New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-26

plosion; General Zameatin the Premier's per-
the Province of Penza; Colonel Federoff, chief
Of the Premier's personal guard: Court Cham
berlain Davidorf. Court Chamberlain vOronin.
Prince Nakashidge, Aide DoubassofT. a police
officer. several guards four women and two
children
The injured include NJ. stolypin's three-year-
old son, who is seriously though not fatally in
jured. and a number Of persons prominent in the
social and official world.
The authors of the outrage drove up 10 the
Premier's residence after the list of visitors
had been closed. The servants refused them
admission. at which they attempted to force an
entry to the house.
A struggle enSued at the entrance 10 the ante
room. adjoining the reception room. in the
course Of which terrorist. disguised as gen.
darne. dropped bomb. which exploded. de-
stroying the anteroOm. the adjoining guard
room. part of the reception room and also the
balcony of the first floor.
The Premier. who was receiving visitors In
private room. was not in the immediate danger
zone. The principal loss of life occurred in the
anterOom.
OF the four cOnspiratOrs who engineered the
outrage. two were killed with their victims
while the third, who acted as coachman for the
party and the fourth. who reriained inside the
carriage. were badly wounded and now in
the St. Peter and ST Paul Fortress
Whether the assassns who entered the crowd
ed reception hall threw the bomb or accidental
ly dropped it probably never will be known. as
all the immediate eyewitnesses were killed The
tremendous force OF the explosion absolutely
blew out the front of the Prcmier's residence and
carried away the ceilings above and the floors
beneath and the walls of the adjoining rooms
sTOLYPIN's NARROW ESCAPE.
People We're literally blown to pieces. Those
who were not killed instantly horribly
manned or Iaceratcd. and all the others present
were prostrated by the shock
The Premier's escape was miraculous. for only
a moment before the explosion took place he had
stepped inside his study at the rear of the salon
20 speak to Prince ShakOvsky Although he was
only slightly injured. he is completely prostratCd
by the calamity.
The havoc wrought by the explosion is in
describabIe Bodies were so torn and mangled
as to make Identification impossible. Some Of
them were headless. armless legless. lying
among the blood dripping wreckage Pieces OF
flesh and clothing clUng 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 tonight secured
permission to pass the cavalry guarding the
approaches to the house the dead and wounded
had already been removed to a neighboring
hospital. but by the light of fiaring torches the
police were still picking out from the wreckage
bits of bodies and placing them in baskets for
transportation by ambulance to the morgue.
At the hospital the correspondent saw scared
attendants trying TO arrange the shattered
bodies into some semblance OF human form for
Identification by weeping and wailins relatives
outside.
BOMB THRowER KILLED.
The terrorist who carried the explosive into
the house was literally converted into pulp by
the force Of the explosion. Inside the gendarme
officers coat. which he had on. was found the
death sentence OF Premier Stolypin that he had
tried 10 execute.
The tragedy created tremendous sensation.