But when the police and soldiers appeared on the scene, the rioters decided to leave their place of refuge.

Instead of driving off the disorderly band, the police and soldiers began to beat the Jews with their rifle butts and swords.

This served as a signal to start the pogrom.

At that moment, somebody sounded an alarm bell, and, in response, the mob began to flock together.
Fearing the numerical superiority of the Jews in that part of the town, the crowd passed across the bridge to the so-called Turkish side, where there were fewer Jews.

The crowd was accompanied by the military commander, the police commissioner, the burgomaster, and a part of the local battalion, which fact, however, did not prevent the mob, while passing the Cathedral street, from demolishing a Jewish store and breaking the windows in the house of another Jew, a member of the town-council.