St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-03
Leaden Missile Sent Through
the Head Of a Beautiful
Princess,
And a Number of Exiles MUIR
dered by a Cruel Corps
OF Cossacks.
A Most Thrilling Recital Of
the Latest of Russian
Outrages.
Exiles. Painting and Worn
Out, Shot Down While
Begging for Rest.
New York World.

New York World
Six weeks ago the World published 8
cable dispatch from Berlin giving the
news that further horror had beer
perpetrated on Russian exiles in
Siberia; that number of the so-called
| political unfOrlunateS" had been slain
by their guards at or near the town OF
| Tlumen. in Western Siberia. People
had already been sn surfeited with hOr.
rors in reading the heart-rending ac.
counts OF the massacre at Jakutsch,
when thirty-five ''politicals" were shot
down, and of the flogging of Nine.
Sihida at Kara. that the few lines about
the Tiumen affair created only modtr-
ate excitement at the time it was pub
lished. But details have-now been re-
ceived in this city that bring it's horrors
fully up to those perpetrated In the ex-
IRENE northern Siberian capital.
A Russian. Alexander KwihtkOwski,
arrived here Monday direct from ST.
Petersburg, and brought with him the
first account OF the Tiumtn tragedy.
He had gained his news almost at first
hand from relative of one OF The vic
tins. beautiful young girl, the Prin-
cess Elene Oginska. eighteen years of
age. From Prince Adam UginSka Nj.
KwiatkOwski learned the following de-
tails. which, through Count AdOlphus
NorraikOw, himself an old Siberian eX-
lie and at present a resident of New
York. he communicated to the world
last night:
The story begins with the exiles, 100
in numbtr, who left Ekaterinburg about
the end of May. They had been trans
ported with steamer load of exileS-
pOliticalS and crimlna s-from Nijnii-
NovgOr0d to Perm, living in iron cages
on deck, and were then sent on the
railroad across the Ural mountain s
twelve hours journey to Ekaterinburg,
where the real horrors Of the Siberian
Journey began. From that point tile
eXiles had to go on foot all the way to
Tlumen, a dlStrnce of nearly 500 miles,
where the cage steamer would be in
readiness to transport them via the
Jenessei and the OBJ to Tonsk. where
another LOO miles wuuid have to be
trrMtden by the weary exiles until IT.
kutsk was reached. 49, s:l., .,.-
According to Count Adam Oginski's
account, As told to M. KwiatkOwski. the
journey from Ekater.nburg to Tiumen
was one OF lndescribable hardship. The
heat during the day was intense. and
for fifteen days the exiles were CON-
PEELED to walk under the burning sun
along the roads half fOotideepin dust
They usually made from twenty to
twenty-five and sometimes thirty miles
day, resting at night in the etapDes OF
road prisons which line the great ST.
/ berian post road straight across the con-
tinent from the UraIs to the Baikal, and
then further to the Pacific ocean. From
the letters received by Prince Adam the
Sufferings of the frail, beautiful Princess
Elena were intense. arOuSlng even the
sympathy of the Cossack guards at
( times. She was the youngest of the
group of exiles, out much as she suf-
fere,f herself She was never heard to
complain, sa..i..4
All her companions were In similar
pitiaole condition of exhaustion from
the dreary journey. Their feet were
them sat down by the roadside and de-
clared 1t was teriyimpossible for them
to move another step, and asked permls-
sion to ride in the wagons that ALWAYS
!. accompany an escort of exileS for the
purpose of TRANSPORTING the sick and
the women unable to walk. They ap-
pealed to the guards in vain. however,
for as answers they were cruelty beaten
. by the soldiers with the stocks of their
guns and ordered to get up and march
OH. These scenes happened frequently
on the journey, always with the same
results in cruelty. But at last. when
within only few stations of Tiumen,
, the small band Of eXileS. driven to des-
pair, turnee tiereely upon their guards
and began to fight for their freedom.
But it was very unequal fight, for
the soldiers. who made the journey with
loaded rifles, Immediately began firing
on the crowd. The result was horrify-
ing. The first victim was the beautiful
young princess herself. her head was
pierced by bullet and she fell dead
without uttering word. Still the SOL
diers kept up the firing. and out OF the
small band of 100 political exil1s who
left Ekaterinburg twenty were shot
dead and twelve We're wounded. As
nearly all the exileS in the group partic-
ipated in the rebellion" to greater OF
less degree, it is feared that the remain
der will be severely punished, if not
hanged.
Such is the terrible story told by NJ.
kwiatkOwski. 1t sounds incredible, and
would doubtless be considered so were
1t not that so many previous horrors of
like description have been reported
and proved. NJ. NOrraikOw says that
the case of the Princess Oginski has
been followed with deep interest in the
Russian colonies in Geneva, Paris, Lon
don and here. She belonged to an old
and honorable Lithuanian family, sew
eral members of which spend the win
ter season in st. Petersburg. How she
came into trouble originally is not
clearly known. She was probably con-
nected in some way with the societies
in st. Petersburg for the bringing
about of political reforms.
At any rate, she was arrested and
sent to Siberia by administrative COM
mand; that is to say, without any trial
whatever. This form of sentencing
people. NJ. Norraikow says, has now
beeen legalized. and there is now no
necessity for even the form of trial in
any case.
That M. Kwatkowskl's story Is based
on facts is scarcely 10 be doubted. News
of such horrors can only get out of
Siberia by private letters which happen
To escape the argus eyes of the postoffice
officials in Russia. 1t is still secret
how the news of the Irkutsk massacre
reached Switzerland, NJ. Norraikow
confidently expects that still more
complete accounts of the Tiumen hor-
rpr will i,n nul,t,cbod Gap.y, ,bo,,l,,