Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-06-16

and the accounts they give of their
sufferings and the treatment they
experienced at the hands of their
aggressors would appear exaggerated |
did their bodies not prove the truth |
of what they say. There is one
young woman of little more than
eighteen years whose breasts were
cut off with a sword, while her one
year-old baby, which was living on
the bed near her, has had its eyes
put out with a red-hot iron. She
told the physician that her husband |
had house and shop in Hozole, and
he had always been on the best terms
with the Russians of that town; on
Easter eve, as she was making prep
arations fol the Passover feast, a wild
herd burst open her door, took her
baby, and threatened not to return
it until she had given up all the
money and valuables in the house.
The child was screaming wildly, so
she fetched all she had, when the
child was returned to her. Its eyes
had already been put out. In her
despair she threw herself upon those
who had done the horrible deed, but
they flung her to the ground, treated
her i'll the most horrible fashion i'm
aglnable, and when her husband re-
turned and drew 4 revolver he was
thrown to the ground also, bound
with cords and forced to look on
while the monsters cut his wife's
breast clear away. She was left there
with her baby, but the man was car
ried off, and she has never heard OF
him since. In the bed next to the
one containing this miserable crea-
ture, who has not even the comfort
Of tears, sits an old woman with her
head bandaged, the Uranium having
been cut in two with a sword. Upon
the physician questioning her why
she was not in recumbent position,
she answered that her back had been
So badly scourged it was one large
open wound. When she heard the
aggressors burst open the door she
hid her grandchildren away in the
cellar, but they were found and cut
to pieces under her very eyes. She
was undressed and scourged.
In the next ward lies a very
young girl, with an uncommonly
beautiful face. She does not know
what has been done to her, having
been unconscious during the worst
part of the attack, but she suffers
agonies that she is necessarily pray
ing for death to relieve her. The
doctor III attendance tells his col
league that the way in which this
poor girl was treated is unique in
stance of cruelty, and that she will
not outlive the day. Close by is a
little girl of six, writhlng in terrible
pain and trying to tear the bandages
from her head and face. The nurses
hold her hands, but suddenly her
movements stop, she stretches her
self out upon the bed, her sufferings
have ceased. A woman on the other
side asks, with an anxious voice,
why is Narischa so quiet?' The
nurse tells her she is dead Unmind-
full Of her own sufferings and her
weakness, the mother rises, runs
across the room and faints near the
bed of the dead child. This poor
little girl, who had tried to run away
with little sister one year old, had
had her ears cut off. He mother
had received several wounds on the
head, which make the doctors fear
conclusion Of the brain.
""The scenes witnessed in the
mems wards was scarcely less terri
BILE. One old man, with a snow
white beard, has had his arm broken
in three places. He hopes that death
will soon free him from his suffer
ings, for he saw his wife, his sons
and daughters-in-law burnt in the
house which the Russians had set on
fire, and into which they had thrown
these five persons. He had been
tied to a pole opposite the house,
which was flooded with petroleum
before it was ignited. One man had
had both feet sawed off A youth
had had his breast cleft iii two. A
boy had had all his teeth torn out.
There are about three thousand chill
dren who have lost their parents,
and who must in some manner be
provided for at any rate, and there
are many women whose husbands
and fathers have been killed, and
who are in far more pitiable condi-
ton than the fugitives who, although
they may have lost their earthly
goods, have escaped with their fami-
lies and can hope to found q new
home in a new country