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Show VENGEANCE OF COSSACK GUARD Workmen at Lodz Shot Down Because Mail Wagon Had Been Attacked. Sixteen Innocent Laborers Killed and Thirty Wounded by Brutal Cossacks, Cos-sacks, Who Were Unable to Prevent Robbery by Terrorists. Lodz, Russian Poland. Forty-flvo ofllclnls and workmen of Kuttnor's spinning mills wero shot down Hero by a patrol of Cossacks becauso a band of terrorists attacked a mall wagon In the neighborhood, killing a Cossack guard and wounding another Cossack and two postofllco olllclals. Whllo tho wagon was passing through Lonkown street tho terrorists terror-ists suddenly appeared from a sldo street, opened tiro upon tho Cossacks, seized $1,000 from the wagon and escaped. es-caped. A moment later u patrol of Cossacks arrived upon tho scene, and, Infuriated by tho fate of their comrades, com-rades, rushed Into tho Kuttncr factory, fac-tory, which was near tho spot whero the robbery occurred, nnd began firing fir-ing Indiscriminately, killing sixteen and wounding over thirty persons. Tho greatest Indignation prevails here, as It Is claimed that the employes em-ployes of the factory had nothing to do with tho attack upon tho mall wagon. |