Inter-Mountain Republican | 1907-03-28 | Page 2 | Peasants Control Roumanian Towns

PEASANTS TOWNS Acts of Fiendish Brutality In Incite Incite Incite In- In cite I Inhabitants to Civil War WOMEN BURNED ALIVE Quest for Wealth Led to Measures Measures Measures Meas Meas- ures Almost Beyond Realization J Vienna March 27 The The noum I uprising ng Is rapidly assuming 15 the semb- semb semblance lance ance of civil 11 1 war var Bucharest Is la In momentary fear of oC an nn attack b by tho ho peasants a although h the city is 15 surrounded stir sur roun rounded ed with military The he districts of oC B man Oil Olt and are arc absolutely controlled controlled controlled con con- trolled b by the peasants who are arc al alleged alleged al- al to have l committed man ninny many acts of oC gross g brutality and cruelty In th the courso course of or their raids raid on the towns in fn districts The rising In the district has not yet ct been put down although nearly neary near- near Jy ly y a hundred peasants fell ell In an en engagement en- en engagement ement with the troops troop yesterday esterday Refugees In Sofia and Bucharest charge the peasants with having butchered whole families of Jewish landlords saturating the clothing o of men and women omen with oil and grease mil anti twisting hay or straw around aro their theil limbs and ond then setting them afire Even en children did not escape the blut brutal 1 marauders mara according to these stories Those o of th the little ones who tried to escape tho the raiders were wre pursued and L hacked to pieces with swords and knives Jews were ere not the th on only I sufferers sufferers suf suf- u- u in these attacks attack The possession of ot wealth seems to have havo been heen sufficient sufI sufI- dent clent excuse e for an attack by the mobs mob The town of oC Petr seu has hns b been en raided b by peasants under the leadership o of three students Several Se public buildings and warehouses were de de- do- do cd Sixty wen were killed and anti several se hundred wounded in a battle In the streets o of Alexandria yesterday ester a before tho the troops secured control and drove them out o of town The whole district I Is reported in a state stat o of panic Th town of ot Gurgle o Is also reported surrounded surrounded surrounded sur sur- rounded b by peasant mobs who threaten lo 0 sack the town II