The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-12
WORDS FAIL TO
TELL THE STORY
UnSpeakabIe Horrors Enacted
in Streets and Houses of
SiedlCe, in Poland.
NO MERCY SHOWN JEWS
SOME FEAR OF AN OUTBREAK
IN WARSAW.

Warsaw. Sept. 11.-With the sanction
of the authorities, who provided an
armed guard for the mission the As
ISOLATED Press correspondent this aft
ernoon visited Siedlce, the scene of the
murderous events of Sept. 8, 8 and 10.
The railway station at Seidlce. when
the correspondent arrived, was crowd
ed with Jews, among whom were many
starving women with infants in their
arms. Almost on the moment there fell
upon the frightened. people the sound
OF volley being fired in the town,
which lies half a mile back of the sta
ton ANpanic ensued, men trembling
with fear and. women imploring the SOL
olers Tor mercy, anticipating the
/ slaughter of their loved ones and
! themselves. Gendarmes on guard at
the station entered the waiting room
and roughly ordered the people to be
quiet. assuring them that their alarm
was needless.
Saints Pictures Displayed.
Proceeding to the town. the corre-
! spondent traversed Warsaw street.
! which presented a desolate aspect the
stores and shops being closed and all
OF them showing signs of having been
plundered. Pictures of saints were
! hanging outside the windows of many
houses, mute appeals to the soldiery
and looters TO spare the inmates.
Everywhere in the street were to be
seen soldiers ready to fire on the least
provocation. TIL streets were Uttered
with Jews hats, torn clothing and
damaged carts.
! The most severe damage had been
done in Pienka street. where the houses
Arr~ea y Il
instances walls had been demolished
with cannon shot. Cows and goats. es-
capped from their pens. wandered
! through the streets aimlesSly.
At the Victoria hotel the dining room
had been desDoiled of its furnishings
and the doors of the guests rooms had
been broken down and their contents
thrown into the streets and burned.
From this point the correspondent was
obliged TO turn back, shooting having
! recommended. He was made prisoner
by soldiers, but shortly afterwards re-
| leased by the governors order
Anti-Semite in Control.
Refugees state that Governor En-
gelke was taken sick d week ago and
that control of affairs i'm Siedlce then
passed into the hands of Colonel Tu-
chanowski, an anti-Semite The people
at once began to desert the town. ap-
pretending an attack upon the Jews.
1t is asserted that paid provoca tive
agents SO contrived matters that on
Saturday the soldiers began shooting
in the streets and bombarding houses.
the occupants being forced to flee To
quicken the flames soldiers threw oil
upon the burning houses. An army Of
ficer stumbling upon wounded Jew
Temorsely killed him. 1t is related that
soldiers killed the Jewish proprietor
Of a fruit store. put his body under a
table and ate his provisions as they
p were spread upon the table.
Fired Upon Hospital.
Another refugee states that Satur-
day night the doctors at the Jewish
hospital i'll Siedlce lit the gas in that
institution preparatory TO opera ton Oh
the wounded who had been brought in
who numbered seventy when without
warning the soldiers in the street
opened fire upon the hospital, killing
two OF the inmates.
As man was taking his wife ana
newly born child 10 hospital they
were fired upon by soldiers and the
wife and child were killed
A Jew Ventured out of his house Ia
bring some water for his thirsting lit
tie ones. As often as he reached the
door with d pail of water soldiers COM
PEELED him TO empty the pail upon the
ground. This was done eleven times
The twelfth time the father appeare1
with water for his children the guards
washed his boots in the pail and made
the children drink the befouled water
Some Spared for s25.
I'm many cases the soldiers spared the
lives of Jews upon payment of s25,
BY actual count 40 corpses were
picked up in the streets. and il is stat
ed that as many more bodies are hid
den in cellars. Only one Christian is
known TO have been killed and so fan
as can be learned no soldiers were
killed.
Trainloads Of fugitives are leaving
Siedlce for the south
a Jewish child, who begged permits
sion of a military officer to search fol-
his parents. was kicked away by the
officer.
The uldisciplined soldiery acted with