The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-06-20
MASSACRE OF
JEWS IN RUSSIA
Terrible Battle Of the Sects Rages at
BiaIystok.
BOMB THROWN INTO PROCESSION.
Hundreds Of vletIms---Troops Unsble to Restore
Ordsr-.Bsst Stores Of the City sseket--Jews
Flee to Nsishboriur Towns, Pursued by Mobs
Said at St Petersburg That the Outbreak
Was Deliberately Pianed.

Bialystok, Russia (By Cable).--An
anarchist, who, the authorities say, is
a Jew, thew bomb into the Corpus
Christi procession here and killed or
wounded many peasons. In consequence,
the Christians attacked and massacreu
the Jews and demolished their shops.
Hundreds of persons were killed or
wounded.
The bomb was thrown from the bal
cony OF house in Alexandrov street.
A Russian clergyman named Fedroroii
was among those killed by the explosion
Immediately after the explosion Jews
began to FIRE with revolvers from the
windows of the house into the crowd.
Soldiers surrounded the house and hred
two volleys into the windows. Mean
while the enraged Christians attacked
the jewish stores in Alexandrov and
Suraz streets, demolishing the fixtures
and windows and throwing the goods IN
to the cutters and beating and murder
ing the Jews. A crowd Of Jews ned to
the railroad station, pursued by the mob,
which killed many OF them there. Three
Jews were thrown from second-stoTy
windows of the railroad station building.
The Jews are fleeing from Bialystok
to the neighboring forest and mobs are
pursuing them Detachments OF dra-
gcons have been sent out to protect the
Jews
Jews arriving here on railway trains
have been dragged out of the cars and
many OF them have been murdered
Troops have cleared the railway station.
St. Petersburg, (By Cable).-The lat
est dispatches from Bialystok, received
about midnight, report a situation OF the
utmost gravity. The anti Jewish out
break there was still raging; fighting
was in progress in the streets; the mr.
ing was continuous; the best stores in
the city had been sacked and many were
dead or wounded
The signal for the outbreak, which ap-
parently was deliberately planned, per
haps as a counter-stroke for the murder
Of Chief of Police Derkatchoff on June
10, which was attributed to Jewish bund-
lists, is given as the explosion OF bomt
during a religious procession. This wa:
followed by revolver fusillades in severa-
quarters OF the city The police are saic
not to have attempted to interfere in the
early stages of the riot
The Jews, who number three-fourth:
Of the population Of the city, Offered
the best resistance possible, many OF
them being armed but were unable tc
prevent the pilaging of their homes ant
places of business, Finally the military
nteriered, but without being able to re-
store order, Reinforcements have beer
rushed to Bialystok from Grodno.
Several members of parliament received
messages from Jewish correspondents
at Biaystok declaring that the police ap
parently had given over the Jewish po
pulation to slaughter and pillage. Thes'
correspondents urged that the only hop'
was in an appeal to the ministry OF tht
interior to interfere in their behalf. 4
delegation OF deputies Immediately called
at the headquarters Of the police depart
mcnt, where they were informed that al
measures possible had been taken to stol
excesscs and restore order