The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-19


 ability of the troops to cope with the excesses during the first days of the riot ing
 Jews Resisted Braveiy.
 It is evident from the dispatches that the excesses assumed the character of a three-cornered fight between the military, the mob and armed members of the Jew ish band who, instead of submitting pas sively to slaughter. as their unarmed CO., religionists have done. bravely though without infhcting appreciable loss on the troops, among whom no serious casualties have been reported. defended themselves. HorYdble details have been sent out by the correspondent of the Bourse Gazette, wllo arrived at Bialystok In company with Deputy Stchepkn on Saturday. and who managed to send his story by q mes senger Sunday afternoon. The corre- spondent says he was utterly unnerved by the sights he witnessed
 Nails Driven In Eyes.
 Merely saying that the eorpses were mutllated,'' the correspondent writes, fails to describe the awful facts. The faces of the dead have lost all human semblance, and the corpses simply are crushed masses of flesh and bone, soak ing in blood. It is impossible to conceive of such bestiality. The corpse of Teacher Apstein lay on the grass with the hands tied. In the face and eyes had been hammered 3-nch nails. Rioters en- tered his home and after fearful out rages, killed him thus, and then murdered the rest of Is family of seven When the corpse arrived at the hospital, 1t was also marked with bayonet thrusts.
 Leg Chopped Off With Axe.
 Beside the body of Apstein lay the corpse of a child of ten years, whose leg had been chopped off with an ax. Here also were the dead from the Schachter home, where, according to witnesses, sol diers came and plundered the house and killed the wife son and neighbours daughter. and seriously wounded Schlach- ter and his two daughters.
 T am told that soldiers entered the apartments of the Lapsidus brothers which were crowded with people who had fled from the streets for safety, and ordered the Christians to separate them selves from the Jews. A Christian stu dent named Dikar protested and was killed on the spot. Then all the Jews were shot
 Some of the corpses were marked with fire. These had been brought from a burned nunnery and showed bullet and bayonet marks.
 Tn one corner of the yard was de- mented Jewess trying to cover the body of her husband, but her efforts were in vain, as the blood oozed from beneath the inadequate covering.
 From the wounded in the hospital. the correspondent heard many pitiabe stories, all of the same general tenor. Here is the account of a badly wounded merchant named Nevyazhiky:
 q" T lived in the suburbs. Learning of the pogrome I tried to reach the town through the fields, but was intercepted by roughs. My brother was killed; my arm and leg were broken; my skull was fractured and was stabbed twice in the side fainted from loss of blood and re- vived to find soldier standing over me who asked: What are you still alive? Shall I bayonet you?" I begged him to spare my life. The roughs again came. but spared me, saving. ''He will die; let him suffer longer '
 Trouble Was Provoked.
 The correspondent, who adopts the bit terest tone against the government. holds that the pogrome undoubtedly was pro- yoked and attributes the responsibility to Police Lieutenant Sherematieff, and says the distinctive character of the out break in which 1t differs from the ex- 
 cesses at Odessa, Kshineff Gomel and Kiev aside from bestialty, Is the com paratively small amount of actual rob- bery committed
 The participants seemingly were not in- spired by motives of loot. but of murder and destruction, pure and simple. He also holds that the participation of the troops has been completely proven and quotes Deputy Stohopekin as saying that 1t is clearly shown by the demoralzatlon of the soldierly consequent on the removal of all restraint. The correspondent de- cares that not only the soldiers. but their offices also, participated and that he himself was a witness as late as Sat urday to the shooting down of Jewess girl from the window of hotel by Lieu tenant Miller of the Vladimir regiment. The governor of Grodno who happened to, be passing at the moment. ordered an investigation
 Town Not Vet Quiet.
 Bialystok Russia, June 1s.-4 p. m.--The situation is still not entirely tranquil.