Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-21
JEWS NOW FEAR
GENERAL ATTACK
HORRORS AT BIALYsToK ARE
INCREASING
Description Of Brutal Murders ls
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BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
GRODNO, Russia, June 2O--Thls en-
tire region is greatly excited owing to
the fear that the Bialystok massacre
was only the signal for a general at
tack on the Jews throughout the pale
and in Poland, but if any such con-
spiracy existed II is too late to carry
out the plans, as the most imperative
orders to prevent further outbreaks
have been issued by the governors and
governor general from st. Petersburg.
When the correspondent of the Asso-
clated Press arrived at Bialystok Sum
day morning the worst was already
over but on all sides there was revolt
ing evidence Of savage bestiality on the
part of the blood drunken mobs which
sacked and burned the Jewish houses,
shops and stores.
For seventy-two hours, with a slight
abatement during the daytime, the mad
orgy of blood and piliage went on un-
checked. The inhumanity displayed
would have done credit to the MongoI
hordes of Genghis Khan in his conquests
of China and Central ASIA early in the
thirteenth century.
At first police and troops urged on the
mob but finally when dismayed by the
bloody deeds accomplished they reluc-
family sought to obey the orders of
their superiors to put an end to the
work of the rapacious bands Of roughs
who were SO far beyond control of the
local forces that regiment after regi-
ment had to be thrown into the city
before order could be restored.
Jews Hunted Down
During the rioting the Jews were
hunted down by ferocious pursuers who
in the majority of cases were not con-
tent with killing more victims but tore
them to pieces like wild beasts. And
while this was in progress the troops
either stood idly by, or as was more fire.
quently the case, fired into the houses
and shops where Jews were concealed
under the pretext that they believed
them to be revolutionists but really to
make way for the murderers and plum
derers who followed in the soldiers
wake.
While it is impossible to give the ex-
act figures the visits of the corre-
Spondent to the hospitals and ceme-
teries enabled him to approximate the
killed at 100 Jews and seven Christians.
The question of the origin of the
massacre was carefully investigated.
Although many of the Jews denied that
a bomb was thrown at the Corpus
Christi procession Thursday, the fact
that bomb was thrown is established
beyond doubt but the question of who
threw the bomb remains unsettled
The accounts of impartial Witnesses,
however, demonstrate that an insulting
cry enraged the Jews, who attacked
the religious procession. Then from
one end Of the city to the other the po-
lice spread the report of the attack,
thus tanning the religious fanaticiSm
of the Christians and setting loose the
worst element upon the Jews, on whom
the crowds watching the procession had
already turned.
Flee Like Rabbits
The Jews at first fought with revolv-
ere and bombs and with these weapons
the majority of the Christian victims
We're killed. But the Jews were soon
overwhelmed and fled for shelter like
rabbits to warrens, into cellars or at
tics.
The soldiers watched this chase and
butchery sometimes laughing with in
difference but never failing to fire into
houses where Jews, sometimes to the
number of a hundred, were making a
stand against their assailants. The
soldiers said the Jews were revolution
lists and that was their excuse for fir
ing on them.
The authorities who wanted to do
something to stop the massacre were,
with the police and troops in open
sympathy with the mob, utterly power
less.
At the BialyStok railroad station,
where the mob searched the trains for
Jews, a rioter seized five-year-old
girl by the throat and held her at arm 5
length until she strangled to death.
Little children seemed to take pleas
ure in pointing out the hiding places
of the Jews. Mutilated corpses, swarm
ing with flies, were left lying about the
streets, in some cases for days.
badly injured Jewess in the hos
pital, describing the scenes, said:
Hell was within human beings and
they enacted the role of demons"
Then the woman suddenly went into
convusions at the memory of the hor-
rors she Witnessed.