The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-10
MASSACRE IN POLAND
Troops In Siedlce Avenge Attack
by Slaaghtering Jews and
Other Civilians.
HUNDREDS REPORTED SHOT.

Town Said to Be In Flames = Girl
Assassin of General Sentenced to Be
Hanged = British Vice Consul at
Baku Has Miraculous Escape From
Revolutionists.
st. Petersburg, Sept 10.-Dispatches
from Siedlce, Russian Poland, state
that an attack on the police and the
soldiers began there at O'Clock on
Saturday night and Immediately aft
erward the troops began to massacre
the Jews of that city.
All Sunday the soldiers fired on
Civilians, Christians or Jews, robbing
and numbering them without discrimi-
nation. Hundreds of persons were
killed or wounded. Three streets We're
devastated
Troops have surrounded the city and
refuse access to it.
Terrorists shot and killed two sol
diers guarding government alcohol
store, and a detachment of infantry
rushed up and fred volIey into the
crowd. killing two persons and wound
ing two.
Jewish Quarters Attacked.
Then the terrorists retaliated by
making an attack on policemen and
soldiers patrolling the streets, and the
infuriated troops attacked the Jewish
quarter of Siedlce, destroying the
houses and shops.
A late report says that the town is
in flames.
A regiment of infantry has been
sent from Della to Siedlce to restore
order
The Jews there are panic stricken.
Many alarming reports are being cir
culated in Warsaw.
This massacre differs from the butch
cries in Bialystok and Kishineff in that
Christians are being slain with Jews.
In the two former cities the fury of
the mob was directed entirely against
the Jews, but in this instance no dis
elimination has been shown.
1t is reported that the entire gar
rison has mutinied and started killing
and looting The massacre would have
been ayerted if the police had been
loyal But at the first act of violence
by the reservists the police joined
with the lawbreakers A vodka shop
was broken into by about 100 reserv-
lists and police and the men, becoming
infamed with drink, began shooting
at random in the streets. Gradually
the mob gained recruits from the gar
rison and the police stations, and in a
few hours the whole city was under a
reign Of terror.
Aged Man Slain.
Row after row of houses were sack
ed and the occupants men and wo-
men, either shot down or thrown out
of windows One old Jew, with snowy
white hair and beard, was thrown
from fourth story window and being
impaled on an iron spiked fence his
body hung there for six hours until
spirited away by relatives The pop
ulace was absolutely without protec-
ton against the mob. With the police
and soldiers in revolt there was no
force to draw from and the governor
general could only telegraph for other
troops.
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doubtful 1t is said the governor gen
eral has been instructed to draw on
the soldiers now lying around the city
in an attempt to put down the murder
ers Cossacks are on the way to
Siedlce, and it is expected they will
be available to crush the outbreak.
Siedlce has about $4,000 inhabitants.
The sentence of death has been i'm
posed upon Zenaide Konoplianikovo.
the girl who assassinated General Min
at Peterhof She was condemned ON
Saturday by court martial to be hang
ed, and the sentence will be carried out
tonight.
Rebels Try to Kill Briton.
A special telegram from BaSu says
Leslie Urquhart. the British vice con-
sui here, who was decorated by King
Edward for heroism in rescufng Eng,
lishmen isolated at Balakhnas from
Tartar insurgents during the massa-
cres of 1905 and who is one of the
most prominent men in the Oil region
was the victim of a serious attack by
rebels in the center Of the city, but
miraculously escaped death.
Though he was fired at eight times
at short range, his only injuries were
six slight flesh wounds. The motive
for the crime has not been established,
but it is believed to be a revolutionary
act, patterned after the attack ON Ger
mans at Warsaw preceding the at
tempt on the life of Governor General