The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-08

N,o,her and Children Terribly Burned In tho
Jersey Pineries-A Strange Case Among the
Jewish Refugees OF Estel'ii'e.

Jewish Refugees OF Lstehti'e'
An Atlantic City. y. j., special says
The horrors Of the case Of ClarlsSa Bounds
whose sunerings in the Jersey pinerie'
were described in the Press a Few weeks
ago, are reflected darkly in the terribl,
revelations which have this afternoon come
sparSelv 10 hand about tragedy in The
colony OF Russian refugee Jews at Estel
Vile. This hamlet OF about fifty English.
speaking inhabitants is six miles below
MAYS Landing, the cOuniy-seat Of Attain
tic county. The nearest railroad is the
West jersey line at Mays Landing.
Yesterday morning n group OF these
bearded and notwithstanding people came
T. that station with wagon drawn by two
horses In the wagon lay a beautiful
Young woman. Of some twenty-eight years
Of age, whose long black hair was Scorched
and whose wlole frame writhcd with
agony. By her lay little girl Of eight
wears, who was almost unconscious. They
were lifted into the wmting-room OF the
station. where the little girls helpless form
was laid on a bench. This was about .
O'Clock Sunday morning. The people who
had come with this mysterious freight
could speak only their own uncouth
tongue. They seemed distressed to learn
that the tram for Philadelphia had left, and
finally gave The first information 10 the ont
side world Of the awful tragedy which is
believed 70 have taken place at the remote
hamlet Of Esielyille on last Friday night.
TIE VICTIMS SEEN.
They said. through the difficult medium
Of IN Ignorant Interpreter. that the young
woman wa, named Mlotowski, and that
she. her daughter. and her siX-ycar-old son
had been burned Friday night in their cot
tagc in E>iclNillc. The boys legs and
arms had been burned of. the girl and
mother 80 tortured they could not, or
would not. give their own compatriotS an
Ineligible account Of the occurrence.
Whether the burning was accidental could
not be learned at this time.
I'm the mean time The little girl lay on the
bench for seven weary hours, suffering,
neither mother nor child speaking. At I
O'Clock the girl died. At once the mother
set ND the most hcart-rending Shrieks,
beating her breast. and tearing her hair
with her mutilated fingers. The Russian
Jews who had been with her all the time
seemed - become more alarmed, and called
for aid. The mother was removed 10 the
house OF a resident OF Mays Landing
named spence smith. where she lies to-
day II the point Of death.
II become known that, though the burn
ing had happened Friday night, tmrty-siX
hours had passed without the SummOning
Of any intelligent assistance. The detail,
had been bushed up among the Jewish
colony. who lived 10 themselves, most OF
them being indeed unable TO communicate
their wants to the outside world. The
woman's husband bad wandered away
from home. she knew not where. in search
OF work. The loaf and the cruise of OIL
had run short. and starvation peeped I'm
at every crack in the humble hut. The
restitution of many OF this colony has
already attracted public notice at Atlantic
CITY. and only two weeks ago six men from
the Estelvillc settlement OF Russian Jews
Were l6dged at the public expense and fed
bv private charity in this city, from which
thew made their way 20 Philadelphia, re-
gardIess Of the families they had left behind
them. Whether Mlotowski was one OF
these six who were lodged at police head
quarters is not known.
A wrinkled man, who spoke in sort of
German frequently used by The lower Rus
sian classes. said to-day that Mlotowski had
been driven mad by want that his young
wife and his children knew nothing OF his
whereabouts; that the woman was firm
believer in certain super>titionS prevalent
among the >cris OF Russia spondingto
the youd0oi>m Of the African blacks, and
from his description, no less hidcOusly de-
grading: that the supreme sacrifice to these
people was the voluntary cremation OF their
children and themselves 20 the demon
which was supposed to embOdy the hor-
rorS Of starvation and thirst. When the
Shricks oi tie mother were heard by her
neighbOrs Friday night. about II O'Clock,
She may have been, according to his theory,
cOnsUmmatiug the last dread rites OF this
sacrifice, driven 20 desperation in a strange
land by starvation and deserion. Others
say, however. that the fire was accidental.
The mother. when questioned, can or will
give no account OF il. There is third
theory OF iucendiariSm, but il cannot be
learned the Nlotow>kiS had deadly enc
mics in the colony.
The horrors OF the thirty-SiX hours which
elapsed between the cremation and the
time when the charitable people OF May :
Landing learned OF and relieved the suffer
ings Of this MANNED mother and child can
be better imagined than described. The
seven hours Of torture which the eight
yclr-old Girl enduredpn the hard bench in
the railway station before death released
her spirit from the incinerated body will
never be known. Indeed, the secrctiye-
ness Of these people i amazing.