The Forrest City times., 1890-07-19
HORRORS OF SIBERIA.
( Detroit Mans Account of Fourteen
 Long Years of Misery.

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 .eunt Lsngowski Tells How Hs Walked g..
 000 Mues with Heavy Chains on His
 Ankles-Othsr Atrocities That Hardly
 Seem Possible.
 There is living in Detroit in the em- oloy of Hudson's clothing company, s nan who has passed through many Of he horrors of the inhuman Russian prison system of Siberia. Count L.angowski. as he would be entitled to Jc called in Poland, speaks eight anguages He was twenty-scven years old when Poland rcbclleG against Russia. and be lived with his father ,n farm near Moscow. His father vas very wealthy nobleman. Ho ays:
 'I was taken prisoner and soon set yut with hundreds of others on our way t0 Siberia Think of journey Of over three thoucrnd miles on loot re- ,uirlng thirteen mouths with heavy ,hains on each ankle and chaldej by be wrist to another in a gang ol one hundred. That Is the way we made he trip, most of sfto time the weather being bitterly cold, with the mcancst sind of clothing. and only ai.owed seven copec<-, less than five cents a lay for food. At last. after thirteen months of misery we arrived at the ,nd of ourS journey, to encounter worse misery still. l was set to work . tho quicksilver uilpes Three months is as long as any human being ,an stand 1t to work in those mines. Many die in tho mines and mary soon sftcr leaving them. The fumes of the mercury rot the bones. loosen the ecth and leave tho man total wreck.
 When I had partly regained my health after this experience. ], with others, was set to digging holes in the ground. The holes were not design sd for any use whatever, but were dug just to keep us at work, and 1t was while thus engaged that received my first whipping. l was too weak t smooth the side of the hole as nicely ss the officer wanted 1t, and simply told him so For that wae taken tt she whipping bench, laid on my face and fastened down by three thongs. one ,f which was passed over the neck. one over the body and one over the logs, SC arranged that man cannot mako the east movement I received eighty blows with the knout and was two months and half in the hospital be- orc I could leave my bed..",
 After my first whipping l received an other of 125 lashes for calling soldier dog who had bayonetted prisoner n cold blood. was nearly killed and t was nearly year before could re ,umc work. The scenes of brutality to be witnessed on all sides were sim ply frightful. The killing of prison. DTS by the soldiers was terrible They were under no restraint whatever. ane he poor prisoners were even killed or tutoring the slightest word in pro. est against the most horrible murders out of the o5. 900 prisoners sent tt Siberia by the Russian government a he end of the rebellion l don't believe 5000 ever got back alive. And mol ,ne of them guilty of a crime, but simply prisoners Of war. But If the late of the men was hard. that of the women was infinitely more so. Nc principle of honor or even common iecency was observed with them. They were whipped with stout gads inste ad of the knout- that is the only differ snce was ever able to observe. They were debauched. whipped and poisoned so death in tho hospitals by hundreds md every public indecency heapec lpon them. Even their efforts at sui side were laughed at as joke" Mir. Langowski then exhibited hi, ankles, which show great holes wher, she ulcers produced by the chains had eaten to the bone. His back still bear tho most frightful scars of his fagella tions
 '.How long were you sentenced forp was asked.
 ''Six years as q prisoner in chains and six years as prisoner under sur geillance. At the end of six years was obliged to support myself, but wal -equired to report daily to a certain officer. supported myself by making cigarettes. and then after thirtecr years was given passport back t Poland A man cannot travel half , mile in Russia without a passport
 begged my way from town 10 town, ans when about half way back received some money from my sister. On reach ing home found an order from tn, czar requiring me to quit Poland with In twenty-four hours on pain of death had just time to marry the girl wa Detrothed to and hurried away |, Cracow. thence to Antwerp. where Polish friend assisted mo to America | I have been here ten years, an, although am very poor nothing oI earth would induce me to leave Amcri