Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-26
THE FEARFUL WORK
OF A RUSSIAN BOMB
Tragic Sequel to Attempt on
StoIypin's Life.
28 KILLED AND "a WOUNDED
Entire Center of Premier's Residence
Blown Out.
DAUGHTER DIED FROM INJURIES
Two Of the Four Conspirators Among
the Dead-Stolypin Escaped
- With Slight Abrasions.
z8 KILLED AND "a WOUNDED
Entire Center of Premier's Residence
Blown Out.
DAUGHTER DIED FROM INJURIES

u. PETERSBURG. August 25.-Twenty-
eight persons are dead and twenty-four
Ssounded as the result OF a dastardly at
Sampt this Afternoon to assassnate Premier
otolypin with bomb while he was holding
D public reception at his country house on
Aptekarsky Island. The premier was
slightly wounded on the face and neck by
flying splinters.
Among the dead are the prcmiers fifteen
Jear-old daughter, who had both limbs
broken by the explosion and subsequently
ouccumbed to her injuries; General Fam
eaton, the premiers personal secretary; NJ.
xhovostoff. former governor of the prov
Shce Of Penza; Colonel Federof, chief Of
ne premier's personal guard; Court Cham
berlain Dsvidafr. Court Chamberlain Vo-
sonin and Aid Doubassof and four women
and two cAildren.
The wounded include NJ. Stolypin's three
year-oid son. who Is seriously, though not
fatally, injured. and a number Of persons
prominent in the social and official worlds.
OF the four conspirators who engineered
the outrage two were killed with their vic
man for the party, and the fourth, who
remained inside the carriage. were badly
wounded and are now in the ST. Peter and
st. Paul fortress
Whether the assassns who entered the
crowded reception hall threw the bomb or
accidentally dropped 1t probably never will
be known, as all the immediate eye wit
Of the explosion absolutely blew out the
front of the preniers residence and carried
away the ceilings above and the floors be-
meath and the walls of the adjoining rooms.
People were literally blown to pieces.
Those who were not killed instantly were
horribly MANNED or lacerated, and all the
others present we're Frustrated by the
shock.
Premier's Escape Miraculous.
The premer's escape was miraculous, for
only' moment before the explosion took
place he had stepped inside his study at
the rear Of the saloon to speak to Prince
Ehakovsky. Although he was but slightly
injured, he is completely Frustrated by the
calamity.
The havoc wrought by the explosion is
= mUeScrIDdple bOOleS were SO TORN OF
mangled as to make identification impos-
: sible. some Of them headless. armless or
. legiess, lying among the blood-dripping
wreckage. Pieces of flesh and clothing clung
p TO the shattered rafters overhead, and some
lodged In the branches of the elm trees
which border the roadway separating the
premier's residence from the river.
When the Associated Press this evening
succeeded In securing permission to pass
the cavalry guarding the approaches to the
been removed to neighboring hospital,
but by the light of fiaring torches the po-
Hce were picking out from the wreckage
bits of flesh and placing them in towels for
transportation by ambulances to the
morgue.
AT the hospital the correspondent saw
frantic attendants trying to arrange the
shattered bodies into some sembance OF
human form for Identification by weeping
and wailing relatives outside.
The terrorist who carried the explosive
into the house was literally converted into
pulp by the force of the explosion.
Inside the gendarme officers coat which
he had on was found the death sentence of
Premier Stolypin that he had tried to ex-
ecute. The police refuse to make public the
contents Of the document.
Caused Tremendous Sensation.
The tragedy created a tremendous sensa-
tion here and extra editions of the news
papers were sold in the streets until mid
night. In the clubs where officials and
officers gathered the most intense indigna-
tion prevailed. and the prediction was freely
made that the revoutionaries would pay
dearly for such senseless crimes. and Lo
doubt was entertained that their only effect
would be to drive the government to more
severe methods of repression.
From information obtained from revolu-
tionary sources It Is certain that the crime
was committed by the fighting organization
OF the social revolutonists in retaliation
for the war which the government has been
waging against them Since M Stoiypin Typ
accession to the premiership over 1000 OF
thei: members have been arrested. 400 in
St Petersburg alone, and many of these
have been deported.
To fight this crusade the fighting organi-
xation, which Is composed of wing known
as Natimists and who believe In setting up
a purely sociaits-,s state upon the ruins of
the autocracy, havS deliberately entered
upon a duel with the government such as
that which characterized the famous fight
of the nihilist in the late seventies and
which ended In the assassination of EN-
peror Alexandria III. Within single year
at that time little coterie of nihilists un-
der the direction OF Jeriabof made twenty
eight attempts against the emperor and
high officials, fourteen of which were sue
cessful. At the head of the present organ
ization is n prominent revolutionary who Is
considered to be an organizer equal If not
superior to Jeriaboff. All the members Of
the organization had due notice that today's
attempt on the premier would be made and
= went into hiding.
II has become known that an attempt
upon NJ Stolypn frustrated ten days
ago by the discovery OF the beginning of a
subterranean passage from the wall of the
Grenader Church. adjoining his residence.
The mining of palaces and residences for
merry was a favorite method of the nihil-
lists but has not been used of recent years.
Emperor Nicholas. when apprised of to-
days disaster. sent his personal congratu-
lations to Premier Stolypin on his escape,
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