Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-04-11
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TIE JEWS IN ROUNANIA.

Hcrrih!e Berbsrities!The Streets ol
Cahei Marked with hBlood-DesPerst4
-Womes ana csi}Sre. st.1vi:9.
Bucharest, Correspondence Of Manchester Courier
A Adeputation from Cahul reached me
to-day. I am engaged preparing thei,
statement and petition to the govern.
ment on which to predicate a demand
for their protection and indemnifcation.
The history they gave us is far more
Their sufferings were horrible. Ian.
guage fails me to depict all they have
related: Cahul is place of Z, 900 souls,
1000 of whom are Israelites. Sudden.
~ the latter we're set upon, and fol
three days beaten, wounded, plunder.
ed, driven out of their homes, which
we're battered to ruins, and forced ia
take refuge in the barracks, where, in
stead of being defended, they were nj
lowed again to be beaten, and for sew.
eral days kept without food.
from many Jewish houses
to the barracks was marked with blood
Heads were split open, arms broken,
beards plucked out by the. roots, hail
steras+fz0m the sssd2p, One of thu
delegation who thus gives me this rela.
ton (Mr. A. Gol6 defended his house
for three days, his four sons standing
by him. They had thirty eight rounds
of ammunition. He made his sons
swear that if he fell they would con.
tinue to fight. Bands of fifty men sur.
rounded his house, but the dastsrds
durst lot cross the threshold. AT
length they were compelled to leave,
as the villains commemorate to build fires
to burn them out. He alone was robbed
of $50 Napoleons. The delegation fl
the losses OF the 1sraelites st 4O,OO9
ducats. They were completely stripped
OF everything, and their homes 70 bat.
tered and ruined as to be scarcely
recognizable. The two synagogues
were devastated and turned into
privies: Jephihin. Jalithim, and
all directions. The scrolls 81 the
law were early removed for safety and
hidden away. But few Christians came
to the relief of starving women and
children, and this relief only came on
the third day, and then the Christians
who came wept when they beheld the
misery that had been wrought "a The
Israelites of Galatz a. soon as possi.
BILE sent of clothes and food, and th.,
local authorities gave q few piastres To
some. The people cried out that they
were instigated by the Russians, and
more particularly by the Russian Con-
sui. The soldiers did not defend the
unprotected, but suffered the Wild mob
to pass through their ranks and un-
mercifully beat and maltreat the
unfortunate hapless ones. One Is-
raelite neighbor of Mr.. Gold, whose
house was Likewise assaulted, fred on
them killing one and severely woundina
another. The killed was q Russian
boy: They are not yet protected, but
exposed to assault, and hundreds are
lying on straw in ruined houses. They
say there is scarcely village in the
whole of Bessa1abian Roumania where
there has not been frightful' scenes:
The misery- il dreadful. help is need,
ed Immediately: I pray you call mass
meeting of the lsraelites of London, O,
of citizens, without distinction of reli
gion, to protest. in the name of human
ity against these frightful scenes, which
threaten, as Passover advances, TO be
come stall more dreadful -..;