The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-06-22
HoRRoR ARE DEPICTED.
Associated Press Man Is Finally Al.
lowed TO Telegraph.

St. Petersburg. June H.@The embargo O
news from Bialystok has been lifted an
the Associated Press correspondent Is 70
the first time allowed to telegraph directl
from the sacked city a picture of the seen
II ruin and desolation left In the wake o
l4.e mob.
According to the frequent bulletins orde
was restored and maintained throughou
yesterday in spite of the incentive to dis
order at funerals which were in progress.
almost the whole day. but the atmosphere
y ~surcharged and q slight event may
suffice TO precipitate a renewal of stree,
lighting. The authorities apparently real.
10 this and hope to avert such a catas-
trophe by a strong snow of force. On one
occasion the whole garrison was called out
on some alarm and the streets were liter
ally packed with horse, foot and artillery
until the danger was passed.
The story told by the Associated Press
correspondent Is q dreadful one; but there
are indications that he has been prevented
by the censorship from relating further
details about the condition Of corpses. the
utter besttatty Of the mob and the in
ability of the troops to cope with the ex-
cesses during the first days Of the roting.
A Three-cornered Fight.
1t Is evident from the dispatches that
the excesses assumed the character of a
1hree-cornered fight between the military,
the mob and armed members OF submitting
passively to slaughter as their unarmed
co~-religiontsts have lone heretofore. car
rted the war into enemy's camp and
fought bravely through without inficting
Appreciable loss or the troops, among
whom no serious casualties rave been
reported.
Horrible details have been sent out by
the correspondent of the Bourse Gazette.
who arrived in Bialystok in company with
deputy Stchepkin on Saturday, and who
to send his story by a messenger
Sunday afternoon. The correspondent
who accompanied Stchepkin directly to the
hospital, escorted by a corporal's guard,
says he was utterly unnerved by the sights
he Witnessed there.
Merely saying that the corpses were
mutilated," the correspondent writes.
Tails to describe the awful facts. The
faces of the dead nave lost all human
semblance and the corpses are crushed
masses OF flesh and bone soaking In blood.
It is impossible to conceive Of such
bestialtty. The corpse of Teacher Apstein
lay on the grass with the hands tied. In
b face and eyes had been INNER
three-inch nails. Rioters entered his home
and after fearful outrages killed him thus
and then murdered the rest of his family
OF seven When the corpse arrived at the
hospital It was also mutilated with bay-
thrusts.
Little Children Mutiiated.
BESIDE the body Of Apstein lay the
Of q child OF 10 years. whose leg
mad been chopped of with an axe. Here
also were the dead from the Schlachter
where according to witnesses. SOL
diers came and plundered the house and
Killed the wife, son and q %ghbor
daughter and seriously Schlach-
Ter and his two daughters.
I am told that soldiers entered the
apartments of the Lapidus brothers.
which were crowded with people who had
led from the STREETS for safety and ordered
he Christians to separate thems elves from
Jews. A Christian student named Dr.
Gar protested and was killed on the spot.
Then all OF the Jews were shot.
"Some Of the corpses were marked with
Ire. These had been brought from a
burned tannery and showed bullet and
,ayonet marks. In one corner of the yard
vas q demented Jewess trying to cover
body of her husband, but her efforts
in vain. as the blood simply COED
rom beneath the Inadequate covering"
From the oun In the hospital the
heard man. pitiablc stories.
II OF h same general tenor. Here ia the
ccount OF a badly wounded merchant
N~cvyazhiky:
Il live m the suburbs. Learning Of the
8tbreak / tried to reach the town through
he field, but was intercepted by coughs.
" brother was killed. My arm and leg
E.-Sa r.