Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-08-31
RUSSIAN ATR0CITY.
THIRTY POLITICAL CONVICTS MURDERED IN
COLD BLOOD.
A Terrible Story Of Cruelty and Suffering From
the WildS Of Siberia-A Princess
Among the Victms-Details
Of tse Affair.

NEW Y DIRK, August 3O.-SiX weeks ago
a cable dispatch from Berlin stated that an
other horror had been perpetrated on Rus
sian exiles in Siberia, that number of the
sO-called political unfortunates'i had been
slain By their guards at or near the town of
Tinmen, in Western Siberia. People had
already been so surfeited with horrors in
reading the heartrendering accounts of the
massacre at Jaktush, when 80 'politicalsn
were shot down, and of the fiogging Of
Nine. Sihida at Kara, that the few lines
of the Tinmen affair created only a mod
crate excitement at the time it was pub
lished But details have now been re-
ceived in this CITY that bring its horrors
fully up TO those perpetrated in the extreme
northern Siberian capital.
A Russian, Alexander Kwiatl1ows1i, ar
rived here on Monday direct from St. Pc
tersburg and brought with him the first ac-
count of the Tinmen tragedy. He had
gained his news almost at first hand from
relative of one of the victims, a beautiful
young girl, the Princess Eleneoginski, IS
years of age. From Prince Adam Ogin-
ska, Kwiatkowski learned the following
details:
TRANSPORTED ~ IRON CAGES.
The story begins with the exiles, 100 in
number, who left Ekaterinburg about the
end of May They had been transported
with a steamer load of exiles-politicals
and criminals-from -NOvgorod 10
Perm, living in iron cages on deck and
were then sent by the railroad across the
Ural mountains, II hours journey to Eka-
terinburg, where the real horrors of the
Siberian journey began. From that pOint
the eXiles had to 60 on foot all the way 10
Tinmen, distance of nearly 800 miles,
where the cage steamer would be in readi-
ness TO transport them via the JenesSei and
the Obi TO TOmsk, where another 900
miles would have 10 be trOdden by the
weory exles until Irllutsk was reached.
According TO Oginska's account as told
TO KwiatkOwshki, the journey from Ekat-
erinburg to Tinmen was one of indescrib-
able hardship. The heat during the day
was intense, and for - days the exiles
were compelled TO walk under the burE-
ing sun along the roads half foot deep
in dust. They usually made from 20 TO
% miles, and sometimes 30 miles, a day,
resting at night in the prisons which line
the great Siberian post road straight
across the continent from the Urals TO
the Baikalas, then further 10 the Pacific
ocean The letters received by
Prince Adam says the suffcrings
of the beautiful Princess Elne
were intense, arousng even the
sympathy Of the COssack guards at times.
She was the youngest or the group OF
eXiles, but much as she suffered herself
she was never heard to complain All her
companions were in similar pitiable con
dition of exhaustion from the journey.
Their feet were swollen to such an extent
that some of them sat down by the road
side and declared it was utterly impossible
for them TO move another step, and asked
permission 10 ride in the wagons that al
ways accompany an escort of eXiles for the
purpose of transporting the sick and the
women unable TO walk They appealed TO
the guard in VAN however, for as answer
they were cruelty beaten by the soldiers
with the stocks of their guns and ordered
to get up and march on.
THE MASSACRE OF THE EXILEs.
These scenes happened frequently on
the journey, always with the same results
in cr-elty. But at last, when within only
a few stations of Tnmen. the small band
of eXiles, driven TO despair, turned fiercely
upon their guards and began TO fight for
their freedom. But il was very unequal
fight, for the soldiers who made the Jour
ney with loaded rifles Immediately began
firing on the crowd. The result was hor-
rifying. The first victim was the beautiful
Young princess. Her head was pierced by
q bullet and she fell dead without uttering
a word Still the soldiers kept up the fir
ing, and out of the band of hundred polit-
ical eXiles who left Ekaterinburg 20 were
shot dead and T. were wounded. As nearly
all the exiles in the group participated in
the rebellion TO a greater or less degree,
il is feared that the remainder will be Sc
verely punished. if not hanged.
Such is the terrible story as told by
Kwiatkowski. 1t sounds Incredible, and
would doubtless be considered so were il
not that so many previous horrors of
like description have been reported and
proven
NJ Norraikow, an old Siberian exile,
who is now in this city, says that the case
Df the Princess has been followed with
ieep interest in the Russian colonies in
Geneva Paris, London and other cities.
She belonged to an old and honorable Lith-
lanian family, several members of which
spend the winter in St Petersburg. How
she came into the trouble originally is not
dearly known. She was probably con-
lected in some way with the societies in
ST. Petersburg for the bringing about of
political reforms. NJ. NOrraikOw expects
hat still more complete accounts Of the
rinmen horror will be published in Geneva
shortly.