The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-16
Murder OF JEWS
IN RUSSIAN CITY
Thirty Dead and Many Wound
ed as Result of Re-
ligiOuS Outbreak.
HOMES AND STORES SACKED
HOSPITALS CROWDED WITH
VICTIMS.

st. Petersburg. June 15.-Disorders
appear again to have broken out at
Bialystok tais afternoon with even
greater fury than characterized Thurs
days riots.
No dispatches have been received to-
night direct from BialystOk, where the
telegraph offices is closed, but semi
official messages from GrodnO and
Afinsk report that the excuses were
started again today by the throwing
of several bombs. The crowds, accord
ing to these dispatches, then opened
fire on the police station to which the
troops replied, and there was a con-
slant interchange of shots between
Jews in their houses and soldiers in
the streets. a mob of peasants armed
with clubs, scythes, etc, who had found
their way into the city Thursday, was
participating in the riOting.
a dispatch from Minsk states that
the authorities had been fully forwarn-
ed Of the possibility of trouble Thurs
day and had recalled a battalion OF
infantry and several sqUadTOns of cav
airy from their summer camp 60
strengthen TIE garrison, but without
oveTawing the originatOrs Of the fight
ing.
BiaIystok. Russia, June, 15.-SO far as
can be ascertained thirty Jews were
killed during yesterdays outbreak here,
The hospitals are filled with wounded,
but it is impossible to ascertain the
correct number of the casualties as
many Of the injured are hidden in pTi-
vate houses. All the Jewish shops on
the four principal streets were sacked.
Military and police patrols now guard
the streets and no civilians are al
lowed to leave their houses. A sort
OF armed truce has been established
pending the complete restoration OF or
der.
Cause of the Massacre.
When the Associated Press cores
Iondent arrived here at four o'clock
this morning the city was in possession
of the soldiers belonging TO the Nladi-
mir regiment The streets and railroad
stations were occupied by military de-
ttaChments and entrance into the town
Twas prohibited The population was
Sgreatly excited and the Jews were ter
Nor stricken, but there was no Tesump-
tfea of the killing Of the Jews up TO
noon.
According to the information obtain
able the attacks on the Jews were pro-
voked by the throwing of bomb into
q religious procession, that of Corpus
Christi, yesterday, seriously woundinS
a priest. Father FedeTOf, who was at
the head OF the procession and several
of his assistants This aroused the
Christian population and although the
perpetrators of the outrage were I'M
known, the responsibility was promptly
placed on the Jews
mob was soon formed and for sew
eraI hours ravaged the Jewish quarter,
VO-ScEOSseina, LipOva, Memletzka
and AIeXandrOv streets pillaging the
shops and hunting down and beating
their occupants
For hours the bodies of the dead and
wounded lay uucared for in the streets.
The Jews concealed themselves in
cellars and atJics in order to escape the
fury Of the mob and many fed from
the city.
The governor of Grodno arrived here
at midnight and today Is taking all the
measures necessary to calm the popu-
latiOn.
Jews Demand the Facts.
NJ. Sheftel, a member of parliament
from Ekaternoslav. accompanied by a
number OF members of the lower house
from the Jewish pale called on VI.
StOlypin, the minister of the interior
today regarding the anti-JeWish out
break at Bialystok. They were in
formed by NJ. Stolypin's aide de camp
that order had been restored and that
about ten persons had been killed but
IL was added, the ministry had no in
formation as to Jhe number of wound
ed.
Subsequently VI. ShefteI and his col
leagues drafted interpretations for
presentation in the lower house. calling
attention 10 the BialystOk affair ex-
pressing fear that il is the beginning of
a widespread attack on the Jews and
demanding to know what action the
government has taken at BiaIystok
who IS responsible for stirring up race
and religious strife in general and
what measures are being taken TO pre-
vent the destTIction OF lives and prop
erty Of the Jews, throughout the coun-
try
NJ Sheftcl's Interpolation was pre-
scented this afternoon and the house ac-
eepted IL unanimously with amend
fnents making it urgent and providing
for the dispatch of a parliamentary
commission 10 BialystOk 10 investigate
the affair.
\ series OF speakers held the gov
eminent directly responsible for the
outbreak. NJ. POditcheff declared
amidst thUnderous applause. tine blood
of the innocent viii continue TO flow
so long as the present authorities are
IN power.
IL HILL BEST MARKsMAN.
washington. June 1.-THE complete