Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-19

bldlyStOk, RUSSIA, June Is. Noon
Quiet reignS today throughout this
devastated town. Firing was heard at
midnight on the outskirts of Bialy3tok,
near the cemetery, but no further dis
orders have occurred. The total figures
of the causaltieS are not available. but
10 bodies were buried today This is
estimated to be less than half the to-
tai of the killed. Jewish estimates say
that not less than 200 were killed The
number Of wounded is enormous Sur
geons have arrived here from Warsaw
to assist the OverwOrked StaffS Cf the
hospitals in caring for the injured.
A feature of the excuses was the
bestialty and brutality with which the
victims of the massacre We're treated.
Some of the corpses We're mere masses
of pulped flesh, the wounded in some
cases having scarcely 4 sound bore in
their bodies.
The members of the commission of
the Lower House Of Parliament who
are here to inquire into the massacre,
are greeted as saviors by the popula-
ton, who tlOcked out of their houses
with pathetic joy and relief. AS the
commissioners pass through the streets
the people call down blessings on their
heads and give them accounts OF their
sufferings.
The commandant of the troops
has furnished the commission
ers with an escort and has prom
ised them every facility in conducting
their investigation.
The correspondent of The Associated
who was not allowed to telegraph until
the censor was present and who then
was required to write dispatches in
French in order to facilitate the censor
ship. found the story of the riot writ
ten in large letters in the aspect of the
streets which were one continuous pic
ture Of arson or nillage. The windows
and doors of the Jewish houses were
wide open. giving a view of their
wrecked interiors or were boarded up
with rude wooden shutters. Every
where could be seen weeping women
hunting for traces of killed or wounded
relatives. The principal stores We're
either devastated wrecks or mere
mounds of ashes, among which the
wretched proprietCrs, last week rich,
now reduced to poverty, were wander
ing about weakly endeavoring to ascer-
tain the extent of their miSfortuncS.
Before practically every home left
intact hung an ikon with a burning
lamn and the street doors were marked
with great crosses made with chalk or
of cloth to show that the inmates were
Christians. The streets We're patroled
by strong attachments of cavalry and
infantry and the Gordon of troops drawn
around the town when the outbreak
first occurred was still maintained. The
railroad station was occupied by the
military and nobody was allowed to en-
ter the town without n permit from the
cor1mandant. Strict martial law pre-
vailed.
Another attack was made yesterday
evening on the police station by armed
revolutionists who occupied 4 house
nearby. They opened fire from the
building on the police, but force of
Cossacks were gathered and the house
was stormed and the revolutionsts dis
appeared. 1t was feared that the latter
who are members of the Jewish bund
and are enraged and embittered by the
slaughter of the co-religionists. would
seize the occasion of the funerals of the
victims this morning to make new at
tack. but the governor general took
the necessary military measures to
prevent it and the intermentS passed
off without incident.
The garrison has been strongly REIN
forced and now includes besides sever
al regiments of infantry two squadrons
Of cavalry, three squadrons of dra-
goons and two batteries of artillery
On account of the destruction Of the
stores of provisions. supplies are al
most understandable here just now, but
food is being imported to relieve the
restitution.
The scene at the Jewish hospitals
where the majority of the Jewish dead
and most severely wounded were taken
was indescribably sickening. When the
correspondent arrived there, the grass
plot outside the hospital was covered
with mutilated and mangled corpses,
lying in two long rows, awaiting burial.
The wooden walk from the gate to the
door. over which the bodies were car
ried. was stained with gore. The dead
and wounded were still arriving. Many
of them had been lying untouched i'm
the streets for two or three days. Only