The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-06-22

| A Russian clergyman named FederoH
was among those killed by the explo-
| sion.
Christians Kill and Destroy.
Immediately after the explosion
Jews began to fire with revolvers from
| the windows of the house into the
crowd. Soldiers surrounded the house
and fired two volleys into the win
| dows. Meanwhile the enraged Chris
tians attacked the Jewish stores in
AleXandrov and Suras streets. demol-
| fishing the fixtures and windows and
| throwing the goods into the buffers,
and beating and numbering the Jews.
| A crowd of Jews fled to the railroad
| station, pursued by a mob which kill
| ed many of them there. Three Jews
were thrown from second-story win
| dows of the railroad station building.
Pursue Fleeing Jews.
! The Jews are fleeing from Bialystok
| to the neighboring forests and mobs
are pursuing them. Detachments of
| dragons have been sent 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 sta
| ton.
Several Bombs Were Thrown.
ST. Petersburg, June 17.-Disorders
| appear to have broken out at Bialy
| stok yesterday afternoon with even
| greater fur than characterized
Thursdays riots.
No dispatches were received last
night from Bialystok, where the tele-
graph office is closed; but semi-official
messages from Grodno and Minsk re-
| port that the excuses were started
again yesterday 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 con-
slant interchange of shots between
Jews in their houses and soldiers in
| the streets.
Peasants Participate.
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 fore
warned of the possibility of trouble
Thursday and had recalled battalion
of infantry and several squadrons of
cavalry from their summer camp to
strengthen the garrison, but without
overawing the fomenters of the
| trouble
Prompt to Investigate.
The lower house of parliament read
| the government lesson yesterday on
promptness of investigation of the
Bialystok outbreak, committee of
three having been named and depart
ing last evening for Bialystok, in the
hope that the presence of representa-
tives of parliament will check the dis
orders and have a salutary effect on
reactionary officials. If the charges
are true that they are inspiring ex-
ceSses.
Town Completely cordoned.
An official dispatch from Bialystok
ulSoAl says Lie IoWu AdS UGtu
completely cordoned to prevent the
ingress of peasantry, who were rush
ing in from the country, attracted by
chances of pillage and rumors of dan
ger to their coreligionists.
The end of the agrarian debate in
the lower house is now in sight, ten
minute limit to speeches having been
fixed.
Hospitals Filled With Wounded.
Bialystok, Russia, June 16.-So far
as can be ascertained, thirty Jews
were killed during Thursdays out
break 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 private houses.