Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-21
INCREASED VIOLENCE MARKS
BLOODY DISORDERS fT
BIALYsToK.
SEVERAL BOMBS ARE THROWN
A CONSTANT INTERCHANGE OF
SHOTS BETWEEN JEWS AND
THE SOLDIERS.

Bialystok, Russia, June 16-A Jew
ish anarchist threw a bomb among
the participants in the Corpus Christi
procession which was in progress here
yesterday and killed or wounded many
persons. In consequence the Chris
tians attacked and massacred the
Jews and demolished their shops.
Hundreds of persons were killed or
wounded
The bomb was thrown from the bal
cony of a house on AleXandrov street.
A Russian clergyman named Federoff
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 fred 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 fed to the railroad
station, pursued by 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 raighboring 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 fury 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
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 a 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 sssIliittsa irf effect on
reactionary officials, If the charges
are true that they are inspiring ex-
cesses.
Town Completely cordoned.
An official dispatch from Bialystok
last night says the town has been
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 agrarfan debate in
the lower house is now in sight. a ten
minute limit tc 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 filed
with wounded, but it is impossible to
ascertain the correct number of the
casualties, as many Of the injured are
hidden in private houses. 5ss