The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-19
Slain in BiaIystok Numbered by
Hundreds, While MuItitudes
Are Wounded.
VICTIMS WERE TREATED
WITH SAVAGE BRUTALITY
Frenzied Revolutionists Did Not
Spare Even the Women in
Wild Rage.

BIALYSTOK, June 1s.-Qulet reigns
today throughout this devastated town.
Firing was heard at midnight on the
outskirts OF Bialystok near the GENE.
terry but no further disorders have oc-
CURED. The total figures OF the casu-
altles are not available, but seventy
bodies were buried today. This IL
claimed TO be less than half the total
OF the killed. Jewish estimates say
that not less than 200 were killed. The
number OF wounded is enormous Sur
geons have arrived from Warsaw 10
assist the overworked STATS OF the
hospitals in caring for the Injured.
A few instances OF the excesses were
tho bestiality and brutality with which
the victims OF the massacre were treat
ed Some or the corpses were masses
OF pulped flesh. the wounded In some
cases having scarcely a sound bone Ina
their bodies
Populncc Almost Frcnzicd.
The members OF the commission OF
the lower house OF Parliament. who ar.
here to inquire into the massacre. are
greeted as saviours by the population
who flock out of their houses with pa
| thetic JOY and relief. As the commits
| sloners pass through the streets the
! people call down blessings on their
| heads and give them accounts OF their
suflcrngs
The commandant OF the troops has
furnished the commissioners with an
escort. and has promised them every
| iaciIlty In conducting their investlga-
| ton.
The correspondent OF the Associated
| Press, who arrived here yesterday, but
| who was not allowed 10 telegraph un-
| I'll the present. and who then was re.
| quired TO write dispatches In French
In order TO facilitate the censorship
! round the story or the riot written IN
large letters In the aspect OF streets.
which were one continuous picture OF
arson and plllage.
Houses Complete Wrecks.
The windows and doors OF the Jew
! ish houses were wide OPEN giving a
| view OF their wrecked interior or
were boarded up with rude. wooden
| shutters. Everywhere could be seen
weeping women. hunting for traces OF
| Killed or wounded relatives, The prin-
Cipal stores were either devastated
| wrecks or were mere mounds or ashes.
| along which the wretched proprietors.
| last week rich. but now reduced to
| poverty. were wandering about. weakly
endeayoring 10 ascertain the extent OF
| their misfortunes. Before practically
| every house left intact hung an ikon,
with n burning lamp. and the street
| doors were marked with great crosses.
made with chalk or OF cloth TO show
! that the inmates were Christians The
streets were patrolled by detachments
OF cavalry and infantry and the cor
don of troops drawn around the town
hnn ha
still maintained.
Second Attack Made
The railroad station was occupied by
the military and nobody was allowed
10 enter the town without a permit
from the commandant. Strict martial
law prevailed. Another attack was
made yesterday evening on the police
station by armed reYclutionists. who
occupied house near by. They opened
FIRE from the building on the police, but
force OF Cossacks was gathered. the
house was stormed and the revolution
lists were dispossessed. IL was feared
that the latter who are members of
the Jewish bund. and are enrnged and
embittered by the slaughter OF their
corelig gionists. would seize the occasion
OF the funeral OF the victims today 10
make new attack. but the Governor
General took the necessary military
measures TO prevent IL. The garrison
has been strongly reinforced. On ac-
count OF the destruction OF the stores
OF provisions. supplies are almost un-
obtalnable just now. but food Is being
imported 10 relieve the destitution.
Hospital Scenes Terrible.
The scene at the Jewish hospital
where the majority OF the Jewish dead
and most severely wounded were
taken. was terrible. When the CORES
pondent arrived there the grass plot
outside the hospital was covered with
manglcd corpses. arranged In two long
rows. awaiting burial. The wooden
walk from the gate to the door. over
which the bodies were carried, was
stained with blood. The dead and the
wounded were still arriving. Many OF
them had been lying untouched In the
streets for two days. Only the most
severely wounded were taken inside
the hospital The bodies OF some OF
these were frightfully bruised. broken
and mangled- A constant stream or
unhappy persons visited the hospital
ward and when allowed 10 do so. the
wards. endenvoring TO locate and iden-
tify members OF their families or their
friends OF obtain the bodies OF dead
ones for burial.
Many Yet Unburied.
Some OF the bodies had already been
removed. but the hospital attendants
ascertained that about a hundred In all
had been brought In and that many
more remained in the outskirts OF b.
nlystok. where II was still unsafe for
the Red Cross detachments to venture.
At the district hospital there were six
dead persons and eight or ten wound
ed These were all Christians. One
man had been killed and two wounded
as a result OF the explosion OF bombs.
The others had bullet wounds. These
bodies were not manGled or mutilated.
as was the case with the Jews. whose
hands, arms and legs were sometimes
chopped of from mere wantonneaA