The Red Cloud chief., 1906-06-22
MASSACRE OF JEWS
HORRIBLE DETAILS OF BUTCH
cry At BlALYSTok.

Three.Cornered Fight Between the
Mob, Troops and Jews-Corpses OF
Hebrews FriehtfuIly Mutilated.
| ST. Petersburg, June 19.-The EN-
barge on news from Bialystok was
lifted ard the Associated Press cor
respondent vas for the first time al
lowed to telegraph directly from the
sacked city a picture of the scene OF
ruin and desolation left in the wake
of the mob. According TO frequent
bulletins order was restored and main
tanned throughout the day in spite OF
the incentive to disorder at funerals,
which were In progress almost the
whole day, but the atmosphere is
supercharged and a slight event may
suffice to p%recipitate a renewal OF
street fighting. The authorities AZ.
parently realize this and hope to
avert such a catastrophe by a strong
show of force. On one occasion, the
whole garrison was called out on some
alarm and the streets were literally
packed with horse, foot and artillery
dntil the danger was passed.
The story told by the Associated
Press CORES pendent is a 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
bestiality of the mob and the inability
of the troops to cope with the eXcesses
during the first days Of the rioting.
Jewish Bund Fought Bravely.
1t Is evident from the dispatches
that the excuses assumed the charac-
ter OF a three-cornered fight between
the military, the mob and armed
members of the Jewish bund, who, in
stead of submitting p%assively to
slaughter as their unarmed coreligion-
lists have done heretofore, carried the
wal into the enemy's camp and fought
bravely. though without inflicting ap-
probable loss on the troops, among
whom no serious casualties have been
reported.
Horrible details have been sen out
by the correspondent of the Bourse
Gazette, who accompanied Deputy
Stchempkin to the hospital, escorted
by a %corporals guard. He was ut
terly unnerved by the sights he wit
messed there. Merely saying that the
corpses were mutilated," the CORE
spondent writes, fails to describe the
awful facts. The faces OF the dead
have lost all human semblance, and
the corpses simply are crushed
masses of flesh and bone soaking in
blood. 1t is impossible to conceive Of
such bestiality. The corpse OF
Teacher Apstein lay on the grass with
the hands tied. In the face and eyes
had been hammered three inch nails.
Rioters entered his home and after
fearful outrages killed him thus and
then murdered the rest of his family
OF seven
Beside the body OF Apstein lay
the corpse of a child of ten years,
whose leg had been chopped off with
an axe. Here also were the dead of
the Schlachter home, where, accord
ing to witnesses, soldiers came and
p%lundered the house and killed the
"tiN oiu q h'i6hb'l = uabSlANt
Soldiers Participated.
IL am told that soldiers entered the
apartments of the Lapidus brothers
which were crowded with people, whC
had fed from streets for safety, anC
ordered the Christians to separat,
themselves from the Jews. A Chris
tian student named Dikar protested
and was killed or the spot. Then al
of the Jews were shot
A constant stream of unhappy per
sons visited the hospital, ~endeavorinI
TO locate and identity members o
their families or friends. Some of tn,
bodies had already been removed, bu
the hospital attendants asserted tina
about 100 in all had been brought i
n that many more remained in tn
outskirts of Bialystok. where it wa
still unsafe for the Red Cross detaci
ments to venture.
Al the district hospital there wer
six dead persons and eight or te
wounded. These were all Christian
These bodies were not mangled c
mutilated as was the cas- with tn
Jews, whose arms, hands and leg
were ONE times chopped off frol
mere wantonness.