Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-18
THE JEWS R0UMANIA.

Horrible Barbaritics--The Streets Of
tahui Marked with Blood-Dcspcratc
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Demolished
Women and Children Starving.
Bucharest, Correspondence of Name Courier
Adaptation from Cahul reached me
to-day | am engaged preparing their
statement and petition to the govern
ment on which to predicate demand
fortheir protection and indemnitication
The history they gave us is far more
heertrending than that of Ismail
Their suiferings were horrible. Ian
guage fails me to depict all they have
related. Cahul is place of 1000 souls,
1000 OF whom are Israelites. Sudden
lv the latter were set upon. and for
three days beaten, wounded, plumber
ed, driven out of their homes, which
were battered to RUNS, and fSrced to
take refuge III the barracks, where, in
stead OF being defended, they were al.
lowed again to be beaten, and for sew
eral days kept without food.
The way along the streets
from many Jewish houses
to the barracks was marked with blood
Heads We're split open, arms broken,
boards plucked out by the roots, hair
torn from the scalp, &c. One of the
delegation who thus gives me this rela-
ton (Mr. A. Gold 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 dastards
burst not cross the threshold. At
length they were compelled to leave,
as the villains commemorate build fires
to burn them out. He alone was robbed
OF $50 Napoleons. The delegation fix
the losses of the Israelites at 10000
ducats. They We're completely stripped
of everything, and their homes SO bat
tered and ruined rs to be scarcely
recognizable. The two synagogues
were devastated and turned into
privles. Jephihin. Jalitnim, and
prayer-books were scattered in
all directions. The scrolls of the
law were early removed for safety ana
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. The
Israelites of Galatz MS soon as posi-
bic sent off clothes and food, aud thu
local authorities gave 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 I'M
mercifully beat aud maItreat the
unfortunate hapless ones. One Is
raelite neighbor of Mr. Gold, whose
house was likewise assaulted, fired ON
them, killing one and severely woupding
another. The killed was a 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 Bessarabian Roumania where
there has not been frightful scenes.
The misery is dreadful. Help is need
ed immediately pray you call a mass
meeting of the 1sraclites of London, or
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 stlll more dreadful.