The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-12
HORRORS OF S|EDLCE
Correspondent Permitted to En-
ter Russian City In Which
Jews Were Massacred.
WAR MADE ON INFANTS.

Soldiers Fire on Mother and Newly
Born Child and Kill Both-Jewish
Hospital Observation-Disclosures Per-
mitted to Purchase Life From Troops.
Corpses Found In Streets.
Warsaw, Sept. 12.-With the sane
tion of the authorities, who provided
an armed guard for the mission.
newspaper correspondent has visited
Siedlce, the scene of the murderous
events of Sept. s, and TO- Siedlce is
now quiet, the bloodshed having ceas-
ed
The railway station at Siedlce was
found crowded with Jews, among
whom were many starving women
with infants In arms As the CORE
spondent arrived the sound of a volIey
being fired in the town, mile back of
the station, created a panic. Men
trembled with fear and women i'm
plored the soldiers for mercy, expect
ing another slaughter. Gendarmes
roughly ordered the people to be quiet,
assuring them their alarm was need.
less.
Proceeding to the town the CORE
spondent found the stores and shops
closed and all showing signs of having
been plundered. Pictures of saints
were hanging outside the windows of
many houses, mute appeals to the sol
diery and looters to spare the inmates.
Streets Uttered With Clothing.
Everywhere in the street were to be
seen soldiers ready to fire on the least
provocation. The streets were Uttered
with Jews hats, torn clothing and dam
aged carts. Houses were riddled with
bullets, and in many instances walls
had been demolished with cannon shot
Refugees state that Governor En-
gelke was taken sick a week ago and
that control of affairs in Siedlce then
passed into the hands of Colonel Tuch.
anowski, an anti-Semite. The people
at once began to desert the town, ap
pretending an attack upon the Jews
1t is asserted that paid provocative
agents so contriEed matters that on
Saturday the soldiers began shooting
in the streets and bombarded houses
when q red lantern was displayed in
the city hall towers.
To quicken the flames soldiers threw
oil upon burning houses.
Kill Jew and Eat His Food.
1t is related that soldiers killed the
Jewish proprietor of a fruit store and
put his body under the table, on which
they ate his provisions.
Another refugee stated that Satur
day night the doctors at the Jewish
hospital in Siedlce lighted the gas pre-
paratory to operating upon the seventy
wounded who had been brought In.
when without warning the soldiers in
the street opened fire upon the hospital,
killing two of the inmates.
AS a man was taking his wife and
newly born child to a hospital they
were fired upon by soldiers, and the
wife and child were killed.
Made Children Drink Foul Water.
A Jew ventured out of his house to
bring some water for his thirsting lit
tie ones AS often as he reached the
door with a pail of water soldiers com
PEELED him to empty the pail upon the
ground. This was done eleven times
The twelfth time the father appeared
with water for his children the officer
of the guard washed his boots in the
pail and made the children drink the
fouled water.
In many cases the soldiers spared
the lives of Jews upon the payment by
the menaced persons of $25.
By actual count 140 corpses were
picked up in the streets, and it is stat
ed that as many more bodies are hid,
den in cellars.
Only one Christian is known to have
been killed, and so far as can be learn
ed no soldier was killed.
Train loads of starving refugees are
going south from Siedlce.