Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-06-19
WORK
OF DES0LAT|ON
DEVASTATION OF BIALYSToK
is COMPLETE.
CITY IS A TOTAL WRECK
Weeping Women and Ruined Men
Wander Aimlessly Through the
Wrecked Homes.

Bialystok, June lS.-The CORES
pondent Of the Associated Press, who
arrived here yesterday but was not
allowed to telegraph until the present
time and who was required to write
his dispatches in French in order to
facilitate censorship, found the story
Of the riot written in large letters
in the aspect of the streets which
were one continuous picture of arson
and pillage. The windows and doors
of Jewish houses we're wide open,
giving view of their wrecked interior,
or were boarded up with rude, wooden
shutters. Everywhere could be seen
weeping women hunting for traces Of
killed or wounded relatives, The prin-
cipal stores were either devastated
wrecks or mere mounds of ashes, along
which wretched proprietors, last week
rich. but now reduced to poverty,
were wandering about, weakly endea-
voring to ascertain the extent of their
misfortunes. Before practically ev-
cry house left intact hung an ikon
with burning lamp and street doors
were marked with great crosses made
with chalk or of cloth to show that
the inmates were Christians. The
Streets were patrolled by detachments
of cavalry and infantry, and cor
dion of troops drawn around the town
when the outbreak first occurred is
still maintained. The railroad sta
ton was occupied by the military and
nobody was allowed to enter the town
without permit from the eomman-
dant. Strict martial law prevailed.
Martial la wprevailed. Another at
tack was made yesterday evening on
the police stationed by armed revo-
lutionists who occupied house near
by. The opening fire from the build
ing on the police, but a force Of Cos
sacks was gathered. The house was
stormed and the revolutionists dis
persed. 1t was feared that the latter,
who are members of Jewish bund,
and are enraged and embittered by
the slaughter of their co-religionists,
would sieze the occasion of the funer-
al Of their victims today and make a
new attack, but the governor general
took the necessary military measures
to prevent it. and interments passed
off without incident. The garrison
has been strongly reinforced. On
account of the destruction of stores
and provisions, supplies were almost
mobtainabe here just now, but food
being imported to relieve the desti-
tuition. \ scene at the Jewish hospi-
tai, where a majority Of the Jewish
dead and most severely wounded were
taken, was terrible Nhen the CORES
pondent arrived there. \ grass plot
out side BITE hospital was covered with
mangled corpses arranged in two long
rows, awaiting burial. The wooden
walk, from the gate to the door, over
which the bodies were carried, was
stained with blood. Dead and wound
ed were still arriving. Many of them
had been lying untouched in the
strets for two days. Only the most
severely wounded were taken inside
the hospital The bodies of some Of
these were frightfully bruised, broken
and mangled. \ constant stream Of
unhappy persons visited the hospital
yard. and when allowed to do so.
wards. endeavoring TO locate and
identify members Of their families or
friends. or obtain bodies of dead ones
for burial Some of the bodies had
already been removed. but the hos
pital attendants asserted that about
hundred in all had been brought in
and that many more remained in the
outskirts of Bialystok. where it was
still unsafe for Red Cross detach-
menls to venture At the district hos
pital there were six dead persons and
eight or ten wounded These were all
Christians. One man had been killde
and two wounded as a result of an ex-
plnsion of bombs Others had bullet
wounds. These bodies were not man
gled or mutilated - was the ease
with the ews. whose arms. hands and
legs were sometimes chopped off for
mere wantonness.