The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1906-09-14
BRUTAL ACTS BY SOLDIERS
BODIES OF ONE HUNDRED AND
FORTY VICTIMS PICKED UP
IN THE STREETS.

clated Press correspondent Tuesday
afternoon visited Siedlce, the scene of
the murderous events of Sept. 8, 9 and
10. The railway station at siedlce
when the correspondent arrived there
was crowded with Jews, among whom
were many starving women with in
rants In their arms. Almost on the
moment there fell upon the ears of the
frightened people the sound of vol
leNa being fired in the town, which lies
half mile back of the station. A
panic ensued, men trembling with fear
and women implOring the soldiers for
mercy, anticipating the slaughter of
their loved ones and themselves.
Gendarmes On guard at the station en-
tered the waitingroom and roughly Or
dered the people to be quiet, assuring
them that their alarm was needless.
Proceeding to the town, the CORE
spondent traversed Warsaw street,
which presented desolate aspect,
the stores and shops being closed and
I'll OF them showing signs of having
been plundered. Pictures of saints
were hanging outside the windows of
many houses, mute appeals to the SOL
diery and looters to spare the inmates.
Everywhere in the streets were to be
seen soldiers ready to fire on the least
proVocation. The streets were Uttered
with Jews hats, torn clothing and
damaged carts.
Houses RiddIed With Bullets.
The most severe damage had been
done in Jienkna street, where the
houses were riddled with bullets and
IN many instances walls had been de-
molished with cannon shot. Cows and
goats escaped from their pens and
wandered through the streets aimless-
1y.
At the Victoria hotel the diningroom
had been despoiled of it's furnishings
and the doors Of the guests rooms
had been broken down and their con-
tents thrown into the streets and
burned.
From this point the correspondent
was obliged to turn back, shooting
having been recommended. He was
made prisoner by soldiers, but after
wards released by the governors Or
der.
Refugees state that Governor En-
gelke was taken sick week ago and
that control of affairs in Siedlce then
passed into the hands of Colonel
Tuchanowski, an anti-Semite. The
people at once began to desert the
town, experimenting an attack upon
the Jews. 1t is asserted that paid
provocative agents so contrived mat
tiers that on Saturday the soldiers be-
gan shooting in the streets and bonn
barded houses, the occupants being
forced to fee. To quicken the flames
soldiers threw oil upon burning
houses.
An army officer, stumbling upon a |
wounded Jew, remorselessly killed |
him. 1t is related that soldiers killed
the Jewish proprietor of fruit store,
put his body under table and ate his
provisions as they were spread upon
the table.
Troops Fired Into Hospital.
Another refugee stated that satur-
day night the doctors at the Jewish
hospital in Siedlce lighted the gas in
that institution preparatory to operat-
Ing upon the wounded who had been
brought i'll, who numbered seventy,
when without warning the soldiers in
the streets opened fire upon the hos.
pftal, killing two of the inmates.
AS man was taking his wife and
newly born child to the hospital they
were fired upon by the soldiers and
the wife and child were killed.
A Jew ventured out of his house 10
bring some water for his thirsting lit
lie ones. AS often as he reached the
loor with pail of water, soldiers COM
oelled him to empty the pail ur0n the
ground. This was done eleven times.
me twelfth time the father appeared
With water for his children and the
'fficer of the guard washed his boots
n the pail and made the children
rink the fouled water.
III many cases the soldiers spared }
he lives of Jews upon the payment Of
rs.
BY actual count, 40 corpses were
licked up in the streets and it is
tated that as many more bodies are I
idden in cellars. Only one Christian
s known to have been killed and so +
ar as can be learned no soldier was
illed.
The undisciplined soldiery acted
With utmost brutality all through the I
Here in Warsaw there are some +
ears of an outbreak.
Soldiers Tuesday night searched the
ewish quarter. Several conflicts re-
ulted and two Jews were killed and I
leven seriously injured. Forty-two
revolutionists have been ar {
ested. A military officer was killed
ere Tuesday night by terrorists. 1