The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-16
1T is A MASSACRE.
Numbering and Plundering Con-
tinues at BialystOk.
City on Fire and Fresh Flames
Are Breaking Out.
SITUATION FRIGHTFUL
A Few Jews Are Able to Pur-
chase Their Escape.
Troops and Mob Fought in
Streets Through the Night.
KILLED AND WOUNDED
Include Jews, Poles and Russian
Citizens and Soldiers.
One SuburbWas Totally Destroy
ed by Fire.
A Few Jews Are Able to Pur-
chase Their Escape.
Troops and Mob Fought in
Streets Through the Night.
KILLED AND WOUNDED
Include Jews, Poles and Russian
Citizens and Soldiers.
One SuburbWas Totally Destroy
ed by Fire.

Berlin, June $3.50 p. ma dis
patch to the Tageblatt from Bialystok,
dated Saturday 2:4O D. M, says;
'Plundering and numbering con-
tinue The garrison here and from
several neighboring places is in posses
sion of the city which is on fire. Fur
Their fires are continually breaking out.
The situation is frightful. A few Jews
through high payments have been al
lowed to escape
Fight in Streets.
Warsaw. June 16.-The latest mes
sages received here from Bialystok say
the sacking of Jewish houses and
shops. accompanied by conflicts in the
streets between the mObs and the
troops continued until late last night.
Many Jews, Poles and Russians,
civilians and soldiers, were killed or
wounded. The suburb of Bojary was
totally burned and eight streets at
Iialystok were completely sacked
The riotfng is said to have extended to
Lapy station. on the ST. petersburg
railway. and to Starosielce station. on
the South western railway. At both
places the Jewish shops were looted
and Jews were murdered or beaten.
a mob devastated the Jewish shops in
the town of Chernayawiez, the first
CirOdno.
In Warsaw two police sergeants
were shot and killed and another po-
liceman was wounded by terrorists,
and a policeman who pursued the
assassins was shot by a passing
woman.
On War Footing.
Odessa. June 16.-Instruedous have
been issued to the effect that all the
infantry regiments and army reserve
men in the southern and southwestern
provinces are to be temporarily placed
the possibility of the peasants rising
against the mobiles. The Cossacks are
to be modified into flying brigades.
Tt is stated that similar instructions
have been issued to the provincial
commanders-in-ehie in central and
northern Russia.
Fury undated.
st. Petersburg, June 16.-2:35 o. m.
M. Vinaver. a constitutional Demo-
cratic member of the lower house, has
received the following dispatch from
Bailystok. dated AS this morning.
THE rioting proceeded throughout
the day with unab ated fury and is still
continuing with no signs of cessa ton.
Tt is impossible to send particular OF
the horrors"
Can't Stop Butchery.
st. Petersburg. June 16.=4:3O p. m.
The direct kilograms from Bialystok
TO the newspapers here today contain
no fresh information No doubt the
censor controls the telegraph. Dis
patches sent by the Associated Press
remain unanswered.
The Bourse Gazette prints a special
dispatch from GrOdno declaring that
the governor of that city has expressed
himself to the effect that there is no
hope of stopping the butchery of Jews
a BialystOk for two or three days He
is quoted as saying that mObs are in
vadiug the trains passing through
Bialystok and are dragging out and
killing passengers The Jews who
escaped from BialystOk are wandering,
starving in the fields or woods.
Jews in State of Panic.
Odessa. June 16.-The Jews at
Kishinef are in state of panic in view
Of reports that A Jewish massacre is
threatened. They hastily closed and
barricaded all their houses and stores
at noon today and the town is now
patrOled by cavalry. while pickets Of
infantry are stationed at strategic
points Mesa ges from Yeliza bethgrad
and krementchug report anti-Jewish
excuses are also apprehended there.
Government Is Frightened.
St. Petersburg. June 16.-The gravity
Of the general situation grows hourly
The bourses of St. Petersburg and Mos
COW are in panicky condition and the
social Democrats and social revolution
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negligible quantity, are pushing their
campaign for an armed uprising with
increased vigor. Demons trations are
daily occurring I'm the streets of Mos
COW in favor of general strike with
which the poletariat leaders are trying
10 precipltate conflict. The agitation
among the wOrkmen here has reached
boiling point and patrols are again in
heaVy force ia the Industrial quarters
ln the country the rural guards are
throwing IN their lot with the TaqSaT
refusing to protect the landlords The
progress OF the revolutionary propa-
ganda In the army is seriously alarming
the government and to add to the pop
ulaF excitement comes the massacre of
Jews at Bialystok. While the reports
conflict as to the immediate RESPONSE
bilry for the outbreak the authorities
here can not escape responsibility for the
provocative Black Hundred kilograms
which they caused to be printed
throughout Russia, appealing to the
worst passions Of the mob against the
Jews as the enemies Of the country.
Ihe government is undoubtedly
frightened at what has occurred. Mar
tai law has been declared at BfaIvstolx
ana troops are being rushed to the
scene but according to the latest re-
ports the hunting down Of unfortunate
jews was continued una bated yesterday
afternoon and night, accompanied by
indescribable horrors. The commission
dispatched to Bialystok by parliament
can be relied upon to make pitilese
exposure to the country OF any dere-
fiction of the authorities
The leaders in the lower house NJ