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Show IMPS AMR A1IE S1AU6M 1 1B1.EB AT MM ST. PETERSBURG'S "RED ' SUNDAY" OVERSHADOWED BY LATEST "BLACK FRIDAY" Rioting Starts in Street and Troops Fire Volley After Volley Into Dense Mobs; Carriage Is. Terrible. (BULLETIN.) LODZ, June 24. This city tonight is still panicWicken as a result of the riots here today and yesterday. It has been impossible Accurately to estimate the number of dead and injured, but it has been conservatively placed at 2000. Troops have been summoned from Warsaw in an endeavor to control the situation. Fresh outbreaks out-breaks are feared and extreme uneasiness prevails. 1J.ODZ, Russian Poland, June 24. Yesterday, "Black Friday." in Lodz surpassed all the horrors of "Red Sunday-" In St. Petersburg. While it is not yei possible to ascertain the exact number num-ber of the victims, estimates place the klljed and wounded as high 'as 2000. The troubles here were initiated by th Social Democrats and Jewish bund, who dPtermined to avenge their comrades com-rades killed in the rioting; on Wednesday. Wednes-day. Patrols Attacked. Thursday, the feast of Corpus Christ!, passed off quietly, but during the night workmen attacked the patrols. In this fighting two officers and seven Cossacks Cos-sacks were killed. One of the latter was Bhot by a girl of 13 years. At dawn Friday commenced a day of terror. The city was given up to bloodshed. blood-shed. Anarchy and fierce street fighting fight-ing prevailed all day. Barricades were hurriedly constructed in the Jewish quarter at dawn. i Obstructing the Streets. ilen climbed to the roofs of houses, cutting telephones and telegraph wires toiiiHe for entanglements in the streets, while others cut down telegraph poles and used them in strengthening their barricades, which already had been constructed and in building others. Bbrnb Kills Twenty. Karly in the day, two bombs were thrown from the crowd into the barracks, bar-racks, killing or wounding twenty. This started the shedding of blood which continued until after nightfall. At 11 o'clock all the factory hands struck and flocked into the streets. Cossacks, dragoons and infantry charged the dense, surging mobs time after time, firing volley after volley into the serried mass. The rioters later replied with revolvers, vhile their comrades com-rades on roofs and in windows Joined in the fusillade. Vitriol as a Weapon.' Some dashed vitriol from points of vantage upon the troopers in the streets below. The burning fluid drove Its vie-' tims Into, a frenzy and led to scenes of a terrible1 character. Fighting continued contin-ued throughout the, day and -only diminished di-minished In its intensity at nightfall, when the city was plunged into utter darkness, as practically all the street lamps had been destroyed. Even then occasional" volleys and isolated rifle shots were heard in different quarters, the troops .having received orders to shoot any person appearing in the streets. Dead Carted Away. The dead were carted off to the cemeteries ceme-teries in military wagons, the troops acting as undertakers. But this morning morn-ing many ciead and wounded were still lying in the streets and courtyards Terrible, indeed, is the plight of the wounded, for medical aid is unobtainable unobtaina-ble and many are dying from the lack thereof. There was a renewal of bloodshed this morning. A regiment of dragoons and one of infantry have been ordered here from Warsaw. Eighteen More Killed Today. The casualties up to noon add eighteen killed or wounded to . yesterdav'a appalling appall-ing total. So far as yet ascertained on hundred and thirty persons were killed outright during the fighting of- Friday and forty-one more died In the hospitals during dur-ing the night. Of the wounded 320 sustained sus-tained only slicht injuries which were attended at-tended to on the spot bv the ambulance surgeons. All the hospitals of the city are tilled to overflowing and owing to the Insufficient number of beds m-iny of the wounded are lying on the floors. All the shops, stores and factories am closed and business is at a complete deadlock. dead-lock. The rioters this morning attempted to set fire to the Government offices, but , were scattered by a strong force of troops. |
