The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-26

He was wealthy, and had gold and jewels Sc
GREETED. The mob came in rage to his house.
! and some broke in and others lined the
walk. Most of the rioters were Cossacks,
but at their. head was Ignor Amski, the chief
| of police "Give moneyr' we heard them
yell. Nine. Wienarski was in bed with a
babe of two days Loudly she shrieked. At
| different times and IN TOO great frequency we
! heard horrible oaths Presently as we
| looked a window was thrown open and a
| Cossack appeared with Wienarskfs three
year-old child in his arms. The plumber was
not found, and the next instant the little
boy was dashed TO the sidewalk mangled
and dead.
Al night a telegram came from the gov
eminent, and the streets were cleared and
some arrests made. The Cossacks fed to
the suburbs, and next day, at Browary and
! Berezowka, there were perpetrated similar
deeds of violence, characterized by murders,
/ rape and pillage. But the wounds of Kieff
how they smarted. how they burned! The
homes OF 1000 Jews were in ashes, and there
was mourning over dead ones, weeping over
outraged virtue and sadness by the beds of
the wounded. In the morning, while the
air was trembling with the new outlawry in
the suburban villages, men sought the Gov
ernor-general to beg the boon of food, cloth
iug and shelter. The sun was almost noon
high before he gave an audience. AS if he
did not know he roughly asked the errand
of the visitors.
Excellent Lord" they cried, cit is the
Jews! What shall we do? Where can we
go?'
Coz Knocked the Governor. "You can
go to Jerusalem, or into the Dnieperl''
| But the cry went out to st. Petersburg
and to relieve the immediate necessities of
the Jews required the equivalent OF $3.50, 000
THE CROSS OF SAFETY.
| On Tuesday my husband took me to the
home of his aunt at Wassilkov proposing to
leave me there while he returned to Kieff to
get new home ready. The two trains meet
there, and waited until he was off on his
return before l set out for the aunts house
1t was only short distance but as passed
along l noticed wooden crosses before the
houses of many 1 knew to be Christians, and
saw men putting up others.
ga riot is to come" said Aunt Anna in
great fear as l walked in. "The crosses are
at the doors OF Russians who are to be
spared"
do not think that I uttered a word,
but ran out again, and into a side street.
cross stood. 1 pulled it from
the ground and fed. The priests servant
pursued, but I escaped down an alley and
into my aunt's back door before the man was
near, and in five minutes | had put the
stolen cross at the door AT noon the riot
began, and though We feared for safety, we
were unharmed. We saw part of it from a
window Near us at the lattice of the next
house three Russian girls cheered on the
rioters. The scenes were those of Kieff re-
| peated, but they did not last so long, as the
village is smaller l do not remember how
many were killed. There were several vic
! TINS; among them the wife and six children
n 10 Vlralf
wines infamed the mob to do the deed. Sun
| set brought calm, In the morning nv hus-
| band came and we all fed to the country.
reign of terror had come. All uthern
Russia was infianed against the Jews and
unto this day the hand of riot is strong. The
pent-up fires that for centuries had been
gathering strength burst forth in an eruption
that was as sudden as the meteorS glare
Where there was a Jew in Russia there was
the fuel for a raging fire. Every little village
where there was but the residence of but a
single Jew pulsed with the insane fury
know it to be a fact that 80 per cent. of the
towns of southern Russia were visited with
horrors like those of Kieff The roting was
epidemc-as contagious as the typhus, as in
fectious as Nihilism. 1t spread as far as As
trakhan, and it even reached Siberian town
near Tomsk the other day The three mil
lions of Russian Jews have been and are still
in continuous dread of the loss of life
and property. Their lives are ruled
by this mingled feeling of fear and
insecurity. If to-day there is safety and
peace there may be storm tomorrow. You
may say that 1881 is not this year; but know
We that since that first whirlwind of the
storm not month, and scarcely a week has
passed without some outbreak. l will weary
and satate you if l speak of other horrible
crimes; but the first unit has not been told.
The provinces of Kieff Podola, Czerngov
Cherson, Taurida, and Ekaterinoslav have at
di fferent times in the past two years been
overrun with mob rule. 1t got so that the
riots were announced beforehand, and the
appeals for troops always proved useless.
Plainly the authorities wink at crime. / do
not now recall more than two places where
the mayors spoke against the rioting. One
was at PolonnoZe, where the mayor urged
the utility of the Jews as market middle
men, and induced the populace to promise
to refrain from molestation. The
other place was Ekaterinoslay, where the
Governor boldly proclaimed the Jews true
subjects of the Gar. This Governor is no
coward but outside the city he was not hon
ored The city escaped harm, but in the
neghborng villages where there were Jewish
farmers there has been an almost total de-
struction of crops and barns. Farming i'm
elements have been destroyed and the cattle
and sheep stolen. Indeed, think that the
work done in the rural districts is scarcely
less diaboiical than that occurring in the
towns. L could detail the riots OF AleXaE-
drovsk Znamenka, Itchny, Njezn, Bozny
Balka, Lubny and Balwierzyski, and of more
than a hundred just as bloody. Once in a
while the tidings of riots have gone out of
Russia, but even then only 1.-THE has been
told. For example, you might think that
you know of the riots at Warsaw, but you
would find that you have but the bare out
lines, were l to tell that those riots were
planned by a fixed system; that the authori-
ties sat with folded hands, that property to
the value of half million dollars was
destroyed, and that there was murder
most foul Fresh in your memory may exist
the Sarah Bernhardt riots at Kieff and
Odessa, but you know nothing of the fury
that the visit of the Jewish actress called
forth. Only the echoes of the thunder
have crossed the borders. Government pre-
!.ants o of tho