The San Francisco call., 1906-06-21

GRODNO, Russia June 20.-The anti
Jewish rioting at Bialystok is now end
ed. The troops are in full control, and
in view of the outcry raised 1T is GER
tain that the authorities will not per-
nit renewal of the horrors.
This entire region is greatly excited,
owing to the fear that the Bialystok
massacre was only the signal for gen
eral attack on the Jews throughout the
pale and in Poland, but if any such
conspiracy existed it is too late to carry
out the plans, as imperative orders to
prevent further outbreaks have been
issued to the Governors and Governors
General from st. Petersburg
On all sides IN Bialystok there is re-
voting evidence of savage bestiality
on the part of the blood-drunken mobs
which sacked and burned the Jewish
houses, shops and stores. For seventy
two hours, with slight abatement dur
ing the daytime. the mad orgie of blood
and pillage went on unchecked. The
inhumanity displayed would have done
credit to the Mongo1 hordes of Genghts
Khan in his conquests of China and
Central Asia early in the thirteenth CEN
tury. At first police and troops urged
on the mob, but finally, when dismayed
by the bloody deeds accomplished, they
reluctantly sought to obey the orders
of their superiors to put an end to the
work of the rapacious bands of roughs,
who were so far beyond control of the
local forces that regiment after regi-
ment had to be thrown into the city
before order could be restored
VICTIMS TORN IN PIECES.
During the rioting the Jews were
hunted down by ferocious pursuers, who
in the majority of cases were not con-
tent with killing their victims but tore
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while this was in progress the troops
either stood idly by or, as was more
frequently the case, fired into the
houses and shops where Jews were
concealed, under the pretext that they
believed them to be revolutionists, but
really to make way for the murderers
and plunderers who followed in the sol
diers' wake.
While it is impossible to give the
exact figures, the visits of a correspond
ent to the hospitals and cemeteries en-
able him to approximate the killed at
100 Jews and twenty Christians, and
the wounded at $50 Jews and seven
Christians.
Although many of the Jews denied
that a bomb was thrown at the Corpus
Christi procession on Thursday, the
fact that bomb was thrown is es-
tablished beyond a doubt, but the
question of who threw it remains un-
settled The accounts of impartial wit
nesses, however, demonstrate that an
insulting cry enraged the Jews, who
attacked the religious procession. Then
from one end of the city to the other
the police spread the report of the at
tack, thus tanning the religious fanati-
cism of the Christians and setting loose
the worst elements upon the Jews, on
whom the crowds watching the pro-
caSSiOp had already turned.
SOLDIERS AID THE BUTCHERS.
The Jews at first fought with re-
volvers and bombs, and with these
weapons the majority of the Christian
victims were killed. But the Jews
were soon overwhelmed and fed for
shelter like rabbits to warrens, into
cellars or attics. The soldiers
watched this chase and butchery, some
times laughing with indifference, but
never falling to fire into houses where
Jews, sometimes to the number OF a
hundred, were making a stand against
their assailants. The soldiers said the
Jews were revolutfonists and that was
their excuse for firing upon them. The
authorities, who wanted to do some
thing to stop the massacres. were, with
the police and troops in open sympathy
with the mob, utterly powerless
Although it is freely charged that
the higher authorities of Bialystok de-
liberately organized the massacre, or.
If this was not the case, that it was