The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-11
MASSACRE CONTINUES
Russian Troops Still Slaughter
ing and Burning In Jewish
Quarter of SiedIce.
VICTIMS NUMBER THOUSANDS
Government Knew of Planned Outbreak,
but Took No Measures to Prevent 1t.
Artillery Used on Hebrews-chiIdren
Slain In Street Before Mothers Eyes.
Bombs Thrown In Warsaw.

ST. Petersburg, Sept 11.-The fight
ing and bombarding of houses at
Siedlce which ceased Monday noon,
was later resumed, apparently because
Governor Engelke demanded that the
Jews and Poles deliver up to him the
members of the Jewish Self Defense
association. Preferring death in the
open to tame surrender, the latter
resumed the battle.
Artillery was again brought into ac
tion but it is not known if the fighting
still continues
Two hundred Jews have been killed
and 1000 wounded in the massacre in
Siedlce
Government Warned of Outbreak.
No excuse, no specious reasoning can
absolve the Russian government from
direct responsibility for the slaughter
Of the hapless victims of the rage of
the soldiers. The authorities had am
pie warrington Aug. % that the massa-
ere was coming, but did not do any
thing to prevent it.
In giving its version of the wholesale
slaughter of human beings, the govern
m.It said that on Saturday night ter
rorists killed two soldiers and that the
Libau regiment became so infuriated
that the soldiers got beyond the control
of their officers Yet the fact is that
on Saturday morning the soldiers went
through the town warning all the
| Christians to hang out their ikons and
proclaimed openly that the massacre
that had been planned several weeks
before would take place that night.
Children Slain In Street.
The prediction of the soldiers were
| fulfilled Soon after O'clock on Sat
urday night the Libau regiment start
| ed for the Jewish quarter and began
numbering men, women and children.
| The men in uniform pillaged the shops,
| tore jewels off the fingers of the wom-
| en-, mistreated them in the streets and
| killed their children before their eyes.
| There is hardly a soldier in the regi-
ment who is not loaded up with loot,
| and what the murderers did not care
| to take away they burned.
|. The scenes were of unspeakable hor-
| ror Everywhere there were screams
and cries mingled with the sound of
| shooting.
The soldiers were permitted to vent
| their fury without interruption. Jew
ism refugees filled the railroad station,
| but they were unable to leave the town
by rail. At the sight of group of
soldiers the refugees fled into the
| woods and wandered about for hours.
Finally Governor General SkaIlon tele-
| graphed7 to ST. Petersburg for permis-
sion to use artillery in suppressing the
| massacre.
| Artillery Fired at Hebrews.
| The permission was given, and the
| artillery was used in characteristic
Russian style. Four batteries opened
| fire, not on the murderous soldiers, but
| on the Jews. Down Pienkna, Warsaw
| and Aliena streets the batteries sent
| their shots, and men, women and chill
dren fell by the score. Not a soldier,
| however, was killed. Then the authori-
| ties began making wholesale arrests,
| and fully 5000 prisoners were taken.
| Not soldier was among them.
Strict orders were issued that no one
| was to be permitted to enter or leave
the town. Correspondents who hurried
| to Siedce were kept outside of the line
| of soldiers who surrounded the town,
and no outsider will be able to investi-
| gate the outrage until the authorities
have done so.
| Reports of bombs being thrown in
| Warsaw come in so fast that it is al
| most impossible to keep track of all of
| them. Not only the city, but the en-
| tire province of Warsaw is in a state
of terror, and soldiers, officers and po-
licemen are being shot down In the
| streets or blown up in their homes.
| Another Massacre Reported.
| At Rudgusowska, forty miles east of
| Warsaw, scenes similar to those en-
acted at Siedlce We're witnessed. The
soldiers are said to have killed forty
/ persons
There was a remarkable revolt in the
| central detention prison of ST. Peters
burg. 1t was caused by the shooting
/ of a young woman, Mile. Semenova,
twenty-five years old, who had SNUG
gled a quantity of sugar into the pris-
/ on and tried to distribute it among the
inmates. When she showed herself at
| the window of her cell sentry
promptly fired on her and killed her.
This aroused the fury of the prisoners,
/ who expelled the warders, barricaded
the prison and laid the body of the
I girl on an improvised bier. They re
| fused to surrender the body to the au-
thorities and asserted that they would
die rather than give it up. In order to
| avoid bloodshed the authorities got the
4 girls brother to come and get the body.
Grand Duke Nicholas after investigat-
Ing the incident personally ordered the
dismissal of the officer of the guard
stationed at the prison.
Bank Robbers Get $4,000.