Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-26
HIs HOME TORN TO PIECES BY EXPLOSION
Twenty-ssven Persons We're Killed and
Twenty Four Injured.
RECEPTION IN PROGRESS AT THE TIME
Among the Victims Are General zameatin
and NJ. Khostovof.
VI BODIES ARE AwrUlLY MAseltp
Tive of the -Four Conspirators Were
Instantly KILLED and Two who
Are Injured Were
Arrested.


Arrested.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 8.-Twenty-
seven persons are dead and twenty-four
wounded as the result Of a dastardly at
tempt this after noon to asssssinate Premier
Stolypin with a bomb while he was hold
ing a public reception at his country house
on Aptekassky island. The premier was
slightly wounded on the face and neck by
flying splinters. Among the dead are the
pronher's ls-year-old daughter, who had
both legs broken by the explosion and sub
sequently succumbed to her INJURIES Gen.
eral Zameatin. the premier's personal sec
retary; NJ. Khostovoff, former governor of
the province Of Penza; Colonel Fodorof,
chief OF the premier's personal guard;
Prince Nakashdge, Police Officer Konuzeff,
Court Chamberlain Davidoff. Court Cham
berlain Vorouin and Aid Doubassoff four
women, two children, several guards and
several servants.
The wounded include NJ. Stolypln's s-year-
old son. who is seriously though not IA
tally injured. and number OF persons
prominent in the social and oficial worlds
Two of the Assassins Killed.
OF the four conspirators who engineered
the outrage two were killed with their
victims, while the third, who acted as
coachnan for the party, and the fourth,
who remained inside the carriage, were
badly wounded and are now in the 81.
Peter and St. Paul fortress.
Whether the assassins who entered the
crowded reception hall threw the bomb
or accidentally dropped II probably never
will be know. as all the immediate eye
witnesses were killed. The tremendous
force Of the explosion absolutely blew out
the front Of the premier's residence and
carried away the ceilings above and the
noors beneath and the walls of the ad-
Joining rooms.
People were literally blown to pieces.
Those who were mot killed instantly were
horribly manned or lacerated and all the
others present were FRUSTRATED by the
shock
The premier's escape was miraculous, for
only moment before the explosion took
place he had stepped inside his study at
the rear of the salon to speak to Prince
Shakovsky. Although he was but slightly
injured, he is completely Frustrated by the
calamity.
Bodies Torn and ManEIed.
Tho havoc wrought by the explosion 10
indescribable. Bodies were so torn or
mangled as to make identification impos-
sible, some OF them headless. armless or
legless. lying among the blood dripping
wreckage. Pieces of flesh and clothing
chung to the shattered rafters overhead
and some lodged in the branches Of the
elm trees which border the roadway sepa-
rating the premier's residence from the
river. When the Associated Press this
evening succeeded in securing permission
to pass the cavalry guarding the ap-
proaches to the house. the dead and
wounded already had been removed to a
neighboring hospital, but by the light of
naring torches the police still were 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 semblsnce OF
human form for Identification by weeping
and wailing relatives outside.
The terrorist who carried the explosive
into the house was literally converted into
pulp by the force of the explosion. In
side the gendarme officers coat, which he
had on. was found the death sentence OF
Premier stoypin that he had tried to ex.
ecute. The police refuse to make public
the contents OF this document.
Tragedy Creates Sensation.
The tragedy created a tremendous sensa-
tion here. and extra editions Of the news-
papers were sold In the streets until mid.
night. In the clubs. whore of1ioials and
officers gather. the most Indignation pre-.
vailed and the prediction was freely made
that the revolutionaries would pay dearly
for such senseless crimes. and no doubt
was entertained that their only effect would
be TO drive the government to more severe
methods Of repression.
From information obtained from revoiu.
tionary sources II Ia certain that tn,
crime was committed by the hghting or
Eanlzation OF the social revolutionists in re-
tsliation for the war which the govern
ment has been waging against them Sine,
M. Stolypin's accession 70 the premiership
over loo OF their members have been ar
rested 400 In St. Petersburg alone, am
many Of these have been deported.
To fight this crusade the fighting or
ganizatiOn, which is composed Of a wins
known as matinmasts ana who believe Ir
setting up a purely socialistic state upor
the ruins OF the autocracy, have deIiber
ately entered upon a duel with the gov
ernment such as that which characterized
the famous fight OF the nihalists In tn,
late seventies and which ended in tn,
assassination OF Emperor Alexander II
| Within a single year at that time a littl,
coterie of nihalists under the direction o
| Jeriabof made twenty-eight attempt
against the emperor and high onicials
fourteen of which were successful At tn,
head Of the present organization Is
prominent revolutionary. who is considered
TO be an organizer equal IL not superior
10 Jeriaboff. All the members Of the or
ganiEation had due notice that today's st
tempt on the premier would be made anC
went into hiding.
II has become known that an attemp
on NJ. stolypin was frustrated ten days ag,
/ by the discovery Of the beginning OF
subterannean passage from the wall o
the Grandier church adjoining his rest
denoe The mining OF palaces and resi-
denoes formerly was a fsvorite method o