The San Francisco call., 1906-06-19

that tlS cACtSS dSSuIHGu the CudTdCtcI
of three eornered fight between the
military. the mob and armed members
of the Jewish Bund, who, instead of
submitting passively to slaughter, as
their unarmed co-religionists have
done heretofore. carried the war into
the enemy's camp and fought bravely,
though without infiicting appreciable
loss on the troops, among whom no
serious casualties have been reported
Horrible details have been sent out
by the correspondent of the Bourse Ga
zette, who managed to send his story
by a messenger on Sunday afternoon.
The correspondent, who accompanied
Stchepkin directly to the hospital es7
corted by a corporafs guard, says he
was utterly unnerved by the sights he
witnessed there.
Merely saying that the corpses were
mutilated," the correspondent writes,
fails to describe the awful scenes The
faces of the dead have lost all human
semblance, and the corpses simply are
crushed masses of flesh and bone soak
ing in blood 1t is impossible to con-
ceive of such bestiality. The corpse of
Teacher Aptsein lay in the grass with
the hands tied. In the face and eyes
had been hammered three-inch nails.
Rioters entered his home and after fear
full outrages. killed him thus and then
murdered the rest of his family of
seven. When the corpse arrived at the
hospital, it was also marked with bay
onet thrusts.
Beside the body of Apstein lay the
corpse of child of 10 years, whose
leg had been chopped off with an AK
Here also were the dead from the
Schlachter home, where. according to
witnesses, soldiers came and plundered
the house and killed the wife. the son
and a neighbors. daughter and serious
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daughters.
'I am told that soldiers entered the
apartments of the Lapidus brothers,
which were crowded with people who
had fed from the streets for safety
and ordered the Christians to separate
themselves from the Jews A Chris
tian student named Dikar protested
and was killed on the spot. Three
Jews were shot.
Some of the corpses were marked
with fire. These had been brought
from burned tannery and showed bull
let and bayonet marks.
"In one corner of the yard was de-
mented Jewess trying to cover the
body of her husband, but her efforts
were IN vain, as the blood simply oozed
from beneath the inadequate covering.
From the wounded in the hospital
the correspondent heard many pitiable
stories, all of the same general tenor.
Here is the account OF a badly wound
ed merchant named Nevyazhiky:
"I live in the suburbs. Learning of
the pogrom, I tried to reach the town
through the fields, but was intercepted
by roughs. My brother was killed, my
arm and leg were broken, my skull
was fractured and 1 was stabbed twice
in the side / tainted from loss of
blood and revived to find a soldier
standing over me, who asked: What
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your" / begged him to spare my life.
The roughs again came, but spared me,
saying: He will die; let him suffer
longer"
The correspondent. who adopts the
bitterest tone toward the Government,
holds that the pogrom undoubtedly
was provoked and attributes the re-
sponsibility to Police Lieutenant Scher-
matieff He says the distinctive char
acteristic of the outbreak, in which it
differs from the excesses at Odessa,
Kishinev, Gomel and Kiev, aside from
bestiality, is the comparatively small
amount of actual robberies committed.
The participants seemingly were not
inspired by motives of loot, but of
murder and destruction, pure and SIM
pie. He. also holds that the partici-
patton of the troops has been complete
ly proved, and quotes Deputy Stchep-
kin as saying this is clearly shown by
the Generalization of the soldiery con-
sequent on the removal of all restraint.
The correspondent declares that not
only the soldiers, but their officers also.
participated, and tnat he himself was a
witness as late as Saturday TO the
shooting down of a Jewish girl from
the window of a hotel by Lieutenant
Miller of the Vladimir regiment. The
Governor of the Province of Grodno,
who happened to be passing at the
moment, ordered an investigation