The instigator was seized by the police, but was wrested from it by the crowd which thereupon threw itself upon the Jews.

The riots resulted in some two hundred ruined houses and stores in the outskirts of the town, where the Jewish proletariat was cooped up.

The central part of the town, where the more well-to-do Jews had their residences, was guarded by the police and by a military detachment, and therefore remained intact.
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THE POGROM AT KIEV The movement gained constantly in momentum, and the instincts of the mob became more and more unbridled.

The "Mother of Russian cities," ancient Kiev, where at the dawn of Russian history the Jews, together with the Khazars, had been the banner-bearers of civilization, became the scene of the lawless fury of savage hordes.