The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-09-14
SLAUGHTER JEWS
BY The HUNDRED
CHASTITY Atrocities Perpetrated
by Russian Soldiery at
Siedlce.
MASSACRE WAS PLANNED
Christians Mere rnIa "a A,.. Qua
MASSACRE WAS PLANNED
Christians Were Told to Hang Out
Ikons So They Would Not Be At
tacked-Officers Do Not
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siedlce. Poland. Sept. IA Jewish
massacre surprising in seriousness all
previous ones in this vicinity took
place here Saturday and Sunday. 1t
was carefully planned beforehand, the
soldiers warning the Christian popu-
lation in advance to hang out their
lkons so they might remain undis-
turbed.
Saturday night some t%errorists killed
two soldiers n thereupon the Libau
regiment broke forth in unrestrained
fury. They began numbering Jews on
every hand and continued the slaugh-
ter all night Saturday M all day Sum
day. The CHASTITY work of numbering
and pillaging continued until an early
hour this morning. when Governor
Conceal Skallon telegraphed for per-
mission to use the artillery.
Slaughter Was Friehtful.
-Four batteries then opened fire down
Pienkna, Warsaw and Aliena streets.
which We're Inhabited by thousands of
Jews. The destruction was horrible.
it is estimated that fully 200 Jews We're
killed and 1000 wounded. Three thou
sand prisoners are in custody, a great
many of whom are wounded. Not a
soldier was killed. This morning squads
of soldiers were parading through the
streets selling pillaged watches and
jewelry. Army officers openly coun-
tenanced the selling of loot. Local
Governor Engelke took no steps to pre-
vent the outrage.
: Carnival of Slaughter.
st. Petersburg, Sept. 10.-Fighting,
which broke out in Siedlce. Russian Po-
land, Saturday night. developed yester-
day into a carnival of indiscriminate
slaughter and pillage in which the SOL
lior1 and ,,,oh- foD1y 10, vi
Jews We're shot and ~bayoneted in the
streets of the town.
Houses and shops We're wrecked and
We're carried off and offered
for sale by the soldiers to passengers
on passing trains. In addition the Jews
and a number of Christians, ever some
officers, met death in the fighting.
A conservative estimate places the
of victims at 140. Reports from
Warsaw n other towns in the vicin-
ity of Siedlce place the number of vic
time at several hundred.
Terrorists Blamed Again.
EARLY reports of the Siedlce mas
sacres put the responsibilities at the
of the terrorists. but fugitives de-
clare the soldiers never would have
been allowed to get so completely out
of hand without c%onnivance. if not ac-
tual direction of their officers. The
reports received of the Bialystok
last June said the t%errorists
were to blame there also.
1t is difficult to obtain the details
Of the trouble at Siedlce as the town
surrounded yesterday by soldiers
and nobody was allowed to enter. Pas
sengers, however, who arrived at War
during the night gave the follow
account of the slaughter:
After the murder OF Il policeman by
he terrorists Saturday night and the
of a volley by the troops into the
assembled crowd, which resulted iii
the killing of two citizens and the
of many more, the terrorists
held q meeting and decided to exact
vengeance by the inauguration of a
general campaign against the police
md troops, similar to the recent activ-
.ty along the same line in Warsaw.
the course of Sundaymorning twelve
oatrolmen and soldiers We're killed.
Wanton Plundering.
AS a result of his the Libau regi-
nent, in a state of Infatuated anger.
eft its barracks in the afternoon and
into. the Jewish quarters,
right and left as it went. The
,roops We're Joined by crowds of hool-
gans who ~co-operated in %plundering
wantonly destroying everything
hey We're unable and industrious of
away.
The sale of booty by the soldiers
vent on under the very eye of their
At a late hour yesterday afternoon the
Saluga regiment arrived on a special
rain from Bial and measures were in
;tituted to put a stop to the pogrom.
n spite of this, however, the shooting
continued up to a late hour last night.
A. correspondent of the Associated
Press, who was not able to get into
yesterday, started for there the
,econd time this morning. Siedlce is a
of 10000 people, half of whom are