The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1906-08-31
BOMB KILLED 81.
Premier Stolypin Was the Intended
Victim, But He Escaped.

St PETERSBURG, Aug. 25.--Thiriy- one per
sons are deaf and ~ wounded Rs the result
Of an attempt this afternoon 10 assassinste
Premier Stolypin with bomb while he was
holding public reception At his country house
on Aptekarsky Island. The Premier was
slightly wounded in the face and neck by
flying splinters.
Among the dead are the Premier's Is year.
old daughter, who had both legs broken by
Inc explosion aud subsequently, suecumbed to
her INJURIES; General Zameatin. the Premier S
personal secretary; NJ. X. Hoyostotf, former
Governor Of the Province of Penza; Colonel
Fedeaoff. chief Of the Premier's personal
guard; Court Chamberlain Davidof, Court
Cham nberlain Voruuin and Aid DoubaSSof and
four women aud two children.
The wounded include NJ. StOlypin's year
old son, who is seriously though not fatally
injured. aud number Of persons prominent
in the social and official worlds.
OF the four conspirators who engineered
the nutrage two were killed, with their victims.
while the third, who acted as coachman for
tie party. aud the fourth, who remained inside
the carriage, were badly wounded, and are
now in the st. Peter and 81. Paul Fortress.
Whether the assassins who entered the
crowded reception hall threw the bomb or ac-
cideutally dropped it probably never will be
known. as all the immediate witnesses
were killed The tremendous force of the
explosion absolutely blew out the front of the
Premier's residence, and carried away the
ceilings above and the floors beneath and the
walls of the adjoining rooms.
People we're literally blown to pieces. Those
who were not killed Immediately were horri-
hly manned or Iaceraied, and all the others
present we're prostrated by the shock.
The Premier's escape was miraculous, for
only moment before the explosion he had
stepped inside his study, at the rear of the
salon. To speak to Prince Shakovsky. Al
though be was but slightly injured, he is COM
pletely prostrated by the calamity.
The havoc wrought by the explosion is in
describable Bodies were so torn and mangled
as to make identification impossible, some of
them headless, armless or legless lying among
the blood dripping wreckage. Pieces of flesh
and clothing cluug to the shattered raflers
overhead and soms lodged In the branches of
The elm trees which border the roadway seps-
rating the Premier's residence from the river.
When correspondent this evening succeeded
in securing permission to pass the cavalry
guarding the approaches to the house, the
dead and wounded already had been removed
to a neighboring hospital, but by the light of
faring torches the police still we're picking
out from the wreckage bits of flesh and plac-
ing them in towels for transportation by am
bulance to the morgue.
At the hospital the correspondent saw
frantic attendants trying to arrange the shat,
tered bodies into some semblance of human
form for Identification by weeping and wailing
relatives outside.
The terrorist who carried the explosive into
the house was literally converted into pulp by
the force of the explosion. Inside the gen.
darme officers coatwhich he had on was found
the death sentence of Premier Stolypin that
he had tried to execute.
The tragedy created tremendous sensation
here and extra editions of the newspapers
we're sold in the streets until midnight. lu
the clubs where officials and officers gather
the most intense indignation prevailed and
the prediction was freely made that the revo-
lutionaries would pay dearly for such senseless
crimes, and no doubt was entertained that
their only effect would be to drive the Govern
ment to more severe methods of repression.