The murderous hordes realized that the police and military were fully in earnest, and this was enough to sober them from their pogrom intoxication.

Towards the end of July, the epidemic of vandalism came to a stop, though it was followed in many cities by a large number of conflagrations.

The cowardly rioters, deprived of the opportunity of plundering the Jews with impunity, began to set fire to Jewish neighborhoods.

This was particularly the case in the north-western provinces, in Lithuania and White Russia, where the authorities had from the very beginning set their faces firmly against all organized violence.
The series of pogroms perpetrated during the spring and summer of that year had inflicted its sufferings on more than one hundred localities populated by Jews, primarily in the South of Russia.

Yet the misery engendered by the panic, by the horrible apprehension of unbridled violence, was far more extensive, for the entire Jewish population of Russia proved its victim.