In the evening, a drunken mob, which had assembled on the market-place, laid fire to a number of Jewish stores and houses, inflicting on their owners a loss of many millions.
All this took place during the holy Yom Kippur eve.

The Jews, who did not dare to worship in their synagogues or even to remain in their homes, hid themselves with their wives and children in the garrets and orchards or in the houses of strangers.

Many Jews spent the night in a field outside the city, where, shivering from cold, they could watch the glare of the ghastly flames which destroyed all their belongings.

The police, small in numbers, proved "powerless" against the huge hordes of plunderers and incendiaries.

On the second day, the pogrom was over, the work of destruction having been duly accomplished.