Gazette The eaffes poudfnt says the
sights completely unnerYed hir lie
managed 10 send hts mcssags by
messenger sunday wight
Merely saying the, the cor kes serc
mutIlated fats 70 Ht scrito the acts.
They have ios; sfI tGrg eembla-e.
and the corpscs are a,is,h srgAl "a
masses Of flesh ard hone. soa ing ir
blood, II is impossible to conceive
of such beastialtfy. The cogpse az
ieat her Apstein lay on the grass with
hands tied Hts face aud ewes had
been hammered with three-inch nails
RE was thus Killed and his family
OF seven was murdered when the
co pse arrived at the hospital IL was
also marked by bayonct thrusts.
beside his body lay the corpse OF
ten-year-oid girl. whose legs had been
chopped off. Here. also. the dead from
the Cheltea. where the house was
plundered and the wife. son and a
neighbours daughter were killed and
two daughters o. Cheltea.
am told that soldiers entered the
apartments OF the Lapidus brothers
which were crowded with people who
mad lied from the streets for safety
fnd ordered the Christians to separate
themselves from the Jews A Chris.
nan student named Dikalber protested.
ahd was killed on the spot. Then all
Of the Jews were shot.
Some OF the corpses were marked
fire, They had been brought
from burned tannery, and showed
bullet and bayonet marks.
In one corner OF the ward was a
demented Jewess trying to cover the
body of her husband but her effo,ts
were In vain, as the blood and the In.
adequate clothing prevented.
The participants seemingly were
not inspired by motives OF loot. but Of
muroer and destruction pure and sim.
pie He also holds that the participa
t'oh OF the troops has been completely
proven, and quotes Deputy ST. Chen.
KIN as saying that this Is clearly
shown by the decentralization of the
soldiery.
The correspondent OF the Associated
Press sent this:
The scene at the Jewish hospital
where the majority of the Jewish dea
and most severely wounded were TAX
en-, was terrible. When the CORE.
spondent arrived there the grass plot
outside the hospital was covered with
mangled corpSes. arranged in two
long rows, awaiting burial The wood
en- walk from the gate to the door.
over which the bodies were carried
was stained with blood. The dead and
wounded were still arriving. Many of
them had been lying untouched in
the streets for Two days. The bodies
OF some of them were frightfully
bruised, broken and mangled. A con
slant stream of unhappy Jews visited
| the graveyard, and when they were
able to do so. endeavored to locate ant
identify members. of their families ant
friends, or obtain the bodies of deat
ones for burial Some of the bodie
had ali eady been removed but the al
tendants asserted that about 100 in al
/ had been brought in, and that man
more remained in the outskirts O
Bialystok. where it was still unsaf,
for the Red Cross attachments to ven
ture. At the district hospital there
wee six dead persons and eight OF
ten wounded. These were all Chris
tians. One man had been killed and
two wounded as the result of the ex-
| plosion of the bombs. The other had
/ bullet wounds. These bodies were not
manEled or mutilated, as was the case
with the Jews. whose hands. arms and
! legs were sometimes chopped off from
mere Wantonness
! 1t is evident from dispatches that
/ the excuses assumed the character of
three-corntred fight between the mil
| itary. the mob and armed members
of the Jewish Bund. who. instead of
gubmittinb impassively to slaughter,
( as their unarmed coreligionsts have
| lone. bravely, though without inflict-
ing apprecable loss in troops among
whom no ser, pus casualties have been
I reported.