The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-08-02
RUSSIAN ATROCITIES.
Why the Jews are Fleeing to
America-Horrib Tales by
the Refugee.

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st MS Pcst-Iispateh.
A man of about forty, named
Herman Schenle, was found on the
second floor of the house, sitting on
the floor talking to his wife. The
reporter explained his mission, and
Mr.. Sehenle asked what he wanted
to know.
"Tell me why you left Russia"
because it was no longer possible
to live there. Our lives were not
safe day there"
"They treated you badly"
"They murdered every Jew they
could find they outraged our
women and children; they robbed
US of everything"
"Where are you from?'
"Kieff."
"Did you suffer in your own fam
ily?" ,
As this question was translated
Schenle's wife began to cry, and her
husband said:
ayes. Two months ago | saw my
own daughty, a girl less than fifteen
wears old, taken by the mob and
outraged so that she died that night.
Other women of our family were at
the sport of the mob for hours. My
brothers wife, a woman of twenty,
was outraged and then whipped to
death by a drunken crowd of devils.
But 1T is so with every family. You
cannot find one in the house who
has not lost some one. They spared
neither old nor young. Girls ten
and twelve years old were treated as
badly rs those much older" And
tears filed the old mans eyes rs he
went on rapidly to depict the wrongs
of his people at the hands OF the
drunken savaSes Of kletf.
The poor people in the villages
suffered most. Here there were no
police even to pretend to protect the
Jews. Women were carried out
into the streets, stripped naked and
burnt. Old men had their boards
pulled out and were thrown alive
| into privy vaults to stifle there.
Young girls were branded and scared
with red hot irons. Everything that
drunken brutes could think Of was
done to torture our people"
| Here he went into details OF bru'
tality utterly unfit for publication
showing how the women were whip
ped and scorched after the Jew
heaters had robbed them of all that
made life worth living for. The
story is one of such savage, obscene
cruelty that American ears would
not credit the details as more thar
the rawlings of a mailman. And ye
all tell the same story.
At Leopold GOldsmith's place
1922 North Seventh street, the re
porter found among the exiles a re
fined and intelligent lady, Madam
Minna Geitel, late of Odessa, wht
said: "But the people that suffered
most were the Jews in the villages
about Odessa. At Baltic just On'
half the Jews were killed. Two
hundred girls were outraged there
and in two other villages near them
1t is unluclly 10 bo q Jewish girl IL
Russia now. At Kieff 600 Jewish
families were driven out in one day
And the mob was not satisfied will
driving us out. They followed attel
our people and broke the wagons OF
which they were going away, burn
their bedding, and tore OFF then
clothes. They would kill us if W.
staid, but they would not let III
leave"
"You seem to belong 10 diiferc1'
class from these other eXiles, re
marked the. reporter.
"What would you have? A yeal
ago my husband had 4 large cabine
making establishment. lie employ
ed sixty men. They burned us out
robbed us of everything, took oul
money, tore off my jewelry, took
the very carpets off our fioOrs-ir
Odessa, remember, the principal city
of Southern Russia, the center Of
| of Russian civilization in the South
What had we loft 2 Nothing Here
| stand with the clothes | have on,
and she pointed to the cheap dustel
which she wore "there is our bed
and that is all that is left us in this
whole wide world" Mrs. Geite
I madean indeseribabie gesture worthy
of Judith herself. "And all because
we are Jews"