The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19


 Bdaiystok, June ls.-Noon- relgns
 today throughout thds deysstated town.
 Firing was heard at midnight on the outskirts of Biaiystok near the cemetery
 but no further disorders have occurred.
 The total figures of the casualties are
 not obtadnable, but seventy bodies were buried today. Thas ds claimed to be less
 than half the total of the killed Jewish
 estimates say that not less than 200 were
 killed. The number of wounded is enor-
 nous. Surgeons have arrived here from
 Warsaw to assist the overworked staffs of the hospitals in caring for the in-
 jured
 A few instances of the excesses were
 the beastily and brutality with which the victims of the massacre were treated
 Some of the corpses were mere masses of pulped flesh, the wounded in some cases
 hasing scarcely a sound bone in their bodies.
 The members of the committee of tho
 lower House of Parliament, who are here
 to inquire into the massacre, are greeted as saviours by the population. who flock out of their houses with pathetic joy and
 relief As the commissioners pass through
 the streets the people call down blessings on their heads, and give them accounts
 of their sufferings.
 The commandant of the troops has fur
 nished the commissioners with am escort
 and has promised them every facility in conducting their investigation.
 All Telesrams Censored. The correspondent of the Associated
 Press, who arrived here yesterday, but
 was not allowed to telegraph until the
 present and who was required to write dispatches in French in order to faeilitate the censorship, found the story of the riot written fn large letters in the aspect of the streets which were one continuous
 picture of arson and pillage. The win dows and doors Of the Jewish houses were wide open, giving a view Of their wrecked interior. or were bparded up with rude wooden shutters. Everywhere could be seen weeping women, hunting for traces of killed or wounded relatives. The principal stores were either devas- 1 tated wreclSs or merely mounds of ashes along which the wretched proprietors 1 last week rich, but now reduced to pow erty, were wandering about weakly en- deavoring to ascertain the extent of their nfiSIOTLuneS. btlUiS pidEtiCttlly every l house left intact hung am ikon with a i burning lamp, and the street doors were 1 marked With great crosses made of chalk or of cloth to show that tine fnmate es i were Christians The streets were pa 1 trolled by detachmefits Of cavalry and 1 infantry. and the cordcn of troops drawn
 around the town when the otrtbiealS first i occurred. was still ifNaintadned. The raf1-
 road station was occupied by the nili- ! taay. and nobody Was allowedfto enter the town without permit from the com
 rnandant. strlct martial law prevailed. Another House stormed.
 1 Another attack was made yesterday ] evening on the police station by armed
 revolutionists. who occupied a house near by. They opened fire from the buildings on the police. but force of cossacks was
 gathered, the house was stormed and the i revoiutionists were dispersed. It was feared that the latter who are members of the Jewish bund and are enraged and
 embittered by the slaughter of victims to- ! day to make new attack but the govern i or general took the necessary military ! measures to prevent 1t and the interr-
 ments passed off without incident. The garrison has been strongly rein i forced and now includes besides several regiments of infantry, two squadrons of the cavalry, three squadrops of dra goons and two batteries of artillery. On ac- i count of the destruction of the stores of l provisions. supplies are almost unobtain- able here just nov, but food Is being im-
 ported to relieve the destitdtion. s''' Grass Covered With corpses. The scene at the Jewish hospital where | the majority of Jewish dead and most
 sevsTely wounded were takeH wai rsrri-
 ble. When the corre$pondkntsA arrived there the grass plot outside the hospital | was coyered with man8led corpses, ar EshFsa ip two loRx Fsxs EeltAaS AYEiel' ll.l