The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1906-06-28
BRUTAL RUSSIA.
Massacre of Jews by the 0ffi-
ciaIs at Bialystok Should
SHOCK TILE WORLD.

SHOCK TIE WORLD.
Worst Cruelty Russia HISS Ever Been
Guilty OF. Jewish Father, Moth.
er, Daughter and Son Lashed
Together by Torturers and
Beaten to Death.
The massacre of the Jews at Bialy-
STICK the first Of last week must have
been something awful. The cores
pondent of the Nav York American
visited all parts OF the town, taking
evidence from both jewish and Chris
tian residents. Here Is what be says:
The massacre was essentially off,
ctal. The police, military holligans
and the Black Hundred played subor-
dinate roles in ever case. At period
wnen q mass of butcheries occurred
the police and soldiers either actively
assisted or encouraged the butchers.
There are many authenticated cases
of soldiers themselves perpetrat1ng
slaughter. In the Boyare district,
where the worst massacres occurred,
The soldiers of the Uglitsky, Sixty
third Regiment, accompanied by two
efl ,srs, massacred seven Jews at Gep
ner's saw mill. Full details OF this
tragedy were given me by the SurViV
Ing manager. When the soldiers were
occupied with looting, their victims
sought refuge In small wooden house
on which at o'clock on Friday even
ing the soldiers fired suddenly
Many jaws of this district, especial
~ girls, became Insane.
The Ulcers ordered the inmates to
come OUT one bV one. Five of them
were shot dead as they emerged from
.he house and six we're hacked to pieces
by sabres. One remained In the
ncuse, an old woman named Kautsch,
seventy years of age, and the suldiere
burned the house and she perished In
5be flames.
In other cases the soldiers were
merely onlookeTs. In Souvoroff stre cts
prosperous Jew named Podlatcheff
kept q leather workshop. The pro-
prletor, his relatices, named First
nann, and six Others wee slaughter
d inspected the dabbled with pools
of bleed and fragments Of flesh and
pair are sticking to the walls. First
mann was the first killed. He was
shot by gendarme named Schultze.
Tuen the Hooligans stripped The
corps carved pieces out OF the breast
aud drove nails into the nose.
Fcur frightened employees took shell
ter in an clubhouse the Hoongans broke
il open aud best them t9desth. The
-oldlers look I'd Dn, aud the Hooligans
were unmoiested. The young son OF
the proprietor was saved by the sol.
iiers who cried, 'Enougb; don't kill
The boyl''
HOUSE OF HORROR.
Outside ,nIs nuuae I saw younth
Searirg the blnod-stained clothes of q
slaughtered mother. In many cases
~nole IA lies were eX1erminated.
visited a house in old B,yare
str ct occupied by Atnstein{ resp Ct
d reacDer, who with bis mother,
do ughser and two sons, were done to
death by Ho1ligans underthe command
+ q disguised p lice fflcer while SOL
iers were present. AZ first the SOL
tiers fred into the house and q police
man urcered the family to save them
selves in the Fl Ids. There after tying
N Iher, SON, mother and daughter to
xe,ttr, they we're beaten to death,
he police meantime firing at ran.
dom.
Two witnesses assure me that nails
we're hammered into he son s face be
f,re his death. In the f.ld are pools
4 blood. Everywhere innocent
chidren stand argutug beside these
vnastly pools, talking about whom
<acn belongs to. Mkt door lives b
soman named L vim, with eight chill
d en-, VIII SO husband was carved to
piecesi in her sight.
rhruughou. Town for two days the
rassacr, continued. Fiendish tortur.
\ and nutilattOn of the cJrpes lnvari
ably followed the masacres wi; b active
n 4ssiye cooperation Of authorities.
Il many cases The police tscibly auth
rz:d the buthery by ordering the
Ho. ligans to spare particular indlvid-
!als. 1 interviewed two person who
escaped by briuiDg the soldiers. Que
ssrl, lvlug IN Alexander street, after
mr. father had been bayonDetted, paid
d soldier 20 roubles that she might be
spared herself.
Byth Jews and Christians agree
.nat many cisguised policemen were
.mong the Hoollgans Most OF the
victims Of the soldiers tried to defend
themselves, but while the Hooligsns
uroke down the doors OF their homes,
ne soldiers looked on, and II dew
defended himself or even appeared at
a window they fred a volley, killing
he Gefer ders or driving them into
tne hanCs of the Hooiigans. Con.
cerning the Vladlmirsky and Uslitsky,
| ,,r,ro ,ptc TAu wiEneSSaS aff1 m that