Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-09-01
THREW DEADLY BOMB.
THlR1i-TWO PERSONS ARE DEAD
and 81 ARE WOUNDED.
Fearful Destruction Follows Attempt
to Assassinate Premier of Russia
At His Country House - Dead In
clude His Daughter-Prominent Of
ficiaIs and Society People Wounded.

st. Petersburg, Aug. 26.-Twenty-
seven persons are dead and 33 wound
ed as the result of a dastardly at
tempt Saturday afternoon to assas-
sinate Premier Stolypin with bomb
while he was holding public recep-
ton at his country house on Apten-
tassy island. The premier was
slightly wounded on the face and
neck by flying splinters,
Among the dead are the premier's
15-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; M. Khosvoff, former
governor of the province of Pensa;
Colonel Fodoroff, chief of the pre-
mier's personal guard; Count Cham
berlain Davidoff, Court Chamberlain
Veronin and Aide Doubasoff, Prince
Nakashidge, Police Officer Konun-
zeff and four women and two chill
dren.
The wounded include M. Stolypins'
3-year-old son, who is seriously il not
fatally injured and several persons
prominent in the society and official
world
Of the four conspirators who en-
gineered the outrage, two were killed
with their victims, while the third,
who acted as coachman for the party,
and the fourth, who remained inside
the carriage, were badly wounded and
are now in the st. Peter and st. Paul
| fortress.
The authors of the outrage drove
up to the premiers residence after
| the list of visitors had been closed.
| The servants refused them admis-
sion, at which they attempted to
| force an entrance to the house. A
struggle ensued at the entrance to
the anteroom adjoining the reception
room, during the course of which
| the terrorist, disguised as a gendarme,
| dropped a bomb, whish exploded, de-
stroying the anteroom, the adjoining
guardroom, part Of the reception room
| and also the balcony of the first
floor. The tremendous force of the
explosion absolutely blew out the
front of the premier's residence and
carried away the ceilings above and
the floor beneath and the walls OF
the adjoining rooms.
| People were literally blown to
| pieces. Those who were not killed
instantly were horribly mangled or
lacerated, and all the others present
were Frustrated by the shock
The premier's escape was miracu-
| lOus, for only a moment before the
explosion took place he had stepped
inside his study at the rear of the
salon to speak to Prince Shakovsky.
Although he is but slightly injured, he
| is completely Frustrated by the ca
| lamity.
The havoc wrought by the explosion
| is indescribable. Bodies were so torn
or mangled as to make identification
| impossible some of them headless
armless, legless, lying among the
blood dripping wrecSage. Pieces Of
flesh and clothing hung to the shat
tered rafters overhead and some lodg-
| ed in branches of the elm trees which
border the roadway separating the
premier's residence from the river.
The terrorist who carried the ex-
plosive into the house was literally
converted into pulp by the force of
the explosion.
Inside the gendarme coat which
he had on was found the death SEN
tence of Premier StolypiD that he had
tried to execute. The police refuse to
make public the contents of the docu-
ment.
Reds Came From Moscow.
AS a result of an inquiry it was
learned that the man who threw the
bomb came from Moscow via Warsaw.
They took lodgings in Morskaia street
and hired a carriage, in which they
visited one of the open air summer
theatres prior to going to Premier
Stolypin's house. The chief of the
assassins. whose body is now guarded
by troops, is apparently about 25 years
of age. He wore brand new uniform
beneath which he had a civilian vest
of very dirty linen.
Later Report.
The daughter of Premier Stolypin,
who was injured by the explosion and
who was enormously reported to have
died, is still alive. The premier's son,
who also was hurt, is better.
Two more persons injured by the
explosion died during Sunday night,
bringing the total number of dead up
to 80. Twenty-six persons were in
stantly killed.
Not From John Rockefeller.
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