The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-09-11
THE MASSACRE
GOES ON
Horrible Slaughter and De-
struction at Seidlce.
KILL HELPLESS JEWS
-Four Hundred Perish From Fury
Of TroOPs-Revolt In Prison
When Girl is Shot.


special dispatch says that for the last
thlrty.six hours firing has been going
on In different parts OF SeIdlce. Some
Of the houses In the great bazar are
now burning. More than half the pop
ulatlon OF 2S.000 are Jews. Almost all
their shops have been looted. The
Jews tried TO defend themselves, but
anybody leaving a shop or looking out
Of the windows OF the houses was mer-
cllessly shot Hundreds OF Jews are
assembled In the railway stations,
waiting for trains.
The riots started on Saturday and
are still going ON In some parts OF the
city. The revolutionsts were shooting
AT the soldiers from the windows,
and the soldiers replied with volleys.
Houses In which the revolutiUnists
have taken refuge are being destroyed.
Batteries OF artillery have opened
fire and destroyed four houses from
which the terrorlsts had fired on the
troops. More than 100 shops, in FIVE
streets. were sacked The Christian
population avoided being looted by
hanging holy images and crosses out
Of their windows.
Late advices from Siedlce are to the
effect that the fighting and bombarding
Of houses, which ceased about midday,
was resumed later, apparently in con-
sequence of Governor Engelke's de-
mand that the Jewish and Polish popu-
lace deliver up TO him the members OF
the Jewish Self Defense association.
The bundists, preferring death In the
open to tame surrender, resumed the
battle.
The authorities are Intellectually at
tempting 10 quiet the Infatuated sol
diers. Food is scarce. Nobody is al
lowed to enter the city. Field guns<
have been placed In the principa&
streets.
Ii Is estimated that In the fghtl'
and massacre 400 persons have perish
ed. One thousand, most OF them Jews,
were dogged by the soldiers.
The massacre was carefully planned
beforehand, the soldiers warning all
Of the Christian population In advance
to hang out their ikons, so that they
might remain undisturbed.
Saturday night some terrortsts killed
two soldiers, and thereupon the Libau
regiment broke forth in unrestrained
fury. They began numbering Jews
on every hand and continued the work
of slaughter all Saturday night and all
day Sunday.
Throngs Of refugees from Seidlce.
many of them wounded or badly beat
en-, are arriving in Warsaw. All de-
clare they gave no provocation for the
attack upon them by the soldiery and
were completely surprised at the out
break. They declare that the shots
which started the massacre instead of
being fired by terrorists were delivered
by house owners and shopkeepers de-
Tending their property against soldiers
who wound up n carouse with at
tempts to pillage. Thereupon promis-
cuous rloting and slaughter began.
Four batteries opened fire down
Plenkna, Warsaw and Aliena streets,
which were inhabited by thousands OF
Jews. The destruction was horrible.
A special Warsaw dispatch says that
bomb was thrown IN the market
square of Rudgusowska, killing one
policeman and wounding another Lat
er another bomb was thrown ut the en-
trance of the Zirardow Spinning works
in Warsaw, severely wounding po-
liceman and janitof. The troops
thereupon fired in all directions and
killed or wounded forty persons.
At Riga two revolutionists who fired
on patrol were tried by drumhead
court martial and executed. This is the
first application of the extraordinary
security" rule provided by the ukase
of Sept. g..
AT Odessa a court martial has SEN
fenced 10 hanging a Jewish girl named
Shakerman, who threw bomb at Po-
liceman Poltavchenko without injuring
him. Miss Shakerman admitted be-
longing to the terrorists and said it
had been determined to kill Poltav-
chenko because he took part In Jewish
massacres.
lneTc WAS IL ItNull ucIt III lllc Ctl-
trail detention prison in consequence of
the death of Mile. Semenova, girl of
twenty-five, young and enthusiastic
Social Democrat who was shot and
killed instantly by sentry when she
showed herself at the window Of her
cell overlooking the courtyard.
The furious prisoners expelled the
warders. barricaded the prison and laid
the corpse of Mile. Semenova upon an
impromptu bier in the central cell, re-
fusing to deliver il to the authorities
and swearing they would die rather
than surrender 1t. Troops were sum
moned, but the authorities. fearing
bloodshed, temporized and sent for the
brother of Mile. Semenova, TO whom
the insurgents delivered the body.
Grand Duke Nicholas, after an in
vestigation of the affair. personally or
dered the dismissal Of the officer of the
guard. which was drawn from the I'M
popular Semlnovskv regiment.