The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-09-14
Jews Slaughtered
BY CRUEL SOLDIERS
HATED PEOPLE SHOT AND BAY.
oNETTED IN STREETS OF
sIEDLCE, POLAND.
Cars Troops Join with Mob in She'd
ding Blood and Looting Homes
of Victims, Then Offer Booty for
Sale to Travellers.

st. Petersburg, Sept. 1.-THE pre-
dictions made in these dispatches
August % CT a Jewish massacre at
Siedlce, Russian Poland, unhappily
have been justified by the fighting
which broke out Saturday night, and
developed Sunday in carnival of
indiscriminate slaughter and pillage
in which the soldiery and the mob
took part Jews were shot and bay
onetted in the streets of the town.
Houses and shops were broken into
and sacked. Valuables were carried
off and offered for sale by soldiers to
passengers on passing trains.
In addition to the Jews, number
of Christians and even some officers
met their death in the fighting.
Revolt in Prison.
There was a revolt Monday in the
central detention prison of st. Peters
burg in consequence of the death of
Mile, Semenova, girl of %, an en-
thusiastic social democrat, who was
shot and killed instantly by sentry
when she showed herself at the win
dow of her cell overlooking the court
yard.
The furious prisoners expelled the
warders, barricaded the prison and
laid the corpse of Mile. Semenova up
on an impromptu bier in the central
cell, refusing to deliver it to the au-
thorities and swearing they would die
rather than surrender it. Troops were
summoned, but the authorities fearing
bloodshed temporized and sent for the
brother of Mile. Semenova, to whom
the insurgents delivered the body.
Grand Duke Nicholas, after an in
vestigation of the affair, personally
ordered the dismissal of the officer of
the guard, which was drawn from the
unpopular Seminovsky regiment.
Mile. Semenova was a medical stu
dent and was seeking to divide with
the prisoners some sugar which she
had surreptitiously obtained when she
was shot.
Refuses to Stop Slaughter.
Siedlce, Sept. ia delegation of
citizens asked the governor to order
the troops to cease firing, but the gov
ernor replied that the citizens must
deliver up their leaders and the revo-
lutionists or otherwise the city would
be bombarded.
The authorities assert that Is ter
rorists have arrived here from War
saw and that they must be arrested
before any of the inhabitants are per-
mitted to leave the city.
1t is reported that 200 persons, most
of them Jews, were killed, many in
their flats.
The scenes Sunday and Monday
were of unspeakable horror. Every
where there were screams and cries
mingled with the sound of shooting.
Soldiers invaded the restaurant of
the Victoria hotel and destroyed the
furniture of the establishment and car
ried off the wines and liquors.
Blood Flows at Warsaw.
Warsaw, Sept. 11.-Four terrorists
Monday evening entered restaurant
in Elektoraina street, where number
of detectives had assembled, and shot
and killed the proprietor. The as
sassins in trying to escape, met po-
liceman and two soldiers, whom they
shot and wounded. The soldiers in a
shots, rushed through the street beat
ing and bayonetting all whom they
encountered. Eleven persons were Sc
verely wounded
In a collision Monday afternoon be-
tween civilians and patrol in the
Jewish quarter 20 of the former were
wounded, six of them seriously.
There were several collisions be-
tween soldiers and revolutionists
Monday night.
Two bombs were thrown at patrol
of rural guards in neighboring viii
lage Monday, wounding eight of the
guards.
Drunken Soldiers Kill Two.
LODI, Poland, Sept. Flour drunk
en- soldiers who were on guard in
Drevnovska street Sunday night shot
and killed two men and wounded
three others and robbed a restaurant.
The soldiers have been arrested.
HARVARD CREW WAS TOO WEAK