Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-19
RUSSIAN ATROCITIES.
Why the Jews are Fleeing 10
America-HOrrible Tales by
The Refugees.
St. Louis Post Dispatch.

mdu kuuOCult, was lOuuQ VI Iub sec
ond floor Of the house, sitting on the
floor talking to his wife. The reporter
explained his missions and Mr.. Schoenle
asked what he wanted to know.
Tell me why you left Russia
Because it was no longer possible
to live there. Our lives we're not safe
a day there"
They treated you badly2"
They murdered every Jew they
could find; they outragded our women
and children; they robbed us Of every
thing"
Where are you from?"
"Kief."
ily?"
AS this question was translated
Schoenle's wife began to cry, and her
husband said:
Yes. Two months ago | saw my
own daughter, a girl less than fifteen
years old, taken by the mob and out.
ragged 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 it 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 we're treated as badly as
those much older" And tears filed
the old mans eyes as he went on rap.
idly to depict the wrongs of his people
at the hands of the drunken savages of
KieH.
THE poor people in the villages
suffered most. Here there we're 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 we're thrown alive into privy
vaults to stiAe 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 brutal
ity utterly unfit for publication, show
ing hew the women we're whipped and
scorched after the Jew heaters had
robbed them Of all that made life
worth living for. The story is ore of
such savage, obscene cruelty that
American ears would not credit the
details as more than the rawlings Of a
mailman. And yet all tell the same
story.
At Leopold Goldsmith's place, 1922
North Seventh street, the reporter
found among the exiles a refined and
intelligent lady, Madam Minna Geitel,
late of Odessa, who said: but the
people that suffered most were the
Jews in the villages about Odessa,
At Baltic just one half the Jews were
killed. Two hundred girls were out.
ragged there and in two other village:
near them. 1t is unlucky to be Q
Jewish girl in Russia now. At Kief
900 Jewish families were driven Out
in one day. And the mob was moi
satisfied with driving US out. They
followed after our people and broke
the wagons on which they were goinl
away, burnt their bedding, and tore
off their clothes. They would kill Vi
if we staid, but they would not let vi
leave"
you seem to belong to a diferen.
class from these other exiles," re
marked the reporter.
What would you have? A year agt
my husband had a large cabinet max
ing establishment. He employed
sixty men. They burned us out
robbed US Of everything, took gu.
; money, tore off my jewelry, took tn.
very carpets of our foors-in Odessa
remember, the principal city of South
ern Russia, the center of Russian civ
ilization 10 the South. What had W.
/, lelR Nothingl Here | stand with th
: clothes | have on" and she pointed t
0 the cheap duster which she wore
there is our bed, and that is all tina
is lett US in this whole wide world.
s Mrs. Geitel made an indescribabl
4 gesture worthy of judith herself
G "And all because we are Jews"