Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-19
SCENES IN BIALYST0K
RUIN AND DEsoLATIoN LEFT BY
THE MOB.

The embargo on news from Biaiystok,
Russia. has been lifted and the Associated
Press staff correspondent has been allowed
to telegraph directly from the sacked city
a picture of the scene of ruin and desola-
ton left in the wake OF the mob. Accord
ing to frequent bulletins. order was restor-
ed and maintained throughout the day In
spite of the incentive to disorder at funer-
ais. which were in progress almost the whole
day; but the atmosphere is supercharged
and slight event may suffice to precipi-
tate renewal of street fighting. The au-
thorfties apparently realize this and hope
to avert such a catastrophe by a strong
show OF force On one occasion the whole
garrison was called out on some alarm and
the streets We're literally packed with
horse. foot and artillery until the danger
was passed.
The story told by the Associated Press
correspondent is dreadful one, but there
are indications that he has been prevented
by the censorship from relating further de-
tails about the condition OF corpses. the
utter bestiaiity of the mob and the inabil-
ity of the troops to cope with the excuses
during the first days of the riotins.
1t Is evident from the dispatches that the
excuses assumed the character of three
cornered fight between military. the mob
and armed members of the Jewish bund.
who instead of submitting passivey to
slaughter as their unarmed co-religionists
have done heretofore, carried the war into
the enemy's camp and fought bravely
though without infiicting appreciabe loss
on the troops. among whom no serious
casualties have been reported
Unnerved by the Sights.
Horrible details have been sent out by the
correspondent of the Bourse Gazette, who
arrived in Bialystok in company with dep
uty st. Cheplxn Saturday and who managed
to send his story by a messenger Sunday
afternoon. The correspondent. who accom-
panied st. Chepkin directly to the hospital,
escorted by q corporate guard, says he was
utterly unnerved by the sights he witnessed
there.
Merely saying that the corpses were NIL
tilated," the correspondent writes falls to
describe the awful facts. The faces of the
dead have lost all human semblance. and
the corpses simply are crushed masses OF
flesh and bone soaking in blood. 1t is I'M
possible to conceive OF such bestiality. The
corpse of Teacher Apstein lay on the grass
with the hands tied In the face and eyes
had been hammered three-inch nails hiot-
ers entered his home and after fearful out
RACES killed him thus and then murdered the
rest of his family Of seven. When the
corpse arrived at the hospital 1t was also
marked with bayonet thrustS.
Beside the body of Apstein lay the
corpse of child of ten years. whose leg
had been chopped of with ak. Here also
were the dead from the Schlachter home
came and plundered the house and killed the
wife. son and a neighbours daughter and Sc
riously wounded Schlachter and his two
daughters.
All the Jews Shot Down.
Il told that soldiers entered the apart
ments of the Lapidus brothers which were
crowded with people who had fled from the
streets for safety and ordered the Christians
to separate themselves from the Jews. a
Christian student named Dikar protested
and was killed on the spot. Then all OF the
Jews were shot.
Some OF the corpses Were marked with
fire. These had been brought from q burned
tannery and showed bullet and bayonet
marks"
The correspondent declares that not only
the soldiers but their officers also partici-
pated. and that he himself was a witness as
late as Saturday to the shooting down OF
a Jewish girl from the window of a hotel by
Lieut.. Miller of the Vladimir Regiment The
governor of the province OF Grodno who
happened to be passing at the moment
dered an investigation.