Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26
Twenty-eight Killed
by Explosion
of Bomb
Stolypiu's Daughter Dies
Of Injuries; Many
Wounded.
Two Revolutlonists, Who Carried the
Deadly Missile, Torn to Frag-
ments-Others Will Prob
ably Die
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 25.-Twen-
ty-eight persons are dead and "a
wounded as the result of a dastardly
attempt this afternoon to assassinate
Premier Stolypin with a bomb, while
he was holding a public reception at
his country house on Aptekassy island.
The premier was slightly wounded
on the fate and neck by flying splinters.
Among the dead are the premier's
15-year-old daughter. who had both
legs broken by the explosion and sub
Gen. zamatein, the premier's personal
secretary, and M. Khvoff, former gov
ernor of the province of Penza; Col.
Fodoroff, chief of the premiers per-
sonal guards; Count Chamberlain Da-
vidoff, Court Chamberlain Veronin and
Aide de Camp Boussoff and four wo-
men and two children.
The wounded include NJ Stolypin's s
three-year-old son, who is seriously if
not fatally injured, and a number of
official world.
OF the four conspirators who engi-
neered the outrage, two were killed
with their victims, while a 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 crowded reception hall threw the
bomb or accidentally dropped it proba-
bly, never will be known, as all the
immediate eyewitnesses were killed.
The tremendous force Of the explo-
sion absolutely blew out the front of
the premiers residence and carried
away the ceilings above and the floors
beneath, and the wall of the adjoin-
ing rooms.
Bodies Torn to Pieces
People were literally blown to pieces.
Those who were not killed instantly
We're horribly mangled, and all the
others present were Frustrated by the
shock.
The premier's escape was miraculous,
for only a moment before the explo-
sion took place he had stepped inside
his study at the rear of the salon.
he is completely prostrated by the ca
lamity.
The havoc wrought by the explosion
is indescribable. The bodies We're so
torn or mangled as to make identified
tion impossible, some of them head
less, armless or legless lying among
the blood-dripping wreckage
Pieces of flesh and clothing clung to
the shattered rafters overhead, and
IoIn a., Inro,, oh of+ l.
which border the roadway. separating
the premier's residence from the river.
When the Associated Press this even
ing succeeded in securing permission
to pass the cavalry guarding the ap-
proaches of the house the dead and
wounded already had been removed to
a neighboring hospital, but by the light
of flaring torches the police were still
picking out from the wreckage bits. of
flesh and placing them in towels for
transportation by ambulances to the
morgue.
At the hospital the correspondent. saw
frantic attendants trying to arrange
the shattered bodies into some SEM
blance of human form for identifica-
tion by weeping relatives outside.
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 sentence of
Premier Stolypin that he had tried to
execute. The police refuse to make
public the document.
The tragedy created a tremendous
sensation here, and extra editions of
the newspapers were sold in the streets
until midnight.
In the clubs where officials and Of
flcers gather the most intense indigna-
tion prevailed and the prediction was
freely made that the revolutionists
would pay dearly for such senseless
crimes, but doubt was entertained that
the only effect would be to drive the
government to more severe methods of
repression.
Why Crime Was Committed
From information obtaiHed from revo-
lutionary sources it is certain that the
crime was committed by the fighting
organization of the Social revolutionists
in retaliation for the war which the
government has been waging against
them,
Since M. stolypin's accession to the
premiership over 10000 of their mem
hers have been arrested, 400 in St
Petersburg alone, and many of these
have been deported
To fight this crusade the fighting or
ganization, which Is composed of a
wing known at Matimists and who be-
lieVe In setting up a pure s3c alistic
state upon the ruins of the autocracy,
have deliberately entered upon a duel
with the government such as that
which characterized the famous fight
Of the Nihilists in TIE late seventies
and which ended in the assassination
Of Emperor Alexander II,
Within a year singe year at that
time a little coterie of Nihilists under
the direction f Jeraboff made twenty