3.] [Footnote 2: The Greek-Orthodox Passover lasts officially three days, but an additional day is celebrated by the populace.] At that moment the pogrom began.

The organizers of the riots sent a drunken Russian into a saloon kept by a Jew, where he began to make himself obnoxious.

When the saloon-keeper pushed the trouble maker out into the street, the crowd, which was waiting outside, began to shout: "The Zhyds are beating our people," and threw themselves upon the Jews who happened to pass by.
This evidently was the prearranged signal for the pogrom.

The Jewish stores in the market-place were attacked and demolished, and the goods looted or destroyed.

At first, the police, assisted by the troops, managed somehow to disperse the rioters.