Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-08-09
TERRIBLE TORTURE.
Mother and Children Burned In
the Jsrsey Pinsriss.
STRANGE STORY OF SUPERSTITION
Among the Jewish Refugees Of estelviIle
he Result, Probably, Of voudoo.
ism-Two Lives Lost and
One in Peril.

ATLANTIC CRY, August S-The horrors
of the case of Clarissa Bounds, whose sui.
ferings in the Jersey pineries were describ-
ed few weeks ago, are reflected dArkly
in the terrible revelations which have this
afternoon come sparsely to hand about .
tragedy in the colony OF Russian refugee
Jews at Estelville. This hamlet OF about
fifty English speaking inhabitants is six
miles below Mays Landing, the county
seat OF Atlantic county. The nearest rail.
mad is the West Jersey line at Mays Land.
bearded and uncouth. looking people came
TO that station with . wagon drawn by two
horses In the wagon laya
Beautiful Issag woman,
OF some twety.eight years Of age, whose
long black hair Was scsrched and whose
whole frame writhed with agony. by her
lay q little girl of eight years, who WAS
almost unconscious. They we're lifted into
the waiting room OF the station where the
little girls helpless form was laid on .
bench. This was about Q o'clock Sunday
morning. The people who had come with
this mysterious freight could speak only
their own uncouth tongue. They seemed
distressed Ia learn that the train for Phila.
delphia had left, and finally gave the first
information TO the outside world OF the
awful tragedy which is believed 10 have
taken place at the remote hamlet Of E,tel.
Vile on last Friday night.
The Victims Seen.
They said, through the difficult medium
Of an ignorant Interpreter, that the young
won an was named Mlotowski, aud that she,
her daughter and her SIX year Old son had
been burned Friday night in their cottage
In Esiclyille. The boys legs aud arms had
been burned of, the girl and mother so
tortured they could not, or would not, give
their own compatriots an intelligibIe ac'
count Of the occurrence. Whether the
burning was accidental could not he learn
cd at this time.
In the meantime the little girl lay on the
bench for seven weary hours, suffering.
neither mother nor child speaking. Al
O'Clock the girl died At once the mother
set up the most heart rending shricks,
beating her breast and tearing her hair
with her mutils,ed fingers. The Russian
Jews who had been with her all the time
seemed to become more alarmed and called
for aid. The mother was removed % the
house Of a resident OF Mays Landing.
named Spence Smith, where she lies to-
sday
~ tut TOtot
II became known that, though the burn.
ing had happened Friday night, thirty'Sx
hours had passed without the summoning
OF any intelligent assistant The details
had been hushed up among the Jewish
colony, who lived 10 themselves, most OF
them being indeed unable 10 communicate
their wants 10 the outside world. Tie
womans husband had wandered away
from home. she knew not where. In search
OF work. The loaf and the cruise Of oil hGd
run short. and starvation pccpcd In al
every crack in the humble hut. The dcsti'
t",i"" Ji n"ny VI ibis colony has already
attIuutrd puJiio ..O'io' !""""N ~
and only two weeks ago six men from the
Estelyille settlement Of Russian Jews were
lodged NJ the public expense and led ~
private charity In this city, from which
they ade their way To Philsdelphta, re-
gard ess Of the families they had left he
hind them. Whether Mlo,owski was one
OF these six who were lodged at police
beadUuaIters II not known.
WrinkI~d NAN.
WHO spoke in n sort OF German frequently
used by the lower Russian Glasses. said TO.
day that NJ Motowski had been driven msd
by want, that his young vile and his CHILD
rem knew nothing OF his whereabouts, that
the woman was q firm believer IN crrtsip
superstiiions prevalent among the serfs ot
Russia corresponding 10 the voudooi'm oi
the African blacks, and from his descrlp'
ton no less hideously degrading; that the
supreme sacrifice TO these people was the
voluntary cremation 0f their children ana
themsclv,s 10 the demon which was sup
posed to embohy the horrors of starvation
and thirst. when the shrieks Of the mofh'
er we're heard by her DeighbOrs Friday
night. about II oclock. thc may have been
according 20 his theory. concentrating the
Last Dread Rites
OF this sscrilice, driven " desparation IN .
strange land by starvation and deseftiOn.
Others say. however, that the fire was see.
denial. The mother, when Questioned.
can or will give no account of u. THERE'S
o third theory ofinceBdiarisn, ~ but II can.
not be learned that the Mlot0wsks hsd
deadly enemies in the colony.
The horrors OF the tbirty-siI hours which
elapsed between the cremation and the
time when the charitable people Of Mays
Landing learned OF and relieved the suffer
inrs OF this maimed mother and child, can
be- better imagined than described. The
seven hours Of torture which the eight
vssrold pirl endured on the hard bench In
the abroad station before death released
ber spirit from the incinerated body viii
never h. known. Indeed. the secretlVeness
Of these people Is amazing.
mad atstake.
DITROgr August s-At Grand Rapids,
a conductor on the Grand Rapids and IN!
diana railroad having received . visit by
burglar, prepared Tor q second visit, snd
awaited them In tie Kitchen. His wife,
swakened by the noise, arose and vent
through the room. The husband mis-.
liking her fora burglar. fired, the bsll
taking effect ia her forehead, coming out
nsar the right ear. bhs ~ alive, but un.
con,clou,. and slight hopes are entertained
for her recovery.
nsehise hhsps Destssye1.
GH,EoS, PA, August o.--Tbe shsasngo
machine oompsny's shops we're destroyed
by FIRE this sfiFrnoDn. The loss is iron
a2g, 90 10 go, 90. end little insuraLce.
THE HeGCGIS Gas WELL.