The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-19
Jewish Estimate of Bia-
 lystok Casualties.
NUMBER OF WOUNDED LARGE
Some of the corpses Were Masses
 of Pu1ped Flesh.
Members of Lower House of Russian Parliament Who are Making an investigation are Greet
 ed as sayiors.

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 Fialystok, June 1s.--Quiet reigns to- day throughout this devastated town Firing was heard at midnight on the outskirts of Bialystok. near the cem- etery, but no further disorders have oc- cured. The total figures of the casu- aIties are not obtainable, but seventy bodies were buried today. This is claimed to be less than half the total of the killed Jewish estimates say that not less than 200 were killed. The number of wounded Is enormous. Sur geons have arrived here from Warsaw to assist the overworked stafs of the hospitals in caring for the injured.
 A few instances of the excesses were the bestiality and brutality with which the victims of the massacre were treated Some of the corpses were masses of pulped flesh, the wounded in some eases having scarcely sound bone in their bodies.
 The members of the commission of the lower House of Parliament who are here to inquire into the massacre are greeted as saviors by the popUla- ton. who flock out of their houses with pathetic joy and relief. As the com missioners pass through the streets the people call down blessings on their heads and give them accounts of their sufferings.
 The rom naaiart of the troops has furnished the commissioners with an escort and mas promised them every fa- ciIity in conducting their investiga- tion.
 Ceusorship is Exercised.
 The cores pondert Of the Associated Press who arrived here yesterday, but who was not allowed to telegraph until the present, and who was required to write dispatches in French in order to facilitate the censorship, found the story of the riot written in large let .aef.-. NF A uk~ fig i.tff were one coatinucus picture o' arson and pniaee. The windows and doors of the Jewish houses were wide cpen. giving a view Of their wrecked interior. ur were boarded up with rude wooden shutters
 women hun ing for traces of Killed nr wounded re atlv@s The D:inciIai stores were either devastated wrssks or mere ,aounds or ashes along which the wretchad proprietprs, last week rich, bus now reduced to poverty. were wandering nnout weakly endeavnrlng to ascertain the extent of their misfor- tunes,
 Before practically every house left Intact hung an ikon, with a burning lamp and the street doors were marked with great crosses. marked with chalk or cloth, to show that the inmates were Christians. The streets were patrolled hy attachments of cavalry and infant ry and the cordon of troops drawn around the town when the outbreak first occurred was still maintained. The railroad station was occupied by the military and nobody was allowed to en- ter the town without a permit from the commandant Strict martial law pre- vailed.
 Another attack was made yesterday evening on the police station by armed revoluitonists. who occupied a house nearby. They opened fire from the buildings on the police, but force of Cassacks was gathered, the house was stormed and the revolutionists were dispersed It was feared that the latter, who are members of the Jewish band and are enraged and embittered by the slaughter of their co-religion- ists, would seize the occasion of the funeral of the victims today to make a new attack, but the Governor General took the necessary military measures to prevent it and the inteerments passed off without incident.
 The Garrison Reinforced.
 The garrison has been strongly re- inforced and now includes besides sew eral regiments of Infantry. two squad rons of cavalry, three squadrons of dra- Eoons and two batteries of artillery On account of the destruction of the stores of provisions, supplies are almost unobtainabIe here just now, but food is oelHS lhlpoFteu 10 TSlleVe the ueStlIu- ton.
 The scene at the Jewish hospital where the majority of the Jewish dead and most severely wounded were taken was terrible. When the correspondent: arrived there the grass plot outside tho hospital was covered with mangleC corpses arranged in two long rows awaiting burial The wooden walL from the gate to the door, over which the bodies were carried was stained with blood. The dead and wounded were still arriving. Many oI them had been lying untouched in tho streets for two days. The bodies oi some of these were frightfully bruised broken and mang1ed.
 A constant stream of unhappy per. sons visited the hospital yard and. wher allowed to do so, the wards, endeavor. ing to locate and identify members oi their families or friends or obtain the bodies of dear ones for burial. Some ol the bodies had already been removed but the hospital attendants asserted that about a hundred in all had beer brought in and that many more remain. ed in the outskirts of Bialystok where 1t was still unsafe for attachments tC venture
 At the district hospital there wer, six dead persons and eight or ter wounded. These were all Christians One man had been killed and two woun. ded as a result of the explosion ot bombs. The others had bullet wounds These bodies were not mangIed ol mutiiated as was the case with the Jews. whose hands. arms, and legs wer, sometimes chopped ofr from mere wan.