The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-10
SWEPTBY CANNON
Streets of SiedIce Drenched
With Bullets and Blood.
Two Hundred Jews Killed and
1900 Wounded.
ALL THROUGH SUNDAY
The Work Of Slaughter and De-
vastatiOn Kept Up.
Murder and Robbery Went on
Without Discrimination.
ALL THROUGH SUNDAY

siedlce, Poland, Sept. 1o-A Jewish
massacre surprising in seriousness all
previous ones in this vicinity took
place here Saturday and Sunday. It
was carefully planned before hand,
the soldiers warning all Of the Chris
tian population in advance to hang out
their ikons so that they might remain
undisturbed. Saturday night some
terrorists killed two soldiers and there
upon the LIbau regiment broke forth
in unrestrained fury. They began
numbering Jews on every hand and
continued their work of slaughter all
night Saturday and all day Sunday.
The ghastly work of numbering and
! pillaging continued until early this
morning. when Governor General Ska
/ lon telegraphed for permission to use
the artillery. Four batteries then
opened fire down Pienkna, Warsaw
and Aliena streets, which were inhab-
I tied by thousands Of Jews. The de-
struction was horrible. As result of
the general slaughter it is estimated
/ that fully 200 Jews have been killed
and 1000 wounded. There are 1900
prisoners IN custody, great many OF
whom are wounded. Not soldier was
/ killed.
This morning squads of soldiers were
parading through the streets selling
pillaged watches and jewelry. The
army officers openly countenanced the
selling of loot. The local governor,
Englke, took no steps to prevent the
| outrage.
It Was Expected.
st. Petersburg, Sept 10.-The predic-
| tionS made in these dispatches on Aug
| ust %, of a Jewish massacre at Sied1ce,
| Russian Poland, unhappily have been
! justified by the fighting which broke out
/ Saturday night and developed yesterday
| into a carnival Of indiseriminate slaugh-
ter and pillage in which the soldlery ana
the mob took part Y nfortunate Jews
/ were shot and Hbayonetted in the streets
/ of the town. Houses and shops were
broken into and sacked. Valuables were
carried off and offered for sale by sol
diers to passengers on passing trains
| In addition to the Jews number Of
Christians and even some officers met
their death in the fighting.
The Jewish fugftives who thronged
the railroad stations at Siedice are in ,
state Of panic.
Reports received here from Warsaw
and other towns in the vicinity OF
Siedice place the number OF victims At
several hundred.
The early reports of the Siedice mas
sacres put the responsibility at the door
! of the terTorists but fugttives declare
/ the soldiers never would have been al
lowed to get so completely out OF hand
/ without the connivance, If not the act
ual direction of their officers. The hrst
reports received of the Bialystok mas
4 sacre last June said the terrOristS were
| to blame there also.
It is difficult to obtain details of the
trouble at Siedice as the town was sur
rounded Yesterday by soldiers and no
BODY was allowed to enter Passen-
! gers, however. who arrived at Warsaw
during the night gave the following
account of the slaughter:
After the murder of a policeman by
terrorists on Saturday night and the
firing of a volley by troops into the as
sembled crowd which resulted in the
killing of two citizens and the wound
ing of MANY more, the terrorists met
and decided to exact vengeance by in
augurating a general campaign against
the police and the troops, similar to
/ the recent activity in Warsaw. Sun
day morning IL patrolmen and soldiers
were killed. AS a result of this the
lIibau regiment, in anger, left Its bar
racks in the afternoon and marched
/ into the Jewish quarter, shooting right
and left as 1t went The troops were
j joined by crowds Of Hooligans who CO.
operated in the plundeHng and want
/ only destroyed everything they were
unable or undesirous of carrying away.
The sale of booty by the soldiers went
on under the very eyes of their officers.
Late in the afternoon the Kaluga
regiment arrived on a special train
from Biala and measures were insti-
tuted to put stop to the slaughter.
In spite of this, however, the shooting
! continued up to a late hour last night.
A correspondent of the Associated
Press who was not able to get into
Siedice yesterday, started for there
second time this morning.
Siedice is a town Of 80, 900 people
half of whom are Jews.
City Is Burning
Siedice, Sept. 10.-Six buildings in the
big bazaar of the city are now in flames.
adding another terror to the killing and
+ plundering which has been going on
here for 36 hours. Frequent shots and
occasional volley firing is still heard in
different parts of the town but because
OF the general panic it is difficult to
learn accurately just what is transpir-
ing.
As far as is possible to learn there
have been up to the present time about
90 persons killed and 200 wounded. Hun
dreds of Jews assembled today at the
railroad station awaiting means of get
ting out Of town but Siedice is surround
ed by troops who do not permit exit or
entrance
Field guns occupy points of vantage
on the principal streets.
There seems no doubt that the terror
lists are responsible for provoking the
massacre by their fusiIIades from roofs
and windows on Saturday against SOL
diers and policemen who were patroIling
the streets. The troops surrounded the
houses from which firing came and
poured in volleys through the windows
and doors. This was followed by a
search of the premises, which soon de-
veloped into wholesale plundering and
subsequently into q massacre and
slaughter. The trouble began on
Pienkna street and spread rapidly to a
large portion of the town All the Jew
ish shops have been looted. Owners who
defended their property were killed or
wounded Any person seen leaving a
house or looking out Of a window was
shot without mercy
Battle Goes on.
Warsaw, Sept 10--A telegram received
i here from Siedlce this morning says the