Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-09-14
FAMINE AFTER MASSACRE.
REFUGEES AT SIEDLCE, POLAND,
HIDDEN IN CELLARS AND LEAVE
WOUNDED UNATTENDED.
SOLDIERS GET DRUNK.
Churches Refuge for Prosecuted People,
but Hunger Soon Drives Them
Out to Troops Mercy.

C1AN ECepl. Ill Is IL
ported here by telegraph that the village
of Shulguti has been bombarded by ar
tillery in consequence of disorders which
commenced there following the arrest of
NJ Onipko, the peasant leader OF the
late Parliament who is to be tried by
court martial for completely in the up
rising at Cronstadt last July. The in
habitants of the village fed and their
houses were destroyed.
The artillery, according to report, is
now moving against the village of Pc
troffskGia.
Hunger in Stricken Town.
threatens at Siedlce. Thousands of Jews
are hidden in cellars and 1000 are prls-
onerS.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press interviewed refugee from Sledlce
today. The man said: Il was staying
Saturday at the Kupiecki hotel IN
Siedlce. Suddenly, at 8 o'clock in the
evening, l heard two shots, which were
at once followed by volley. In a few
moments a number of Jewish women
and children rushed into the hotel, pur-
sued by soldiers. The shooting contin-
ued for an hour and then came to an end.
Then the only noise from the streets was
Many Soldiers Get Drunk.
CAT midnight several soldiers passed
the house singing martial songs.
learned that troops had been searching
houses in an effort to discover members
of the terrorist band. To this end they
went through the Wiktorja hotel and
pillaged the wineroom. They got drunk
rapidly, and coming out onto the streets
began wholesale murder and plumber.
AT 2 o'clock Sunday morning ter
rorists who We're defending house on
Pienkna street, threw a bomb at the sol
diers. Batteries were at once brought
into play and bombarded houses on
Pienllna and Warsaw streets The
Kupiecki hotel, where l was staying,
was destroyed. Refugees were fleeing
through the streets, and as they ran
the soldiers were constantly firing vol
leys at them.
Church Is the Refuge.
81 ran with the others and managed
to reach a church in safety. Here 300
fugitives, most of them wounded, al
ready had congregated. This was at 4
o'clock Sunday morning. ( had passed
down Sokolowka and Polvwa streets,
and found that the market place had
been burned.
''At the end of two days lack of food
and water forced the refugees in this
church to leave it. We made our way
through streets covered with debris.
There We're many dead bodies and
wounded persons lying about. The po-
lice refused to let doctors attend to
them. We finally reached the village
of Roskosz."
In a search for terrorists made in
Warsaw last night some 200 houses To-
Gated in different parts of Warsaw were
ransacked by troops. About 1000 ar
| rests We're made, and most of the prison
erS are Jews.
Many Children Arrested
Many children were taken into Gus
tody. They are employed by the terror
lists to execute attempts upon govern
ment officials, because the movements of
children do not awaken suspicion.
| According to the best information
the number of persons killed in Siedlce
| is about 10: They We're without food
or water. The four principal streets of
the town have been almost devastated,
and elsewhere many houses were dam
aged and looted. The number of houses
burned reaches twenty-seyen. Many
Jews managedato2 get out of the city and
| flee to neighboring villages.
ROBBERS Get $4,000
KIEV, Sept 11.-At Bjeljazerkov a
band of armed roughs attacked the local
branch of the Discount bank in full
view of many people and got off with
| $4,000. One bystander was killed and
one of the robbers, fearing capture, COM
mitted suicide.
Chief of Police Slain.
GRODNO Poland, Sept lion the
| parade ground an unknown man killed
Chief of Police Grizojedoff with re-
| Yolyer. The assassin escaped.
Big Fire in Vladivostok.
VLADIVOSTOK, Sept. II. All the
| warehouses and offices, as well as goods
stored in the piers of the volunteer fleet,
were destroyed Monday by fire.
Revolt in Russian Prison.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 11.-There
was revolt late Monday in the Central
detention prison of st. Petersburg in
consequence of the death of Mile. Seme-
| nova, a girl of p, an enthusiastic Social
Democrat, who was shot and killed in
stantly by a sentry when she showed
herself at the window of her cell over
looking the courtyard.
The furious prisoners expelled the
warders, and laid the corpse upon an inn
promptu bier in the central cell. Troops
were summoned, but the authorities tenn
| ported and sent for the brother of Mile.
Semenova, to whom the insurgents de-
livered the body.
Grand Duke Nicholas ordered the dis
missal of the officer of the guard Mile.
SemenCva was a medical student and
was trying to divide with the prisoners
some sugar which she had surreptitiously
obtained when she was shot.