The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-03-05
I TALE OF HORROR.
SICKENING DETAILS OF THE
PRISON OUTRAGE AT KARA.

| Women Prisoners, DriteE TO Despair,
Seek TO Starve ThemseIves--Subject to
Revolving Brutnlities by Their Bens,ly
Guards--NIaic Prisoners Attempt Whole
sale Suicide.
Further details ofthe outrage in the
political prison at Kara have reached
Russian exiles in London, from friends
who are located short distance from
the scene Of the horror. They are
brief but conclusive, confirming fully
the report of the affair received there
from an official in St. Petersburg, who
is in sympathy with the cause Of the
people. According to the details just
received, it appears that trouble at the
Kara prison originated in hungry
strike" in August: wien the women
political prisoners tried to starve them
selves to death to escape the brutali-
ties of their jailors. All the women
imprisoned there abstained from food
for fourteen days.
The iailors did not believe that they
would be able to keep up the struggle.
At first they jeered at the women, then
tempted them with food and then
finding this Of no avail, threatened
them. When several of the women
were at the point of death from their
voluntary abstinence from food, the
prison officials resorted to artificial
means to compel them to take nourish-
nent. The methods adopted, however,
were violent and icentious and the
women were compelled to abandon
their strike. ->---->-
Abominable outrages followed aaad aad1,i
were Of daily and hourly occurrence.
This state of affairs led Madam Sigida,
whose death by logging has already
been announced, to ask for an inter-
view with the doctor of the prison in
the hope of securing an amelioration
of the condition of the prisoners. This
request was granted, but when she was
taken before him, she found him
abusive 1t was said that in her indig-
nation at his abuse she called him
villain and slapped his face. It's not
positively known, however, what took
place during the interview, but what
ever did happen, Madame Sigida did
not return to her companions. She was
taken from the Directors Office and
conveyed to the prison in which COM
mon offenders are confined. Three Of
her companions from among the politi-
cal prisoners were permit ed to join
her. The advices just received state
that these were Mary Koalesey, wife
of Professor Koalesky, of Kief, Ma
dame smirnitsky and Maria Kolujny.
The last two ladies' we're from Odes-
sa.
Two months elapsed after the event
before the Agent, Baron Koreg, Gov
ernor General Of the Province of
Amour, instructed the directors of the
prisons that the edict of March, 1888,
which ordered tha. political prisoners
should be treated By prisoFoRcials in
precisely the same manner as crlml-
mails condemned for common law Of
fenses, would be enforced, and ordered
the directors to Dotify the political
prisoners ofboth sexes that they would
be liable to corporal punishment if
they violated certain of the prison
regulations. The male prisoners, fore
seeing immediate danger, held a con-
sulation and sent to the director of the
prison petition that he would tele-
grauh to the Minister of the Interior
at St. Petersburg, requesting him to
suspend the application of the edict.
The director refused to pay any atten-
ton to their petition and thereuson
the men warned hin that the hogging
Of a political prisoner would be the
signal for the others to commit suicide
together.
Three days afterwards, Baron Xoref
sent special order that Madame Sigi-
da be hogged according to the regula-
tions and the ordor was executed to
the fullest extent. Madame Sigida
was stripped and received 100 lashes.
She was carried of bleeding and in an
unconscious condition and her death
ensued from rupture of the heart. Her
three companions committed suicide
within an hour of the time of hearing
of Madame Sigida's death. The corp
ses of the four women were buried at
the same time in the court yard of the
common offenders prison,
For weeks the Gordon of vigilance
was 90 closely maintained around the
prison that nethiug was know of what
was happening within. Since the
secret channel of information has been
reopened it has been learned that the
men carried out their threat of suicide.
They met together and thirty of them
shared what poison they could obtain
and then went to their cells to die. The
quantity of poison which had been
smuggled into the prison was not suffi-
to Kill quickly, but in the course of
the evening two of those who had
shared it, Bebookor and Koluzry died.
Their convulsions and the death scene
which reigned in other cells reused
the attention of the guards, and they
Immediately summoned physicians,
who administered emetics to the sur
yivors and endeavored by every
means to counteract the effects of the
poison.
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