Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-06-19
FIENDSATBIALYSTOK
Horrors of Jewish Massacre Revealed by Correspondent.
DOUNA WILL RESIST CARS ORDER

Hebrews to Number of 200 Murdered
 and Mutilatcd. Some Beyond Rec- l ognition - Wanton Batchery
 Words Cannot Describe. l ST. PETERSBURG, June 19.-The I leaders of the douma have decided in view of the importance of their work and the gravity of the national crisis I not to entertain any message from the throne for the propagation of the dou- ma. This decision will be presented to the douma in the form of resolution l and unquestionably will be accepted I with virtual unanimity. The decision | of the leaders was taken in anticipa. tion of the possibility of an imperial message fixing time for closure.
 It was further decided to act on the report of the parliamentary commis- sion. headed by Deputy Tschepkin, now taking evidence at Bialystok, and to require the punishment of the per sons guilty of the massacre without 1 reference to the report of the minister of the interior.
 A message from newspaper core spondent at Bialystok says:
 T personally counted 290 Jewish corpses, great number of which were horribly mutllated. Only six Chris tians were killed and eight wounded.
 ''The outrage was provoked. The DO. l lice participated in 1t, and the troops actively supported the rioters. The lo- cal authorities had bomb thrown at the Corpus Christi procession and then accused the Jews of doing it.
 "The military authorities now have complete control. The governor gener- al has left the city. Persons who tried l to leave Bialystok were killed at the railroad station, and others who sue ceeded in reaching the open fields out side the town were run down by dra. i goons.
 The embargo on news from Bialy- stok was lifted, and for the first time correspondents were allowed to tele- graph directly from the sacked city a picture of the scene of ruin and desola- tion left in the wake of the mob. Flu. nerals are in progress almost the whole time. and the atmosphere is so super charged that slight event may suf- flee to precipitate renewal of street fighting. The streets are literally pack ed with horse. foot and artillery to put down any further rioting.
 Some horrible details have been sent out by correspondent, who says: Words fail to describe the awful facts. The faces of the dead at the hospitals have lost all human sem blance, and the corpses simply are crushed masses of flesh and bone. soak ing in blood. It is impossible to con ceive 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. Rioters entered his home and after bestial outrages killed him ,thys and then murdered the rest Rdf~ 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 a child of ten years. whose leg had been chopped off with an .ax. Here also were the dead from the Schlachter home, where soldiers came and plundered the house and killed the wife, son and neighbours daughter and seriously wounded Schlachter and his two daughters.
 The correspondent. who adopts the bitterest tone toward the government. holds that the pogrom undoubtedly was provoked and attributes the re- sponsibility to Police Lieutenant She- rematieff and says the distinctive char acteristic of the outbreak. in which 1t differs from the excesses at Odessa. Kishineff. Gomel and Kiev. aside from bestiality. is the comparatively small amount of actual robbery committed.
 The correspondent declares that not only the soldiers, but their officers also, participated and that he himself was . witness as late as Saturday to the shooting down of Jewish girl from the window of hotel by Lieutenant Miller of the Vladimir regiment The governor of the province of Grodno. who happened to be passing at the mo ment. ordered an investigation.
 The scene at the Jewish hospital at Bialystok. where the majority of the Jewish dead and most severely wound. cd were taken. was indescribably sick ening. When the correspondent arrived there the grassplot outside the hospital was covered with mutilated and man. gled corpses. arranged in two long rows. awaiting burial. The wooden walk from the gate to the door. over which the bodies were carried. was stained with blood. and the cobblestone pavement of the roadway was spatter- ed with it.
 At the District hospital there were six dead persons and eight or ten wounded. These were all Christians. These bodies were not mangie,i or mu- tilated as was the case with the Jews. whose hands. arms and legs were