The Springfield herald., 1906-08-31
DYNAMITE BOMB
DEALS DEATH AT RECEPTION OF
RUSSIAN PREMIER.
MANY KILLED AND MANNED

Premier's Young Daughter at First
Reported Dead-son Badly Injured
Private Secretary killed-Pre-
mier Wounded-Fearful Scenes
of Blood and Terror.
ST. Petersburg-Twenty-e per-
sons are dead and twenty-four wounded
as the result of dastardly attempt
Saturday afternoon to assassinate Pre-
mier Stolypin with bomb while he
was holding public reception at his
country house on Aptekassy island.
The premier was slightly wounded on
the face and neck by flying splinters.
Among the dead are the premiers
fifteen-year-old daughter, who had both
legs broken by the explosion and sub
sequently succumbed to her injuries;
General Zamatin, the premier's per-
sonal secretary; Mr.. Khovostoff, for
mer governor of the province OF
Penza; Colonel Fodoroff, chief of the
premier's personal guard; Court Cham
berlain Davidof, Court Chamberlain
Noronin and Aide Doubassof and four
women and two children.
People were literally blown to pieces.
Those who were not killed instantly
| and all the others present were pros
trated by the shock.
The premiers escape was miracu-
| lous.
The havoc wrought by the explosion
is indescribable. Bodies were SO torn
| or mansled as to make identification
| impossible, some of them headless,
armless or legless lying among the
blood-dripping wreakage. Pieces of
| flesh and clothing clung to the shat
tered rafters overhead and some
| lodged in the branches of the elm tree
| which border the roadway separating
tho premier's residence from the river.
The terrorist who carried the explos-
i've into the house was literally con-
verted into pulp by the force of the
explosion.
The tragedy created tremendous
sensation here.
Emperor Nicholas, when apprised OF
| the disaster, sent his personal congrat-
ulations to Premier Stolypin on his es-
cape.
According to the official account OF
| the attempt on NJ Stolypins life, 1t ap-
pears that at O'Clock Saturday after
noon a carriage containing four per-
sons. two dressed in civilian clothes,
an6 two in foreign military uniforms,
drew up at his villa. The men en-
tered tht ante-chamber, one of them
| holding his helmet in his hand as
though concealing bomb, which acci-
dcntally fell in the 'ante-chamber, with
the terrible results already detailed.
| General Zameatin was instantly
killed and NJ. Voronin, court cham
berlain, who was attending the pre-
mier's official reception, was decapi-
tated, while all the other persons in
the ante-chamber, including three
men accompanying the individual who
carried the bomb, were killed.
The legs of NJ. Stolypins daughter,
the Official account adds, were so Sc.
verely injured that they had to be am
putated, and death ensued. His son
had leg broken. Prince Shachowskoi
who was in an apartment adjoining
the anti-chamber, was injured. The
coGchman of the carriage which
brought the terrorists to the villa was
killed and the vehicle was destroyed,
but the horses were not much in
jured.
NJ. Stolypin himself was in the re-
ception room, talking to his visitors.
| In his office, which was still farther
| to the left, were three of his secre-
| taries and footman. The violence OF
| the explosion was such that it tore out
the wall between the reception room
and the premier's office, in addition to
doing the other damage mentioned,
| killing one of the secretaries and the
footman and wounding another secre-
tary. 1t was from the latter that the
correspondent. of the Associated Press
| obtained these details. The fourth
man who was in the Office escaped un-
wounded.
NJ. Knovostoff, former governor of
the province of Penza, and Court Cham
berlain Davidoff were among those
| killed.
The fact that two of the assassins
were disguised as gendarmes doubtless
was due to an effort on their part to
make it appear that they were escort
ing a political prisoner, the third man
of the group being attir2d in the
clothes of a civilian.
The police authorities this afternoon
declared that the assassins carried
portfolios, which, it is believed, con
tanned bombs.
II has later developed that the
daughter of Stolypin. who was injured
by the bomb explosion in the premier's
summer home Saturday, and who was
enormously reported to have died, is
still alive and passed quiet night un-
der the effects of an opiate. The pre-
m:er's son, who also was hurt, is bet
ter.
The telegram sent by Emperor Mich
olas to NJ. Stolypin after the explosion
was as follows:
II cannot find words to express my
Indignation. | hope with all my heart
that the health of your son and daugh-
t., hn oct, aI Nd au-ie
that of the other persons injured"
The Dowager Empress this morning
made inquiries as to the condition of
the premier's children.
Two more persons injured by the eX-
plosion died during the night bringing
the total number of deaths up to thir-
ty-two. One of the assassins is said to
have died Sunday. Twenty-six persons
were instantly killed.