The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-08-31
THREW DEADLY BOMB
THIR1Y.1WO PERSONS Are DEAD
and 81 are WOUNDED.
Fearful Destruction Follows Attempt
to Assassinate Premier of Russia
At His Country House Dead In
clude His Daughter-Prominen Of
ficials and Society People Wounded.

| ficials and Society People Wounded.
st. Petersburg, Aug. 26-Twenty-
seven persons are dead and 33 wound
ed as the result of a dastardly at
tempt Saturday afternoon to assas-
sinate Premier Stolypin with bomb
while he was holding public recep-
ton at his country house on Apten-
tassy island. The premier was
slightly wounded on the face and
| neck by flying splinters.
Among the dead are the premier's
15-year-Old daughter, who had both
legs broken oy the explosion and SUBJ
sequently succumbed to her injuries;
| General Zamatin, the premier's per-
sonal secretary; M. Khosvoff, former
governor of the province of Pensa;
| Colonel Fodoroff, chief of the pre-
miers personal guard; Count Cham
berlain Davidoff, Court Chamberlain
Veronin and Aide DOubasoff, Prince
| Nakashidge, Police Officer Konun-
Jeff and four women and two chill
dren.
The wounded include M. Stolypins'
| 3-year-old son, who is seriously II not
fatally injured, and several persons
| prominent in the society and official
| world.
Of the four conspirators who en-
gineered the outrage, two were killed
| with their victims, while the third,
who acted as coachman for the party,
and the fourth, who remained inside
| the carriage were badly wounded and
are now in the ST. Peter and st. Paul
| fortress.
The authors of the outrage drove
up to the premier's residence after
| the list of visitors had been closed.
| The servants refused them admis-
sion, at which they attempted to
| force an entrance to the house. A
struggle ensued at the entrance to
the anteroom adjoining the reception
| room, during the course of which
the terrorist, disguised as gendarme,
dropped bomb, which exploded, de-
stroying the anteroom, the adjoining
| guardroom, part of the reception room
/ and also the balcony of the first
floor. The tremendous force of the
| explosion absolutely blew out the
front of the premier's residence and
| carried away the ceilings above and
| the floor beneath and the walls OF
| the adjoining rooms.
| People were literally blown to
pieces. Those who were not killed
instantly were horribly mangled or
lacerated, and all the others present
were Frustrated by the shock.
The premier's escape was miracu-
| lous, for only a moment before the
explosion took place he had stepped
inside his study at the rear of the
salon to speak to Prince Shakovsky.
Although he IS but slightly. injured, he
is completely Frustrated by the ca
| lamity.
The havoc wrought by the explosion
is indescribable. Bodies we're so torn
or mangled as to make Identification
| impossible, some of them headless.
armless, legless, lying among the
! blood dripping wreckage. Pieces OF
flesh and clothing hung to the shat
tered rafters overhead and some lodg-
ed in branches of the elm trees which
border the roadway separating the
premier's residence from the river.
The terrorist who carried the ex-
| plosive into the house was literally
converted into pulp by the force of
the explosion.
Inside the gendarme coat which
he had on was found the death SEN
tence of Premier StolypiD that he had
tried to execute. The police refuse to
make public the contents of the docu-
ment.
Reds Came From Moscow.
AS a result of an inquiry it was
learned that the man who threw the
bomb came from Moscow via Warsaw.
They took lodgings in Morskaia street
and hired a carriage, in which they
| visited one of the open air summer
theatres prior to going to Premier
Stolypin's house. The chief of the
assassins, whose body is now guarded
| by troops, is apparently ABOUT 70 years
| of age. He wore brand new uniform
| beneath which he had civilian vest
| of very dirty linen.
Later Report.
The daughter of Premier Stolypin
who was injured by the explosion and
who was enormously reported to have
died. is still alive. The premier's son,
who also was hurt, is better.
| Two more persons injured by the
explosion died during Sunday night,
bringing the total number of dead up
to 80. Twenty-six persons were in
stantly killed.
Not From John Rockefeller.