Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-06-20
HORRIBLE DETAILS.
cerpsss Of Jews Simply Crushed Mass.
&c Of Flesh and Blood.


&c Of Flesh and Blood.
St. Petersburg. June i9.-Horrible
details OF the treatment OF Jewish
eorpses al Blalystok have been sen,
by tho correspondent Of the Bourse
Gazette The correspondent says the
sights completely unneryed him. He
managed TO send his message by
messenger Sunday night
Merely saying that the corpscs were
mutllated fails TO describe the acts.
They have logt all human semblage.
and the corpses are simply crushed
masses OF flesh and bone. soaking in
blood II IS impossible to conceive
OF such beastlallty. The corpse Of
Teacher Apstein lay on the grass with
hands tied. His face and eyes had
been hammered with three.inch nails
He was thus killed and his family
OF seven was murdered. When the
corpse arrived at the hospital Il was
also marked by bayonet thrusts
Beside his body lay the corpse OF a
Iten-year-old girl, whose legs had been
chopped off. Here. also. the dead from
/ the Cheltca. where the house was
plundered and the wife son and a
neighbor's daughter we're killed and
two daughters OF Cheltea.
Il am told that soldiers entered the
apartments OF the Lapidus brothers.
which were crowded with people who
had f0d from the streets for safety.
and ordered the Christians 20 separate
themselves from the Jews A Chris.
tian student named Dikalber protested.
and was killed on the srot. Then all
OF the Jews were shot
Some OF the cOrpses we're marked
with fire. They had been brought
from a burned tannery. and showed
bullet and bayonet marks.
In one corner OF the yard was a
demented Jewess trying to cover the
body OF her husband. but her efforts
were In vain. as the blood and the in
adequate clothing prevented.
The participants seemingly were
not inspired by motives OF loot but Of
murder aud destruction pure and sim
pie. He also holds that the participa-
ton Of the troops has been completely
proven. and quotes Deputy 81. Chep.
kin as saying that this is clearly
shown by the Generalization OF the
soldiery.
The correspondent OF the Associated
Press sent this:
The scene at the Jewish hospital.
where the majority OF the Jewish dead
and most severely wounded were TAX.
IN, was terrible. when the CORE
spondent arrived there the grass plot
outside the hospital was covered with
mangled corpses. arranged In two
long rows, awaiting burial The wood.
en- walk from the gate TO the door.
over which the bodies were carried.
was stained with blood The dead and
wounded were still arriving Many OF
them had been lying untouched in
the streets for two days. The bodies
OF some OF them were frightfully
bruised. broken and mangled A con
slant stream OF unhappy Jews visited
the graveyard. and when they we're
able 10 do 30. endeayored 20 locate and
identify members OF their families and
/ friends. or obtain the bodies OF dead
ones for burial Some OF the bodies
had already been removed. but the at.
PENDANTS asserted that about 100 in all
had been brought In. and that many
more remained In the outskirts Of
Bialystok. where Il was still unsafe
| for the Red Cross detachments 10 ven
ture AZ the district hospital there
were six dead persons and eight or
ten wounded. These were all Chris
tians. one man had been killed and
two wounded as the result OF the ex.
plosion OF the bombs. The other had
bullet wounds These bodies were not
mangled or mutilated. as was the case
with the Jews. whose hands. arms and
legs were sometimes chopped off from
mere wantonness
II is evident from dispatches that
the excuses assumed the character 81
a three-corntred fight between the mil.
itary. the mob and armed members
OF the Jewish Bund who. instead Of
submittinb impassively to slaughter.
as their unarmed coreligionists have
lone. bravely. though without inflict.
Ing appreciable loss In troops among
whom no serious casualties have been
reported.