The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-12-31
MANY MURDERED
BY TERROR|STS
LODI AT MERCY or ANARCHISTS
WHO sLAY WoRkMEN UNDER
COVER OF DARKNESS.
HEARTRENDINC SCENES
Enacted in Streets Which Run Red
With Blood Of lnnocent--WiIl
Shut 100000 Men Out Of
Work--Rich Fleeing,

LODI, Russian Poland, Dec 30.- Dur,
ing riots here today and last night
twenty-sx persons were Killed. Scores
have oeen wounded many fatally
The city Is helpless in the reign Of
terror, led by ocialists Sanguinay
encounters are incessant
Nationalist workmen are murdered
like dogs. Agitators are urging the
socialists to continue the harvest Ct
deatm The workmen are fighting for
supremacy over the socialists
At first supine. the author ties are
becoming ac i've They are preparing
to meet all emergencie
Wealthy Fleeing From City.
Persons Of wealth are leaving the
city as rapidly as possible.
Seven Of the largest factories will
close today throwing 100000 out OF
v, TX. This great army Of workmen
viii he hungry tomorrow, and II is
feared hey will participate in general
bread riots
The socialists threaten to organize
more riots tonight and tomorrow, and
force citizens at the point of revoi-
YER tofeed and lodge the unempl yed.
During las night the manager OF
SeheibIer's cotton mills was slain IN
his bed. An engineer OF another fac
tory was murdered during the a!ght b.
socialists
Officers fthese and other estab'
lishments, in fear Of assa sination re.
fused TO return to work today, com
pelling he general close down.
Twenty-Five thousand workmen
were locked out of the Scheibler mills
the Fuznanski, and the Grohman mills.
Engineers and skilled artisans are
heeng from The city,
Most III the 'Kifilng occurred last
night Twenty were sla n under cover
OF darllne s.
Up to 10 o'clock this morning six
more were added 70 the death list
Before the day Is done that number
may be trebled. Many Of The number
less wounded are reported to be dying
Street Scenes Heartrendlng,
The scenes in the streets are heart
rending. Women in tatered clothing
followed by wailing children add their
pitful chrieks to the thunder Of the
riots. Bleeding men are nursed on the
curbs by women The dead are hur-
RED into byways.
The soclali Is seem crazed By
bleed and stop at nothing. Every
minute he situation becomes more
acute.
Despite the work of the socialists.
It is generally anticipated that the
nationalist workmen will eventually
get he upper hand over the socialists,
and rive ont the agitators. II Is hoped
n that event that work viii be resum.
ed a the factories in a few daya.
Opposition to he g cialist agitators
oa the part Of the mill owners led TO
the present trouble
Defiance Adds to Fury
Defiance Of the socialists by The na.
tlonalist workmen added to The fury
o fthc socialists The nationalist
workmen greatly crtnumher the s--
cialists, and once they are brought In.
70 anything like organized resis a.ce
the system Of terrorism viii come to
grief
No fear Of any financial difficulties
among the firms hat have been forced
70 close down their mills is anticipat
ed The principal Polish bankers ex-
press themselves as NJ al an alrm-
ed in this connection.
Twenty soc alists from LODI forced
their WIZ into the home Of Colonel OBJ
rutshcf al Luko6. Poland today. and
Killed him Servants fin the house
@ere bound bv the a sassins and The
place was srt on fire.
Colonel Ohrutshef was f-rmerly
mill ary commander al LODI and put
down disturba-ces there with great
brutality u was in revenge for th g
that he was killed.
BLAcKMAIL DRIVES TO FORGERY.