In the summer of 1904, an eighteen-year-old anarchist, Nisan Farber, stabbed and seriously wounded Avraam Kogan, the owner of a spinning mill, as he walked to the synagogue on Yom Kippur.

His murder was a foreboding of the violence to come, as people in the city noted that after Dierkacz's death Russian soldiers began preparing for a pogrom.

A watchman of a local school, Stanislaw Milyusski, and three women, Anna Demidyuk, Aleksandra Minkovskaya and Maria Kommisaryuk, were wounded.

Mobs of thugs, including members of the Black Hundreds, began looting Jewish owned stores and apartments on Nova-Linsk Street.

While units of the Czarist army, brought to Białystok by Russian authorities, exchanged fire with Jewish paramilitary groups,[13] thugs armed with knives and crowbars dispersed throughout the main areas of the city to continue the pogrom.

[8] In the following two days the attacks on people and property became more systematic and directed, resembling a coordinated military action more than a spontaneous outbreak of violence.

The pogrom was the subject matter of many news reports and articles, including a special manifesto issued by the Polish Socialist Party condemning the occurrence.

[16] Russian authorities tried to blame the pogrom on the local Polish population in order to stir up the hatred between two ethnic groups (both of which generally opposed the Tsar).

[7][11] A commission set up by the Russian Duma charged with investigating the pogrom held both the local police and the central authorities to blame for the tragedy.

[11][17] In 1908, on the initiative of Constitutional Democratic deputies in the Duma, some of the perpetrators of the violence were tried but the trial was widely criticized for handing out light sentences to those convicted and for failing to bring the real organizers of the pogrom to justice.

[14] The victims of the pogrom were buried in a mass grave in the Bagnowka cemetery [18] and a memorial obelisk was erected with a poem in Hebrew by Zalman Sznejur inscribed upon it.