Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-09-12
.HEBREWSSLAUGHTERED
BY MADDENED TROOPS
Jews and ReVO|ut|on|sts Treated
Without Quarter by The Brutal
MuscOVlte Soldiers.
lao DEAD BODIES PICKED UP
AntLsemltc Responsible for Outbreak
Which Has Resulted In a Three
Days saturnaIia OF Blood and
crmc-shops Looted by Cossacks
Who Killed Women and Children.
(By Associated Press.>

WARSAW. Sept 1l.-With tho
sanction of the authoritlea who pro.
vidcd an armed guard for the mis-
sion, the Associated Press CORES.
pondcnt today visited Sledlcc, the
scene of the murticrons events OF
September s, and 10.
The railway station ut Sledlco
when the correspondent arrived there
was crowded with Jews, among whom
were starving women with Infants Il,
their arms. Just then there fell upon
the cars of the frightened people tho
sound of Il volley being fired in the
town, which lies half Il milo back of
the station.
~ panic cn5ucd, mon trcmblin.
with fear and women imploring tho
soldiers for mercy anticipating the
slaughter of their loved ones and
! themselves
Houses Plundered.
Proceeding to the town the CORES.
pondcnt travcrsed Warsaw street,
which presented dcsolntc aspect,
tho stores and shops beng closed and
all of thelE showing signs of having
been plundercd.
Pictures nl saints were hanging
outside the windows OF many houses
mute appeals to the soldlcry and
lootcrs to spare the inmates. Every.
where In the street were to be seen
soldiers ready to fire on the least
provocation. The streets were litter.
ed with hats, torn clothing and dam.
pgcd carts
Cannon Shots Demolished Walls.
The most severe damage had been
done in Picnka street, where tn,
houses were riddled with bullets and
In many Instances walls had becn de
molishcd with cannon shots and goa;
escaped from their pens wandered
through the streets aimlcssly.
! At the Victoria Hotel, the dining
room had been despoilcd of it's fur.
nishings and the doors of the guests
rooms had been broken down an
their contents thrown into the
streets and burned.
From this point the correspondent
was obliged to turn back, shoutln:
having commenced. tle was made &
prisoner by some soldiers, but short
ly afterwards was released by tbs
Governors order.
Anti-Semite in Charge.
Refugees state that Governor En-
gelke was taken sick week ago and
that control of affairs in Slodlce then
passed into the hands of Coione
Tnohanowski. an anti-semitc. The
people at once beginning to desert
the town, experimenting an attack
upon the Jews.
Another refugee states that Satur
day night the doctor at the JewisI
hospital in Siedlce lighted the gas 1,
that institution preparatory to Oh
SialiuS upoH TIC WOunueu VINO h;lf
been brought in who numbered scy
enty, when. without warning the sol
diers in the street opened fire upar
the hospital, killing two of the in
mates.
AS man was taking his wife and
newly born child to hospital they
were fired upon by soldiers and the
wife and child were killed.
In many cases the soldiers have
spared the lives of the Jews upon the
payment of $25.
$40 Bodies Picked Up.
BY actual count 40 bodies were
picked mp in the streets. and it ID
stated That as many more bodies arc
hidden In cellars. Only one Christian
Is known to have been killed, and 20
far as can be learned no suldie,
was killed.
The undisciplined soldiers acte,