The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-16
RUSSIAN OUTRAGES.
Sergius Stepniak says the Re-
ports Published
GIVE ONLY A HINT OF THE
Horrible Tragedy Enacted at Kara-Madome
Slgada was FlOgged to Death-The Central
Government is Responsible.

LONDON, Feb. 15.-[Copyright by the
New York Associated Press Provided
with cable dispatch of introduction from
George kennan, the celebrated Siberian
traveller, the London agent of the Asso-
clated Press called this morning on Sergius
Stepnlak, the.well known writer upon Rus
sian political and social conditions. Step
MAX when asked whether he could give
any information in regard to the outrage in
the political prison at Kara in eastern ST.
IBERIA, replied that the reports already pub
hshed gave only hint of the horrible
tragedy enacted at Kara. Perfectly trust
worthy information, he said, had been re-
celved IN cipher letters that tell the story
ouiy in its main outlines Full details of
the dreadful affair cannot be long now in
reacnlng the western world, coming so soon
after the publicity given to the Yakutsk
atroclty Inc facts so far as received are
as follows: Madame Sigada did not com
NIT suicide as the earliest reports stated.
one oled from the effects of the cruel fog
glng TO Which she was subjected. The
nogglng took Place Wednesday, November
o. 1t was continued till. under the brutal
blows, the unhappy victim lost, conscious
ness and lay as one dead. News of her
shocking murder caused widespread dismay
and anguish among her female fellow
prisoners and three of them, unable longer
TO pear their wretched fate, committed
suicide by poison. The names of the
women were Marie Kaluyhuaya, Marya
Faoloona karalefskaya and Nedezhda
Marie Kaluyhuaya was
arrested IN 1884, a girl of eighteen, on the
charge of disloyalty Every means tried
TO extort confession implicsting her
friends was futile until Colonel Katanski
brought her forged statement purportino
10 DE confession of her fellow conspira-
tors and promising immunity. Marie
lei into the trap, confessed and her con-
lesslon was used against her friends who
were sentenced to penal Servitude. When
sue learned OF the deception she procured
revolver and tried to kill Katanski For
this she was sentenced to twenty years. |
penal servltuGe with exile to Siberia for |
ltle Tor belonging to secret circle. Her
husband was sent thousand miles from
the mines to which she was sent The |
separation drove her insane and in 1888 she
was allowed to join her husband in the
nope OF ms restoration her to reason. She
'ecoVerec but the new governor separated
.uenn again ana she was returned to the
Kara mines.
Madyhda SmviDitzkaya was thirty-three
ears old and student IN the woman's
oilege. She was sentenced to the Kara
mines for fifteen years with penal servi.
ude. r-"' 'oi
shortly after the suicide of the three
women, brothers of Marie Kaluyhuaya.
lso political prisoner, died suddenly
Another exile named Botoker COMMITTEES {
ulclde rather than submit to the cruel I
iuminauon and suffering of f1ogging. The
logging CT Madame Sigada occurred under
rders issued by Lieutenant General Baron |
Aorh' governor general of the PROV {
nee OF Amour in which Kara
,rlson Is situated. These orders directed /
hat'the secret edict of March 1883. signed s
" Galklnevraski, director general of Dris- f
ms Tor the empire. should be unf1inchinplv
ntorced This edict was to the effect that
ontlcal convlcts should be treated nv the
rlson ofhc1als in precisely the same man ,
er as criminals condemned for common
Henses. In what particular way Madame
,lgada transgressed the prison rules is not
leafly explained, but 1ogging a sensitive !
hu cultured woman to death for :!
ny lack OF conformity to prison regular l
ons, Stepniak thought would impress the I
'estern world with profound horror pa L L
eical e&lles imprisoned at Saghalian also +
ave oeen subjected to cruel fiogging. 9
ney were constantly in dread of similar =
9rlure to that inflicted upon Madame q
lgaoa. Stepniak thought it not unlikely =
lat the publication of the facts would .
'rce the superior officials of Russia tn
IKE some notice Of the affair. But fog
ing and all other brutalities were entirely .
ae 10 direct orders of the central govern. a a
ent at st. Petersburg. p