The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-19
BIALYSTOK STORY
full OF HORROR.
Massacred Jews Frightfully Mu-
tilated Nails Driven into
Eyes Of a Teacher.

st. Petersburg, June ION. Vinaver.
member of the lower house, today
received the following dispatch from NJ.
Jacobson. member of the commission
sent to Bialystok by the lower house to
Investigate Jewish massacres there:
Order was restored yesterday. Sew
enty,eight Jews and six Chhirsians have
been buried. The majority of the dead
were killed with bayonets or rifle bull
let's. Total Of the dead has not vet
been established A Cossack yesterday
killed passing Jew.
| "The city council has unanimously
declared that the massacre was not the
result of race hatred, but was due to
prOvocation, and the troops and police
participated in the outrages.
The reports that Jews and revolu-
tionists attacked the inhabitants are
! false.''
Sacks of Loot.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press last evening saw dozens Of Chris
/ tians Of the lower classes with sacks on
! their backs, coming from the aesolated
| Jewish quarter, to submit to the exemi-
! nation of the soldiers and police. If
the sacks contained plumber, none of it
was seized.
The Bialystok correspondent Of the
Bourse Gazette, who adopts the bitter
( SSG EGOuc GOWctIuS Cuc SONcluiucuG, uOlUS
that the program undoubtedly was pro-,
voked and attributes the responsibility
to Police Lieutenant Sherematieff, and
says the distinctive characteristic of the
outbreak in which it differs from the
excuses at Odessa, Kishinef. Gomel
and Kief, aside from bestiality, is the
comparatively small amount of actual
robbery committed.
The participants seemingly were not
inspired by motives of loot, but of muir
der and destruction pure and simple.
The correspondent declares that not
only the soldiers but officers also par
ticipated, and ne was witness as late
as Sunday to the SHOOTING down of
Jewish girl in the window of hotel by
Lieutenant Miller of the Vladimir regi
ment. The governor of the province of
Grodno, who happened to be passing at
the moment, ordered an Investigations.
Narrowing Scenes.
The scene at the Jewish hospital
most severely wounded were taken, was
terrible. When correspondent. arrived
there the grass plot outside the hospital
was covered with mangled corpses, ar
ranged in two long rows, awaiting bur
/ ial -
!. The wooden walk from the gate to
the door, over which the bodies were
carried, was stained with blood The
dead and wounded were still arriving.
Many Of them had been lying untouched
in the streets two days. Only the most
severely wounded were taken inside the
hospital. The, bodies of some of these
were frightfully bruised. broken and
mangled. A constant stream Of un-
happy persons visited the hospital ward
and the wards, endeavoring to locate
and identify members of their families
or friends i -. -, ~" = ~ ~
i Only Six Christians Die.
At the district hospital there were six
dead persons and eight or ten wounded.
These were all Christians. One man
had been killed and two wounded as
, the result of the explosion of bombs.
The Others had bullet wounds, These
!, bodies were not mangled or, mutilated.
as was the case with the Jews, whose
J hands: arms and legs were sometimes
, chopped off from mere wantonness.
80 Merely saying that the corpses were
! fails to describe the awful facts. 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. It is. impossible to con.
: ceive Of such bestiality.
Nails Driven into Eyes.
Inc corpse OF eIeacherl ApSteln lay
on the grass with the hands tied. III
: three-inch nails. Rioters entered his
e home and, after fearful outrages, killed
: him thus and then murdered the rest
s Of his family of seven. When the
y corpse arrived at the hospital it was
:. also marked with bayonet> thrusts.
. Beside the body of Apstein lay tho
corpse of a child Of 10 years, whose leg
had benn ohonpoI off with on ~ uar.
also were the dead from the Schlach
ter home, where, according to witnesses
soldiers came and plundered the house
and killed the wife, son and neigh
boris daughter and seriously wounded
Schlachter and his two. daughters
g 81 am told that soldiers entered tn,
i apartments of Lapidus brothers, which
It from the streets for safety, and ordered
v the Christians to separate themselve
$ from the Jews. A christian studen
n named Dikar protested and was killed
: on the spot. Then all the Jews wer,
d shot. Some of the corpses We're marked
a with fire. These had been brought from
) a burned tannery and showed bulle
h holes and bayonet marks.
n Many Pitiful Stories.
s. tIn one corner of the yard was.
woman trying to cover the body Of lie
husband. but her. efforts were in vain
q as the blood simply oozed from bencat]
the inadequate covering.
! 80 From the wounded come man,
tenor. Here is the account of badl,
= wounded merchant named Neyyazhiky
go live in the suburbs. Learning Q
the program, tried to reach the tow
2 thru the fields, but was intercepted b
{: roughs. Ny brother was killed, my arr