Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-10
200 JEWS DEAD
$1,000 WOUNDED
AMID MASSACRE
Russia Scene of Another Reign
of Murder and Terror.
RIOTING STILL CONTINUES
Loot is Offered for Sale by the Govern
ment Troops.
SOLDIERS SURROUND SIEDLCE
Populace is Cooped in So That None
May Escape-Buildings Are Burn
ing and Horror Unabated.
Loot is Offered for Sale by the Govern
ment Troops.
SOLDIERS SURROUND SIEDLCE

Russia is in the throes of an
other scene of the drama of terror
that is dumfounding the world
with horror. Today's cables add a
heavy score to the almost endless
list of calamitous happenings.
Thousands upon thousands OF
Jews were killed and wounded in
the Siedlce massacre, and this
morning the rioting continued with
the soldiery and revolutionists bat
tling desperately. The murder,
plumber and pillage have now been
going on for thirty-six hours, and
the end is not yet. The town is
surrounded by government troops,
who do not permit entrance or exit.
The population is penned in to die,
hide or kill.
WARSAW, September 1O.-Artillery was
used in Siedice this morning. Buildings
on Pienkna Warsaw and Aleina streets
have been destroyed. According to reports
received here 2e0 Jews were killed and
3,OOO were wounded during the pogrom.
A telegram received here from Siedlce
this morning says the rioting and shooting
there continue. The revolutionists are fir
ing at the soldiery from windows and the
troops reply with velleys. =
The Libau infantry regiment took the
principal part in the massacre. Some pas
sergers on a through train were hit by
stray shots on Sunday
The loot offered for sale by the SOL
diers consists principally of jewelry and
clothing.
Carnival Of Slaughter.
ST. PETERSBURG, September 10.-Tbe
predictions made in these dispatches on
August % of a Jewish massacre at
Siedloe Russian Poland, have been justi-
fed by the fighting which broke out Sat
urday night, and developed yesterday into
a carnival of indiscriminate slaughter and
pi'age in which the soldiery and the mnb
took part. Unfortunate Jews were shot
and bayonetted in the streets of the town.
Houses and shops were broken in.o and
Sacked. Valuables were carried off and ot-
on passing trains. In addition 20 the
Jews a number of Christians and even
some officers met their ,iea, h in the fight
Ing. The number of victims has not yet
been established, but a conservative es,i-
mate places it at 40. The Jewish fu-
gi..ves who thronged the railro.I stations
a Sedce are in a state of plnic.
Reports received here from Warsaw and
other towns in the vicinity of Siedlce place
the number of victims at several hundred.
The early reports of the Siedlce massacre
put the responsibility at the door of the ter
rorists but fugitives declare the soldiers
would never have been allowed to get so
completely out of hand without the con-
nivance, IL not the actual direction of their
officers. The first reports received of the
Bialystok massacre last June said the ter
torists were to blame there also. 1t is diff
cult to obtain details of the trouble at
Siedlce. as the town surrounded yes
terday by soldiery, and nobody was allowed
to enter. Passengers, however, who ar
rived at Warsaw during the night gave the
following account OF the slaughter:
Fired Into Crowd.
After the murder of a policeman by ter
rorists on Saturday night, and the firing Of
volley by troops INTO the assembled crowd
which resulted in the killing of two citizens
and the wounding of many more, the ter
rorists held a meeting and decided to exact
vengeance by inaugurating a general cam
paign against the police and the troops
similar to the recent activity along the same
lines in Warsaw. In the course of Sunday
morning twelve patrolmen and soldiers were
killed. AS a result of this the Libau regi-
ment. in state of infuria ted anger left it's
barracks in the afternoon and marched into
the Jewish quarter, shooting right and left
as 1t went The troops We're Joined by
crowds of hooligans, who co-operated In the
plundering, and wantonly destroyed every
thing they We're unable or undesirous Of
carrying away. The sale of booty by the
soldiers went on under the eye of their Off
GERS.
AT late hour in the afternoon the Kali
agu regiment arrived on a special train
from Biala, and measures were instituted
TO put stop to the program. In spite of
this. however. the shooting continued up to
late hour last night.
correspondent of the Associated Press
who was not able to get into Sedlce yes
terday started for there a second time this
morning.
Siedlce is town Of $4,000 people, half of
whom are Jews
Six Buildings in Flames.